Purpose - The review aims to facilitate a broader understanding of platform opening and cooperation and points out potential research directions for scholars. Design/methodology/approach - This study searches Web of Science (WOS) database for relevant literature published between 2010 and 2021...

The advent of the era of the smart economy has made agricultural production more intelligent. An increasing number of companies have launched a series of investment activities aimed at smart agricultural production (SAP). However, whether smart agricultural production investment (SAPI) impacts...

Intelligent transformation of manufacturers requires smart logistics transformation collaboration, which improves competitiveness. In this study, we construct a Stackelberg game model based on the mutual influence and restriction in the relationship between a manufacturer and a logistics service...

Purpose - The literature review aims to facilitate a broader understanding of on-demand service platform operations management and proposes potential research directions for scholars. Design/methodology/approach - This study searches four databases for relevant literature on on-demand service...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolution of service supply chain management from a behavioural operations perspective, pointing out future research directions for scholars. Design/methodology/approach This study searched five databases for relevant literature...

The quality of logistics services affects the performance and competitiveness of express logistics companies. Conventional evaluation methods of service quality are based on constructing a rating index system and then comprehensively evaluating the associated questionnaires and interviews. Such...

Purpose - In the presence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), due to the social distance restriction, consumers' regular consumption behaviors and patterns have been changing fundamentally. Thereafter, an innovative group buying model has emerged and developed explosively with a specific...

In the context of Industry 4.0 technology, smart manufacturing (SM) facilitates firms to improve efficiency and respond quickly to customization. The complex system characteristics of SM require firms to collaborate with supply chain members to carry out SM transformation. However, the motives,...

In business operations, a two-sided platform serves as an intermediary connecting two sets of agents in the two-sided market and new entrants are commonly seen. Due to unfamiliarity with the market, the entrant may be overconfident in estimating consumer’s utility, i.e., overestimating. In...

Refractory metal (Pd/Ge/Ti/Pt/Au) on semi-insulated GaAs (SI-GaAs) have been prepared and annealed at 380,400 and 425℃. Optical microscope and SEM images show that there is no significant difference in refractory metal surface morphology before and after annealing, compared with the standard...