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  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,864 Views
22 Pages

Blockchain Integrated IoT for Food Supply Chain: A Grey Based Delphi-DEMATEL Approach

  • Rubee Singh,
  • Shahbaz Khan,
  • Jacinta Dsilva and
  • Piera Centobelli

13 January 2023

The Food Supply Chain (FSC) can be made more efficient, resilient, and transparent by implementing industry 4.0 technologies. In this context, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) become a panacea for several FSC problems. As a result of FSC c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,047 Views
25 Pages

1 June 2025

This study investigates how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can successfully transform into high-tech, high-value-added companies within the aviation industry, considering the latest manufacturing, certification, and quality technologies. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,074 Views
32 Pages

Since the introduction of the grey forecasting model, various improvements have been developed in the field of grey accumulated generating operators (AGOs). Fractional accumulated generating operator (FAGO) and other novel AGOs have enriched the grey...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,647 Views
22 Pages

26 February 2024

Background: Although trust is a well-studied topic in supply chain management, the case of the wine supply chain has not been adequately investigated. Methods: A hybrid approach combining qualitative and quantitative data analysis was adopted. The re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,187 Views
21 Pages

Modeling Impacts of COVID-19 in Supply Chain Activities: A Grey-DEMATEL Approach

  • Koppiahraj Karuppiah,
  • Bathrinath Sankaranarayanan and
  • Syed Mithun Ali

29 October 2022

The purpose of this study was to identify and exhibit the interrelationships among COVID-19’s impacts on supply chain activities. Based on a literature review and the manager’s input, twenty COVID-19 impacts were collected. An integrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,106 Views
27 Pages

16 November 2024

The terms “Industry 5.0” and “smart logistics” have recently emerged as key concepts within the field of logistics. Nevertheless, the interconnection between these two concepts has been less extensively examined in academic li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
25,015 Views
30 Pages

16 November 2022

Over the last decade, digital marketing and technology have gradually penetrated the food and beverage industry, redefining its marketing mix. However, the urgency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic spurred the digital transformation of the industry, as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,815 Views
13 Pages

24 May 2023

Smart data selection can quickly sieve valuable information from initial data. Doing so improves the efficiency of analyzing situations to aid in better decision-making. Past methods have mostly been based on expert experience, which may be subjectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
889 Views
22 Pages

5 July 2025

A reasonable water price for interbasin water transfer projects (IWTPs) is vital for solving the problem of unequal water use among different water users caused by different water source supply prices, promoting external water transfer consumption, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,315 Views
24 Pages

13 October 2019

The continuous growth of the sharing economy has the potential to transform the competition in the accommodation sector. At present, research on accommodation sharing is scarce. This paper identifies drivers and barriers to accommodation sharing in D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,708 Views
30 Pages

14 February 2024

As the size and complexity of cities around the world increase, various types of urban problems are emerging. These problems are caused by multiple factors that have complex relationships with each other. Addressing a single cause blindly may result...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,686 Views
28 Pages

Evaluating Supply Chain Collaboration Barriers in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

  • Priom Mahmud,
  • Sanjoy Kumar Paul,
  • Abdullahil Azeem and
  • Priyabrata Chowdhury

2 July 2021

The disruption has a significant impact on supply chain collaboration (SCC) which is an important task to improve performance for many enterprises. This is especially critical for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We developed a decision-mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,971 Views
55 Pages

31 March 2020

Although the innovation factor endowment of Heilongjiang province is relatively rich, many innovation resources cannot effectively promote the sustainable development of innovation-driven performance. The combined drift degree evaluation method and g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,374 Views
19 Pages

Critical Factors for Green Public Procurement: The Case of Greece

  • Varvara S. Orfanidou,
  • Dimitrios J. Dimitriou,
  • Nikolaos P. Rachaniotis and
  • Giannis T. Tsoulfas

5 December 2024

Background: Green Public Procurement (GPP) is a sector that has been growing in recent years through policies encouraged by the European Union. In the Greek public sector, the respective National Action Plan (NAP), which sets specific targets for GPP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,336 Views
20 Pages

