Cyril Foropon

• PhD in Management (HEC Paris)
• Professor (Full) at Montpellier Business School

This special issue was organized to explore the impact of the internet and digital revolution on the field of management science (MS). Our goal was to highlight the scientific developments that have reshaped management practices and methodologies, enabling organizations to effectively navigate the increasingly complex challenges they encounter in t...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented challenge for humanity, causing widespread disruptions to daily life and economies worldwide. However, amidst the challenges, it has also presented an opportunity to reflect on our competencies, capabilities, and objectives. One area that has gained significant attention during this time is the humani...

Electric vehicles (EVs) serve an important role in lowering greenhouse gas emissions, which helps to mitigate global warming while also contributing to long-term growth. Thus, this research explores various criterions relevant to electric vehicle (EVs) adoption and causal relationships using the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMA...

This study aims to investigate the direct and indirect effects of information system security practices that observed the relationship effect between cyber supply chain risk management and supply chain performance. In Industry 4.0 era, a cyber-attack becomes unavoidable and needs to adopt cyber supply chain risk management to improve the firm. The...

This study attempts to understand the role of artificial intelligence-driven big data analytics capability in humanitarian relief operations. These disasters play an important role in mobilizing several organizations to counteract them, but the organizations often find it hard to strike a fine balance between agility and resilience. Operations Mana...

Over recent years, organizations have started to capitalize on the significant use of Big Data and emerging technologies to analyze, and gain valuable insights linked to, decision-making processes. The process of Competitive Intelligence (CI) includes monitoring competitors with a view to delivering both actionable and meaningful intelligence to or...

The routing problem is a critical issue in closed-loop supply chain neatwork design, but it is typically simplified in the literature. In contrast to the traditional approach of a point-to-point delivery between two logistics nodes or a routing problem at the terminal distribution stage in a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC), we propose a multi-perio...

Introduction Healthcare systems across the globe are plagued by spiraling costs, quality concerns, inordinately long waiting times, increasing customer/patient dissatisfaction, and critical shortages of doctors, nurses, staff, space, and other resources (Umble and Umble, 2006). The healthcare systems of industrialized countries are under pressure t...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify potential constraints and determine the constraint structure in a steel manufacturing plant. “Potential constraint” is defined as a factor that is either a constraint at present or can become one in the future and “constraint structure” is used to denote the network of influences between the potentia...

Purpose The authors have attempted to understand how big data and predictive analytics (BDPA) can help retain employees in the organization. Design/methodology/approach This study is grounded in the positivism philosophy. The authors have used a resource-based view (RBV) to develop their research hypotheses. The authors tested their research hypot...

Many organizations are increasingly investing in building dynamic capabilities to gain competitive advantage. New products play an important role in gaining competitive advantage and can significantly boost organizational performance. Although new product development (NPD) is widely recognized as a potentially vital source of competitive advantage,...

Purpose The COVID-19 crisis has created enormous strain in global supply chains. The disruption has caused severe shortages of critical items, including personal protective equipment (e.g. face masks), ventilators and diagnostics. The failure of the industry to meet the sudden demand for these necessary items has caused a severe humanitarian crisis...

Purpose: The pandemic crisis has resulted in global chaos that had caused massive disruption to the supply chain. The pharmaceutical industry, in particular, has been working tirelessly to ensure that they can cater to the people who need them. With restrictions being imposed to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the movement of raw material...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of Mindfullness on Organizational Role Stress based on the Monitor Acceptance Theory (MAT) perspective. Methodology – Our study is based on a cross-sectional data analysis collected from 137 employees working at an Indian IT organization located in Bangalore (India). ORS and MAAS scale...

Our study examines the relationship between information alignment (IA), collaboration (CO) and supply chain agility (SCAG) under the moderating effects of artificial intelligence-driven big data analytics capability (AI-BDAC) and intergroup leadership (IGL). We have grounded our theoretical model in the resource-based view (RBV) and contingency the...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a decision support system for managers to predict an organization’s probability of successful blockchain adoption using a machine learning technique. The study conceptualizes blockchain technology as a dynamic capability that should be possessed by the organization to remain competitive. The factors influenci...

Humanitarian organizations are increasingly facing challenges in terms of improving the efficiency and the effectiveness of their disaster relief efforts. These challenges often arise due to a lack of trust, poor collaboration and an inability to respond to disaster affected areas in a timely manner. Our study attempts to understand how these chall...

Over recent years, organizations have started to capitalize on the significant use of Big Data and emerging technologies to analyze, and gain valuable insights linked to, decision-making processes. The process of Competitive Intelligence (CI) includes monitoring competitors with a view to delivering both actionable and meaningful intelligence to or...

The long-term viability of an organization hinges on social, environmental, and economic measures. However, based on extensive review of the literature, we have observed that measuring and improving the sustainable performance of supply chains is complex. We have grounded our theoretical framework in institutional theory (IT) and resource-based vie...

Quality management has been widely discussed in the literature, and recent special issues on humanitarian supply chains and relief operations have emphasized the increasing importance of quality management in this key emerging area. In this paper, we provide an extensive literature review in the field of quality management in humanitarian operation...

In this study, we investigate the role of decision-making and coordination related to carbon reduction within humanitarian supply chain. Accordingly, a two-stage supply chain consisting of a single manufacturer and a single retailer has been designed, within which three strategies for carbon emission reduction have been considered, namely direct pr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of different structures of gray markets on supply chain decisions and profits. Design/methodology/approach – Using game theory, supply chain under the context of gray markets has been explored consisting of manufacturers, distributors and speculators. The manufacturer sells its products d...

