Flow shop scheduling is common in modern lean production systems. In practice, jobs in flow shops can arrive at irregular times. However, scheduling that considers such irregularity has not been adequately investigated in the literature. In this paper, we examine the scheduling of n-jobs in an...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is playing an increasingly important role in firm risk management in Industry 4.0. To mitigate risk and improve operational productivity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), one of key disruptive technologies, has been widely employed in many industries. In this...

The COVID-19 outbreak brought an exogenous shock on supply chain members, which provide us an opportunity to test the impact of environmental and social (ES) practices on supply chain management. Through analysis with DID approach, we find that high ES firms have less reduction on stock price...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been adopted as one of firms’ risk management tools to resist negative shocks. However, it is unclear which aspect of CSR works and whether it differs among firms in different supply chain positions. Knowing this is crucial for firms to formulate...