27 September 2018

As a crucial part of producer services, the logistics industry is highly dependent on the manufacturing industry. In general, the interactive development of the logistics and manufacturing industries is essential. Due to the existence of a certain de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,853 Views
18 Pages

7 April 2024

To survive in highly competitive markets, industries focus on enhancing product quality and customer satisfaction. One specific iteration of this approach sees industries striving to optimize processes to improve product quality while generating mini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,119 Views
19 Pages

Modeling Challenges for Improving the Heat Rate Performance in a Thermal Power Plant: Implications for SDGs in Energy Supply Chains

  • T. Sivageerthi,
  • Bathrinath Sankaranarayanan,
  • Syed Mithun Ali,
  • Ali AlArjani and
  • Koppiahraj Karuppiah

10 April 2022

Rapid industrialization and the increased use of consumer electronic goods have increased the demand for energy. To meet the increasing energy demand, global nations are looking for energy from renewable sources rather than non-renewable sources, to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,579 Views
25 Pages

27 December 2017

We employ the DEMATEL-based analytic network process (D-ANP) to evaluate the weight of various factors on S&P 500 index futures. The general regression method is employed to prove the result. We then employed grey relational analysis (GRA) to exa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
6,427 Views
25 Pages

7 August 2020

The agricultural economy, as an integral branch of the global economy, covering the whole supply chain of agricultural production including cultivation, processing, distribution and consumption, is of great importance to realizing a sustainable circu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,251 Views
14 Pages

Risk Factor Analysis of Elevator Brake Failure Based on DEMATEL-ISM

  • Jinkui Feng,
  • Wenbo Li,
  • Duhui Lu,
  • Jin Deng and
  • Yan Wang

3 April 2025

With the acceleration of urbanization process, the number of elevators in China has surged. Concurrently, the prevalence of older elevators has increased, leading to a rise in frequent malfunctions. In recent years, there has been a troubling frequen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,156 Views
29 Pages

Intellectual Capital Evaluation Index Based on a Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Technique

  • Chao Liu,
  • Qichen Liao,
  • Wenyan Gao,
  • Shuxian Li,
  • Peng Jiang and
  • Ding Li

26 April 2024

In the context of a burgeoning knowledge economy, enterprise intellectual capital has emerged as a pivotal asset for organizational growth. Evaluating it requires a comprehensive and robust index, yet there is no standard methodology for such assessm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,090 Views
24 Pages

In view of the multi-attribute decision-making problem that the attribute values are grey multi-source heterogeneous data, a decision-making method based on kernel and greyness degree is proposed. The definitions of kernel and greyness degree of an e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,885 Views
22 Pages

Sustainable Venture Capital Investments: An Enabler Investigation

  • Elena Antarciuc,
  • Qinghua Zhu,
  • Jaber Almarri,
  • Senlin Zhao,
  • Yunting Feng and
  • Martin Agyemang

16 April 2018

Investing in sustainable projects can help tackle the current sustainability challenges. Venture capital investments can contribute significantly to the growth of sustainable start-ups. Sustainable venture capital (SVC) research is just emerging. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,755 Views
17 Pages

11 May 2022

To effectively quantify and control the credit risk of forest farmers under internet crowdfunding mode, the combined weighting of norm grey correlation, the improved analytic hierarchy process and empirical mode decomposition method are proposed to m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
9,647 Views
33 Pages

A Hybrid MCDM Approach for Strategic Project Portfolio Selection of Agro By-Products

  • Animesh Debnath,
  • Jagannath Roy,
  • Samarjit Kar,
  • Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas and
  • Jurgita Antucheviciene

26 July 2017

Due to the increasing size of the population, society faces several challenges for sustainable and adequate agricultural production, quality, distribution, and food safety in the strategic project portfolio selection (SPPS). The initial adaptation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
111 Citations
11,841 Views
23 Pages

Aligning the Criteria of Green Economy (GE) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Implement Sustainable Development

  • Seyed Meysam Khoshnava,
  • Raheleh Rostami,
  • Rosli Mohamad Zin,
  • Dalia Štreimikienė,
  • Alireza Yousefpour,
  • Wadim Strielkowski and
  • Abbas Mardani

