Special Issue on “Operations Management in the Sharing Economy”
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2018-12-31
影响因子: 5.134
期刊难度:
CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 工程技术 - 1区
• 小类 : 工程:工业 - 2区
• 小类 : 工程:制造 - 2区
• 小类 : 运筹学与管理科学 - 2区
Overview
With the rapid development of Internet technologies, especially the mobile computing and social networks, the sharing economy (SE) has achieved unprecedented development and received extensive attention from various sectors of the society. The term “sharing economy” describes the phenomenon of peer-to-peer based activity of acquiring, providing, or sharing access to under-utilized goods or services, manpower, and financial resources, which involves demand sources, resource/service suppliers, and community-based on-line platforms (Investopedia, 2018). The sharing economy platforms (e.g., Airbnb, Uber, ofo, Indiegogo, Lending Club, Etsy, Door Dash, Quora, Upwork etc) have revolutionized the way traditional industries operate in the real world, and have started to transform the ways we live. The potential economic and environmental impacts, and benefits of SE are colossal. Meanwhile, SE also poses great challenges to operations management (OM) in practice in terms of fulfilling regulators’ legitimate concerns, matching supply and demand, coping with market competition, addressing security and privacy concerns etc. These problems affect the healthy development of SE and require in-depth research to address.
The purpose of this Special Issue (SI) is to publish high-quality analytical papers addressing emerging operations management and production economics issues arising in the sharing economy, producing significant findings that facilitate the decision-making processes of individual consumers, service providers, regulatory authorities, and other SE stakeholders. We seek research works that employ mainstream OM research methodologies, such as mathematical modelling, optimization, simulation, event studies, questionnaire surveys, and case studies. Original and high-quality research fitting the SI’s theme that is neither published nor currently under review by any other journal is welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Big data analysis for operations management in the sharing economy
- Data-driven operations management in the sharing economy
- Demand forecasting in the sharing economy
- Facility location and layout planning in the sharing economy
- Investment strategy in the sharing economy
- Matching supply and demand in the sharing economy
- Mechanism design in the sharing economy
- Operations management with behavioural concerns in the sharing economy
- Operations planning in the sharing economy
- Operational problems in a competitive sharing economy market
- Pricing in the sharing economy
- Real case studies of operations management in the sharing economy
- Risk control and management in the sharing economy
- Smart logistics/supply chain management in the sharing economy
- Use of information for improving operations in the sharing economy