Loading [MathJax]/extensions/MathMenu.js
Tsan-Ming Choi - IEEE Xplore Author Profile
Subscribe
ADVANCED SEARCH

Author details

< Back

Tsan-Ming Choi

Publications
91
Citations
2,838
Publications by Year
20072025
Co-Authors:
Show All Co-Authors (121)
Image of author Tsan-Ming Choi

Tsan-Ming Choi

Affiliation

School of Management
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, U.K.

Publication Topics

Biography

Professor Tsan-Ming Choi is currently Chair of Operations and Supply Chain Management and Director of the Centre for Supply Chain Research, University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS), Liverpool, U.K. Before joining ULMS, he taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), and National Taiwan University (NTU), altogether for over two decades. Prof. Choi is honored as the Distinguished Alumnus of The Chinese University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Engineering, the President's Award Winning Professor at PolyU, and the Yushan Fellow Professor at NTU. He has been listed as a highly cited researcher since 2022 by Clarivate. He is the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, a ...
Publications
91
Citations
2,838
Publications by Year
20072025
Co-Authors:
Show All Co-Authors (121)
Author's Published Works

Showing 1-25 of 91 results

  • Sort

Filter Results

Show

Sort By

Results

FinTech for Supply Chain Operations: Platform Credit Financing

Sambit Brata Rath;Preetam Basu;Tsan-Ming Choi;Prasenjit Mandal

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (1)
Traditionally, in supply chain management, manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard and Procter&Gamble fund their downstream retailers through trade credit financing (TCF). Recently, with the advance of FinTech, platforms have also implemented innovative financing schemes called platform credit financing (PCF). Both TCF and PCF are risky, which expose the lender to operational risks. Motivated by the...Show More

FinTech for Supply Chain Operations: Platform Credit Financing

Sambit Brata Rath;Preetam Basu;Tsan-Ming Choi;Prasenjit Mandal

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Sustainable Operations for Fashion Manufacturing: A Dynamic Time-Varying Framework

Seyyed-Mahdi Hosseini-Motlagh;Maryam Johari;Roza Zirakpourdehkordi;Tsan-Ming Choi

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (3)
The highly pollution-intensive fashion industry requires manufacturers to do substantial sustainable practices over time. Concurrently, customers’ environmental awareness challenges manufacturers to balance sustainability efforts with profitability and meet customers’ evolving inclinations. Prior literature has primarily considered customers’ preferences for ecofriendly fashion without examining t...Show More

Sustainable Operations for Fashion Manufacturing: A Dynamic Time-Varying Framework

Seyyed-Mahdi Hosseini-Motlagh;Maryam Johari;Roza Zirakpourdehkordi;Tsan-Ming Choi

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Optimal Pricing and Quality Decisions Under Cooperative Promotion of Cross-Market Service Platforms

Ke Yan;Guowei Hua;T.C.E. Cheng;Tsan-Ming Choi;Jing-Xin Dong;Xinzhu Li

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (4)
In order to enhance the competitiveness of firms and seek more opportunities, it is increasingly popular for service platforms in different markets to promote their products jointly. To acquire a competitive edge and enhance sustainability of supply chains, it is crucial for such cross-market service platforms to take into account the cost incurred in promotion in addition to the price and quality...Show More

Optimal Pricing and Quality Decisions Under Cooperative Promotion of Cross-Market Service Platforms

Ke Yan;Guowei Hua;T.C.E. Cheng;Tsan-Ming Choi;Jing-Xin Dong;Xinzhu Li

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Risk-Averse Ride-Hailing Platform Operations With Safety Risk-Averse Consumers Under Pandemics: Roles of Blockchain Technology and Government Sponsors

Tsan-Ming Choi;Jiuh-Biing Sheu

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (5)
Today, ride-hailing platform operations are popular. Facing pandemics (e.g., COVID-19) some customers feel unsafe for the ride-hailing service and possess a “safety risk-averse” (SRA) attitude. The proportion of this type of SRA customers is unfortunately unknown, which makes it difficult for the ride-hailing platform to decide its optimal service price. In this article, understanding that blockch...Show More

Risk-Averse Ride-Hailing Platform Operations With Safety Risk-Averse Consumers Under Pandemics: Roles of Blockchain Technology and Government Sponsors

Tsan-Ming Choi;Jiuh-Biing Sheu

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Price and Quality Strategy in Live Streaming E-Commerce With Consumers’ Social Interaction and Celebrity Sales Agents

Guojun Ji;Tianyu Fu;Tsan-Ming Choi;Ajay Kumar;Kim Hua Tan

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (13)
In the era of digital commerce, live streaming has tremendously changed the way retailers and marketers communicate with online customers. Consumers are increasingly keen on live streaming shopping. This study develops a game-theoretical model to analyze the optimal price and quality decisions of merchants in live streaming commerce. Specifically, it considers consumers’ social interaction effects...Show More

