All Outputs (14)

Mitigating the bullwhip effect through supply chain ESG transparency: roles of digitalization and signal strength (2024)
Journal Article
Wu, L., Wang, M., Kumar, A., & Choi, T. (2024). Mitigating the bullwhip effect through supply chain ESG transparency: roles of digitalization and signal strength. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/ijopm-08-2023-0667

Purpose-The call for supply chain transparency (SCT), especially the Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspect, is getting increasingly louder. Based on the signaling theory, our study investigates the operational benefit of supply chain tra... Read More about Mitigating the bullwhip effect through supply chain ESG transparency: roles of digitalization and signal strength.

The future of the food supply chain: a systematic literature review and research directions towards sustainability, resilience, and technology adoption (2023)
Journal Article
Su, I., Wu, L., & Hua Tan, K. (2023). The future of the food supply chain: a systematic literature review and research directions towards sustainability, resilience, and technology adoption. Journal of Digital Economy, 2, 303-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdec.2024.03.001

In recent years, our food supply chain facing various disruptions shows a need for higher resilience and sustainability. To better prepare for future uncertainties the food supply chain may encounter, it is imperative to understand the status quo of... Read More about The future of the food supply chain: a systematic literature review and research directions towards sustainability, resilience, and technology adoption.

Enhancing innovativeness and performance of the manufacturing supply chain through datafication: the role of resilience (2023)
Journal Article
Tian, S., Wu, L., Pia Ciano, M., Ardolino, M., & Pawar, K. S. (2024). Enhancing innovativeness and performance of the manufacturing supply chain through datafication: the role of resilience. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 188, Article 109841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2023.109841

The Covid-19 pandemic has extremely affected the manufacturing supply chain (SC) highlighting the need to deploy dynamic capabilities (DCs) such as supply chain resilience (SCRes) that enable companies to react rapidly and exploit intangible assets t... Read More about Enhancing innovativeness and performance of the manufacturing supply chain through datafication: the role of resilience.

Digitalization and network capability as enablers of business model innovation and sustainability performance: the moderating effect of environmental dynamism (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Cui, L., Wu, L., Lowry, P. B., Kumar, A., & Tan, K. H. (2023). Digitalization and network capability as enablers of business model innovation and sustainability performance: the moderating effect of environmental dynamism. Journal of Information Technology, https://doi.org/10.1177/02683962231219513

In the face of relentless global competition and regulatory pressures, the imperative for firms to digitally transform has become critical. This is particularly salient for Chinese manufacturing firms as they strive for sustainability, a multidimensi... Read More about Digitalization and network capability as enablers of business model innovation and sustainability performance: the moderating effect of environmental dynamism.

Platform business model innovation in the digitalization era: A “driver-process-result” perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Jia, Y., Su, J., Cui, L., Wu, L., & Hua Tan, K. (2023). Platform business model innovation in the digitalization era: A “driver-process-result” perspective. Journal of Business Research, 160, Article 113818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113818

In the digitalization era, business model innovation (BMI) has become the critical keystone for platforms to gain a sustainable competitive advantage in turbulent environments. However, platform BMI is currently not clearly understood. Through a long... Read More about Platform business model innovation in the digitalization era: A “driver-process-result” perspective.

How do different Industry 4.0 technologies support certain Circular Economy practices? (2022)
Journal Article
Lei, Z., Cai, S., Cui, L., Wu, L., & Liu, Y. (2023). How do different Industry 4.0 technologies support certain Circular Economy practices?. Industrial Management and Data Systems, 123(4), 1220-1251. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-05-2022-0270

Purpose: Uncovering the relationship between Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies and circular economy (CE) practices is critical not only for implementing CE but also for leveraging I4.0 to achieve sustainable development goals. However, the potential c... Read More about How do different Industry 4.0 technologies support certain Circular Economy practices?.

Investigating the relationship between digital technologies, supply chain integration and firm resilience in the context of COVID-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Cui, L., Wu, H., Wu, L., Kumar, A., & Tan, K. H. (2023). Investigating the relationship between digital technologies, supply chain integration and firm resilience in the context of COVID-19. Annals of Operations Research, 327, 825–853. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04735-y

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly augmented the complexity of information, adding to the challenges that firms face in effectively processing and grasping accurate information. As a result, the production uncertainty of firms ha... Read More about Investigating the relationship between digital technologies, supply chain integration and firm resilience in the context of COVID-19.

