Research Interests
My research lies in the area of supply chain management, with primary focus on the supply chain risk management. I am also interested in incentive and contracting, pricing and inventory management, sustainable and socially responsible operations, interfaces of operations and finance/marketing, and their applications in addressing real-world operational challenges. Here are my SSRN and Google Scholar links.
UTD Journal Publications
- Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Management Under Fluctuating Procurement Costs (with Nan Yang and Renyu Zhang), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 17(3): 321-334.
- On the Properties of Yield Distributions in Random Yield Problems: Conditions, Class of Distributions and Relevant Applications (with Panos Kouvelis and Nan Yang), Production and Operations Management 27(7): 1291-1302.
- Role of Risk Aversion in Price Postponement under Supply Random Yield (with Panos Kouvelis and Nan Yang), Management Science 67(8): 4826-4844.
- Procurement Strategies with Unreliable Suppliers under Correlated Random Yields (with Lingxiu Dong, Xin Geng and Nan Yang), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 24(1):179-195.
- Impact of Social Interactions on Duopoly Competition with Quality Considerations (with Xin Geng and Xiaomeng Guo), Management Science 68(2): 941-959.
- Horizontal Outsourcing and Price Competition: The Role of Sole Sourcing Commitment (with Xiaomeng Guo, Joice Hu and Panos Kouvelis), Production and Operations Management 31(8): 3198-3216.
- Supply Diversification under Random Yield: The Impact of Price Postponement (with Lingxiu Dong and Nan Yang), Production and Operations Management 32(4): 1112-1132
- Optimal Contract Design for a National Brand Manufacturer under Store Brand Private Information (with Xinyan Cao, Xiang Fang, and Nan Yang), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25(5): 1835-1854
- Supply Risk Mitigation in a Decentralized Supply Chain: Price Postponement or Payment Postponement? (with Xiaomeng Guo, Xin Geng, and Nan Yang), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26(2): 646-663
- Global Sourcing for Supply Resilience in the Presence of Emergency Contract Renegotiation (with Baozhuang Niu, Lingfeng Wang, and Nan Zhang), Production and Operations Management 35(1), 331-348
- Pricing Strategies for Processing Intermediaries in Agri-chains with Side Markets for Harvested Crops: Paradox of Ex-Post Pricing Flexibility (with Panos Kouvelis and Jian Li), Forthcoming at Production and Operations Management
- Innovation Against Imitation: How to Compete with Copycats in Crowdfunding? (with Zepeng Chen, Xiaomeng Guo and Fasheng Xu), Accepted at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management --- Accepted for 2023 MSOM iFORM SIG conference
High Quality Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Conference Papers
- Crowdfunding Adoption in the Presence of Word-of-Mouth Communication (with Fasheng Xu, Xiaomeng Guo and Fuqiang Zhang), Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management 15(3), 247-265.
- Benefit of Backup Sourcing for Components in Assembly Systems under Supply Uncertainty (with Wenting Pan, and Rick So), European Journal of Operational Research 302(1): 158-171.
- Duopoly Pricing Strategies with Quality Improvement Spillover (with Zepeng Chen, Xin Geng, Xiaomeng Guo), Naval Research Logistics 69(7): 958-973.
- A Blessing in Disguise: Paying for the Manufacturer’s Clean Energy Transformation Allows Brands to Win More (with Baozhuang Niu, Lingfeng Wang and Jian Dong), International Journal of Production Research 63(22): 8452-8474.
- Should Traditional Ride-hailing Firms Develop Robotaxi Service? Intra-firm and Inter-firm Competition Analysis (with Baozhuang Niu, Hongzhi Wang, and Haotao Xu), Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 208:104697
- Co-opetitive improvement of multi-win green performance: Is horizontal order pooling more effective than vertical cost-sharing? (with Baozhuang Niu, Enkai Zhang, Feifei Xie, and Xinhai Deng), European Journal of Operational Research
- Dynamics of Cognitive Heterogeneity: Investigating Behavior Biases in Multi-Stage Supply Chains with LLM-Based Simulation. (with Jiuyun Jiang, Yuecheng Hong, Bo Yang, Guangxin Jiang and Xiaomeng Guo), Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL, CCF-A).
- LLM-based Agents in Supply Chain Games: The Role of Incomplete Information and Model Heterogeneity (with Jiuyun Jiang, Yuecheng Hong, Jiangnan Shi, Song Huang, Jin Yang, Guangxin Jiang and Xiaomeng Guo), Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS, CCF-B).