Price and Quality Strategy in Live Streaming E-Commerce With Consumers’ Social Interaction and Celebrity Sales Agents

Guojun Ji;Tianyu Fu;Tsan-Ming Choi;Ajay Kumar;Kim Hua Tan

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Big Data Analytics for Crisis Management From an Information Processing Theory Perspective: A Multimethodological Study

Pankaj Sharma;Sunil Tiwari;Tsan-Ming Choi;Arshia Kaul

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (2)
COVID-19 pandemic has created disruptions and risks in global supply chains. Big data analytics (BDA) has emerged in recent years as a potential solution for provisioning predictive and pre-emptive information to companies in order to preplan and mitigate the impacts of such risks. The focus of this article is to gain insights into how BDA can help companies combat a crisis like COVID-19 via a mul...Show More

Big Data Analytics for Crisis Management From an Information Processing Theory Perspective: A Multimethodological Study

Pankaj Sharma;Sunil Tiwari;Tsan-Ming Choi;Arshia Kaul

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Platform Operations With Consumer Returns Windows: Reselling Mode Versus Marketplace Mode

Xiaoping Xu;Luling Yan;Tsan-Ming Choi

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (9)
In platform operations, consumer returns are common. In this article, considering the consumer returns window (CRW), we analytically study the manufacturer's operational decisions using the marketplace mode and reselling mode. We explore both the exogenous and endogenous CRW scenarios. We uncover several findings: First, with an exogenous CRW, the optimal production quantities using the marketplac...Show More

Platform Operations With Consumer Returns Windows: Reselling Mode Versus Marketplace Mode

Xiaoping Xu;Luling Yan;Tsan-Ming Choi

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Government Subsidies and Policies for Mask Production Under COVID-19: Is It Wise to Control Less?

Xiaoyan Xu;Tsan-Ming Choi;Sai-Ho Chung;Bin Shen

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (6)
Under the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide have subsidized manufacturers or consumers on the production or purchase of masks. However, the impacts of these subsidies on the mask supply chain (MSC) operations are unclear. Motivated by our interview with a mask manufacturer as well as the observed real-world practices, we establish consumer utility-based stylized models to analytically exami...Show More

Government Subsidies and Policies for Mask Production Under COVID-19: Is It Wise to Control Less?

Xiaoyan Xu;Tsan-Ming Choi;Sai-Ho Chung;Bin Shen

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Optimal Establishments of Massive Testing Programs to Combat COVID-19: A Perspective of Parallel-Machine Scheduling-Location (ScheLoc) Problem

Yantong Li;Xin Wen;Tsan-Ming Choi;Sai-Ho Chung

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (4)
Massive testing to identify COVID-19-infected people is crucial in combating COVID-19. However, from the perspective of facility location problems, many current massive testing programs are not properly set, leading to unreasonable travelling distances, long makespan, unbalanced workload, and long queues. This article proposes a decision framework for developing massive testing programs. Specifica...Show More

Optimal Establishments of Massive Testing Programs to Combat COVID-19: A Perspective of Parallel-Machine Scheduling-Location (ScheLoc) Problem

Yantong Li;Xin Wen;Tsan-Ming Choi;Sai-Ho Chung

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Who Should Provide the Demand-Enhancing Service? Retailer Strategies on Service Provision in Competitive Channels

Junjin Wang;Jiaguo Liu;Tsan-Ming Choi;Xiaohang Yue

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (8)
As observed in real-world practices, retailers commonly provide the demand-enhancing service to increase product value, but this service can also be outsourced to the upstream manufacturer. The party offering the service faces a tradeoff between the incurred cost of service and the additional revenue generated. Through a service provision strategy matrix based on the question of who is better off ...Show More

Who Should Provide the Demand-Enhancing Service? Retailer Strategies on Service Provision in Competitive Channels

Junjin Wang;Jiaguo Liu;Tsan-Ming Choi;Xiaohang Yue

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Determinants of Business Resilience in the Restaurant Industry During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Textual Analytics Study on an O2O Platform Case

Wei Liu;Tsan-Ming Choi;Xueqi Niu;Min Zhang;Weiguo Fan

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (7)
Understanding the resilience capabilities of restaurant operations and the determinants affecting these capabilities is critical to helping restaurants overcome the hardships owing to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This article adopts a textual analytics approach to scientifically measure consumption trends and identify the shock to restaurant sales using online customer review data ...Show More

Determinants of Business Resilience in the Restaurant Industry During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Textual Analytics Study on an O2O Platform Case

