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The economics of capacity-sharing platform openness: Competition and cooperation among asymmetric firms 产能共享平台开放的经济学：不对称企业之间的竞争与合作

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International Journal of Production Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109904

Renlei Cai , Gang Li , T.C.E. Cheng

The rise of B2B sharing platforms in the upstream market allows large firms with sizable loyal consumer bases and sufficient capacity to launch their own capacity-sharing platforms, which they can open to competitors, particularly small firms, to leverage the benefits of the sharing economy. This paper examines large firms' platform openness strategies and small firms' capacity-sharing decisions in a competitive environment. It shows that a large firm's decision to open its platform can either intensify or mitigate market competition, depending on the small firm's choice of capacity-sharing partner. When the small firm acquires capacity from its competitor, market competition is alleviated; however, when a low external transfer price drives it to source from external suppliers, market competition intensifies. Anticipating this, the large firm may refrain from opening the platform to preserve its pricing advantage, leading to a prisoner's dilemma. This dilemma is particularly pronounced when the two firms have similar loyal consumer bases but significantly different capacities. When the external transfer price is endogenized, the supplier needs to compensate the large firm via a service fee. The large firm could strategically subsidize the small firm to promote platform participation. When the large firm faces capacity constraints, unilateral or bilateral sharing becomes the most effective way to mitigate competition.

B2B共享平台在上游市场的兴起，使得拥有大量忠实消费者基础和足够能力的大公司能够推出自己的容量共享平台，并向竞争对手（尤其是小企业）开放，以利用共享经济的好处。本文考察了竞争环境下大企业的平台开放策略和小企业的能力共享决策。结果表明，大企业开放其平台的决定会加剧或减轻市场竞争，这取决于小企业对能力共享伙伴的选择。当小企业从竞争对手那里获得产能时，市场竞争得到缓解；然而，当外部转移价格较低时，促使其向外部供应商采购，市场竞争加剧。预计到这一点，大公司可能会避免开放平台以保持其价格优势，从而导致囚徒困境。当两家公司拥有相似的忠实消费者基础，但生产能力却大不相同时，这种困境尤为明显。当外部转移价格内生时，供应商需要以服务费的形式对大企业进行补偿。大公司可以对小公司进行战略性补贴，促进平台参与。当大型企业面临产能约束时，单边或双边共享成为缓解竞争的最有效方式。

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Insights from lower-tier ICT suppliers: How network centrality in multi-tier supply chain relationships affects buyer financial performance 来自底层ICT供应商的见解：多层供应链关系中的网络中心性如何影响买方的财务绩效

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International Journal of Production Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109840

Kara Li Liu , Koray Özpolat , Seung Kyoon Shin

Information and communication technology (ICT) outsourcing to suppliers has the potential to enhance buyers' product innovation and overall performance. However, the impact of technology outsourcing to lower-tier suppliers on buyers' financial performance in multi-tier supply chain networks remains unclear. Unlike prior dyadic studies that focus on a buyer-tier1 supplier perspective, our study extends the analytical scope to encompass buyer, tier-1, and tier-2 ICT supplier triads using multi-tier supply network data from Capital IQ. Building on existing literature indicating that a buyer's betweenness centrality negatively affects its financial performance, we further find that tier-1 suppliers' betweenness centrality also exhibits a negative relationship with buyers' financial performance. In addition, we provide the empirical evidence that a buyer's timely supplier payment amplifies the positive effect of buyer degree centrality on its financial performance, while alleviating the positive effect of tier-1 suppliers' degree centrality on buyers' financial performance. Interestingly, timely supplier payment negatively moderates the association between a buyer's closeness centrality and its financial performance, but positively moderates the corresponding association between tier-1 supplier closeness centrality and buyer financial performance. Our empirical analysis advances theoretical understanding of lower-tier suppliers and sheds light on the bridging role of tier-1 suppliers in the literature of multi-tier supply chain relationships. These findings highlight the benefits of technology-enabled multi-tier supply network structures and their interactions with the buyer-tier1 supplier relationships. This study also provides practical insights for firms to improve financial outcomes through strategic ICT outsourcing to multi-layer suppliers.

