Systems, Volume 12, Issue 9

Small- and medium-sized companies depend heavily on their internal configuration to achieve their goals, generate profit, and remain competitive. The performance of the sales department is often crucial for this. Decision-makers need to understand ho...

New product development (NPD) is crucial for helping companies to maintain competitive advantages. In this study, a methodological framework is presented combining a novel Kano model and fuzzy axiomatic design (FAD) for improving the product developm...

Currently, the media industry is in the rapid development stage of media integration, which has brought about great changes in content production mode, presentation form, communication mechanism, operation and maintenance management, etc. At the same...

Constructed response items that require the student to give more detailed and elaborate responses are widely applied in large-scale assessments. However, the hand-craft scoring with a rubric for massive responses is labor-intensive and impractical du...

Marxist political economy provides a theoretical framework for sustainable supply chains, while the implementation of sustainable supply chains embodies and deepens the practical application of Marxist principles. This paper studies supply chain sust...

Green process innovation is an important strategy in the high-quality development of enterprises. Digital technology is becoming a key factor in helping businesses address environmental issues and contributes to their green process innovation and sus...

Many ranking algorithms and metrics have been proposed to identify high-impact papers. Both the direct citation counts and the network-based PageRank-like algorithms are commonly used. Ideally, the more complete the data on the citation network, the...

This paper evaluates the impact of congestion on transmission lines when the operation cost is minimized using economic dispatch (ED), comparing the results obtained with the Nash–Cournot Equilibrium (NCE). A methodology is developed for the op...

System-based approaches are critical for addressing the complex and interconnected nature of urban ecological development and restoration of ecosystem services. This study adopts a system perspective to investigate the spatiotemporal drivers of key e...

This systematic review investigates the main mathematical models applied in urban logistics, focusing on routing, location and transshipment problems. The study addresses the growing demand for efficient and sustainable logistics solutions driven by...

The rapid growth in the use of AI techniques, mainly machine learning (ML), is revolutionizing different industries by significantly enhancing decision-making processes through data-driven insights. This study investigates the influence of using ML,...

Digitalization represents a pivotal global development trend and serves as a significant force propelling economic and social transformation. This manuscript uses the global Malmquist–Luenberger (GML) model to estimate green total factor produc...

The carbon quota allocation method serves as the foundation for the design of the carbon trading mechanism, which has a significant impact on supply chain production decisions and the operational efficiency of the carbon trading market. To analyze th...

Road traffic accidents result in numerous fatalities and injuries annually. Advanced driving assistance systems (ADASs) have garnered significant attention to mitigate these harms. An accurate safety assessment can significantly improve the effective...

Intuitionistic linguistic numbers (ILNs) describe expert evaluation information by representing semantic assessment values and reflecting the confidence level and hesitation of decision-makers. ILNs are widely used to handle uncertain and incomplete...

System modeling language (SysML) diagrams generated manually by system modelers can sometimes be prone to errors, which are time-consuming and introduce subjectivity. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques and tools to create SysML diagrams can...

Effective project management is crucial for organizations to achieve strategic objectives and maintain competitiveness in today’s market. The project management office (PMO) has emerged as a key enabler in enhancing project management effective...

This study analyzes the current status of the digitalization of the Romanian Health System (RHS). Data were collected from 135 active public and private health professionals using an online questionnaire with 102 items. The results of the analysis sh...

This study utilizes data from Chinese A-share listed companies from 2014 to 2022 to theoretically analyze and empirically test the governance effect of ESG assurance on corporate greenwashing behavior, as well as the role played by the legal environm...

Decision making in critical situations is a complex process. There are many processes to consider. This paper describes a theoretical approach to researching attentional processes and automatic unconscious processes in terms of metacognition. An appl...

The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of intellectual capital (IC) and its components on firm financial performance using data from Chinese agricultural listed companies during 2015–2020. The moderating role of board diversity in...

Projects involve inter-organizational relationship cognition, which is central to collaborative engineering project value added. Interest in value added in the project lifecycle is mounting and gaining increasing attention in the research literature....

This multidisciplinary paper contributes to political economy, social cybernetics, and philosophy by examining distinctions in market capitalist ideologies through a metacybernetic approach. It explores reflexive processes, akin to Adam Smith’s...

Sustainable development has become a corporate goal all over the world, and innovation as a crucial prerequisite for sustainable development has attracted much attention. This study investigates the relationship between the business environment and c...

In today’s competitive and globalized world, innovation is essential for organizational survival, offering a means for companies to address environmental impacts and social challenges. As innovation processes accelerate, managers need to rethin...