How do keystones govern their business ecosystems through resource orchestration? (2022)
Journal Article
Wu, L., Cui, M., Li, W., Jia, Y., & Cui, L. (2022). How do keystones govern their business ecosystems through resource orchestration?. Industrial Management and Data Systems, 122(9), 1987-2011. https://doi.org/10.1108/imds-12-2021-0804

Purpose: Sharing resources with stakeholders is the key for keystones to govern business ecosystems successfully. However, existing research has not paid further attention to how keystones share resources under the condition of resource sufficiency a... Read More about How do keystones govern their business ecosystems through resource orchestration?.

Wield the Power of Omni-channel Retailing Strategy: a Capability and Supply Chain Resilience Perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Wu, L., Huang, L., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Wield the Power of Omni-channel Retailing Strategy: a Capability and Supply Chain Resilience Perspective. Journal of Strategic Marketing, https://doi.org/10.1080/0965254X.2021.1972440

Omni-channel strategy can be a powerful mechanism through which successful implementing organisations achieve higher levels of resilience to better survive disruptions. However, such potential benefits have been overlooked in existing literature with... Read More about Wield the Power of Omni-channel Retailing Strategy: a Capability and Supply Chain Resilience Perspective.

Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Sales and Operations Planning Process (2020)
Journal Article
Roscoe, S., Subramanian, N., Prifti, R., & Wu, L. (2020). Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Sales and Operations Planning Process. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(8), 3526-3541. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2594

The purpose of this paper is to understand how companies can transition to a sustainable sales and operations planning process to improve economic, environmental and social performance. Data are collected from a survey of 120 managers in China's manu... Read More about Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Sales and Operations Planning Process.

Role of traditional Chinese philosophies and new product development under circular economy in private manufacturing enterprise performance (2018)
Journal Article
Subramanian, N., Gunasekaran, A., Wu, L., Shen, T., Subramanian, N., Gunasekaran, A., …Shen, T. (2019). Role of traditional Chinese philosophies and new product development under circular economy in private manufacturing enterprise performance. International Journal of Production Research, 57(23), 7219-7234. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2018.1530467

The new product development (NPD) process–performance link has been sufficiently studied in academic research. However , recent NPD process is significantly different from the conventional NPD specifically with the inclusion of sustainability conside... Read More about Role of traditional Chinese philosophies and new product development under circular economy in private manufacturing enterprise performance.

A two-dimensional, two-level framework for achieving corporate sustainable development : assessing the return on sustainability initiatives (2018)
Journal Article
Wu, L., Subramanian, N., Gunasekaran, A., Pawar, K., Doran, D., & Dan‐Asabe Abdulrahman, M. (2018). A two-dimensional, two-level framework for achieving corporate sustainable development : assessing the return on sustainability initiatives. Business Strategy and the Environment, 27(8), 1117-1130. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2055

Sustainability studies in operations management have reported the positive effects of lean, green, and social management systems on various dimensions of a firm’s sustainability performance. However, despite its high importance and relevance, the tim... Read More about A two-dimensional, two-level framework for achieving corporate sustainable development : assessing the return on sustainability initiatives.

Port sustainable services innovation: Ningbo port users’ expectation (2016)
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Wang, Z., Subramanian, N., Abdulrahman, M. D., Cui, H., Wu, L., & Liu, C. (2017). Port sustainable services innovation: Ningbo port users’ expectation. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 11, 58-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2016.08.002

Port sustainable services innovation depends on understanding and matching customers' expectations with unique service offerings using advanced facilities. This study develops and validates a port sustainable services decision model to investigate cu... Read More about Port sustainable services innovation: Ningbo port users’ expectation.

The impact of integrated practices of lean, green, and social management systems on firm sustainability performance: evidence from Chinese fashion auto-parts suppliers (2015)
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Wu, L., Subramanian, N., Abdulrahman, M., Liu, C., Lai, K., & Pawar, K. (2015). The impact of integrated practices of lean, green, and social management systems on firm sustainability performance: evidence from Chinese fashion auto-parts suppliers. Sustainability, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/su7043838

To better satisfy various stakeholders, firms are seeking integrated practices that can enhance their sustainability performance, also well known as the Triple Bottom Line (3BL). The fashion industry exhibits potential conflicts with the spirit of su... Read More about The impact of integrated practices of lean, green, and social management systems on firm sustainability performance: evidence from Chinese fashion auto-parts suppliers.