信息和通信技术（ICT）外包给供应商有可能提高买家的产品创新和整体绩效。然而，在多层供应链网络中，较低层次供应商的技术外包对买方财务绩效的影响尚不清楚。与以往侧重于买方-一级供应商视角的二元研究不同，我们的研究使用Capital IQ的多层供应网络数据，将分析范围扩展到包括买方、一级和二级ICT供应商三元组。在现有文献表明买方中间性中心性对其财务绩效有负向影响的基础上，我们进一步发现一级供应商中间性中心性与买方财务绩效也呈负向关系。此外，我们还提供了经验证据，证明买方及时向供应商付款放大了买方程度中心性对其财务绩效的正向影响，而减轻了一级供应商程度中心性对买方财务绩效的正向影响。有趣的是，供应商及时付款负向调节了买方亲密度中心性与其财务绩效之间的关联，但正向调节了一级供应商亲密度中心性与买方财务绩效之间的关联。我们的实证分析提高了对较低层次供应商的理论认识，并阐明了多层次供应链关系文献中一级供应商的桥梁作用。这些发现强调了技术支持的多层供应网络结构及其与买方-第一级供应商关系的相互作用的好处。本研究也为企业透过资讯通讯科技外包给多层供应商以改善财务结果提供实务见解。

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Differential service strategies of ride-hailing platforms for passengers with heterogeneous behaviors 基于异质行为的网约车平台差异化服务策略

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International Journal of Production Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109886

Fapeng Nie , Xiang Li , Zhaofu Hong

In the ride-hailing market, facing passengers with heterogeneous behaviors, some ride-hailing platforms (e.g., DiDi or Uber) develop a scoring system to provide differential service. To explore the benefits of this differential service, we develop game-theoretic models to capture the interactions among the platform, passengers, and drivers. The results show that the ride-hailing platform always adopts a markup pricing strategy with cost-sharing, regardless of whether the platform adopts differential service. As the loss cost increases, the ride-hailing platform tends to develop a scoring system and serve only passengers with high scores, but this strategic switch may harm both passengers and drivers. Fortunately, the ride-hailing platform can perfectly mitigate the conflict with passengers by adjusting the scoring standard. Furthermore, we extend our baseline model to a three-tiered passenger segmentation, confirming the robustness of our findings and enhancing the practical relevance of our study.

在网约车市场中，面对行为异质性的乘客，一些网约车平台（如滴滴、优步）开发了计分系统，提供差别化服务。为了探索这种差别服务的好处，我们开发了博弈论模型来捕捉平台、乘客和司机之间的相互作用。结果表明，无论网约车平台是否采用差级化服务，网约车平台始终采用成本分担的加价定价策略。随着损失成本的增加，网约车平台倾向于开发计分系统，只服务得分高的乘客，但这种战略转变可能会对乘客和司机都造成伤害。幸运的是，网约车平台可以通过调整评分标准，完美地缓解与乘客的冲突。此外，我们将我们的基线模型扩展到三层乘客细分，证实了我们研究结果的稳健性，并增强了我们研究的实际相关性。

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Platform switching with manufacturer encroachment under online retailing and dual-purpose organizations 在线零售和双重用途组织下制造商侵占的平台切换

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International Journal of Production Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109888

Song Huang, Yuhui Peng, Jinran Yu

This study examines the strategic interaction between an incumbent manufacturer’s agency encroachment and an online platform’s external switching in a platform supply chain. The dual-purpose platform, which considers both profit and consumer surplus, can switch to an outside manufacturer when facing the agency encroachment threat of the incumbent manufacturer. We consider the equilibrium strategy for the for-profit and dual-purpose platforms, to explore the impact of the dual-purpose concern, switching option, and agency encroachment on the firms’ profits and consumer surplus. Several interesting findings emerge from this study. First, unlike the for-profit platform, the dual-purpose platform’s switching strategy exhibits a non-trivial pattern for the switching cost. A high dual-purpose concern increases the platform’s switching motivation but inhibits the manufacturer’s agency encroachment incentive. Second, agency encroachment may benefit the platform owing to the additional commission income, and switching may hurt the platform. Importantly, the dual-purpose concern can positively affect the platform, which occurs when the agency encroachment is inhibited by dual purpose or switching. However, the pursuit of consumer surplus does not necessarily benefit consumers. Moreover, the incumbent manufacturer does not favor the dual-purpose platform scenario, particularly under the condition of high switching costs and low commissions. Finally, the extensions indicate that the incumbent manufacturer’s dual-purpose concern may show an opposite effect on the wholesale price and direct sales volume, thereby enhancing the incumbent manufacturer’s agency encroachment incentive; and imperfect product substitution weakens the dual-purpose platform’s ordering motivation.

