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A special issue of Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity (ISSN 2199-8531).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 31990

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Prof. Dr. Chia-Nan Wang

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan
Interests: operations management; decision-making; management of technology; electronic commerce; systematic innovation

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Dear Colleagues,

Supply chain management covers all aspects of creating customer value in the global competitive economy. This includes new product design and development, supplier selection, technology and innovation, production planning, distribution, etc. These issues, coupled with the ever changing nature and growth of technologies, are creating new and exciting challenges for modern supply chains when it comes to the integration between physical and cyber systems, as well as resilience to unpredictable events, are becoming decisive to organizations’ operational and long-term success.

The International Conference on Logistics and Industrial Engineering (ICLIE) 2021 (https://iclie-vlu.com/) will be held at Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 27–28 August 2021.

The ICLIE 2021 event aims to collect high-quality research studies from leading researchers, educators, software developers, and practitioners to discuss current issues, share ideas and experiences on the latest development in the field of technology and innovation, technology management, industrial system engineering, logistics and supply chain management, and management sciences.

This Special Issue is being published in cooperation with ICLIE 2021. The authors of outstanding papers related to industrial engineering/ supply chain management are invited to submit their manuscript to this Special Issue for publication.

Prof. Dr. Chia-Nan Wang
Guest Editor

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

Business model developing cases
Technology and innovation, technology management
Modeling and engineering of designing and manufacturing
International commerce
Logistics and green mobility
Open innovation dynamics
Business model
Open innovation engineering
Sustainability in logistics and supply chains
Intelligent transportation and distribution systems: theory and application models
Optimization of logistics and supply chain systems
Decision support systems for logistics and supply chain management
Operation research/optimization
Scheduling in manufacturing and service systems
And other related topics in the field of business and commerce, industrial engineering, management science, logistics, and supply chain management

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Low-Carbon Supply Chain Model under a Vendor-Managed Inventory Partnership and Carbon Cap-and-Trade Policy

by Ririn Diar Astanti, Yosef Daryanto and Parama Kartika Dewa

J. Open Innov. Technol. Mark. Complex. 2022, 8(1), 30; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/joitmc8010030 - 25 Jan 2022

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Nowadays, companies are collaborating and forming supply chain partnerships under a certain scheme, such as a vendor-managed inventory scheme. The collaboration increases the supply chain’s visibility, which leads to cost efficiency. It may also contribute to enhancing the supply chain’s green performance. This paper presents a supply chain inventory model to guide managers in making optimal inventory decisions considering the logistics cost and carbon emissions. A vendor supplies products under a vendor-managed inventory; hence, it is responsible for the logistics activities. The effect of product deterioration and quality problems are also considered, in which the vendor performs a 100% quality inspection. A carbon price is imposed on total emissions from production and logistics activities under a cap-and-trade regulation. The result is inventory decisions regarding the optimal delivery quantity as well as the delivery frequencies that minimize the total costs. The reduction in total carbon emissions from the decisions was also studied. Full article

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Eco-Innovation, Sustainability and Business Model Innovation by Open Innovation Dynamics

by Magdalena Pichlak and Adam R. Szromek

J. Open Innov. Technol. Mark. Complex. 2021, 7(2), 149; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/joitmc7020149 - 04 Jun 2021

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The paper aims to analyze the environmental aspects of innovation activity undertaken by companies and, in particular, to assess sustainable business leaders’ propensity to generate eco-innovation. The research described in the paper was descriptive and, to some extent, diagnostic. It was based on a non-random sample and was conducted—using the Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) method—in 2019 among 54 of the most eco-innovative Polish companies. The results of the research indicate that they are more likely to generate radical rather than incremental changes. Moreover, the most eco-innovative companies are those developing technologies for biodiversity protection. The results further indicate that companies with more than 50 employees have a higher propensity to develop incremental and radical eco-innovation than smaller firms with relatively fewer resources. Finally, this study shows that adopting an open innovation strategy strengthens the propensity to generate eco-innovation, especially radical ones. Moreover, developing such changes is dominated by the adoption of strategic and operational forward supply chain collaboration, involving the absorption of knowledge and information streaming directly from the market. The results can provide a frame for developing new business models incorporating collaboration in eco-innovation activities, especially in the situation of a post-pandemic recovery of the economy. Full article

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Attitude towards Drone Food Delivery Services—Role of Innovativeness, Perceived Risk, and Green Image

by Asish Oommen Mathew, Abhishek Nath Jha, Anasuya K. Lingappa and Pranshu Sinha

J. Open Innov. Technol. Mark. Complex. 2021, 7(2), 144; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/joitmc7020144 - 26 May 2021

