Rate My Professor Jing Dai

Professor Jing Dai serves as Chair Professor of Sustainable Operations and Technology Management in the Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management Systems at Nottingham University Business School China, part of The University of Nottingham. She earned her PhD in Supply Chain Management from Iowa State University, USA, as the program's first graduate, and received the Excellence Research Award there. Her career trajectory includes positions as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in Operations Management before ascending to her current chair professorship. In addition to her academic roles, Professor Dai directs the Regional Centre of Expertise Ningbo for Education on Sustainable Development (RCE Ningbo), acknowledged by the United Nations University; leads the Centre of Responsible Business and Innovation (CRBI); and co-directs the MIT SCALE Nottingham Ningbo Masters in Supply Chain Management program. She also spearheads the development and leadership of the provincial first-class course “Introduction to Management Science for Business Decisions.”

Professor Dai's research specializes in sustainable operations and supply chain management, environmental management and eco-innovation, digital technology applications in supply chain digitalization, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategies. She has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals, including Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Business Research, and Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. Key publications encompass “The impact of digital technologies on economic and environmental performance in the context of industry 4.0: A moderated mediation model” (International Journal of Production Economics, 2020) and “The competitive determinants of a firm's environmental management activities: Evidence from US manufacturing industries” (Journal of Operations Management, 2012), which won the 2012 Best Paper Award. As principal investigator, she has secured two grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China focused on green supply chain management strategies and environmental technology innovation for supply chains. Professor Dai influences the discipline through editorial roles as Associate Editor for Journal of Supply Chain Management and International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Editorial Advisory Board member for International Journal of Production Economics, and Editorial Review Board member for Journal of Operations Management.