Journal of Modelling in Management: Volume 16 Issue 2

Effects of ethical leadership, job satisfaction and affective commitment on the turnover intentions of accountants

Nuri Gökhan Torlak, Cemil Kuzey, Muhammet Sait Dinç, Ali Haydar Güngörmüş

The paper aims to analyze the relationships between ethical leadership (EL), job satisfaction (JS), affective commitment (AC) and turnover intention (TI) that might make…

A novel structure to model the distribution of relief items in a post-disaster situation

Reza Sakiani, Abbas Seifi, Reza Ramezani Khorshiddost

There is usually a considerable shortage of resources and a lack of accurate data about the demand amount in a post-disaster situation. This paper aims to model the distribution…

Eco-efficient management of a feeding system in an automobile assembly-line

Montserrat-Ana Miranda, María Jesús Alvarez, Cyril Briand, Matías Urenda Moris, Victoria Rodríguez

This study aims to reduce carbon emissions and costs in an automobile production plant by improving the operational management efficiency of a serial assembly line assisted by a…

Temporary clusters: a new SME clustering management model

Ahmed Deif, Ahmed Mohib

This paper aims to explore a new model to manage small and medium enterprise (SME) clustering process that examines the geographical connectivity conditions within the existing…

Attributes of IT certifications aligned to organizations’ needs

Munir de Sá Mussa, Renata Gomes Cordeiro, Henrique Da Hora

An area of information technology (IT) in organizations is required to manage resources efficiently. For this, IT certifications are adopted by companies and sought by…

Effort exertion and contract design in collaborative product development with fairness concern

Xiaoming Gong, Liang Gao, Yuan Chen, Zun Wu

This study aims to model collaborative product development (CPD) among a focal firm (FF) and a fairness-concerned external partner (EP). The model is used to explore the impact of…

Developing a scale for brand competitive positioning: a study in the home appliance industry

Effat Sadat Mahboobi Renani, Seyed Fathollah Amiri Aghdaie, Majid Mohammad Shafiee, Azarnoush Ansari

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting brand competitive positioning (BCP) and its components in the home appliance industry and also to develop a scale…

A Kalman filter-based hybridization model of statistical and intelligent approaches for exchange rate forecasting

Mehdi Khashei, Bahareh Mahdavi Sharif

The purpose of this paper is to propose a comprehensive version of a hybrid autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), and artificial neural networks (ANNs) in order to…

Process mining approach to formal business process modelling and verification: a case study

Sohei Ito, Dominik Vymětal, Roman Šperka

The need for assuring correctness of business processes in enterprises is widely recognised in terms of business process re-engineering and improvement. Formal methods are a…

Lean simulations in production and operations management – a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis

Ahmed Zainul Abideen, Fazeeda Binti Mohamad, Yudi Fernando

Recently, much research about the effects of simulation on an organization’s operational performance and efficiency has been carried out. But still, there is a need for lean-based…

Estimation of unknown parameters using partially observed data

Eunji Lim

This paper considers the complex stochastic systems such as supply chains, whose dynamics are controlled by an unknown parameter such as the arrival or service rates. The purpose…

Deriving wisdom from virtual investing communities: an alternative strategy to stock recommendations

Rahul Kumar, Shubhadeep Mukherjee, Bipul Kumar, Pradip Kumar Bala

Colossal information is available in cyberspace from a variety of sources such as blogs, reviews, posts and feedback. The mentioned sources have helped in improving various…

Data science in the business environment: customer analytics case studies in SMEs

Jing Lu, Lisa Cairns, Lucy Smith

A vast amount of complex data is being generated in the business environment, which enables support for decision-making through information processing and insight generation. The…

A multi-objective optimization model for sustainable supply chain network with using genetic algorithm

Reza Ehtesham Rasi, Mehdi Sohanian

The purpose of this paper is to design and optimize economic and environmental dimensions in a sustainable supply chain (SSC) network. This paper developed a mixed-integer linear…

Analyzing the critical success factors influencing Lean Six Sigma implementation: fuzzy DEMATEL approach

Shruti J. Raval, Ravi Kant, Ravi Shankar

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is receiving a tremendous attention as a modern process of streaming to improve the organizational ability and customer satisfaction. A successful LSS…