This study aims to identify and prioritize the strategies for overcoming digital supply chain (DSC) implementation barriers. Twenty-five DSC barriers and seventeen DSC strategies are formulated through an extensive literature review and expert discussion. An integrated Modified Stepwise Weight...

In this paper we explore the effect of environmental regulations and costs of greening on firms. Our problem deals with the case of a single firm, a duopoly and the case of cooperation between them. We use these market settings to study the pricing and greening decision of players under...

This paper describes a model that generates weekly movie schedules in a multiplex movie theater. A movie schedule specifies within each day of the week, on which screen(s) different movies will be played, and at which time(s). The model consists of two parts: (i) conditional forecasts of the...

In this paper, we present a modeling approach for aggregate and disaggregate level models for cluster based diffusion of a new technology. For a homogenous population, the Bass (1969) model has been used extensively to predict the sales of newly introduced consumer durables. In comparison,...

According to the United Nation's global development network, UNDP, an organization advocating for change and to help people build a better life, the Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary composite index that measures a country's average achievements in three basic aspects of human...

We consider the problem of a single manufacturer who sells its products to a single retailer. The manufacturer puts in some effort for greening its operations, and the retailer also puts in a corresponding greening effort in retailing the product. Their respective greening efforts are considered...