Research Question: This study investigates the relationship between information technology (IT) capability and firm performance in the 2010s, the era of big data analytics (BDA), in the context of US companies. Motivation: With the evolution of business intelligence and the proliferation of...

Research Question: This study investigates the relationship between information technology (IT) capability and firm performance in the 2010s, the era of big data analytics (BDA), in the context of US companies. Motivation - With the evolution of business intelligence and the proliferation of...

Although pull production systems, such as kanban and CONWIP have been implemented in some production systems with positive outcomes, failure cases have also been reported. To find out the reason, a fundamental study of pull systems is conducted based on the insight from queueing theory. The...

This study considers a two-mode production system that allows the supply chain to utilize a fast reactive production with improved demand information before the selling season. However, the reactive production quantity is limited by the required preprocessing decision before the demand...

Distributed manufacturing has been an important trend in the industrial field, in which the production cost can be reduced through the cooperation among factories. In the real production, the random job arrivals are regular for the enterprises with daily delivered production tasks. In the paper,...

A combined sewer system (CSS) simultaneously transports stormwater and sewage with insufficient drainage capacity will induce combined sewer overflows (CSOs) pollution, deteriorating the aquatic ecosystems. However, insufficient studies have investigated the combined impacts of spring tide and...

An article in the Economics Letters by Alexander Rasch and Tobias Wenzel (2014, hereafter RW) states that “...Content providers can reach all users via either platform. Hence, as there is no differentiation among platforms from the developers’ point of view, platforms face Bertrand...