本研究考察了平台供应链中在位厂商代理侵占与在线平台外部切换之间的战略互动关系。双重目的平台既考虑利润，又考虑消费者剩余，当面临现有厂商的代理侵占威胁时，可以转向外部厂商。我们考虑营利性和双重目的平台的均衡策略，探讨双重目的关注、切换选择和代理侵占对企业利润和消费者剩余的影响。这项研究产生了几个有趣的发现。首先，与营利性平台不同，双重用途平台的切换策略在切换成本上呈现出非平凡模式。高度的双重目的关注增加了平台的切换动机，但抑制了制造商的代理侵占动机。其次，代理侵占可能会使平台受益，因为额外的佣金收入，而切换可能会损害平台。重要的是，双重目的关注可以对平台产生积极影响，当代理侵犯被双重目的或转换抑制时，就会发生这种情况。然而，对消费者剩余的追求并不一定对消费者有利。此外，现有制造商不赞成双重用途平台方案，特别是在高转换成本和低佣金的情况下。最后，扩展表明在位制造商的双重目的关注可能对批发价格和直接销售量产生相反的影响，从而增强在位制造商的代理侵占激励；产品替代不完善削弱了双用途平台的订购动机。

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Green technology operation subsidy vs. investment subsidy in agricultural outsourcing services: The impact of power structures 农业外包服务中绿色技术运营补贴与投资补贴：权力结构的影响

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International Journal of Production Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2026.109917

Ligang Shi , Weida Chen , Jing Jia

To encourage service subjects to provide green technology services to farmers, the government offers two subsidy policies: the green technology operation subsidy (GOS) and the green technology investment subsidy (GIS). We consider an agricultural supply chain with a risk-averse farmer, a risk-neutral retailer, and a risk-neutral service subject, and comparatively analyze the impacts of subsidy policies in a service subject-led Stackelberg, a retailer-led Stackelberg, and a vertical Nash game model. The results reveal that under GOS, farmers prefer the vertical Nash (retailer-led) model when the subsidy level is low (high). In contrast, under GIS, the vertical Nash model always outperforms Stackelberg models for farmers. Further analysis shows that with an equal subsidy budget, farmers always gain more from GOS in the service subject-led model, but in other models, they prefer GIS when the subsidy budget is low. In addition, service subjects tend to adopt GIS (GOS) in the vertical Nash (service subject-led) model. However, in the retailer-led model, service subjects only choose GOS when both farmers' risk aversion and subsidy budget are high. Finally, farmers and retailers share the same preference for subsidy policies, while service subjects' preference is consistent with that of the supply chain system.

为了鼓励服务主体向农民提供绿色技术服务，政府提供了绿色技术运营补贴（GOS）和绿色技术投资补贴（GIS）两种补贴政策。我们考虑了一个由风险厌恶的农民、风险中性的零售商和风险中性的服务主体组成的农业供应链，并比较分析了服务主体主导的Stackelberg、零售商主导的Stackelberg和垂直纳什博弈模型下补贴政策的影响。研究结果表明，在补贴水平低（高）时，农户更倾向于垂直纳什（零售商主导）模型。相比之下，在GIS下，垂直纳什模型总是优于Stackelberg模型。进一步分析表明，在补贴预算相同的情况下，服务主体主导模式下农民从GOS中获得的收益更多，而在其他模式下，农民在补贴预算较低时更倾向于使用GIS。此外，在垂直Nash（服务主体主导）模型中，服务主体倾向于采用GIS （GOS）。而在零售商主导的模型中，服务主体只有在农民风险规避和补贴预算都较高的情况下才会选择GOS。最后，农民和零售商对补贴政策的偏好相同，服务主体的偏好与供应链系统的偏好一致。