The importance of big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning has been at the forefront of research for operations and supply chain management. Literature has reported the influence of big data analytics for improved operational performance, but there has been a paucity of research regarding the role of entrepreneurial orienta...

While the use of big data tends to add value for business throughout the entire value chain, the integration of big data analytics (BDA) to the decision-making process remains a challenge. This study, based on a systematic literature review, thematic analysis and qualitative interview findings, proposes a set of six-steps to establish both rigor an...

The innovation efforts of manufacturing firms have recently come to top the agendas of both businesses and industrial policy makers. One persistent research gap in this field relates to testing the relationship between continuous innovation (CI) and firm performance, while taking into account the role of three determinants of firms’ level of innova...

The main objective of the study is to understand how big data analytics capability (BDAC) as an organizational culture can enhance trust and collaborative performance between civil and military organizations engaged in disaster relief operations. The theoretical framework is grounded in organizational information processing theory (OIPT). We have c...

Supply chain resilience and data analytics capability have generated increased interest in academia and among practitioners. However, existing studies often treat these two streams of literature independently. Our study model reconciles two different streams of literature: data analytics capability as a means to improve information-processing capac...

Purpose Nowadays, understanding green consumers has become very critical given its implications for marketers to understand and communicate green purchase patterns on the one hand, and to design and strategize both product offerings and customer services on the other hand. The purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction effect of product a...

Purpose Drawing on the ability–motivation–opportunity theory applied to the greening of service industries, this paper aims to analyze the extent to which green human resource management plays a role in the adoption of eco-efficiency principles in the financial sector. Environmental knowledge management represents one of the key green human resour...

Purpose – Worldwide, facing increasing resources pressure, more and more manufacturing firms aim to circular economy, which is a system characterized by the application of remanufacturing principles and adoption of sustainable manufacturing practices. This study aims to investigate the function of remanufacturing capability in influencing supply ch...

Purpose Big data and predictive analytics (BDPA) has received great attention in terms of its role in making business decisions. However, current knowledge on BDPA regarding how it might link organizational capabilities and organizational performance (OP) remains unclear. Drawing from the resource-based view, the purpose of this paper is to propose...

The organizations engaged in sustainable development programmes are increasingly paying serious attention towards synergetic relationships between focal firms and their partners to achieve the goal of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) via big data and predictive analytics (BDPA). The study examines the role of BDPA in collaborative perfo...

Purpose – Cloud based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) enables an organization to pay for the services they need and removes the need to maintain Information Technology (IT) infrastructure. In this paper, we have empirically tested the role of cloud based ERP services on the performance of an organization. Here, the performance is categorized as...

Crowdsourcing and Internet of Things (IoT) are gaining more and more attention both in industry and academia in order to explore their effects on disaster relief. The current state of the literature shows a clear focus on the extent to which crowdsourcing on one hand, or IoT on the other hand, can individually make a difference regarding disaster r...

Comparativement à celle d'autres services de centres hospitaliers, la gestion des stocks du bloc opératoire présente des spécificités, notamment le stockage de produits souvent coûteux et réservés à l'usage exclusif de ce service dont les activités constituent le coeur des opérations des établissements. Cet article a pour objectif d'identifier le d...

This work makes the case for integrating two industrial waves that promise to re-shape current patterns of production and consumption: Industry 4.0 and environmentally-sustainable manufacturing. We argue that, although these two trends cannot be considered an industrial revolution, Industry 4.0-associated technologies nevertheless have the unique p...

Contingency theory suggests the best way to organize and lead an organization, or to make decisions, depends upon internal and external situational factors, e.g. organizational size, operational scope and environmental uncertainty. Humanitarian organizations use various process management tools, including codes of conduct and standards. Large non-g...

Le déploiement d'une démarche lean au cœur d'un établissement de santé suscite un intérêt croissant auprès de plus en plus de dirigeants d'établissements de santé du monde entier depuis le lancement dans les années 2000 des premières applications dans le domaine de la santé. Parmi le nombre important d'établissements de santé qui se sont engagés da...

La gestion des stocks dans le bloc opératoire présente des défis distinctifs comparativement aux autres services d'un hôpital. Les articles qui y sont stockés sont souvent plus coûteux et réservés à un usage exclusif du bloc opératoire. De plus, les activités de ce dernier constituent le coeur des opérations du centre hospitalier. Cette communicati...

Le déploiement de la démarche Lean dans les établissements de santé est un phénomène grandissant à l’échelle mondiale. À ce jour, seule une très faible proportion d’hôpitaux lancés dans l’aventure sont parvenus à transformer significativement leurs systèmes de gestion en se fondant sur cette approche de gestion qui vise à améliorer les processus ad...

This article examines service quality provided in the classroom, by applying the Servqual instrument in twooperations management (OM) courses located at the two extremes of the higher education spectrum. The firstServqual gap analysis assessed an OM undergraduate course (at the low end of the spectrum), whereas thesecond Servqual gap analysis appra...

Améliorer la qualité des soins, augmenter l’accessibilité, freiner l’augmentation des coûts, de nombreux établissements de santé déploient une démarche « lean » – un système de gestion d’abord appliqué à l’industrie dont l’un des éléments clés est la résolution systématique de problèmes – afin de répondre à de tels enjeux. Les auteurs présentent ce...

Purpose – This paper aims to illustrate the extent to which metaphors help to understand operations management research topics. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based upon a review of the role of metaphors in organisational theory building and the use of metaphors in operations management theory building. Findings – Metaphors can contr...