Journal of Modelling in Management: Volume 18 Issue 5

Hierarchical financing and reality of the financial structure of Moroccan listed companies

Firano Zakaria, Doughmi Salawa

There is a wealth of literature on the financing structure of a company. For this reason, the authors considered it useful to present a theoretical and empirical literature review…

Policy analysis to maximize the firm value: performing firm valuation using system dynamics

Aima Khan, Muhammad Azeem Qureshi

The purpose of this study is firm value management through corporate finance policy design and scenario analysis to maximize the firm value.

A binary integer programming (BIP) model for optimal financial turning points detection

Fatemeh Yazdani, Mehdi Khashei, Seyed Reza Hejazi

This paper aims to detect the most profitable, i.e. optimal turning points (TPs), from the history of time series using a binary integer programming (BIP) model. TPs prediction…

A joint economic lot-size model with collaboration of supply chain members

Mahnaz Asgari Sooran, Hamed Tayebi, Sadoullah Ebrahimnejad

The purpose of this study is to investigate a joint economic lot-size model with the possibility of cofinancing between members of a three-echelon supply chain (SC) including one…

Modeling factors affecting the interests of the container terminal using fuzzy cognitive map and fuzzy DEMATEL

Fatemeh Khajeh, Hamid Shahbandarzadeh

Because container terminals (CTs) are broker organizations, their interest has complex, various internal and external factors, the purpose of this study is to scrutiny and…

Analyzing entry strategies for co-opetitive supply chains with the learning effect

Qingqing Lu, Weizhe Yang, Chuiri Zhou, Ningning Wang

This study aims to investigate whether the contract manufacturer (CM) should take the first-mover advantage in the end-product without supplying core components to the original…

The retailer’s trade-in activity under the manufacturer’s upgrading strategy

Feng Yang, Xiang Wu, Feifei Shan

This paper aims to study the impact of manufacturer’s upgrading strategy of durable products on the retailer’s decision on trade-in program and her decision on the secondary…

Design a technology acceptance model by applying system dynamics: an analysis based on key dimensions of employee behavior

Armin Mahmoodi, Leila Hashemi, Mohammad Mehdi Tahan, Milad Jasemi, Richard C. Millar

This study aims to investigate the impact of new technologies on parameters of organizational behavior and evaluate their determining role of technology maturity and readiness of…

A framework for assessment of critical factor for circular economy practice implementation

Rubee Singh, Shahbaz Khan, Jacinta Dsilva

Consumers, governments and regulatory agencies are concerned about the social and environmental aspect that pushes firms to move towards the circular economy. The transformation…

Modeling the stochastic volatility of MAD/EURO and MAD/USD the exchange rates by the Bayesian approach and the MCMC (Monte Carlo Markov Chain) algorithm

Firano Zakaria, Anass Benbachir

One of the crucial issues in the contemporary finance is the prediction of the volatility of financial assets. In this paper, the authors are interested in modelling the…

The pollution-routing problem with one general period of congestion

Zhiyuan Liu, Yuwen Chen, Jin Qin

This paper aims to address a pollution-routing problem with one general period of congestion (PRP-1GPC), where the start and finish times of this period can be set freely.

Organizational performance assessment based on psychological empowerment and employee engagement: PCA-DEA-SEM approach

Mohamed El-Sayed Mousa, Mahmoud Abdelrahman Kamel

This study aims to examine performance assessment of organizational units through psychological empowerment (PE) and employee engagement (EE) approach and whether this…

Memetic algorithm for unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with grey processing times

Oğuzhan Ahmet Arık

This paper aims to provide a promising memetic algorithm (MA) for an unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with grey processing times by using a simple dispatching rule in…

A deep learning counting model applied to quality control

Juan R. Jaramillo

This paper aims to present two different methods to speed up a test used in the sanitary ware industry that requires to count the number of granules that remains in the commodity…

The linear-nonlinear data preprocessing based hybrid (LNDH) models for wind power forecasting

Mehrnaz Ahmadi, Mehdi Khashei

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new linear-nonlinear data preprocessing-based hybrid model to achieve a more accurate result at a lower cost for wind power forecasting…

R&D innovation under uncertainty: a framework for empirical investigation of knowledge complementarity and goal congruence

Abigail Richard, Fred Ahrens, Benjamin George

This study aims to introduce a new prescriptive model to aid both managers and researchers in partner selection for innovation-orientated collaboration. This framework…

Evolutionary philosophical games in strategic management

Ela Ozkan-Canbolat, Gulberk Ozkan, Aydin Beraha

This paper aims to show that evolutionary game theory not only provides a general and unified theory of political philosophy and strategic management theories but also a positive…