Purpose: Social network analysis (SNA) seeks to manage the connections between entities through investigating and understanding behaviors and relationships. This study demonstrates the increasing relevance of social network approaches to solving contemporary and looming Operations Management...

In a digital economy, the flexibility and acceleration of business processes are more than relevant: if an enterprise does not use the capabilities of modern technology, does not adapt to the crazy pace and features of doing business, it will not be able to compete with those who already do...

Motivated by the overwhelming success of gradient boosting approaches in machine learning and driven by the need for explainable prescriptive analytics approaches in operations management (OM), we propose an explainable prescriptive analytics approach to solving complex OM problems: subgradient...

Inspired by several recent startups, we study an on-demand delivery service that lets cus-tomers shop online for products from a number of brick and mortar stores. The customer ordersare fulfilled by a fleet of personal shoppers who are responsible for both the shopping of ordersat the stores...

Solvent-based post-combustion CO2 capture is an energy-intensive process primarily driven by the energy required to regenerate the CO2 capture solvent. Researchers are currently focused on developing drop-in solvent replacements for commercial amine solvents with lower regeneration energies. One...

Although there has been a growing understanding of theory in the Information Systems (IS) field in recent years, the process of theorizing is rarely addressed with contributions originating from other disciplines and little effort to coherently synthesize them. Moreover, the field’s view of...

This study aims to examine how the factors of transformational leadership approach of operational managers influence the performance of operational staff in the Road Development Authority (RDA) and to identify the level of impact of such factors to overcome the situation of underperformance of...

Indian tyre industry is adopting new technologies for improving its products to sustain in the global competition. The main focus is to develop efficient and durable tyres at affordable price by finding the most critical manufacturing process in tyre manufacturing. This paper concentrates on...

Problem Definition: Over the past decades, firms that develop new flavor and fragrance products (a $30 billion per year market) have amassed large amounts of data from their own internal creation processes. Yet, new product creation still mostly relies on human expertise and arduous...

The role of a management accountant in today's business world is more of an information provider who almost acts as a strategic advisor. This paper analyses this statement in the context of major types of strategic, operational and ad-hoc decisions of managers that are influenced by management...