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Leveraging digital twin and dynamic scheduling for enhanced human–robot collaboration 利用数字孪生和动态调度增强人机协作

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International Journal of Production Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109823

Pierre Hémono , Ahmed Nait Chabane , M’hammed Sahnoun

Industry 5.0 represents a paradigm shift toward human-centric, resilient, and sustainable production systems. At the core of this transformation lies digital twins, which enable predictive and prescriptive analytics in real time, improving decision-making capabilities such as visibility, transparency, and collaboration. By integrating advanced AI algorithms for data interpretation and facilitating seamless human–machine interactions, digital twins address critical challenges in modern industrial systems. This article explores the transformative role of digital twins in operational decision-making, focusing on their ability to optimize workflows, and foster collaboration between humans and robots. Through a dual-layer methodology macro-level task scheduling for efficiency and consideration of human factors and micro-level real-time control for adaptability, digital twins offer a powerful framework for aligning human and robotic capabilities while mitigating human fatigue and improving decision transparency. Highlighting applications in digital transformation, optimization, and human–AI collaboration, this study emphasizes how digital twins enhance operational visibility and resilience. The findings contribute to the evolution of Industry 5.0, offering innovative solutions for integrating predictive models and human-centered approaches in decision-making, redefining the future of sustainable and collaborative industrial systems.

工业5.0代表了向以人为中心、有弹性和可持续的生产系统的范式转变。这一转变的核心是数字孪生，它支持实时预测和规范分析，提高可视性、透明度和协作等决策能力。通过集成先进的人工智能算法进行数据解释和促进无缝人机交互，数字孪生解决了现代工业系统中的关键挑战。本文探讨了数字孪生在运营决策中的变革作用，重点介绍了它们优化工作流程和促进人与机器人之间协作的能力。通过双层方法，宏观层面的任务调度效率和人为因素的考虑以及微观层面的适应性实时控制，数字孪生提供了一个强大的框架，用于协调人和机器人的能力，同时减轻人类的疲劳和提高决策透明度。本研究突出了数字化转型、优化和人类-人工智能协作中的应用，强调了数字孪生如何提高运营可视性和弹性。这些发现有助于工业5.0的发展，为整合预测模型和以人为中心的决策方法提供了创新的解决方案，重新定义了可持续和协作工业系统的未来。

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Gold or gild: Does blockchain attention improve the efficiency of supply chain? 黄金还是黄金：关注bb0能提高供应链效率吗？

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International Journal of Production Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109895

Jiali Zhu , Shiwei Sun , Peilun Li , Yichuan Wang , Di Mao

Blockchain technology has garnered significant attention in recent years, with the belief that it can enhance the efficiency of corporate supply chain management. Numerous Chinese listed companies have disclosed the application of supply chain technologies through their financial reports. This study explicitly addresses the research question: Does blockchain attention genuinely improve supply chain efficiency, or is it merely a symbolic response to institutional pressures? Using data from Chinese A-share listed firms from 2013 to 2021, we empirically examine the relationship between blockchain attention and supply chain efficiency (SCE), and test moderating effects of blockchain implementation cost and managers’ digital background. The findings reveal that: (1) blockchain attention is significantly negatively correlated with supply chain efficiency measured by inventory turnover rate, indicating that corporate technology disclosure is a gild disclosure under institutional pressure rather than substantive technological application; (2) the above correlated mechanism is also affected by the experience of executives in supply chain management, supply chain intensity, and the regional supply chain efficiency. This study challenges the optimistic expectations of blockchain technology, uncovers the dissipative path of technological alienation under institutional pressure. It also provides a theoretical basis for regulatory authorities to identify “fake innovation” disclosures and for enterprises to prudently implement digital transformation.

