2026 August - 153 articles
Amid increasing upstream raw-material disruptions and battery supply uncertainty, NEV manufacturers may obtain emergency supply from vertically integrated competitors after a disruption, but must incur technology conversion costs. We develop a differ...
Environmental sustainability has become an increasingly critical issue in the inland shipping sector. The adoption of green-fuelled vessels, data-driven speed optimization enabled by digital and intelligent technologies, and the use of shore power du...
Against the backdrop of digital transformation, enterprises take digital orientation as a strategic foundation and compete for standard-setting authority to gain core competitive advantages. Although prior research indicates that digital orientation...
Engineering education research (EER) draws on a wide range of philosophical traditions, yet the ontological, epistemological, and axiological (OEA) commitments that shape how knowledge is produced are rarely made explicit in published work. This stud...
Mobility as a service (MaaS) has emerged as a means to promote multimodal public transport and shared mobility trips, with the “Metro+” integrated mobility approach being its primary form. However, it has recently witnessed major global p...
Inland container depot (ICD) truck schedules must absorb new orders, service delays, appointment changes, congestion, and port cut-offs without destabilizing an already executed plan. This study asks whether event-triggered local repair can be separa...
Sustainable supply chains carry a cost premium that can make their demand base fragile when economic shocks tighten household budgets, because the more expensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-aligned product is often among the first tha...
Global supply chains face increasingly frequent disruptions, which require organizations to strengthen supply chain resilience (SCR). Drawing on Organizational Information Processing Theory (OIPT), this study examines how digital transformation and o...
This study examines whether national digital technological readiness moderates the relationship between national sustainability performance and supply chain logistics performance. Using a panel of 157 countries across six biennial waves from 2010 to...
This study develops a game-theoretic model of a platform-led supply chain in which a manufacturer invests in green innovation under a cap-and-trade regulation. We examine how three information-sharing strategies—no sharing (NI), free sharing (F...
While artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to drive paradigm-shifting transformations, many initiatives result in merely incremental optimization. Anchored in strategic human capital theory, this study shifts the analytical focus from the scale o...
This study develops a cash flow growth pathway model to analyze and predict the dynamic and nonlinear lifecycle trajectories of software SMEs. Specifically, it identifies lifecycle stages using cash flow patterns, maps transition pathways empirically...
Financial reporting oversight evolves through repeated feedback among managerial incentives, audit detection, board oversight, regulatory intervention, and market trust. I develop a transparent recursive simulation model to examine whether specified...
Industrialization and mining raise the heavy metal burden of soil ecosystems and create risks for both the environment and human health. Apportionment becomes difficult when neighboring facilities emit overlapping metal signatures, and conventional r...
Design education places strong emphasis on fostering students’ creativity, and the rapid development of embodied immersive technologies presents new opportunities in this regard. This exploratory study recruits 34 university students with diffe...
Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are often evaluated as discrete police tools, although their public power arises from cross-vendor socio-technical infrastructure. This article examines roadside and mobile sensors, vehicle-attribute classifica...
Machine learning (ML) project outcomes emerge from the interplay of organizational and technical subsystems. A recent study of 65 experienced data scientists reported that more than 80% of AI projects failed, roughly twice the failure rate of traditi...
Industry 5.0 reframes industrial transformation as a human-centric, sustainable and resilient socio-technical transition. Yet comparable country-level evidence on the capabilities that enable this transition remains limited, particularly for late-dig...
China pushes forward two key national strategies, namely common prosperity and Healthy China. Many papers have discussed how urban common prosperity and urban healthy development evolve across space, yet most of these works cannot match the practical...
Approximately 70% of organisational development (OD) initiatives based on methodologies such as Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Lean, and Six Sigma are reported to fail. Critical Systems Thinking (CST) attributes...
Predefined low-altitude corridors create a coupled routing–scheduling problem when multiple drone routes enter the same controlled segment. This study separates an upstream control hub from its scarce directed hub–segment resource and dev...
Social media is a vital platform for policy communication, yet research rarely integrates content and structural features to evaluate communication effects multidimensionally. This study proposes a convergent framework combining text mining and socia...
Ridesharing is one type of sustainable transport mode that provides a promising approach to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although users can help mitigate CO2 emissions and fuel consumption by using the services of a single ride...
This study employs panel data from 11 provinces and municipalities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt spanning 2010–2021. It measures green transport efficiency (GTE) using principal component analysis (PCA) and the undesirable Super-SBM mod...
