Faculty
Zhaohui Wu
Professor
Supply Chain Logistics Management

Zhaohui Wu

541-737-3514

wuz@bus.oregonstate.edu

Faculty
Zhaohui Wu
Overview
Overview
Background
Publications

Background

Education

Ph.D. Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University, 2003; MBA, Bowling Green State University, 1997;  BA, Xian Foreign Language Institute P.R. China, 1990.

Service

  • Associate Editor: Journal of Supply Chain Management (2015-present)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, 2017- Associate Editor., Decision Sciences Journal, 2017-
  • Associate Editor: Journal of Operations Management (2007- present)
  • Editorial Review Board: Journal of Supply Chain Management (2007- 2015), Decision Sciences Journal (2006-2008)
  • Track Chair, Production & Operations Management Society Annual Conference, (2011-2013)
  • Associate Program Chair, Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, (2012, 2014)
  • Coordinator, 2009, 2010 Operation Management Division Doctoral Consortium, Academy of Management
  • Advisory Boards: PACCESS (2006-2012), IfWizard (2012-present)

Publications

Book
Supply Chain

“Wind Power Energy Technology and Environmental Impact Assessment”

Power generation for the existing electrical grid is largely based on the combustion of fossil fuels. Global concerns have been raised regarding the environmental sustainability of the system due to life cycle impacts, including land losses from fuel extraction and impacts of combustion emissions. An approach to reduce carbon emissions of fossil fuel-based energy employs the conversion of wind energy to electrical energy. The work presented describes modern wind power plants and provides an environmental assessment of a representative wind park from a life cycle perspective. The empirical analysis uses commercially available data, as well as information from an existing wind power plant. The life cycle assessment (LCA) study for a modern wind farm in the northwestern U.S. found that environmental benefits of avoiding typical electricity production greatly outweigh the impacts due to wind turbine construction and maintenance. Effects of component reliability, varying capacity factors, and energy portfolio are explored.
Details

2011 in S. G. McNall, J. Hershauer, and G. Basile (eds.,) The Business of Sustainability: Trends, Policies, Practices and Stories of Success, I, II, III. New York: Praeger Press. Hannes Hapke Zhaohui Wu Karl Haapala Ted Brekken

Other
Supply Chain

“Country Natural Beef: A Coop at Crossroad”

a teaching case on sustainability and supply chain management, I used it in the MBA class and the case is well received. The case is now used in several universities in both business schools and agri-business colleges.
Details

2010 Portland Business Journal Case Cache Mellie Pullman Zhaohui Wu

Academic Journal
Supply Chain

“Supplier-Supplier Relationships in Buyer-Supplier-Supplier Triads: Implications for Supplier Performance”

A growing number of studies and evidence from industries suggest that, besides managing the relationship with its suppliers, a buyer needs to proactively manage the relationships between those suppliers. In a buyer–supplier–supplier relationship triad, the buyer, as the contracting entity, influences the suppliers’ behaviors and the relationship between them. By considering the relationships in such a triad, we are able to gain a richer and more realistic perspective of buyer–supplier relationships. In this study, our goal is to examine supplier–supplier relationships in buyer–supplier–supplier triads, focusing on how such relationships impact the supplier performance. We frame the supplier–supplier relationship as co-opetition—one in which competing suppliers work together to meet the buyer's requirements. We investigate the role of the buyer on such relationships, and how the buyer and co-opetitive supplier–supplier relationships affect supplier performance. We find mixed empirical support for our hypotheses. However, we are able to demonstrate the dynamics of supplier–supplier co-opetition in the buyer–supplier–supplier triad. We point out the need for further studies in this area.
Details

115-123 pages 2010 Zhaohui Wu T.Y. Choi M. Rungtusanatham View on: Google Scholar

Academic Journal
Supply Chain

“Thinking Differently About Purchasing Portfolios: An Assessment of Sustainable Sourcing”

Purchasing portfolios are a well accepted part of the supply chain literature. Yet during a recent data collection effort we observed that a number of leaders in sustainable supply chain management were not organizing their purchasing portfolios in the manner suggested by Kraljic (1983). Specifically, we found evidence of organizations buying what would traditionally be leveraged commodities in a manner more suited to strategic suppliers. This manuscript describes the observed phenomena and then uses theory to try and explain our observations. The end result is a modified sustainable purchasing portfolio model.
Details

57-73 pages 2010 Mark Pagell Zhaohui Wu M. Wasserman View on: Google Scholar

Academic Journal
Supply Chain

“Creating Integrated Business and Environmental Value within the Context of China's Circular Economy and Ecological Modernization”

This paper investigates the challenges and opportunities of how firms and organizations can and will be able to strike a better balance between economic growth and environmental stewardship in the context of China’s emerging ‘circular economy’ policy paradigm and based on ecological modernization theoretic approaches. Based on three company case studies in the information technology and electronic industries in China, we identify and demonstrate how a blended business and environmental value can be created from adopting a sustainable supply chain management approach. The adoption of a sustainable supply chain management approach is rapidly becoming a key business challenge and opportunity in China and other large emerging economies around the world, where our greatest environmental management challenges currently reside and will continue to exist for many years to come. The value creation framework proposed in research focuses on evaluating three case study companies who appear in various stages of an electronic industry supply chain. Value creation within a supply chain can provide the impetus for organizations to adopt circular economy, sustainable supply chain practices, for competitive reasons. In addition, we describe how a value proposition can be evaluated at two levels of analysis, a more specific micro-level and a more general meso-level of analysis. The four major business value dimensions include cost reduction, revenue generation, resiliency, and legitimacy and image. The initial findings are that a variety of opportunities exist for electronic firms in emerging and developing countries, while results from this study provide an important scholarly foundation to develop and refine sustainable supply chain management practices in emerging and developing economies.
Details

1494-1501 pages 2010 J Park J Sarkis Zhaohui Wu View on: Google Scholar