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Sustainable Performance through Digital-Supply-Chains in Industry 4.0 Era
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic disruption, industry 4.0 technologies (I4TEs) and digital supply chains (DSCs) are reinforcing businesses to gain economic stability and agility to enrich their sustainable performance 
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  • 24 Apr 2023
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Bacterial Resistance in the Finfish  Aquaculture and Alternatives
Significant challenges to worldwide sustainable food production continue to arise from environmental change and consistent population growth. In order to meet increasing demand, fish production industries are encouraged to maintain high growth densities and to rely on antibiotic intervention throughout all stages of development. The inappropriate administering of antibiotics over time introduces selective pressure, allowing the survival of resistant bacterial strains through adaptive pathways involving transferable nucleotide sequences (i.e., plasmids). This is one of the essential mechanisms of antibiotic resistance development in food production systems.The AMR phenomenon has been generally defined as the failure of growth’s inhibition or the killing capacity of an antimicrobial molecule beyond the normal susceptible bacteria.
  • 946
  • 28 Nov 2022
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Value Creation with Project Risk Management
The conceptual shift, from a traditional task perspective and a managerial approach to project risks toward a value-centric view, underlines the challenge of creating different forms of value for multiple project stakeholders. This emerging theme arises the need for a new holistic framework for value creation through Project Risk Management (PRM).
  • 944
  • 08 Feb 2024
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Environment Sustainability Is a Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate social responsibility (both internal and external CSR) positively promotes SSCM practices and contributes to expanding dynamic capacity theory in the context of BDA capabilities. Big data analytical capabilities (BDAC) are also a key mediator between SSCM practices and organizational performance. These results contribute to and improve the research on stakeholder theory and SSCM practice and provide a new perspective for scholars to further study this issue.
  • 934
  • 18 Mar 2022
Topic Review
Logistics Service Supply Chain
In the logistics industry, there are great differences in the scope and depth of services that enterprises can provide. Functional logistics service providers are often able to provide one or more professional basic logistics services functions, such as packaging, warehousing, and distribution. However, basic logistics service capabilities are highly substitutable, and due to a lack of information and resource advantages, it is difficult to achieve a good supply and demand match. Logistics service integrators usually refer to large-scale enterprises with resource integration advantages that can integrate the service capabilities of multiple upstream providers. The logistics service supply chain consists of logistics service integrators and logistics service providers, among which the integrators can jointly establish a logistics network with the providers through business subcontracting.
  • 934
  • 10 Jun 2022
Topic Review
Location Planning of Charging Stations for Electric Buses
Many public transport companies have recently launched projects testing the operation of electric buses. Progressively, traditional combustion engine buses are being replaced by electric buses. In such cases, some stops on bus lines are equipped with charging technology. Combustion engine buses can operate for an entire day without having to refuel. By contrast, electric buses have considerably shorter ranges and need to recharge their batteries throughout a day. For cost-efficient use of electric buses, charging stations must be located within the road network so that required deadhead trips are as short as possible, but attention must also be paid to construction costs. In contrast to vehicle scheduling, which is a more short-term planning task of public transport companies, location planning of charging stations is a long-term planning problem and requires a simultaneous solving of both optimization problems. Specifically, location planning and vehicle scheduling have to be considered simultaneously in order to open up optimization potentials by comparison to sequential planning, since locations of charging stations directly influence the resulting vehicle rotations. 
  • 926
  • 28 Apr 2022
Topic Review
Knowledge Consulting Service
Knowledge consulting services are one of the fastest growing fields in the knowledge service industry since the 2010s and have been emerging as a core area of the knowledge economy. Accordingly, consulting services are actively sought and provided in various fields, including business strategy and management, accounting, and ICT, and global consulting firms have experienced rapid growth. 
  • 921
  • 12 Oct 2021
Topic Review
Cost-Effective Choice of Temperature-Controlled Transport of Fresh Food
The application of a plethora of wireless technologies to support real-time food quality monitoring during transportation has significantly improved the performance of fresh food delivery systems. However, deployment of these technologies increases the capital and operational costs of food delivery and, hence, not all food delivery operations need to employ them. The research has developed a mathematical programming model to understand the trade-off involved in the increased capital costs and the opportunity to reduce food waste.
  • 899
  • 14 Dec 2023
Topic Review
Supply Chain Resilience
Supply chain resilience refers to the ability of a supply chain to cope with the risk of supply chain disruption and quickly return to its original performance after a disruption. For firms, supply chain resilience can be improved by adopting redundancy, flexibility, visibility, collaboration, backup suppliers, safety stocks, etc.
  • 896
  • 12 Jul 2022
Topic Review
Fourth-Party Logistics Environmental Compliance Management
Fourth-party logistics, as an integrator of the supply chain, has made some explorations in sustainability. To ensure the sustainability of the supply chain, a fourth-party logistics company (4PL) is more willing to cooperate with a green third-party logistics company (3PL). The 4PL leverages the combined capabilities of the 3PL and management consulting, to provide solutions, while the 3PL focuses on operational issues, such as implementation and execution.
  • 874
  • 01 Sep 2022
Topic Review
Blockchain Applications in Food Supply Chains
Blockchain has found wide acceptance not just in the DeFi and Crypto space, but also in digital supply chains, non-monetary transactions, and governance. Amongst many, the food supply chain is riddled with lots of inefficiencies and untraceable corruption. Hence, many have investigated the integration of blockchain technology into the food system.
