Journal of Modelling in Management: Volume 14 Issue 4

The design of the vaccine supply network under uncertain condition: A robust mathematical programming approach

Seyed Jafar Sadjadi, Zahra Ziaei, Mir Saman Pishvaee

This study aims to design a proper supply chain network for the vaccine industry in Iran, which considers several features such as uncertainties in demands and cost, perishability…

Studying the sustainability of third party logistics growth using system dynamics

Balan Sundarakani, Yin Sian Lai, Mark Goh, Robert de Souza

In this Industry 4.0 era, third-party logistics (3PL) industries face huge cost pressure to deliver their service. With increase in competition among the players, constant mergers…

Designing a sustainable integrated forward/reverse logistics network

Hamed Farrokhi-Asl, Ahmad Makui, Roozbeh Ghousi, Masoud Rabbani

In recent years, governmental regulations and the pressure of non-governmental organizations have convinced corporations to consider sustainable issues in their decisions. A…

Modeling customer satisfaction and revisit intention in Bangladeshi dining restaurants

Mahafuz Mannan, Nusrat Chowdhury, Priodorshine Sarker, Riasat Amir

The purpose of this study is to provide an insight into the crucial antecedents of customer satisfaction and revisit intention in the context of dining restaurants in a holistic…

Long-term forecasting system using wavelet – nonlinear autoregressive neural network conjunction model

Ratree Kummong, Siriporn Supratid

An accurate long-term multi-step forecast provides crucial basic information for planning and reinforcing managerial decision-support. However, nonstationarity and nonlinearity…

Analysis of key barriers in retirement planning: An approach based on interpretive structural modeling

Santosh Kumar, Gargi Pant Shukla, Roopali Sharma

The purpose of this paper is to holistically study barriers in the path of implementation of retirement planning, as the need is increasing with decrease in mortality. The proper…

The role of consumer-brand engagement towards driving brand loyalty: Mediating effect of relationship quality

Kishalay Adhikari, Rajeev Kumar Panda

The present research attempts to empirically examine the influence of consumer-brand engagement, its potent antecedents, and relationship quality towards creating and enhancing…

Comparative study on adoption of sustainable supply chain management practices in Indian manufacturing industries

Deepak Mathivathanan, K. Mathiyazhagan, A. Noorul Haq, Vishnu Kaippillil

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) concepts have received immense attention in the recent past in both academia and industries. Especially, manufacturing industries in…

Overcoming managers’ myopic decisions in a waste collection company: Lessons from a system dynamics-based research

Enzo Bivona, Francesco Ceresia, Giovanni Tumminello

The purpose of this paper is to show how the changing interrelationships between fleet management, human resources and outsourcer capacity areas are likely to counterbalance…

Demand forecasting at retail stage for selected vegetables: a performance analysis

Rahul Priyadarshi, Akash Panigrahi, Srikanta Routroy, Girish Kant Garg

The purpose of this study is to select the appropriate forecasting model at the retail stage for selected vegetables on the basis of performance analysis.

An effective teaching-learning-based optimization algorithm for the multi-skill resource-constrained project scheduling problem

Dheeraj Joshi, M.L. Mittal, Milind Kumar Sharma, Manish Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to consider one of the recent and practical extensions of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) termed as the multi-skill…

Competition in multichannel expert services in duopoly

Hanyu Xiao

This study aims to describe the general picture of the competition in multichannel expert services in duopoly market and discuss how the quality difference may affects the…