Research

Research Interests

My research interests include operations and marketing/finance interface, supply chain management, behavioral operations, and the game theory application.

Journal Publications

Geng X, Chen Z, Guo X, Xiao G (2022) Duopoly Price Competition with Quality Improvement Spillover. Naval Research Logistics (accepted).
Guo X, Kouvelis P, Turcic D (2021) Price, Quality, and Stocking Decisions in a Manufacturer-Centric Dual-Channel. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (forthcoming).
Geng X, Guo X, Xiao G (2021) Impact of Social Interactions on Duopoly Competition with Quality Considerations. Management Science (online).
Dong L, Guo X, Turcic D (2019) Selling a Product Line Through a Retailer When Demand is Stochastic: Analysis of Price-Only Contracts. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Vol 21, No. 4, pp. 742-760.
Guo X, Jiang B (2016) Signaling Through Price and Quality to Consumers with Fairness Concerns. Journal of Marketing Research. Vol 53, No. 6, pp. 988-1000.
Chen X, Zhang W, Guo X, Liu Z, Wang S (2021) An Improved Learning-and-Optimization Train Fare Design Method for Addressing Computing Congestion at CBD Stations. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 153.

Working Papers

To Centralize or Decentralize: Merger Under Price and Quality Competition (with Yunjuan Kuang and Chi To Ng), under revision.
Inventory Sharing Under Service Quality Competition (with Baojun Jiang), under revision.
Horizontal Outsourcing and Price Competition: The Role of Sole Sourcing Commitment (with Hu Q., Kouvelis P., and Xiao G), under revision.
Contract Choice with Demand Information Asymmetry: Implication of Price Signaling and Contract Timing (with Xu Guan and Ying-ju Chen), under revision.
Impacts of Recycling Label Schemes on Firms' Recycling and Pricing Decisions (with Ding Zou), under review.
Effect of Consumer Awareness on Corporate Social Responsibility Under Asymmetric Information (with Guang Xiao and Fuqiang Zhang), to be submitted.
Supply Risk Mitigation in a Decentralized Supply Chain: Price Postponement or Payment Postponement? (with Xin Geng, Guang Xiao, and Nan Yang), under reject and resubmission.
To Keep Price Consistency or Not: Multi-Channel Retailing with Consumers' Fairness Concern (with Yumeng Li, Guang Xiao, and Wenxin Xu), to be submitted.
Crowdfunding vs. Bank Financing: Effects of Market Uncertainty and Word-of-Mouth Communication (with Fasheng Xu, Guang Xiao, and Fuqiang Zhang), to be submitted.
Crowdfunding Strategy in the Presence of Social Interactions (with Fasheng Xu, Guang Xiao, and Fuqiang Zhang), to be submitted.
Managing a Multi-Component Assembly System with Corporate Social Responsibility Consideration (with Yunjuan Kuang, Guang Xiao, and Fuqiang Zhang), to be submitted.

External Research Grants

Research Grants Council - General Research Fund (GRF), 2022-2024
Project Title: Strategic Product-fit Revelation in the Presence of Network Effect.
Principle Investigator: Xiaomeng Guo
Total Grant: HK$629,993

Research Grants Council - General Research Fund (GRF), 2021-2023
Project Title: Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on Product Line Design.
Principle Investigator: Xiaomeng Guo
Total Grant: HK$612,000

Research Grants Council - General Research Fund (GRF), 2019-2021
Project Title: Reward-Based Crowdfunding in the Presence of Potential Competitor's Imitation.
Principle Investigator: Xiaomeng Guo
Total Grant: HK$442,453

Research Grants Council - Early Career Scheme (ECS), 20118-2020
Project Title: To Keep Consistency across Channels or Not: Analysis of Omni-channel Retailing in a Supply Chain.
Principle Investigator: Xiaomeng Guo
Total Grant: HK$328,000

Selected Presentations

Effect of Consumer Awareness on Corporate Social Responsibility Under Asymmetric Information

Invited Talk at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2019
Invited Talk at Nanjing University, China, 2019
CSASME Annual Conference, 2019
MSOM Annual Conference, 2019
INFORMS International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2018
POMS-HK Annual Conference, Hong Kong, 2018
Invited Talk at Fudan University, China, 2017
Invited Talk at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2017
Invited Talk at University of Miami, Miami, FL, 2017
INFORMS Annual Conference Meeting, Houston, TX, 2017

Inventory Sharing with Service Quality Competition

POMS-HK Annual Conference, Hong Kong, 2020
Invited Talk at Fudan University, 2019
POMS Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 2017

Omni-Channel Retail in the Presence of Operational Frictions

INFORMS Annual Conference, Houston, TX, 2017
INFORMS Annual Conference, 2016

MSOM Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2015
OM Workshop, Antai Business School, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, 2015
Invited Talk at Nanjing University, China, 2015

Selling a Product Line Through a Retailer When Demand is Stochastic: Analysis of Price-Only Contracts

Invited Talk at Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Boston, MA, 2016
Invited Talk at University of Texas at El Paso, US, 2016
Invited Talk at School of Business, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2015
INFORMS Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2015 (Scheduled, TA48)
INFORMS Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2014
MSOM Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, 2014

Signaling Through Price and Quality to Consumers with Fairness Concerns

POMS Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2014
Invited Talk at University of Science and Technology of China, China, 2013

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