区块链技术近年来备受关注，人们相信它可以提高企业供应链管理的效率。许多中国上市公司在其财务报告中披露了供应链技术的应用。本研究明确地解决了研究问题：区块链关注是否真正提高了供应链效率，还是仅仅是对制度压力的象征性反应？本文利用2013 - 2021年中国a股上市公司的数据，实证检验了区块链关注与供应链效率的关系，并检验了区块链实施成本和管理者数字化背景的调节作用。研究发现：(1)区块链关注度与以库存周转率衡量的供应链效率呈显著负相关，说明企业技术披露是制度压力下的权责披露，而非实质性技术应用下的权责披露；(2)上述相关机制还受高管供应链管理经验、供应链强度和区域供应链效率的影响。本研究挑战了区块链技术的乐观预期，揭示了制度压力下技术异化的消散路径。为监管部门识别“假创新”信息披露和企业审慎实施数字化转型提供理论依据。

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Optimal joint replenishment and transshipment policies for an omnichannel retailer utilizing a ship-from-store strategy 全渠道零售商采用从店发货策略的最优联合补货和转运策略

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International Journal of Production Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109907

Ye Xia , Xiangyong Li , Lu Yang

Omnichannel retail enables consumers to shop seamlessly across multiple channels, with the Ship-From-Store (SFS) strategy — a prominent approach that fulfills online orders from physical stores — gaining widespread adoption. While effective, SFS introduces challenges related to demand pooling, complicating inventory management across channels. This paper investigates the joint replenishment, transshipment, and fulfillment problem for an omnichannel retailer operating physical stores under the SFS strategy. We propose a novel analytical framework that integrates proactive and reactive transshipments with periodic replenishment and dual-channel fulfillment. The analysis identifies key structural properties of the cost functions and, for a two-store omnichannel retail system, characterizes the optimal policies using switching curves, demonstrating that these policies can be derived efficiently through hedging point computations without explicitly visualizing the curves. We further extend the analysis to a stationary multi-store setting, establishing the optimality of a myopic base-stock policy as a simple yet robust decision-making framework. Numerical experiments show that jointly optimizing replenishment and proactive transshipment substantially reduces total operating costs, particularly under high demand volatility, by leveraging cross-store inventory pooling. These findings provide actionable insights for designing efficient and practical omnichannel fulfillment strategies.

全渠道零售使消费者能够跨多个渠道无缝购物，而配送至商店（Ship-From-Store，简称SFS）策略——一种从实体店完成在线订单的突出方法——得到了广泛采用。虽然有效，但SFS带来了与需求池相关的挑战，使跨渠道的库存管理复杂化。本文研究了全渠道零售商在SFS策略下经营实体店的联合补货、转运和配送问题。我们提出了一个新的分析框架，将主动和被动转运与定期补货和双通道履行相结合。分析确定了成本函数的关键结构属性，并且对于一个两店全渠道零售系统，使用切换曲线表征了最优策略，表明这些策略可以通过对冲点计算有效地推导出来，而无需明确地可视化曲线。我们进一步将分析扩展到一个固定的多商店设置，建立一个最优的短视基础库存政策作为一个简单而稳健的决策框架。数值实验表明，通过利用跨店库存池，联合优化补货和主动转运大大降低了总运营成本，特别是在需求波动较大的情况下。这些发现为设计高效和实用的全渠道实现策略提供了可操作的见解。

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Employee or influencer live streaming? A manufacturer’s strategy for virtual character adoption considering live streaming reviews 员工还是网红直播？考虑到直播评论，制造商采用虚拟角色的策略

IF 1 1区工程技术 Q1 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

International Journal of Production Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109882

