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Operation management, which has always been a hot topic in management research for seeking to increase the efficiency of the system using scientific methods. We use the Web of Science database to select the pertinent literature data from 2012 to 2022 with a focus on 10 significant international journals to perform the scoped literature on operation management in this paper. It then conducts a bibliometric analysis of operation management from two perspectives—main direction and development trend—using CiteSpace and VOSviewer. The analysis discovered that between 2012 and 2022, 22952 papers on operation management were published in significant international journals. Of these, 4398 were written by Chinese academics, making up 19.16% of the total. International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Operational Research, and International Journal of Production Economics were the main venues for Chinese academics' publications. The National Natural Science Foundation of China supported 3446 papers in these journals, or 15.01% of all papers published. A variety of research hotspots are revealed by keyword analysis. The research's findings provide an excellent framework for describing the traits and developments in operation management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been receiving a lot of attention by companies and academics because of the complex situation of the social environment and the influence of public opinion. Accordingly, we believe that investing in CSR in the closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) of automotive lithium-ion battery (LIB) has theoretical and practical significance for automotive LIBs recycling. In the case of second-life automotive LIB, we propose three dynamic models of CLSCs, (1) automotive LIB manufacturer invests in CSR, (2) automotive LIB retailer invests in CSR, and (3) both automotive LIB manufacturer and retailer invest in CSR, to explore the optimal recycling decisions. The result shows that CSR can increase the sales of new automotive LIBs and the recycling of used automotive LIBs. The number of CLSC participants who invest in CSR is positively correlated with corporate profits, and the higher the number of CLSC participants who invest in CSR, the higher the profits of each CLSC participant and the overall profits of the CLSC. Investing in CSR by automotive LIB retailer is better than by automotive LIB manufacturer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How to achieve harmonious development of economy, society, and environment, and scholars focus on closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) under corporate social responsibility (CSR). This paper focuses on the CLSC of lithium-ion battery (LIB) and explores the impact of CSR on the total profit of the CLSC. We propose a CLSC of LIB consisting of a manufacturer, a retailer, and a third-party recycler and develop a centralized decision-making model and two decentralized decision-making models for this problem. The results show that (1) total profit of the CLSC will be increased under CSR. (2) Consumers will pay attention to members that undertake CSR and thus influence the CLSC. (3) Profit sharing contracts increase the total profit of the CLSC in coordination. Verify the correctness of the model and the effectiveness of the coordination mechanism by numerical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper about the high-quality development level of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is of vital importance to promote high-quality development of China. An evaluation index system that can comprehensively describe the high-quality development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is designed in this paper. There are 27 indexes selected to evaluate the high-quality development of the cities in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province from three dimensions: target level, standard level and index level. By applying the SOM (Self-Organizing Map) algorithm to cluster analysis of high-quality development levels. The results of the study showed that there are variations in high-quality development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city cluster. Beijing has the highest quality development level, followed by Tianjin and Hebei, and a significant gap exists between Beijing and Hebei in terms of the level of quality development. In addition, the high-quality development level of cities in Hebei Province are not balanced. Therefore, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city cluster should break down administrative barriers, making overall plans and promoting coordinated development among regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For maintaining an excellent market performance of energy-saving products, it is critical for the players of the green supply chain to seek collaboration, one of the most popular trendies is cost sharing between players. In this paper, we explore a game-theoretical model of the green supply chain with a manufacturer and a retailer, the retailer sells two products with different environmental properties and same functionality. First, we explore the pricing issue of green supply chain which both sells the non-green traditional product and the new substitutable green product. Three factors, the retail price of a non-green traditional product, retail price and the green quality level of the green product, would influence demand and be served as decision variables. Then, we consider three scenarios: one integrated green supply chain model with the central manager makes all decisions; a decentralized model with the retailer decides the retail prices of non-green traditional products and green products, and the manufacturer decides the green quality level of the green product; a dual-channel green supply chain with contracts coordination to improve the profits of the whole channel. To this end, the numerical investigations reveal the ability of the cost sharing mechanism to coordinate the supply chain players and ensure higher profits for manufacturers and retailers compared with decentralized decision-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]