Pub Date : 2025-12-22DOI: 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.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-16DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109900
Zhiyang Shen , Ge Bai , Tomas Baležentis , Bin Zhang
The by-production (BP) model proposed by Murty et al. (2012) distinguishes between inputs that induce generation of the undesirable outputs (such inputs can include energy consumption) and those that do not contribute to generation of undesirable outputs (such inputs can include capital or labor). The BP model uses economic and environmental frontiers to approximate the production process and is considered to respect the materials balance principle. As the inputs contributing to generation of the undesirable outputs exhibit different roles (inequalities) across the two sub-technologies, construction of the input distance functions for construction of the productivity measures becomes cumbersome. To address this issue, the paper proposes a revision of the BP model where (i) the link between the two sub-technologies is improved and (ii) the role of the inputs that contribute to generation of the undesirable outputs is clarified. The revised model is fully compatible with popular productivity indices that incorporate input distance functions, such as the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen indicator, making it practically applicable for assessing green productivity change. The empirical example of the energy-economy-environment nexus in the OECD countries is considered. The non-parametric environmental production technologies and productivity measures are compared based on the empirical example. The findings reveal substantial differences among the various methods and suggest that the proposed approach may serve as a viable alternative to existing approaches.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-16DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109899
Yinan Qi, Fei Liu
Amid the escalation of geopolitical tensions, economic turbulence, and global supply disruptions, financialization has emerged as an increasingly pivotal way to shape firm resilience. Previous research has predominantly concentrated on the risks associated with financialization at the individual firm level. This study explores the mechanisms through which financialization impacts firm resilience, both directly and via supply chain dynamics. Drawing on a comprehensive panel of dyadic (buyer-supplier) quarterly data from Chinese listed companies from 2016 to 2023, we discover that the financialization of the buyer (the focal firm of this study) significantly erodes its resilience. Moreover, buyer financialization has a spillover effect that induces supplier financialization, and in turn, supplier financialization undermines the resilience of the buyer. Further analysis reveals that supply chain relationship duration weakens the positive effect of buyer financialization on supplier financialization and alleviates the negative impact of supplier financialization on buyer firm resilience. This research contributes substantially to the literature on financialization, supply chain spillover, and firm resilience by revealing the interfirm dynamics that shape resilience outcomes. It also offers practical implications for managers seeking to balance financial investment strategies with supply chain stability under conditions of global uncertainty.
{"title":"The impact of financialization on firm resilience: A supply chain perspective","authors":"Yinan Qi, Fei Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109899","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109899","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amid the escalation of geopolitical tensions, economic turbulence, and global supply disruptions, financialization has emerged as an increasingly pivotal way to shape firm resilience. Previous research has predominantly concentrated on the risks associated with financialization at the individual firm level. This study explores the mechanisms through which financialization impacts firm resilience, both directly and via supply chain dynamics. Drawing on a comprehensive panel of dyadic (buyer-supplier) quarterly data from Chinese listed companies from 2016 to 2023, we discover that the financialization of the buyer (the focal firm of this study) significantly erodes its resilience. Moreover, buyer financialization has a spillover effect that induces supplier financialization, and in turn, supplier financialization undermines the resilience of the buyer. Further analysis reveals that supply chain relationship duration weakens the positive effect of buyer financialization on supplier financialization and alleviates the negative impact of supplier financialization on buyer firm resilience. This research contributes substantially to the literature on financialization, supply chain spillover, and firm resilience by revealing the interfirm dynamics that shape resilience outcomes. It also offers practical implications for managers seeking to balance financial investment strategies with supply chain stability under conditions of global uncertainty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"294 ","pages":"Article 109899"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-16DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109893
Yi Yang
