Journal of Modelling in Management: Volume 13 Issue 3

Supply chain performance measurement and improvement system: A MCDA-DMAIC methodology

Syed Tahaur Rehman, Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan, Simonov Kusi-Sarpong, Syed Mehmood Hassan

The purpose of this study is to adopt a supply chain performance measurement (SCPM) framework as proposed by (Dweiri and Khan 2012) to model a novel SCPM index (SCPMI) system to…

Modelling the barriers to online banking in the Indian scenario: an ISM approach

Rajesh Katiyar, Sneha Badola

Online banking, a phenomenon widely adopted and appreciated in developing and developed countries, is becoming an essential part of the lives of people from all walks of life, but…

Forecasting China’s electricity demand up to 2030: a linear model selection system

Xinzhi Zhu, Shuo Yang, Jingyi Lin, Yi-Ming Wei, Weigang Zhao

Electricity demand forecasting has always been a key issue, and inaccurate forecasts may mislead policymakers. To accurately predict China’s electricity demand up to 2030, this…

The influence of design factors on the financing results of crowdfunding projects: A focus on level setting and quality signaling

Cong Zhu, Xingchen Li

The money raised for projects on crowdfunding platforms is determined not only by the merit of the projects themselves but also, to a large extent, by the design of the project…

A multi-objective supplier selection model for green supply chain network under uncertainty

Mohammad Khalilzadeh, Hadis Derikvand

Globalization of markets and pace of technological change have caused the growing importance of paying attention to supplier selection problem. Therefore, this study aims to…

Analysis of interactions among the enablers of mass customization: An interpretive structural modelling approach

Inayat Ullah, Rakesh Narain

Current dynamic and turbulent business environment calls for adopting newer strategies so that organizations can create a niche for itself in the market, mass customization (MC…

Improving the operational efficiency of outbound retail logistics using clustering of retailers and consumers

Mahamaya Mohanty, Rashmi Singh, Ravi Shankar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate ways to improve operational efficiency of outbound retail logistics considering retailers and consumers by using clustering approach…

Combating toxic workplace environment: An empirical study in the context of Pakistan

Amna Anjum, Xu Ming

Across the globe, every organization is striving to enhance the productivity and growth rate, but the prosperity and success of an organization is determined by the type of work…

A hybrid genetic algorithm for multi-depot vehicle routing problem with considering time window repair and pick-up

Masoud Rabbani, Pooya Pourreza, Hamed Farrokhi-Asl, Narjes Nouri

This paper, considers the multi-depot vehicle routing problem with time window considering two repair and pickup vehicles (CMDVRPTW).

Insurer interest margin management, default risk, and life insurance policyholder protection

Jyh-Horng Lin, Xuelian Li, Fu-Wei Huang

This paper aims to theoretically examine the effects of regulatory policyholder protection on spread behavior and default probability of a life insurance company.

Optimizing the liquidity parameter of logarithmic market scoring rules prediction markets

Suparerk Lekwijit, Daricha Sutivong

Prediction markets are techniques to aggregate dispersed public opinions via market mechanisms to predict uncertain future events’ outcome. Many experiments have shown that…

Capacity decision under preset service level and process flexibility: A combined application of genetic algorithm and sample-based optimization

Dipankar Bose, A.K. Chatterjee, Samir Barman

Process flexibility (PF) is seen as a hedging instrument against demand uncertainty. This paper aims to examine capacity decisions for both flexible and dedicated processes under…

Exports’ effects on productivity from the view of industry heterogeneity

Yifan Jiao, Qing Liu, Tianzhuo Liu

The relationship between exports and productivity has always been a hot topic for scholars, but no unified conclusions have been made by theory and empirical research so far…