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
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
Inventory Sharing with Service Quality Competition
Omni-Channel Retail in the Presence of Operational Frictions
Selling a Product Line Through a Retailer When Demand is Stochastic: Analysis of Price-Only Contracts
Signaling Through Price and Quality to Consumers with Fairness Concerns
- 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
Services
Track/Session Chairs: CSAMSE Annual Conference (2021), POMS (2019 Socially Responsible Operation Track), POMS (2020, 2021), POMS HK (2020)
Ad-hoc Reviewer: Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, IISE Transactions, International Journal of Production Economics, Omega, Annals of Operations Research, Maritime Policy and Management
Ad-hoc Reviewer: Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, IISE Transactions, International Journal of Production Economics, Omega, Annals of Operations Research, Maritime Policy and Management