In recent years, the escalation in emergency occurrences has underscored the pressing need for expedient responses in delivering essential supplies. Efficient integration and precise allocation of emergency resources under joint government–ente...

An increased interest in the resilience of complex socio-ecological and socio-technical systems has led to a variety of metrics being proposed. An overview of these metrics and their underlying concepts would support identifying useful metrics for ap...

To achieve sustainable development of social systems, it is necessary to modernize the legal system, which is the foundation of any society, to increase the efficiency of resources and simultaneously optimize the performance of the environment and so...

This paper presents a method for creating the system architecture of existing industrial objects based on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles. The method aims to form a digital representation of physical objects, which is crucial in the...

Multiple production lines can work together to efficiently manufacture certain products. Thus, when capacity is insufficient, it is necessary to decide whether to develop new production lines to ensure the timely completion of all orders. For example...

With the profound integration of digital technology and traditional agriculture, the whole industry chain of rural e-commerce, as an advanced system, is reshaping the production, sales, and management models of agriculture and is emerging as a new ca...

In the era of artificial intelligence, human resource management has undergone significant changes compared to traditional approaches regarding value creation methods and influencing factors. This research aims to utilize grounded theory to comprehen...

Systematic management of corporate safety risks in industrial parks has become a hot topic. And risk prevention and control mutual aid is a brand-new model in the risk and emergency management of the park. In the context of blockchain, how to incenti...

The quality control of remanufactured products in a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) can significantly influence consumers’ decision-making, and the contract coordination of CLSC has also become a research hotspot. This paper explores the qualit...

Taking the innovation chain (IC) as the perspective, we discuss the effect of digital transformation (DT) on enterprises’ green innovation (GI) using data from Chinese listed companies from 2013 to 2021. The results show that DT has a positive...

Socio-technical systems (STSs) are systems of systems, synthesising human and IT components that jointly operate to achieve specific goals. Such systems are overly complex but, if designed optimally, they can significantly improve STS performance. Cr...

Accurately quantifying the complexity of nodes in a network is crucial for revealing their roles and network complexity, as well as predicting network emergent phenomena. In this paper, we propose three novel complexity metrics for nodes to reflect t...

How to efficiently and greenly dismantle abandoned buildings and reuse them is a dilemma facing the building material industry’s low-carbon objective. However, relevant studies ignore the influence mechanism of altruistic preferences of enterpr...

In this article, we point out that luggage disinfection is a key step in stopping the spread of infectious diseases that can be contracted at airports due to viruses and bacteria, which can spread through passenger luggage at airports. To prevent the...

Word-of-mouth (WOM) can be considered one form of public opinion, reflecting consumers’ views towards product or service quality. With the development of social media, WOM holds influence over investors and subsequently impacts the stock prices...

A system of incentives can be established to encourage several parties to unite as a community of interest and become jointly committed to the platform economic governance. The platform economy involves progressively more complex subjects of interest...

(1) Background: This research deals with an element of strategic management, namely corporate changes. It applies to production enterprises operating in the countries of the Visegrad Group. Since similar studies in the area of change management in th...

As environmental pressures intensify and digital technology advances rapidly, many countries, including China, are looking to more effectively heed social and environmental responsibilities by effectively integrating digital technology with tradition...

The high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin is still facing the issue of imbalance and inadequacy, and it urgently requires the backing and assistance of a well-coordinated and efficient comprehensive transportation network system. Based o...

Nowadays, the focus of flow shops is the adoption of customized demand in the context of service-oriented manufacturing. Since production tasks are often characterized by multi-variety, low volume, and a short lead time, it becomes an indispensable f...

Noise and error are usually considered to be disturbances negatively affecting the behavior of a system. Nevertheless, from a systemic perspective, taking into account openness and incompleteness of complex systems, noise and error may assume a creat...

Nowadays, online public opinions (OPOs) significantly impact corporate brand value (CBV). To prevent corporate brand crises caused mainly by OPOs, it is essential to detect anomalies in OPOs related to corporate reputation in a timely manner. This st...

The importance of architecture design keeps increasing as the complexity of systems and system-of-systems (SoSs) continues rising. While the architecture frameworks such as the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) are commonly used to...

Lean methodologies, a system widely used in the manufacturing industry, have demonstrated numerous benefits and added significant value to the industry. In the same way that other industries have benefitted from the application of Lean techniques, th...

Digital technology has the function of information governance, and digital transformation of enterprises may be the key way to identify and restrain ESG greenwashing. Based on the theory of digital empowerment, this study analyzes the influence and m...