Prof. Zhixi WAN
Innovation and Information Management

Professor
Director, Asia Case Research Centre
3917 1082
zhixiwan@hku.hk
KK 803


Academic & Professional Qualification
Ph.D. in Business Administration, with specialization of?Operations and Management Science
Biography
Zhixi Wan is professor in the area of Innovation and Information Management. His expertise includes supply chain management, value chain strategies, and marketplace economics and operations. His research on these topics?has been published in top-tier research journals including?Management Science,?Operations Research,?Manufacturing and Service Operations Management,?Strategic Management Journal, and?Production & Operations Management.
He received his Ph.D. in Operations and Management Science from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before?joining the University of Hong Kong, he was a tenured associate professor at the University of Oregon, and an assistant professor at HEC Paris and an assistant professor at the University of?Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was on an academic leave and worked in Didichuxing, a leading ride-hailing platform firm, as DiDi Economist and the head of the company’s research center of Innovation and Operations Management.
Professor Wan obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Tsinghua University, and studied in the area of Automation Engineering (1999-2003).
Teaching
Supply Chain and Logistics Management
Geospatial Data & Business Analytics
Research Interest
Supply and Value Chain Management
Platform Economics and Operations
Sourcing and Procurement Strategies in Supply Chains
Auctions and Mechanism Design
Behavioral Operations and Experimental Studies
Selected Publications
Tianqin?Shi, Dilip Chhajed, Zhixi Wan, and Yunchuan Liu. 2020. Distribution Channel?Choice and Divisional Conflict in Remanufacturing Operations,?Production?and Operations?Management,?29 (7), 1702-1719.
Hao Sun, Hai Wang, and Zhixi Wan.?2019.?Model and Analysis of Labor Supply for Ride-Sharing Platforms in the Presence of Sample Self-Selection and Endogeneity, Transportation Research Part B, 125, 76-93
Guangrui Ma, Michael Lim, Ho-Yin Mak, and Zhixi Wan.?2019. Promoting Clean Technology Adoption: To Subsidize Products or Service Infrastructure? Service Science, 11 (2), 75-95
Xing Hu, Zhixi Wan, and Nagesh Murthy.?2019.?Dynamic Pricing of Limited Inventories with Product Returns, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 21(3): 501-518.
Timophey Shalpegin, Svenja Sommer, and Zhixi Wan.?2017.?Collaborative Prototyping of Alternative Designs Under a Target Costing Scheme, Production & Operations Management, 27 (3), 496-515.
Shanshan Hu, Zhixi Wan, Qing Ye, and Wei Chi.?2017.?Supplier Behavior in Capacity Investment Competition: An Experimental Study, Production and Operations Management, 26 (2), 273-291.
Cuihong Li and Zhixi Wan.?2017. Supplier Competition and Cost Improvement, Management Science, 63 (8), 2460-2477.
Zhixi Wan and Brian Wu.?2017. When Suppliers Climb the Value Chain: A Theory of Value Distribution in Vertical Relationships, Management Science, 63 (2), 477-496.
Distinguished Paper Award 2015, Business Policy and Strategy?division of the Academy of? Management?
Strategic Management Society 2015 Best Conference Paper Prize Honorable Mention
Zhixi Wan and Damian Beil.?2014.?Bid-taker Power and Supply Base Diversification, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 16 (2), 300-314.
M&SOM 2008 Student Paper Competition Finalist
Brian Wu, Zhixi Wan, and Daniel Levinthal. 2014.?Complementary Assets As Pipes and Prisms: Innovation Incentives and Trajectory Choices, Strategic Management Journal, 35 (9), 1257-1278 (lead article).
Zhixi Wan, Damian Beil, and Elena Katok.?2012.?When Does It Pay to Delay Qualification Screening? Theory and Experiments, Management Science, 58 (11), 2057-2075.
Zhixi Wan and Damian Beil.?2009.?RFQ Auctions with Supplier Qualification Screening, Operations Research, 57 (4), 934-949.
Awards and Honours
Second Prize of the 2018 CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award
Distinguished Paper Award 2015, Business Policy and Strategy division of the Academy of Management
Strategic Management Society 2015 Best Conference Paper Prize Honorable Mention
CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Honorable Mention (2012)
M&SOM Student Paper Competition Finalist (2008)