Many non-profit organizations (NPOs) serve distressed individuals who seek relief from hardshipssuch as domestic abuse or homelessness. These NPOs aim to maximize social impact by allocating their limited amount of resources to various activities. However, they face a complex task because their...

In many contexts such as product design and development, advertising, or scouting for technical solutions, clients seek the expertise of external providers to generate innovative solutions for their business problems. Since innovation projects are beset with uncertainty, they often require...

In emerging economies, there is a growing number of farm equipment sharing platforms that connect smallholder farmers with tractor owners who are willing to fulfill farmers' requests for mechanization services. Due to the small farm sizes and the low digital literacy in rural areas of emerging...

Over the last two decades, firms have been appointing corporate sustainability executives (CSEs) to be part of their top management teams. Although there is a vast literature on sustainable practices and their relationships with various measures of firm performance, little is known about the...

Related to several efforts by governments to attain United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, subsidy vouchers are used to provide monetary support to income-eligible (IE) families who cannot afford child care. However, IE families are often unable to accept an offered voucher due to an...

We study a resource allocation problem for a resource-constrained non-profit organization (NPO) that implements social development projects for public good. In addition to raising funds from donors who contribute prior to project implementation ("traditional donors"), the NPO uses a novel...

Most subsidy welfare programs operate in a bilevel hierarchical structure, wherein a funding agency allocates funds to multiple service agencies. These service agencies invest in activities within their areas to generate social impact for beneficiaries by enhancing the quantity and quality of...

We study recycling technology choice, a critical factor that has received little attention in the context of extended producer responsibility, and its interaction with product design-for-recycling in driving the environmental benefits of recycling systems. Collective recycling systems have long...

For firms to be able to compete in the complex and dynamic nature of today's economy, they need to continually innovate. Thereupon, it is important to understand the drivers of innovation at firms. In this paper, we study the effect of employee satisfaction on firms' innovation performance. We...

This special issue implores us to address sustainability from the lens of emerging economies and the role that innovation can play in this context. We posit that, for sustainable operations research to be relevant in the context of emerging economies, it needs to incorporate social concerns and...