Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 123 Issue 3

The impact of interpersonal interaction factors on consumers’ purchase intention in social commerce: a relationship quality perspective

Wangyue Zhou, Jincai Dong, Wenyu Zhang

Interpersonal interaction can influence consumers’ purchase intention in social commerce (s-commerce). This paper aims to identify interpersonal interaction factors as well as the…

Environmental performance of servitized manufacturing firms: the (mis)alignment between servitization strategies and inter-organizational information technology capabilities

Minghua Zhang, Meng Chen, Mengru Zhang, Hefu Liu

This study investigates the different effects of the (mis)alignment between servitization strategies (i.e. product-oriented and customer-oriented services) and…

Economic impacts of in-house and packaged software investments: the influence of software investment opportunities

Wen Guang Qu, Alain Pinsonneault

Software has become increasingly important in business. However, the value of aggregate in-house and packaged software investments and the influence of an industry's software…

Quality differentiation with manufacturer encroachment: is first mover always an advantage for retail platform?

Lixi Zhou, Tijun Fan, Lihao Zhang, Luyu Chang

With the development of e-commerce and mobile payment, platform sales become unstoppable, and many manufacturers also encroach on online market by establishing direct selling…

Power use, cooperative behavior and alliance performance: evidence from contract farming supply chains in China

Shaoling Fu, Guangyao He, Qianwen Wang, Baofeng Huo, Yalan Ding

This study aims to explore the relationship among five types of power (expert, referent, legitimate, reward and coercive power), two dimensions of cooperative behavior (specific…

Utilitarian and/or hedonic shopping – consumer motivation to purchase in smart stores

Yu-Wei Chang, Ping-Yu Hsu, Jiahe Chen, Wen-Lung Shiau, Ni Xu

Recently, smart retail technology has emerged as an innovative technology that can improve consumer motivation and behavior in smart stores. Although prior studies have…

Interplay between cyber supply chain risk management practices and cyber security performance

Anisha Banu Dawood Gani, Yudi Fernando, Shulin Lan, Ming K. Lim, Ming-Lang Tseng

This study aims to examine whether the cyber supply chain risk management (CSCRM) practices adopted by manufacturing firms contribute to achieving cyber supply chain (CSC…

The influences of livestreaming on online purchase intention: examining platform characteristics and consumer psychology

Peng Zhu, Zixi Liu, Xiaotong Li, Xu Jiang, Mark Xuefang Zhu

Livestreaming, as a relatively new online marketing model, has generated numerous business opportunities for e-commerce and social commerce. The purpose of this paper is to…

A meta-analytic examination of the antecedents explaining the intention to use fintech

William H. Bommer, Emil Milevoj, Shailesh Rana

This study examines antecedents to fintech use intention to determine which antecedents can provide a parsimonious, yet accurate explanation.

Proposing a new loan recommendation framework for loan allocation strategies in online P2P lending

Yuting Rong, Shan Liu, Shuo Yan, Wei Wayne Huang, Yanxia Chen

Lenders in online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms are always non-experts and face severe information asymmetry. This paper aims to achieve the goals of gaining high returns…

An analysis of barriers for successful implementation of municipal solid waste management in Beijing: an integrated DEMATEL-MMDE-ISM approach

Chao Wang, Yongkang Sun, Ming K. Lim, Pezhman Ghadimi, Amir Hossein Azadnia

With rapid industrialization and urbanization, municipal solid waste (MSW) management has become a serious challenge worldwide, especially in developing countries. The Beijing…

An SEM-ANN analysis of the impacts of Blockchain on competitive advantage

Lai-Ying Leong, Jun-Jie Hew, Voon-Hsien Lee, Garry Wei-Han Tan, Keng-Boon Ooi, Nripendra P. Rana

Though Blockchain has been studied in numerous contexts, the understanding of the impacts of Blockchain in achieving competitive advantages remains unexplored. Many industries…

Decisions of pricing and delivery-lead-time in dual-channel supply chains with data-driven marketing using internal financing and contract coordination

Senyu Xu, Huajun Tang, Yuxin Huang

The purpose of this research is to investigate how to introduce a financing scheme to tackle the manufacturer's capital constraint problem, discuss the effects of data-driven…

Retailers’ optimal ordering policies for a dual-sourcing procurement

Xinsheng Xu, Ping Ji, Felix T.S. Chan

Optimal ordering decision for a retailer in a dual-sourcing procurement is an important research area. The main purpose of this paper is to explore a loss-averse retailer’s…