  • 836
  • 05 Sep 2023
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Step-by-Step Model for Implementing Open Innovation
Open innovation has attracted wide interest since it first appeared in the 2003 book by Chesbrough. It proposed that companies combining internal and external ideas when innovating would benefit more than by adhering to the traditional research and development model. As many definitions have been proposed for this term since then, it appears that open innovation is not something stationary and is constantly evolving. At this time, the most prevalent definition seems to be that open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. This means that firms wanting to advance their technology can and should use both internal and external ideas. Even though there are several definitions for open innovation, their common thread is the creation of relations and collaborations in order to create something new with the resources at hand. The differences in the definitions usually refer to different scopes concerning resources, the degree of openness, etc.
  • 831
  • 06 Jun 2022
Topic Review
ICTs on Innovation and Performance of Firms
Disruptive information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as the Internet of things, mobile technologies, big data, and artificial intelligence, continue to influence the firms’ operational environments and are dramatically reshaping and transforming existing business models.
  • 829
  • 27 May 2022
Topic Review
Consideration of Sustainability in Projects
The instrumental role of projects in the transition of organisations, and thus society, towards sustainability affects how projects are planned, organised, executed, and managed. As a result, ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ project management is now considered one of the most critical global project management trends.
  • 826
  • 18 Feb 2024
Topic Review
Contract Coordination of Fresh Agri-Product Supply Chain
The development of the fresh-food e-commerce has led scholars to pay more attention to research on the agricultural product supply chain. The expanded demand for fresh agricultural products is both a challenge and an opportunity. The fresh produce supply chain can be seen as a process that starts with harvesting, with suppliers or other logistics service providers involved in freshness processing, packaging, and transportation, after which the produce is sold by retailers to end consumers. 
  • 803
  • 31 Aug 2022
Topic Review
Advanced Air Mobility Standards in Medical Drone Delivery
There are three application areas that have been accelerating the demand for cargo drones: (1) deliveries to areas with limited accessibility, such as oil rigs, ships, remote communities, islands, mountainous regions, disaster areas, and communities with poor roads; (2) rapid delivery of emergency medical items, such as antidotes, resuscitation equipment, injections, bandages, blood, and human transplant organs; and (3) same-day or same-hour delivery of packages and food in congested urban environments. All three applications can involve both middle-mile (between hubs) and last-mile (hub to home) deliveries. The focus of this research is on opportunities to increase the speed and reduce the risk of middle-mile delivery of pharmaceuticals by using emerging cargo drone technologies.
  • 800
  • 28 Aug 2023
Topic Review
Recycling Model Selection for Electronic Products
Electronics are different from general durable products. With the rapid development of electronic technology, the replacement of electronic products is extremely fast. Although it can bring us an improvement in the quality of life, the frequency of elimination is higher than that of other products. If the discarded electronic products cannot be disposed of in time, it will bring serious pollution damage to the ecological environment.Electronic products are products with high recycling value, which have three attributes of fast replacement, environmental pollution and resource reuse. Therefore, in order to reduce the impact of waste electronics on the environment, it is very important to properly recycle waste electronics.The recycling of waste electronic products is a problem to be solved in practice and theory. The first and foremost problem to be solved for waste electronic products is the choice of recycling model for the manufacturer. There are two main types of manufacturer recycling, one is self-recycling by the manufacturer, the other is with the help of online platforms or third-party recycling. In addition to the choice of recycling model, the opaque recycling process, lax supervision and other problems easily affect consumers' trust in the recycling of waste products. Consumers returned used products, but not all of them reached the manufacturer, and the actual recycling of waste products was far less than the theoretical recycling. As a distributed accounting technology blockchain has the characteristics of visibility,tamper-proof, traceability, decentralization, and the high reliability of the system, which can verify transactions on peer-to-peer networks and achieve security, transparency, low transaction costs,and the automation of transactions. The trust of consumers by using the visibility and traceability features blockchain technology can be increased to enable the real and effective recycling of waste products.
  • 797
  • 14 Jun 2022
Topic Review
Sustainable Agri-Food
Because of growing populations, more people living in cities, and higher incomes, the demand for food has changed in both quantity and quality. This has sped up the growth of different agricultural production and distribution chains. The necessary transition processes in the agri-food sectors, however, can often take a very long time to complete and have negative social and environmental effects, which puts the traditional development paradigm into question.
  • 795
  • 10 Jul 2023
Topic Review
Shipment Consolidation
The basic concept of logistics is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of several operational activities, such as transportation, warehousing and storage, order processing, material handling, and other information management concerning any related data from the origin point to end user. These include either nationally shipped products or internationally shipped products. Shipment consolidation is a concept in logistics management in which two or more shipments are transported by using the same vehicle with the aim of using less resources.
  • 794
  • 12 Jan 2024
Topic Review
Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Sustainability
Technological advancements have played a critical role in enhancing supply chain management from varied dimensions. While advancements in information technology have significantly improved various facets of the supply chain, supply chain visibility still lags in tracking and tracing capabilities. The disruptive and emergent blockchain technology (BCT) presents enormous potential to address issues of supply chain sustainability. 
  • 790
  • 02 Sep 2022
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