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...

One goal for massive open online courses is that the educational benefits they provide scale as a function of the number and diversity of learners interacting with the platforms, since an increasing amount of data is available about what interactions and content increase engagement and learning,...

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English Abstract: This paper introduces the background of the European Union's Financial Transaction Tax proposals, the key issues of the proposal for implementing the enhanced cooperation in the area of financial transaction tax, the legal issues which have not been resolved, and the impact on...