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Dr

Lusheng Shao

Senior Lecturer In Management
technology
operations research & management science
science & technology
engineering, manufacturing
engineering
management
contracts
social sciences
business & economics
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Dr

Lusheng Shao

 
Division
Business And Economics
 
Primary Interest
Sustainable Operations (Responsible Sourcing
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Dr

Lusheng Shao

 

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 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. He is on the Editorial Review Board of Production and Operations Management, and also serves as a reviewer for other journals including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management , Decision Sciences, and European Journal of Operational Research.

Projects

Displaying the most recent project by Lusheng Shao.

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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

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 16 most recent scholarly works by Lusheng Shao.

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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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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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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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Sourcing Competition under Cost Uncertainty and Information Asymmetry

Lusheng Shao, Xiaole Wu, Fuqiang Zhang

Journal article  |  2019  |  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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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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Incorporating risk aversion and fairness considerations into procurement and distribution decisions in a supply chain

Jin Tao, Lusheng Shao, Zhimin Guan, William Ho, Srinivas Talluri

Journal article  |  2019  |  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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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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Mean-variance analysis of option contracts in a two-echelon supply chain

Wenyan Zhuo, Lusheng Shao, Honglin Yang

Journal article  |  2018  |  European Journal of Operational Research

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Internal and External Reference Effects in a Two-Tier Supply Chain

S Kirshner, L Shao

Journal article  |  2018  |  European Journal of Operational Research

We study a two-tier supply chain with a newsvendor retailer that has an internal reference effect related to its own profit as wel..

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Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Journal: Impact, Trends and Future Directions

A Calma, William Ho, Lusheng Shao

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018  |  Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

As Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) nears 20 years of publication history, it is an appropriate time to refle..

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Competition Under Diseconomies of Scale: The Role of Subcontracting and Single-sourcing Commitment

L SHAO

Journal article  |  2018  |  Decision Sciences

This article studies a supplier competition model in situations with flexible resources where suppliers face diseconomies of scale..

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Equilibrium evolution in a two-echelon supply chain with financially constrained retailers: The impact of equity financing

Honglin Yang, Wenyan Zhuo, Lusheng Shao

Journal article  |  2017  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS

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Supplier Competition with Option Contracts for Discrete Blocks of Capacity

E Anderson, B Chen, L SHAO

Journal article  |  2017  |  Operations Research

When a firm faces an uncertain demand, it is common to procure supply using some type of option in addition to spot purchases. A t..

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Time-based procurement

Zhaolin Li, Lusheng Shao

Journal article  |  2015  |  International Journal of Production Economics

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Designing Multi-Attribute Procurement Mechanisms for Assortment Planning

Zhaolin Li, Lusheng Shao, Daewon Sun

Journal article  |  2015  |  DECISION SCIENCES

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Supply Contract Design for Competing Heterogeneous Suppliers under Asymmetric Information

Zhaolin Li, Jennifer K Ryan, Lusheng Shao, Daewon Sun

Journal article  |  2015  |  Production and Operations Management

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Scholarly Works

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

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

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

PhD in Business

University of Sydney

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