Papers under Revision
- Two-Sided Platform Competition with Client Recognition (with Xiaomeng Guo and Yuanbing Miao), under minor revision at Marketing Science
- Study of Hybrid (Push-Pull) Wholesale Price Contracts within Random Yield Supply Chains (with Panos Kouvelis), under 2nd round major revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Impact of International Commercial Terms on Global Sourcing Strategies (with Lei Chen, Amanda Wang and Jingwen Xu), under 2nd round major revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Recycling Label Design and Green Competition (with Xiaomeng Guo, Duo Shi and Xiaoli Zhang), under a major revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Multinational Firm’s Online-Offline Channel Co-opetition Considering Tax Cost Saving and Days Sales Outstanding (with Jian Dong, Baozhuang Niu, and Zifan Shen), under major revision at Production and Operations Management
- From Harvest to Screen: The Impact of Live E-Commerce on Farmer's Profit and Food Waste (with Xiaomeng Guo, Yunzhe Qiu and Zijian Zhao), under reject and resubmit at MSOM
- To Keep Price Consistency or Not: Multi-Channel Retailing with Consumer Fairness Concern (with Xiaomeng Guo, Yumeng Li, and Wenxin Xu), under reject and resubmit at MSOM
- Consumer Awareness, Noisy Certification, and Corporate Social Responsibility under Asymmetric Information (with Xiaomeng Guo and Fuqiang Zhang), under reject and resubmit at MSOM
- Optimal Component Procurement Sequence in Assembly Systems under Supply Uncertainty (with Rick So and Sammi Tang), under reject and resubmit at POM
Papers under Review
- The Impacts of Noisy Certification and Price Signaling on Product Quality Disclosure (with Yu-hung Chen and Xiaomeng Guo)
- The Impact of Privacy Regulation on User-Platform Interaction in Recommendations and Search (with Lingyun Chen, Xiaomeng Guo, Xiaoyu Wang and Lei Ye)
- Pricing Strategies Against Quality Imitation (with Zepeng Chen, Xiaomeng Guo and Amanda Wang)
- Managing Returns in Livestream Shopping (with Xin Geng, Xiaomeng Guo and Xue Zhao)
- Impact of Government Subsidy on Green Product Innovation (with Lingyun Chen, Xiaomeng Guo and Dan Tan)
- When Positive Is Negative: Quality Discrimination under Cognitive Ambiguity (with Xiaomeng Guo and Yuanbing Miao)
- The Strategic Benefit of Consumer Recognition under Time-varying Social Interactions (with Xiaomeng Guo, Baojun Jiang, and Yuanbing Miao)
- Crowdfunding or Bank Financing: Effects of Market Uncertainty and Awareness Expansion (with Xiaomeng Guo, Fasheng Xu and Fuqiang Zhang) --- Accepted for 2019 MSOM iFORM SIG conference
- Crowdfunding Strategy in the Presence of Social Interactions (with Xiaomeng Guo, Fasheng Xu and Fuqiang Zhang)
- Impact of Capacity Constraint and Consumer Heterogeneity on Product Differentiation (with Yueshan Yu and Fuqiang Zhang)
- Sourcing Strategy for Assembly Systems with Corporate Social Responsibility Considerations (with Xiaomeng Guo, Yunjuan Kuang, and Fuqiang Zhang)
- Channel Competition with Negative Social Interactions (with Xiaomeng Guo and Xue Zhao)
Selected Working Papers
- Onshoring or Offshoring? The Role of Government Incentives in Shaping Manufacturing Strategies (with Lingyun Chen)
External Competitive Grants
- PI: HK-RGC, GRF Grant, HKD 292,492, 2019-2020.
- Co-I: HK-RGC, GRF Grant, HKD 442,453, 2019-2021.
- PI: HK-RGC, GRF Grant, HKD 387,605, 2020-2021.
- PI: HK-RGC, GRF Grant, HKD 378,120, 2021-2022.
- PI: HK-RGC, GRF Grant, HKD 611,993, 2022-2023.
- PI: HK-RGC, GRF Grant, HKD 502,565, 2024-2026.
- PI: NSFC, Excellent Young Scientist Program (优青), RMB 2,000,000, 2025-2027.
- PI: HK-RGC, GRF Grant, HKD 820,000, 2026-2028.
Professional Services
- Associate Editor: IISE Transaction (2026 -- Present)
- Associate Editor: Decision Science Journal (2026 -- Present)
- Editorial Review Board: Production and Operations Management (2023 -- Present)
- Reviewer: Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, IISE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, Operations Research Letters, Decision Sciences, Service Science, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, Applied Economic Letters, etc.
- Session Chair: POMS (2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2026), INFORMS (2018, 2024), POMS International (2023, 2025), CSAMSE (2019, 2023), POMS-HK (2020, 2023, 2024, 2025), POMS China (2024, 2025)
- Co-Chair: POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition (2023)
- Judge: POMS-HK best student paper competition (2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
- Judge: INFORMS Behavioral Operations Management Best Working Paper Award (2022, 2023)
- Judge: CSAMSE Best Paper Competition (2023, 2024)
- Reviewer: MSOM SCM SIG (2023, 2025, 2026), NSFC grant (2025, 2026)
Honors
- PolyU Business School Fellow Award, 2021, 2023, 2025
- PolyU Business School Faculty Prize (in both Research and Teaching categories), 2024
- M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2020, 2021, 2023
- Vice President’s Recognition for Excellence in Research Grant Application, 2020, 2023
- OMEGA Best Reviewer Certificate Award for 2022
- Nominated for President's Awards (in both Research and Teaching Categories), 2022
- PolyU Business School Faculty Award (Teaching), 2022
- PolyU Business School Faculty Award (Outstanding Young Researcher), 2021
