Staff Profile
Dr Yan Jiang
Lecturer in Supply Chain Management
- Email: yan.jiang2@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/business/people/profile/yanjiang2.html
Dr. Yan Jiang (BA, MSc, PhD, FHEA) is Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University, UK. She obtained her Ph.D. and MS.c at the University of Rome ‘‘Tor Vergata’’ in Italy. Before joining Newcastle, she worked at the Middlesex University (UK), Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Italy), and served as consultant at the United Nations IFAD institute.
Yan’s main research interest is sustainable supply chain management, looking at how companies manage supply chain-related issues to achieve environmental and social sustainability along supply chains. The key areas of interests include buyer-supplier relationship, corporate social responsibility, sustainable global sourcing, green innovation, and circular economy. She is also interested in digitalised supply chains and e-commerce innovation, such as digital platform, e-commerce ecosystem, and business model innovation. Her research has been published in leading international journals including British Journal of Management, International Journal of Production Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. She also serves as a reviewer for many journals in operations and supply chain management area, such as International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Business Research, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
Yan teaches both UG and PG modules in Operations and Supply Chain Management areas, including:
- BUS2029 Operations Strategy ad Management (UG)
- BUS2032 Service Operations Strategy and Management (UG)
- NBS8221 Operations Management (PG)
- NBS8222 International Logistics (PG)
She has developed teaching cases on sustainable global supply chain and e-commerce business model innovation. Yan also supervises MSc dissertations and co-supervises PhD students.
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Articles
- Yang X, Jiang Y, Chen X, Jia F. ICT-empowered rural e-commerce development in China: an adaptive structuration perspective. International Journal of Technology Management 2023. In Press.
- Yang Y, Jiang Y. Does suppliers’ slack influence the relationship between buyers’ environmental orientation and green innovation?. Journal of Business Research 2023, 157, 113569.
- Yang Y, Jiang Y. Buyer-supplier CSR alignment and firm performance: a contingency theory perspective. Journal of Business Research 2023, 154, 113340.
- Yang Y, Jiang Y, Jia F, Chen L. The Impact of Supplier Instability on Corporate Social Responsibility Performance over the Firm Lifecycle: A Social Systems Theory Perspective. British Journal of Management 2022, Epub ahead of print.
- Jiang Y, Qin X, Virtanen Y, You W. The impact of e-commerce on Chinese suppliers' upgrading in global value chains in a digitalized era. Strategic Change 2022, 31(1), 57-74.
- Virtanen Y, Jiang Y, You W, Cai H. International intermediaries: A systematic literature review and research agenda. European Management Journal 2022, epub ahead of print.
- Gong Y, Jiang Y, Jia F. Multiple multi-tier sustainable supply chain management: a social system theory perspective. International Journal of Production Research 2021, Epub ahead of print.
- Yang Y, Jiang Y, Chen X. Does buyers' financial slack promote or inhibit suppliers' circular economy performance?. Industrial Marketing Management 2021, 99, 111-122.
- You W, Jiang Y, Gong Y, Virtanen Y. Chinese manufacturing suppliers’ upgrading in global value chains. Academy of Management Proceedings 2020, 2020(1), 16650.
- Yang X, Chen X, Jiang Y, Jia F. Adoption of e-commerce by the agri-food sector in China: the case of Minyu e-commerce company. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 2020, 23(1), 157-171.
- Jiang Y, Jia F, Blome C, Chen L. Achieving sustainability in global sourcing: towards a conceptual framework. Supply Chain Management 2020, 25(1), 35-60.
- Jiang Y, Fu J, Blome C. The implications of global sourcing on the triple bottom line: A conceptual analysis. Academy of Management Proceedings 2018, 2018(1), 14641.
- Jia F, Jiang Y. Sustainable global sourcing: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis. Sustainability 2018, 10(3), 595.
- Jiang Y, Jia F, Gong Y. IKEA: global sourcing and the sustainable leather initiative. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 2018, 21(5), 627-639.