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The possibility of drone usage for food delivery is met with enthusiasm by businesses as it promises instantaneous benefits such as reduced costs, improved customer satisfaction, and reduced environmental imprint. The objective of this paper is to explore consumer attitude and intention towards adopting a disruptive technology such as drone food delivery in the Indian context through motivated consumer innovativeness (MCI), green image, and perceived risk. We analyzed the questionnaire survey data collected from 310 respondents using structural equation modeling—partial least squares method. Functionally motivated consumer innovativeness and cognitively motivated consumer innovativeness were found to be significant positive predictors of consumer attitude and intention. Perceived privacy risk was found to have a significant negative influence on attitude. Green image had a significant positive effect on attitude towards drone usage. Other components of MCI namely, hedonic and social as well as performance and delivery risk did not show a significance influence. This study, to our knowledge, is first of its kind in India, a populous country with an established and booming economy, where the enabling and impeding antecedents of drone food delivery usage intention is simultaneously studied. The findings of this research will mainly benefit food delivery companies in framing successful drone food delivery strategies. Full article

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Adaptive Life Cycle Costing (LCC) Modeling and Applying to Italy Ceramic Tile Manufacturing Sector: Its Implication of Open Innovation

by María Sonia Medina-Salgado, Fernando E. García-Muiña, Marco Cucchi and Davide Settembre-Blundo

J. Open Innov. Technol. Mark. Complex. 2021, 7(1), 101; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/joitmc7010101 - 19 Mar 2021

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Converging business, sustainability, and technology is a challenge that manufacturing firms face to create value and be competitive. Energy- and raw material-intensive manufacturing industries are particularly aware of environmental issues and circular economy practices due to the large amounts of resources they use. However, manufacturing companies must also be mindful of economic sustainability in order to make their business profitable. For this, appropriate economic evaluation tools are needed, one of which is life cycle costing (LCC). LCC, when applied to the manufacturing context, is often considered as a simple extension of the life cycle assessment (LCA). This is the main limitation of LCC, as it only contributes to determining the economic value of environmental damage. This research aims to overcome this limitation, analyzing the Italian ceramic tile manufacturing sector as a case study in order to conceptually develop, through the abductive methodology, a calculation framework that extends the potential of LCC by including circularity parameters. Subsequently, the conceptual framework is empirically validated using sectoral industrial costs by configuring two scenarios (with and without circularity practices) and building a benchmark for individual firms in this industry. Finally, the research includes some considerations on the positive implications and potential of life cycle costing in an open innovation context. Full article

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The Sustainable Business Model of Spa Tourism Enterprise—Results of Research Carried Out in Poland

by Adam R. Szromek

J. Open Innov. Technol. Mark. Complex. 2021, 7(1), 73; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/joitmc7010073 - 25 Feb 2021

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The article presents the results of the analysis of the elements of business models of spa tourism enterprises in the context of the principles of sustainable development in tourism business. In the process of defining individual rules for tourist enterprises, an approach based on sustainable tourism criteria and an attempt to adjust them to individual conditions resulting from the specifics of the tourist business activity being carried out was proposed. The characteristics of the individual components of business models were based on the results of interviews conducted in 17 tourism enterprises. The CANVAS scheme was used to examine the structure of the business model. It was found that the business models of spa tourism enterprises not only fail to conform to the principles of sustainable development, but are also not used as managerial tools. Their knowledge among managers is very poor. The analysis was supplemented with additional roles played by Polish sanatoriums in preventing the SARS-Cov2 virus pandemic. The research also revealed an example of cooperation between several spa companies, in the framework of coopetition and exchange of knowledge and services, which can be considered as the initiation of cooperation based on open innovation. Full article

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Bibliometric Analysis of the Potential of Technologies in the Humanitarian Supply Chain

by Mauricio Argumedo-García, Katherinne Salas-Navarro, Jaime Acevedo-Chedid and Holman Ospina-Mateus

J. Open Innov. Technol. Mark. Complex. 2021, 7(4), 232; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/joitmc7040232 - 01 Dec 2021

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This study presents a bibliometric analysis of research on technology in the humanitarian supply chain. The methodology includes performance analysis and science mapping to explore the application of technologies in humanitarian supply chains. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the most influential authors, trends, journals, countries, institutions, and the recent humanitarian supply chain collaboration. The information presented in this research was obtained with the Scopus database. The study identified 342 documents after applying filters to screen for duplicates and manuscripts unrelated to the topic. The articles were analyzed using MS Excel and VOSviewer. The research provides an overview of state of the art showing a high collaboration between the authors Ramesh A. and Kabra C, and the most relevant institutions were the Griffith Business School and the Delft University of Technology. Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Journal of Disaster Research were the most productive journals. The terms analysis shows that “disasters”, “disaster prevention”, “humanitarian logistics”, and “human” are the most used keywords. The study identifies future research lines related to the interaction between critical technologies to deliver real benefits to the humanitarian supply chain. As a result, it proposes integrating the significant contributions of new technologies, such as blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality, and the social media relief phase following the disaster. It also indicates gaps in knowledge in terms of research related to human-made disasters and health emergencies. Full article

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