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Faculty Profile

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FANG Xin

Associate Professor of Operations Management; Director, PhD Programmes; MPA Research Fellow

LKCSBFull-time Faculty
Email
xfang@smu.edu.sg
Phone
68087950
Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Areas

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  • Lee Kong Chian School of Business
    • Asian & ASEAN Initiatives
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Digital Business
    • Marketing
      • Retail Operations and Strategy
      • Consumer Behaviour
      • Consumer Judgment and Decision-making
    • Operations Management
      • Supply Chain Strategy and Risk Management
      • Sustainable Operations and Investments (including Energy, Natural Resources, and Transportation)
      • E-Commerce and Marketplace Analytics
      • Healthcare Analytics and Operations
      • Inventory, Logistics and Transportation Management
    • Strategy and Entrepreneurship
      • Digital transformation and platform strategies
      • Sustainable and socially responsible strategy
    • Sustainable Business
  • School of Computing and Information Systems
    • Health & Wellbeing
      • Ageing & Mental Health
    • Urban & Sustainability
      • Urban Logistics & Sustainability
  • School of Economics
    • Applied Microeconomics
      • Industrial Organisation
    • Microeconomic Theory
      • Mechanism Design
      • Decision Theory
      • Game Theory

Strategic Priorities

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  • Digital Transformation
  • Growth in Asia
  • Sustainable Living
 

Education

2014Ph.D. in Operations Management
Carnegie Mellon University
2008B.S. in Information Systems
Fudan University

Current Position(s) Held

2022 - PresentAssociate Professor of Operations Management 
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2023 - PresentProgram Director, PhD in Business 
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2020 - 2023Program Coordinator, PhD in Business (Operations Management) 
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2014 - 2022Assistant Professor of Operations Management 
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

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, March 2025
  • "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

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