Rate My Professor Wenli Xiao

Wenli Xiao is an Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Knauss School of Business at the University of San Diego, where she has served since 2012. She earned her PhD in Operations Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012, an MSc in Management Science from Fudan University in 2007, and a BS in Management Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004. Her research interests encompass knowledge management, management of technology, new product development, supply chain management, sustainable operations, and supply chain networks. Xiao's scholarly contributions appear in premier journals including Production and Operations Management and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Key publications include “The Effect of Learning and Integration Investment on Manufacturing Outsourcing Decisions: A Game Theoretic Approach” (Production and Operations Management, 2013, with C. Gaimon), “Investment in Environmental Process Improvement” (Production and Operations Management, 2019, with C. Gaimon, R. Subramanian, and M. Biehl), “Choice of E-waste Recycling Standard under Recovery Channel Competition” (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2019, with G. Esenduran, Y.T. Lin, and M. Jin), and “Customer Degree Centrality and Supplier Performance: The Moderating Role of Supplier Centrality” (Operations Management Research, 2020, with D.Y. Kim, Y.T. Lin, and P. Zhu).