“…Topic 8- “Data Mining and Machine Learning for Decision Making” concerns the key research that exploits soft computing approaches in various business decision-making contexts. There are ample studies that apply machine learning approaches to business problems such as credit rating (He et al ., 2022), credit scoring (Simumba et al ., 2022), employee churn prediction (Pekel Ozmen and Ozcan, 2022), financial distress prediction (Wu et al ., 2022a, b, c, d), customer churn management (Kozak et al ., 2021), hedge fund return prediction (Wu et al. , 2021b) and bankruptcy prediction (du Jardin, 2021).…”