An emerging financial innovation enabled by the Blockchain technology in agricultural supply chains is the capability to “tip the farmers.” This innovation empowers socially- conscious customers to identify the individual farmers of their sustainably-sourced products and reward these farmers...

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...

The mismatch between newsvendor theory and experimental observations has garnered significant attention in the literature; several theories have been developed to capture the observed behavior. Yet, there has been limited research on the implications of observed behavior, leaving both a...

Due to the trend towards decentralization and greater complexity in supply chains, companies are increasingly exposed to supply risks. Various strategies to mitigate supply risks have been developed using modeling- based approaches, including risk diversification by dual sourcing and direct...

Whether information dissemination about chemical hazards drives managers at facilities to undertake corresponding environmental actions, remains an open question that has not been adequately examined in the literature. We fill this gap in the literature by empirically investigating reductions in...