Information-flow waste refers to activities within organizational information flows that consume resources without creating value, yet standardized instruments for systematically measuring this construct remain lacking. This study aims to clarify the...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) accidents pose growing challenges to public safety and airspace management. This study develops an open-data-driven hierarchical Bayesian network (BN) with a Leaky Noisy-OR mechanism to analyse factors associated with co...
Integrating Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) with Digital Twins (DTs) offers a promising way to transform static system models into dynamic, runtime-connected representations that enable execution, monitoring, and validation. Much current resea...
Low-carbon transformation requires substantial investments, challenging capital-constrained manufacturers to adopt carbon emission reduction (CER) technologies. While external financing alleviates capital shortages, it cannot address potential profit...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is shifting from compliance-driven to strategically embedded practice, yet large-scale identification of strategic CSR (SCSR) remains methodologically challenging due to reliance on surveys or ratings. This study...
The digital transformation of healthcare systems increasingly depends on the successful adoption and use of digital health technologies (DHTs) by healthcare users. In this context, digital health literacy (DHL) has emerged as a key factor influencing...
Public-sector organisations must often commit to AI adoption decisions before longitudinal performance data are available to inform them. This study introduces and preliminarily demonstrates a Delphi–PERT–Monte Carlo framework for probabi...
The need for intelligent optimization of supply chain operations has become imperative for organizations seeking to adapt quickly to an increasingly complex logistics environment. The complexity of predicting delivery delays stems from the large numb...
Air travel induces substantial landside traffic through the movement of passengers, employees, suppliers, and cargo between airports and their surrounding regions. While this airport-induced landside traffic has received growing attention within airp...
Micro-credentials are reshaping higher education credentialing, yet existing models mostly link their components through one-way causality, while systems thinking pedagogy has developed largely around STEM and sustainability rather than higher educat...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is commonly assessed through the electricity used by models and data centres, leaving the carbon transferred through the wider production system insufficiently resolved. We disaggregate China’s AI industry from the...
A capital-constrained manufacturer sells a durable product to replacement consumers (consumers with a used product) and primary consumers (consumers without one) through a retail platform under agency selling, financing production from either the pla...
This paper proposes a framework based on the Analytic Network Process (ANP) and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) for the tactical planning of a synchromodal freight transport operation. The motivation stems...
The rapid development of Intelligent Transport Service Systems (ITSSs) in China, alongside global urbanisation and growing international tourism, makes it important to understand what drives international tourists’ continued use of these system...
Responsible sourcing certification is a sociotechnical governance system that links brands, suppliers, third-party auditors, and review mechanisms. This study examines how this system is distorted when a corrupt auditor extorts genuinely compliant su...
(1) Background: Physical artificial intelligence is progressing beyond performing tasks. As embodied AI systems integrate sensing, context-sensitive inference, orchestration, and physical actuation, the central issue shifts from automation efficiency...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) now allows a single founder, working with a cluster of AI agents as “digital employees,” to run a venture that once required a team. We call this form the one-person company (OPC) and treat it as a...
This study identifies two stage-specific configurations of CLIL teacher well-being in Andalusia: an ecology of proximity in Primary Education and a disciplinary-departmental ecology in Secondary Education. Drawing on 14 semi-structured interviews wit...
Universities increasingly rely on administrative information systems that combine proprietary third-party software, legacy applications, and in-house tools adapted over time to changing regulatory requirements. Such changes are frequent, cumulative,...
The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) introduces significant operational uncertainties, challenging the reliability and robustness of conventional protection coordination in distribution networks. Traditional optimization...
Artificial Intelligence-driven detection mechanisms present both opportunities and challenges in modern systems, particularly within smart cities that rely on complex operational technologies. In the context of Saudi urban infrastructure, rapidly evo...
Healthcare delivery fragmentation can be understood as a structural coordination problem within a socio-technical System of Systems, where autonomous but interdependent providers, insurers, suppliers, information systems, support services, and care r...
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science into organizational evaluation practices creates socio-technical systems in which human rating behavior, organizational templates, regulatory pressure, and analytical algorithms jointly...
With the rapid growth of collaborative production demands, social manufacturing (SM) has emerged as a decentralized paradigm that enables the dynamic allocation of socialized manufacturing resources (MRs). Organizing manufacturing cluster into collab...
The rapid development of shared delivery, parcel lockers, and community pickup services has enabled customers to receive orders at multiple alternative service locations. In such scenarios, the fixed-location assumption adopted in traditional electri...
Unexpected events have led to potential disruptions in upstream supply systems. Downstream enterprises often hold inventory to mitigate disruption risks. Previous studies have rarely focused on inventory under partial supply disruption, and responsiv...
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