The consideration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspects has become an integral part of investment decisions for individual and institutional investors. Most recently, corporate leaders recognized the core value of the ESG framework in fulfilling their environmental and social...

Purpose: Assembly Line Balancing (ALB) is critical to manufacturing efficiency and productivity. It involves assigning tasks to workstations to optimise performance while satisfying task priority and cycle time constraints. The Simple ALBP (SALBP) is a simplified version of the general problem...

The technology of the Internet of Things (IoT) represents a cornerstone of the fourth industrial revolution. We adopt a machine learning approach to examine the effect of IoT technology on shipping business operations. Text mining and the probabilistic latent Dirichlet allocation are applied for...