Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management
IonE Fellow of the University of Minnesota
Inaugural Kjell R. Knudsen Faculty Fellow for Innovation

Labovitz School of Business and Economics
University of Minnesota Duluth
1318 Kirby Drive, Duluth MN 55812

Education

PhD, Management Science/Operations Management
2012

Faculty of Management
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H3A 2T5

MS, Management Science and Engineering
2006

Business School
Nankai University
Tianjin, China
300071

BS, Information Management and Information System
2003

School of Computer and Information
Nanchang University
Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
330031

Research

Research Interests

1. Supply Chain Issues
2. DEI in Operations and Supply Chain Management
3. Prescriptive Analytics and Algorithm Design
4. Machine Learning
5. Game Theoretical Models
6. Simulation
7. Revenue Management
8. Service Operations
9. Operations and Finance/Marketing Interface

ResearchGate Page

• Wenqing Zhang

Google Scholar Page

• Wenqing Zhang

Publications

1. Yang, J., Zhang, W., & Zhao, X. (2023). How can suppliers strategically involve downstream manufacturers in research and development collaboration? A knowledge spillover perspective. European Journal of Operational Research, In Press
2. Gu, W., Luo, J., Yu, X., Zhang, W., & Li, B. (2023). Dynamic decisions between sellers and consumers in online second-hand trading platforms: Evidence from C2C transactions. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 177, 103257
3. Cai, J., Sun, H., Hu, X., & Zhang, W. (2023). How reverse information sharing supports pricing and sales effort decisions: Signaling game-based incentive mechanism design. Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 177, 108992
4. Rajaguru, R., Matanda, M. J., & Zhang, W. (2022).Supply chain finance in enhancing supply-oriented and demand-oriented performance capabilities–moderating role of perceived partner opportunism. Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 37 No. 11, pp. 2396-2413
5. Zhang, X., Hou, W., & Zhang, W. (2020). Simultaneous or sequential? Multihoming launch strategies for mobile applications with consideration of promotion and switching costs. International Journal of Production Research, 1-22.
6. Alemu, A., & Zhang, W. (2019). Is Sino-Africa Bilateral Trade More than Resource Focused? The Rhetoric and the Reality.. African and Asian Studies, 18 (4), 362-394. 
7. Gu, W., Wei, L., Zhang, W., & Yan, X. (2019). Evolutionary game analysis of cooperation between natural resource- and energy-intensive companies in reverse logistics operations. International Journal of Production Economics, 218, 159-169. 
8. Zhang, W., Padmanabhan, P., Huang, C.-H. (2018). Firm level offshoring activities, pollution regulation, triple bottom line, and market structure: What do they have in common? Journal of Cleaner Production. 195, 618–624.
9. Zeng, J., Zhang, W., Matsui, Y., & Zhao, X. (2017). The Impact of Organizational Context on Hard and Soft Quality Management and Innovation Performance, International Journal of Production Economics 185, 240-251
10. Qiu C, Zhang, W. (2016). Managing long queues for holiday sales shopping, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management. 15(1), 52–65
11. Zhang, W., Padmanabhan, P., Huang, C. (2015). Sequential capital investment decision making under extreme cash flow situations: evidence using Monte Carlo simulation. Journal of Business Economics and Management, 16(5), 877–900.
12. Zhang, W., Li, S., Zhang, D., & Hou, W. (2014). On the impact of advertising initiatives in supply chains. European Journal of Operational Research, 234(1), 99-107.
13. Tamburrini, G. and W. Zhang (2014). Entrepreneurship in Time of Crisis: The Outsourcing of Services Through Franchise Arrangements in the Italian Food Service Industry. Journal of Foodservice Business Research, 17 (1), 28-47.
14. Huang, C., Padmanabhan, P., & Zhang, W. (2013). Mitigating the Impact of Managerial Anchoring: The Case for Management by Committee for Major Corporate Financial Decisions. Multinational Finance Journal, 17 (1/2), 1-29.
15. Awan, M. A., Zhang, W. (2013). Export Marketing Performance (EMP) of Pakistan SMEs impacted by the Internet. GSTF Business Review, 2(3), 174.
16. Tamburrini, G. & Zhang, W. (2012). Startup Strategies: the (International) Franchisor in the Italian Food Service Industry. Tourism Research, 37 (5), 61-92. (Korean SSCI Journal)
17. Awan, M. A., Khan, H. U., Zhang, W. (2012). A Comparative Study on Online Service Quality Perception of Two Major Regional Economies. International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning, 2(6), 529-533.
18. Li, S., D. Zhang, W. Zhang. (2010). A Study of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities of 12 Giant Food Companies (1980 – 2008) in Promoting Healthy Food. Obesity Prevention: The Role of Brain and Society on Individual Behavior. 2010, Elsevier Inc.

Selected Working Papers

Full text available upon request.

1. A Monte Carlo Simulation Approach to Measuring the Impact of Decision Maker Behaviors on Supply Chain Resilience

Teaching

• Optimization and Decision Making
• Decision Making in Operations
• Production and Operations Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Business Intelligence and Analytics
• Principles of Management Science
• Business Decision Analysis
• Advanced Decision Modeling
• Mathematics for Business and Economics
• Problem Analysis and Decision Modeling
• Statistics for Business
• Applied Research
• Doing Business in China

Selected Service

• 2023 - , Board of Directors, Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance
• 2022 - , Board of Directors, Goodwill Industries Vocational Enterprises, INC.
• 2022 - , Faculty Advisor, Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society - UMD Chapter
• 2022 - 2025, Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Committee, UMD Faculty Governance
• 2022 - 2025, Study Abroad Faculty Advisory Committee, International Programs and Services, UMD
• 2022 - 2024, Board of College of Service Operations, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
• 2018 - , Chair, LSBE Intellectual Contributions and Faculty Development Committee, UMD

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