Faculty Profile

Education

Current Position(s) Held

Awards, Recognition and Honors

• M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2024
• Second Prize of Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education Institutions, 2024
• Dean's Teaching Honor List, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024
• MPA Fellowship in Maritime Business, 2021 and 2024
• M&SOM Best Paper Award, 2022
• First Prize of Guangdong Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, 2021
• Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, 2020
• Management Science Meritorious Service Award, 2020
• Finalist of the Best Student Paper Competition of POMS-HK International Conference, 2020 and 2022
• SMU Innovative Teacher Award Nominee, 2017, 2018 and 2019
• William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, 2008-2014

Research Interests

• Competition and Cooperation in Supply Chains
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Digital Economy
• Online Platforms
• Social and Economic Networks

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

• "Converting Counterfeiters in Emerging Markets to Authorized Suppliers: A New Anti-counterfeiting Measure", with Liling Lu, Sarah Yini Gao and Burak Kazaz, Production and Operations Management, 2025, Forthcoming 

• "Asymmetric Information of Product Authenticity on C2C E-Commerce Platforms: How Can Inspection Services Help?", with Linqiu Li and Yun Fong Lim, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 25(2), April 2023, Pages 631-647

• "Impacts of Distributive Comparison Behavior on Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains: The Role of Small Firms", with Mingzheng Wang, Zizhuo Wang and Ying-Ju Chen, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 25(2) April 2023, Pages 686-703

• "Urban Consolidation Center or Peer-to-Peer Platform? The Solution to Urban Last-Mile Delivery”, with Qiyuan Deng and Yun Fong Lim, Production and Operations Management, 30(4), April 2021, Pages 997-1013

• "Cooperative Approaches to Managing Social Responsibility in a Market with Externalities", with Soo-Haeng Cho, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 22(6), April 2020, Pages 1215-1233

• "Technology Specifications and Production timing in a Co-Opetitive Supply Chain", with Baozhuang Niu, Kanglin Chen, Xin Wang and Xiaohang Yue, Production and Operations Management, 28(8), August 2019, Pages 1990 - 2007

• "Combating Child Labor: Incentives and Information Disclosure in Global Supply Chains", with Soo-Haeng Cho, Sridhar R. Tayur and Ying Xu, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 21(3), May 2019, Pages 692 - 711

• "Combating Strategic Counterfeiters in Licit and Illicit Supply Chains", with Soo-Haeng Cho and Sridhar R. Tayur, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 17(3), April 2015, Pages 273 - 289

• "Stability and Endogenous Formation of Inventory Transshipment Networks", with Soo-Haeng Cho, Operations Research, 62(6), October 2014, Pages 1316 - 1334