25 August 2019

Global economic trends have shown the progression of social inequalities and environmental deterioration in the grey economy. New economic practices and policies need to be developed in order to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). A gre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
249 Views
23 Pages

Leading agribusiness firms are pivotal to modernizing agricultural supply chains, yet evidence on how digital transformation translates into high-quality development remains fragmented. Using a 2024 sample of 30 Chinese national agribusiness leaders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,227 Views
19 Pages

13 June 2023

The manufacturing sector has undergone significant growth due to the integration of technologies from the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Industry 4.0 has revolutionized industrial operations, leading to increased utilization of smart and automated sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,787 Views
20 Pages

22 January 2020

The aims of this paper are to objectively evaluate the green innovation ability of manufacturing enterprises in an innovation network and to consider the mutual influence relationship and information randomness of each evaluation index. To do so, 14...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,943 Views
36 Pages

Blockchain Technology Adoption for Sustainable Construction Procurement Management: A Multi-Pronged Artificial Intelligence-Based Approach

  • Atul Kumar Singh,
  • Saeed Reza Mohandes,
  • Pshtiwan Shakor,
  • Clara Cheung,
  • Mehrdad Arashpour,
  • Callum Kidd and
  • V. R. Prasath Kumar

While blockchain technology (BT) has gained attention in the construction industry, limited research has focused on its application in sustainable construction procurement management (SCPM). Addressing this gap, the present study investigates the key...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,533 Views
21 Pages

22 December 2023

Sustainable supplier selection (SSS) is an essential part of the decision-making process in sustainable supply chains. Numerous research studies have been conducted using various decision-making methods to attend to this research-worthy issue. This l...

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  • Open Access
735 Views
25 Pages

17 April 2025

The utilization of hydrogen energy presents new opportunities for renewable energy integration, and the hybrid electricity–hydrogen synergy system exhibits significant potential for renewable energy accommodation and multi-scenario applications...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,647 Views
23 Pages

13 March 2019

Along with economic development and social progress, environmental issues are increasingly becoming the subject of public concern. Through green credit, banks intentionally direct money into resource-conserving technology development and environmenta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,011 Views
18 Pages

9 October 2021

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have become a mainstream form of online learning. At present, various countries are vigorously developing MOOC platforms, which provide a helpful platform for people to acquire knowledge and skills. However, the qu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,930 Views
25 Pages

31 March 2023

The growth of healthcare waste (HCW) was driven by the spread of COVID-19. Effective HCW eradication has become a pressing global issue that requires immediate attention. Selecting an effective healthcare waste treatment technology (HCWTT) can aid in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,359 Views
22 Pages

Triangular Fuzzy QFD–MCDM Combination Approach for Green Building Design Scheme Evaluation

  • Hao Zhou,
  • Guangdong Tian,
  • Tongzhu Zhang,
  • Xuesong Zhang,
  • Duc Truong Pham,
  • Xia Xiu,
  • Yixiong Feng and
  • Hongliang Li

14 February 2024

The integration of green design into building construction is a necessary process in today’s world to address environmental issues and achieve sustainable development. However, when evaluating green building design schemes, various factors are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,554 Views
32 Pages

To effectively enhance the adaptability of earthquake rescue robots in dynamic environments and complex tasks, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive evaluation method that encompasses establishing an evaluation index system, testing performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,687 Views
39 Pages

16 July 2021

With the dawn of economic globalization and the knowledge economy, intellectual capital has become the most important factor to determine economic growth. However, due to resource endowment, location conditions, policy differences, and other factors,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,729 Views
17 Pages

1 August 2017

In today’s rapidly changing economy, technology companies have to make decisions on research and development (R&D) projects investment on a routine bases with such decisions having a direct impact on that company’s profitability, sustainability a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,833 Views
30 Pages

14 December 2024

Industry 5.0 (I5.0) builds upon Industry 4.0 by emphasizing the role of workers in production processes and prioritizing socio-economic-environmental sustainability. It has been shown that I5.0 can enhance sustainability within supply chains (SCs). H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,158 Views
22 Pages

13 September 2023

The propagation of information risk in complex public opinion environments not only leads to severe direct reputational losses for companies but also results in significant economic damages. Therefore, during the nascent stage of information risk, id...