Due to its transformative potential, artificial intelligence is considered to be of growing importance for supply networks. As supply chain management faces a multitude of challenges, innovative organizational and technological concepts are required. As the application of artificial intelligence...

Purpose: Supply chain management (SCM) has undergone a transformation since its origins in the 1990s as ecological considerations have influenced SCM goals in recent years. This systematic literature review of a preliminary sample of 2,471 publications aims to show how target design has changed...

Purpose: Supply chain management (SCM) has undergone a transformation since its origins in the 1990s as ecological considerations have influenced SCM goals in recent years. This systematic literature review of a preliminary sample of 2,471 publications aims to show how target design has changed...

Namibia hosts two of the largest hybrid solar off-grid electricity systems in Africa. Both systems, however, while technically sound, are plagued by a host of problems related to operations, management, and decision-making that threaten their sustainability, especially the notable lack of a...

This book constitutes revised papers from the six workshops held at the 19th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2016, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2016. The workshops included in this volume are: * The 8th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2016, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2016. The BIS conference series follows trends in academia and business research; thus the theme of the BIS 2016 conference was Smart...

In this paper, Fair Value Chain Creation (FVC2;), as an approach that applies and extends principles of Fair Trade to exports from developed countries to the less developed countries, is being introduced. It awards a Fair Value label to goods which undergo further value adding in the host market....