Xiaoping Xu , Xinru Chen , Tsan-Ming Choi , T.C.E. Cheng

Live streaming operations are getting popular nowadays. Considering that a manufacturer sells its products to consumers via a live streaming channel, we investigate the manufacturer’s strategies for virtual character adoption, as well as live-streamer (i.e., employee or influencer) selection, considering live streaming reviews. Some important factors are identified to assess live streaming: (i) manufacturer’s quality improvement and live streaming reviews influencing consumers’ quality perception; (ii) influencer power and value, which reflect the influencer’s personal influence and content categories, respectively; and (iii) virtual character’s main characteristics, namely the virtual character’s intelligence level and product exposure power. We analyze five live streaming scenarios: merchant live streaming channel without virtual character (Scenario EN), merchant live streaming channel with virtual character (Scenario EV), influencer live streaming channel without virtual character (Scenario IN), influencer live streaming channel with virtual character (Scenario IV), and virtual character live streaming channel (Scenario V). Our findings show that for live-streamer selection, regardless of whether a virtual character is introduced, the manufacturer should select the employee (influencer) at the low (high) influencer power. However, without (with) virtual character, it should select the employee (influencer) at the moderate influencer power. Besides, under the high virtual character’s intelligence level (and its low cost factor), the influencer (manufacturer) should adopt the virtual character as the assistant of live-streamer. Moreover, whether to adopt Scenario V depends on the virtual character’s product exposure power and intelligence level in Scenarios EN, EV, and V, as well as its product exposure power, intelligence level, and influencer power in Scenarios IN, IV, and V. Finally, we consider the slice live streaming scenarios to encompass more scenarios.

如今，直播业务越来越受欢迎。考虑到制造商通过直播渠道向消费者销售其产品，我们调查了制造商采用虚拟角色的策略，以及考虑直播评论的直播者（即员工或影响者）选择。确定了评估直播的一些重要因素：(i)制造商的质量改进和直播评论影响消费者的质量感知；（ii）网红力量和价值，分别反映网红的个人影响力和内容类别；（三）虚拟人物的主要特征，即虚拟人物的智力水平和产品曝光力。我们分析了五种直播场景：无虚拟角色的商家直播通道（场景EN）、有虚拟角色的商家直播通道（场景EV）、无虚拟角色的网红直播通道（场景IN）、有虚拟角色的网红直播通道（场景IV）和虚拟角色直播通道（场景V）。我们的研究结果表明，对于直播选择，无论是否引入虚拟角色，制造商都应该选择影响者权力低（高）的员工（影响者）。而在没有（有）虚拟角色的情况下，应选择影响者权力适中的员工（影响者）。此外，在虚拟角色智力水平较高（成本因素较低）的情况下，网红（厂商）应该采用虚拟角色作为主播的助手。此外，是否采用场景V取决于虚拟角色在场景EN、EV、V中的产品曝光力、智能水平，以及在场景in、IV、V中的产品曝光力、智能水平、网红能力。最后，我们考虑切片直播场景包含更多的场景。

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Rethinking operations and supply chain management in the blockchain era: Insights and research directions b区块链时代运营与供应链管理的再思考：见解与研究方向

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International Journal of Production Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109903

Yuanzhu Zhan , Jing Dai , Yufeng Zhang , Guangzhi Shang , Antony Paulraj , Andy Yeung

This editorial introduces the Special Issue on “Rethinking Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Blockchain Era” published in the International Journal of Production Economics. The Special Issue brings together 15 papers that collectively advance theoretical, empirical, and practical understanding of blockchain's transformative role in operations and supply chain management. Drawing upon their contributions, the papers are clustered into three thematic areas: (1) blockchain for governance and coordination; (2) blockchain for digital capabilities and performance; and (3) blockchain for sustainability and institutional legitimacy. Building on these clusters, the editorial proposes an integrative framework and research agenda that calls for multi-level, longitudinal, and data-driven approaches connecting blockchain's technical, organizational, and institutional dimensions. The findings highlight blockchain's potential to enable more transparent, resilient, and sustainable operations systems and supply chains while recognizing the managerial, technological, and institutional challenges that accompany its widespread adoption.

这篇社论介绍了《国际生产经济学杂志》发表的专刊《重新思考b区块链时代的运营和供应链管理》。本期特刊汇集了15篇论文，这些论文共同推进了b区块链在运营和供应链管理中的变革作用的理论、实证和实践理解。根据他们的贡献，这些文件被集中在三个主题领域：(1)区块链用于治理和协调；(2)区块链用于数字能力和性能；(3)可持续性和制度合法性。在这些集群的基础上，社论提出了一个综合框架和研究议程，要求采用多层次、纵向和数据驱动的方法，将b区块链的技术、组织和制度层面联系起来。研究结果强调了区块链在实现更透明、更有弹性和更可持续的运营系统和供应链方面的潜力，同时也认识到区块链的广泛采用所带来的管理、技术和制度挑战。

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