Zhixi Wan
Prof. Zhixi WAN
創新及資訊管理學
Area Head of Innovation and Information Management
Professor

3917 1082

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 ScienceOperations ResearchManufacturing and Service Operations ManagementStrategic 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
  • MBA (International) Programme Teaching Award 2021-22, HKU Business School & School of Management of Fudan University
  • 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)
Recent Publications
發展電商促進市場競爭 新零售可否打破壟斷?

2020年疫情以來,港人的消費習慣受到衝擊,不得不發生轉變。居家隔離迫使人們線上購物,病毒傳播迫使人們減少現金的使用,包括現在政府發行消費券,都使得舊有的路徑依賴強行變換軌道。而隨着線下商店線上化、物流配送更加完善等基礎設施建設,是否說明香港未來的電子商貿將走上暢通無阻的康莊大道?

Distribution Channel Choice and Divisional Conflict in Remanufacturing Operations

We consider a firm consisting of two divisions, one responsible for designing and manufacturing new products and the other responsible for remanufacturing operations. The firm will sell these new and remanufactured products either directly to the consumer (direct selling) or through an independent retailer (indirect selling). Our study demonstrates that a firm’s organizational structure can affect its marketing decisions. Specifically, a decentralized firm with separate manufacturing and remanufacturing divisions can benefit from indirect selling with higher firm profit, supply chain profit, and total consumer demand than direct selling. Moreover, this structure also induces a remanufacturable product design. In contrast, a centralized firm in which the manufacturing and remanufacturing divisions are consolidated is intuitively better off by choosing direct selling than indirect selling. Furthermore, we show that, surprisingly, when the focal firm sells through an independent retailer, a decentralized internal structure can result in higher supply chain profit than a centralized internal structure. We further investigate the case of dual dedicated channels and conclude that, while direct selling of remanufactured products and indirect selling of new products can better induce a remanufacturable product design and higher supply chain profit, it is not in the best interest of the firm in terms of total sales and firm profit.