With the deeper integration of supply chains (SCs) and communication technologies, modern SCs are now facing cyber-security threats, particularly due to the increased connectivity and data vulnerabilities within networked environments. This study investigates the impacts of the cyber-attack, i.e. the false data injection attack (FDIA) on the SC and designs countermeasures to the FDIA. First, a novel SC framework is established from the control-theoretic perspective. The role of each member in the SC is conceptualized in accordance with the definition of the networked control system. Second, the FDIA is regarded as a distinctive SC risk, which is characterized by the malicious manipulation of transmitted data and the destruction of its authenticity. Third, the redundant channel strategy is employed to provide reliable communication channels that are free of cyber-attacks for emergency suppliers and temporary warehouses exchanging data with the decision centre. Furthermore, mixed integer programming models are proposed to determine countermeasures and optimize cyber-security investments. Through simulation-based analysis, the synergistic impacts of the FDIA on the SC performance under different cyber-attack intensities and different customer behaviours are examined. The results illustrate the efficacy of the proposed strategies in mitigating the adverse effects of the FDIA and improving SC resilience. The findings enhance the understanding of SC managers regarding the adoption of recovery strategies to mitigate cyber-attack risks. Moreover, the outcomes can be instructive for cyber-attackers when launching the FDIA in the SC context.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109898
Xiaoyan Xu , Bin Shen , Tana Siqin
Integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into closed-loop supply chains introduces complex challenges and therefore, makes it crucial to understand and mitigate ESG-related risks. This paper employs a game-theoretical model to examine how a closed-loop supply chain can mitigate ESG risks. The supply chain comprises a green manufacturer and a retailer, with the potential engagement of a recycling non-profit organization (NPO) and a quality assessment agency. We compare three operational mechanisms, i.e., (i) no remanufacturing, (ii) self-collection, and (iii) NPO-collection, from an ESG perspective. We further extend the model to examine the cases of mandatory information disclosure, a retailer collection scheme, and competing manufacturers. From an environmental perspective, remanufacturing helps reduce risks of resource inefficiency and environmental impact. Self-collection (resp. NPO-collection) performs better for low-pollution (resp. high-pollution) products. From a social perspective, high “local community engagement” may incur risks. Results show that only when the production cost is high and the information acquisition cost is small, it is wise for the manufacturer to engage with both the NPO and the community's quality assessment agency. From a governance perspective, we examine transparency-related risks and find that mandatory (resp. voluntary) disclosure is preferred when the production cost is high, while voluntary disclosure is preferred when the production cost is low. Our findings supplement the extant literature by extending the value of remanufacturing beyond traditional economic and environmental perspectives, explicitly addressing ESG risks and providing managerial implications for decision makers and policymakers to support the sustainable development of the closed-loop supply chain.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109896
Willy A. Oliveira Soler , Maristela Oliveira Santos , Rogério de Ávila Ribeiro Junqueira , Reinaldo Morabito
In this paper, we address a tactical sugarcane harvest planning problem commonly faced by industries that cultivate, harvest, and process sugarcane in Brazil and some other countries. The problem involves a single mill that must harvest sugarcane from several geographically dispersed areas (harvest blocks) using capacitated mechanized harvest fronts. The objective is to minimize the total costs of the harvest process while satisfying operational constraints, including capacity limits for transportation and harvesting. We propose a new mixed-integer programming (MIP) model and develop MIP-based constructive and improvement heuristic procedures. In the constructive phase, the method generates a strong dual bound and an initial feasible solution, while the improvement phase refines this solution to achieve higher quality. The efficiency of the proposed methods is evaluated through computational experiments using a dataset based on real-world scenarios. Additionally, a sensitivity analysis provides managerial insights by examining different harvest front configurations.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-13DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109894
Seyed Sina Mohri , Hadi Ghaderi , Reza Zanjirani Farahani , Neema Nassir , Russell G. Thompson
