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Dr

Lusheng Shao

Senior Lecturer In Management
Management And Marketing
Responsible Sourcing
Competition
Food Security
Contracts and Incentives
operations research & management science
technology
science & technology
management
social sciences
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Dr

Lusheng Shao

 
Division
Business And Economics
 
Primary Interest
Sustainable Operations
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Dr. Lusheng Shao is Senior Lecturer of Operations Management in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne. He is Area Head of the Operations Management group, and is an academic fellow in Melbourne Business School's Center for Business Analytics and the Faculty's Center for Asian Business and Economics.

Dr. Shao obtained a PhD in Operations Management and Business Analytics from the University of Sydney Business School. He also held visiting positions at John M. Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

His research interests include competition in supply chains, contract and incentives, and more recently, sustainable operations. Dr Shao's research has been published in leading journals in his field, including Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, and Decision Sciences. He has received several research grants and won two teaching awards. He is a regular presenter at the international and national conferences in the field of operations management.

Dr. Shao is an Associate Editor of Decision Sciences, and serves on the Editorial Review Board of Production and Operations Management. He also reviews regularly for other journals including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management , and European Journal of Operational Research.

Projects

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Towards responsible and transparent supply chains: The firm perspective

2017 - 2018
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

Additional Information

University Early Career Researcher Grant, The University of Melbourne, 2017
NSFC General Scheme Fund, National Natural Foundation of China, 2017
Shuguang Fund, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation, 2016
Center for Business Analytics Seed Grant, Melbourne Business School, 2015

Scholarly Works

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Achieving efficiency in capacity procurement

Lusheng Shao, Eddie Anderson, Bo Chen

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter studies a capacity procurement problem in which a buyer meets an uncertain demand using a combination of spot purchas..

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Contract design for equipment after-sales service with business interruption insurance

X Qin, L Shao, ZZ Jiang

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Journal of Operational Research

After-sales service is strategically important for mission-critical equipment due to the high operational risks involved (e.g., ma..

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Capacity investment in a new production location

Lusheng Shao

Journal article  |  2020  |  Decision Sciences

Firms proactively search for low-cost production locations to enjoy cost-based advantages. In this paper, we develop a two-stage s..

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Responsible sourcing under asymmetric information: Price signaling vs. supplier disclosure

Lusheng Shao, Jennifer K Ryan, Daewon Sun

Journal article  |  2020  |  Decision Sciences

Given the growth in socially conscious consumption, firms are increasingly concerned with sourcing from responsible suppliers. How..

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Sourcing Competition under Cost Uncertainty and Information Asymmetry

Lusheng Shao, Xiaole Wu, Fuqiang Zhang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Production and Operations Management

Driven by increasing costs in the traditionally regarded low‐cost manufacturing bases (e.g., China), many firms have started to ou..

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Ex post demand information sharing between differentiated suppliers and a common retailer

Hui Lei, Jingru Wang, Lusheng Shao, Honglin Yang

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Production Research

We consider ex post demand information sharing in a two-echelon supply chain in which two suppliers sell differentiated products t..

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Incorporating risk aversion and fairness considerations into procurement and distribution decisions in a supply chain

J Tao, L Shao, Z Guan, W Ho, S Talluri

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Production Research

This paper considers a three-tier supply chain in which a manufacturer uses raw materials sourced from multiple suppliers to produ..

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Sourcing Competition under Cost Uncertainty and Information Asymmetry

Lusheng Shao, Xiaole Wu, Fuqiang Zhang

Journal article  |  2019  |  Production and Operations Management

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The overconfident and optimistic price-setting newsvendor

Sam Kirshner, L Shao

Journal article  |  2019  |  European Journal of Operational Research

Overconfidence and optimism are behavioral biases known to impact newsvendor ordering decisions. We develop a model that accounts ..

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Incentive-Compatible in Dominant Strategies Mechanism Design for an Assembler under Asymmetric Information

Z Li, J Ryan, L Shao, D Sun

Journal article  |  2019  |  Production and Operations Management

Assembly systems, in which various components are sourced from multiple suppliers and assembled into the final product, which is s..

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Keyword Analysis

Business and Management
Expanding Knowledge
Management and Productivity
Applied Mathematics
Measurement Standards and Calibration Services
Applied Economics

News

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Supply chain challenges ahead for the COVID-19 vaccine

Lusheng Shao

September 14, 2020

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2018

Dean's Certificate for Research Excellence

Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
2016

Deans' Certificate for Research Excellence

Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
2014

Dean's Citation for Tutoring Award

The University of Sydney Business School
2014

Business School Research Excellence Award

The University of Sydney Business School
2013

Dean's Citation for Tutoring Award

The University of Sydney Business School

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Positions

Senior Lecturer In Management

Management And Marketing

Informs

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Msom

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM)

Pom

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)

Dsi

Decision Science Institute (DSI)

Education

Education

PhD in Business

University of Sydney

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