Chengyong Xiao
Chengyong Xiao is assistant professor of supply chain management at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He hold a bachelor’s degree in management science from the University of Science and Technology of China (2010), and a PhD degree in operations management from the University of Groningen (2019).
He is a researcher in the field of sustainable supply chain management, with a focus on the extension of sustainability standards along global supply chains, particularly on social and environmental sustainability of emerging-country suppliers. He has conducted qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies, and his research has appeared in premier academic outlets, such as the Journal of Operations Management, the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Ecological Economics, Supply Chain Management: an international journal, and the International Journal of Production Economics.
Furthermore, his research aims to develop an in-depth understanding of the challenges in extending sustainability standards along global supply chains, and, more importantly, to identify effective drivers and strategies that can improve suppliers’ social and environmental sustainability management capabilities.