Kefeng Xu

Biography

Kefeng Xu is a full professor and the Information Systems Ph.D. Program Director in the Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management in the Bryan School of Business & Economics. He received his Ph.D. in business administration with double majors in operations management and logistics/transportation from the University of Maryland. He also holds an M.S. in business administration from the University of British Columbia (Canada) and a Bachelor of Engineering from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University (China). He previously was a full professor and faculty advisor of operations & supply chain management at the University of Texas at San Antonio for more than two decades.

Dr. Xu’s areas of expertise and research interests include Operations, Logistics and Information Management Strategy; Information Economics; Incentive Contracts; SCM/IS/Marketing Interface; Supply Chain Sustainability.

His works have appeared in several highly impactful journals such as Production and Operations Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Marketing Science, Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Transportation Research, Journal of Business Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, and International Journal of Production Economics, earning him significant peer citations according to Google Scholars.

His research has also received awards such as the Best Published Paper in Decision Sciences Journal, the Best Analytical Research Paper Award in the Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference (twice), E.G. Plowman (Best Paper) Award in the Council of Logistics Management Educators conference (cscmp.org), the First Prize Graduate Research Award in the Transportation Research Forum, and twice the Col. Jean Migliorino and Lt. Col. Philip Piccione Endowed Research Award in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business (2003 and 2016). As a co-PI, his project entitled “Integrated Circuit Supply Chain Security and Quality Control in Business and Social Context” was awarded by a National Science Foundation grant. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Operations Management and serves on the editorial review boards of the Transportation Journal, Journal of Business Logistics and Journal of Supply Chain Management.

education

• Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, MD
  Major Field: Operations Management
  Double Major: Logistics and Transportation
  Dissertation co-chairs: Michael Fu (operations) and Philip Evers (logistics)
• MS(Bus.Adm.) University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• B.Eng. Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai, China

Research/publications

1. Song, Sining, Yan Dong, Thomas J. Kull, Craig Carter, and Kefeng Xu (2023), “Supply Chain Leakage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Supplier Innovation,” Production and Operations Management, 32(3), 882-903. [FT50, CABS-4]
2. Dong, Yan, Kefeng Xu, Sining Song, and Chen Zhou (2021), “Quality Reference in Consumer Product Recalls,” Decision Sciences Journal, 52(4), 893-919. https://doi.org/10.1111/deci.12453 [This paper received the Best Paper Award in Decision Sciences Journal in 2022. An earlier version received the Best Analytical Research Paper Award in the Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, 2015.] [CABS-3]
3. Wani, Deepa, Yan Dong, Manoj Malhotra, and Kefeng Xu (2021), “Emerging Market Penetration and Emissions Performance,” Decision Sciences Journal, 52(1), 283-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/deci.12436 [CABS-3]
4. Miller, Stewart R., Sarfraz A. Khan, Kefeng Xu, & Lorraine Eden (2023), “CSR violations of domestic and foreign firms: A study of environmental misconduct in the United States,” In A. Goerzen (Ed.), Research Handbook on International Corporate Social Responsibility. Edward Elgar Publishing.

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