On-premises parcel lockers (OPLs) have recently garnered attention as a convenient, safe, and secure parcel delivery solution in urban areas. Companies like Amazon Hub, GroundFloor, and My Parcel Locker have adopted basic Service Revenue Models (SRMs), providing OPLs in buildings under different contract arrangements, such as subscription models and annual partnership fees. However, high capital and ongoing costs impede the adoption of OPLs in small buildings. This study aims to develop advanced decision models for the revenue management of on-premises parcel lockers by developing extensions to the basic SRM. The extensions function by incorporating the concept of carriers paying a service fee and buildings receiving services through partnership agreements. Two distinct partnership scenarios are evaluated: (i) a building hosts the OPL while serving neighbouring buildings, and (ii) collaboration with the local government, where authorities establish shared OPLs in public space near designated buildings, promoting sustainable urban delivery. Alternative SRMs are formulated using novel optimisation techniques, and equilibrium points are identified and analytically evaluated to determine optimal service fees and contract durations. Using real-life data from Melbourne, this study compares the performance of these models under different scenarios. Using real-life data from Melbourne, this study compares the performance of the proposed models under various scenarios. While partnerships involving shared public OPLs supported by local governments remain the most cost-effective overall, incorporating modest land costs slightly reduces their advantage, though they continue to offer the most feasible and widely accepted solution.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-13DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109897
Guilherme Tortorella , Maneesh Kumar , Matthias Thürer , Tyson R. Browning , Peter Hines , David Romero , Andrea Furlan
Lean is widely regarded as a strategic management approach to increase competitiveness by systematically eliminating waste through the active involvement of employees. Nevertheless, during low-probability, high-impact disruptive events, many organizations utilizing Lean face severe negative implications, which raise doubts about Lean's effectiveness. This article aims to discuss how Lean impacts organizational resilience based on the concepts proposed by Biringer et al. (2013), who defined resilience capability through three categories: absorptive capability, adaptive capability, and restorative capability. Extensive debates among the authors and a narrative literature review were conducted, allowing for a deeper discussion and the formulation of research propositions. By discriminating the effects of Lean adoption across different capabilities, we can disentangle the Lean-resilience relationship. Overall, we argue that organizations with higher levels of Lean implementation may be able to adapt and restore more easily from severe disruptive events than organizations with lower implementation levels. In turn, organizations with lower levels of Lean implementation might present greater organizational slack that favors the absorption of the implications caused by such disruptions, which is less expected in high-Lean organizations. Our study disentangles the inherent paradox or tension in the relationship between Lean and resilience, showing that a time dimension is introduced by the different capabilities that explain the differing impacts of Lean. This leads to opportunities for further investigation of Lean and organizational resilience.
精益被广泛认为是一种战略管理方法，通过员工的积极参与，系统地消除浪费，从而提高竞争力。然而，在低概率、高影响的破坏性事件中，许多使用精益的组织面临着严重的负面影响，这使人们对精益的有效性产生了怀疑。本文旨在根据Biringer et al.（2013）提出的概念，讨论精益如何影响组织弹性。Biringer et al.（2013）通过吸收能力、适应能力和恢复能力三类来定义弹性能力。作者之间进行了广泛的辩论，并进行了叙述文献综述，允许更深入的讨论和研究命题的制定。通过区分不同能力对精益采用的影响，我们可以理清精益与弹性的关系。总体而言，我们认为精益实施水平较高的组织可能比实施水平较低的组织更容易适应和恢复严重的破坏性事件。反过来，精益实施水平较低的组织可能会表现出更大的组织松弛，这有利于吸收由这种中断引起的影响，这在高精益组织中是不太可能的。我们的研究解开了精益与弹性之间的内在矛盾或紧张关系，表明不同的能力引入了一个时间维度，解释了精益的不同影响。这为进一步研究精益和组织弹性提供了机会。
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Pub Date : 2025-12-13DOI: 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.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-12DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109892
Tingting Wang , Shan Chang , Guoping Hu , Victor Shi
Blockchain technology has emerged as a transformative tool to enhance supply chain traceability, a critical concern in today’s business environment. This study develops game-theoretic models to analyze the interplay between supply chain structure and blockchain deployment strategies in competing supply chains. Our results show that vertical integration generally benefits a decentralized supply chain but can harm the competitor under most blockchain deployment strategies. In particular, when both competing supply chains deploy blockchain, they tend to adopt vertical integration. However, when only one decentralized chain deploys blockchain, its adoption of vertical integration may reduce profits for itself and its competitor, highlighting the strategic complexity of partial adoption. We further identify the equilibrium blockchain deployment strategies under different supply chain structures and demonstrate that these strategies depend on customer privacy concerns. We also show that both supply chains adopt vertical integration and blockchain when privacy concerns are low. However, they adopt vertical integration without blockchain when privacy concerns are high. Under moderate privacy concerns, blockchain adoption depends on the level of integration, with higher integration promoting its deployment. Finally, we find that vertical integration improves social welfare more effectively when both chains deploy blockchain. It also has a positive effect when only a single centralized chain deploys blockchain and privacy concerns are low. Overall, our findings provide valuable managerial insights for decision-makers when considering blockchain adoption in competitive settings, highlighting the critical role of supply chain structure and consumer privacy concerns.
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