Wei Liu;Tsan-Ming Choi;Xueqi Niu;Min Zhang;Weiguo Fan

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Roles of Mobilized Controls and Environmental Uncertainty on Supply Chain Resilience: An Empirical Study From Dynamic-Capabilities-View and Levers-of-Control Perspectives

Issam Laguir;Tsan-Ming Choi;Rebecca Stekelorum;Shivam Gupta;Ajay Kumar

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (5)
COVID-19 creates big challanges to supply chain management. This article empirically examines the impact of management control systems (MCS) on managing supply chain resilience (SCR) to enhance organizational competitiveness under environmental uncertainty. Drawing on the dynamic capabilities view (DCV) theory and levers of control (LoC) framework, an industrial survey was conducted. Analyses perf...Show More

Roles of Mobilized Controls and Environmental Uncertainty on Supply Chain Resilience: An Empirical Study From Dynamic-Capabilities-View and Levers-of-Control Perspectives

Issam Laguir;Tsan-Ming Choi;Rebecca Stekelorum;Shivam Gupta;Ajay Kumar

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

What Does Cross-Industry-Production Bring Under COVID-19? A Multi-Methodological Study

Xiaowei Li;Guowei Hua;T. C. Edwin Cheng;Tsan-Ming Choi

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (5)
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to shutdowns of myriad factories, resulting in extreme scarce production capacity and disruptions of supply chains. Many manufacturing firms around the world struggle to ramp up their production capacity to mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic. We adopt a multimethodological approach to examine the impacts of cross-industry production (CIP) on supply chains an...Show More

What Does Cross-Industry-Production Bring Under COVID-19? A Multi-Methodological Study

Xiaowei Li;Guowei Hua;T. C. Edwin Cheng;Tsan-Ming Choi

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Platform Operations in the Industry 4.0 Era: Recent Advances and the 3As Framework

Tana Siqin;Tsan-Ming Choi;Sai-Ho Chung;Xin Wen

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (40)
In the Industry 4.0 era, implementing advanced technologies to enhance platform operations is crucial. Motivated by the importance of platforms and the wide implementation of Industry 4.0-related advanced technologies, we conduct this study on platform operations. Specifically, the platforms discussed herein are classified into (pure) product selling platforms and service platforms. We identify th...Show More

Platform Operations in the Industry 4.0 Era: Recent Advances and the 3As Framework

Tana Siqin;Tsan-Ming Choi;Sai-Ho Chung;Xin Wen

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Optimal Pricing and Quality Decisions in Supply Chains With Consumers’ Anticipated Regret and Online Celebrity Retailers

Shuai Liu;Guowei Hua;T. C. Edwin Cheng;Tsan-Ming Choi

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (33)
Shopping on a live-streaming e-commerce platform has become a popular way of consumption. In this article, we build models to study the decision-making of online celebrity retailers (OCRs), taking into consideration consumers’ anticipated regret behaviors. We explore the OCRs optimal pricing and quality decisions under the basic models and further examine the OCRs sales efforts in the extended mod...Show More

Optimal Pricing and Quality Decisions in Supply Chains With Consumers’ Anticipated Regret and Online Celebrity Retailers

Shuai Liu;Guowei Hua;T. C. Edwin Cheng;Tsan-Ming Choi

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

On-Demand Ride-Hailing Service Platforms With Hired Drivers During Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak: Can Blockchain Help?

Tsan-Ming Choi;Xiutian Shi

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (35)
During the recent COVID-19 (CoV) global outbreak, there is a sharp decline of revenue of on-demand ride-hailing (ODR) platforms because people have serious worries of infection in the shared vehicles. Blockchain, which supports cryptocurrency and creates full traceability of the service history of each car and driver, may come to rescue by allowing the platform to offer only the “safe cars” to con...Show More

On-Demand Ride-Hailing Service Platforms With Hired Drivers During Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak: Can Blockchain Help?

Tsan-Ming Choi;Xiutian Shi

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Cooperative Donation Programs in Supply Chains With Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Mahsa Pahlevani;Tsan-Ming Choi;Jafar Heydari;Xiaoyan Xu

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (6)
Today, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is known as a critical element of supply chain (SC) operations. In this article, we analytically study an SC coordination problem with social efforts for charity. The proposed SC includes one retailer and one manufacturer in which the manufacturer gives donations to a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in two forms, namely a lump sum amount plus a per-s...Show More

Cooperative Donation Programs in Supply Chains With Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Mahsa Pahlevani;Tsan-Ming Choi;Jafar Heydari;Xiaoyan Xu

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Using Blockchain to Improve Buffer-Stock-Sharing and Combat Cheating Behaviors Under Virtual Pooling

Tsan-Ming Choi;Sai-Ho Chung;Xuting Sun;Xin Wen

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (8)
Blockchain is a disruptive technology, which is crucial for business operations. In this article, we analytically explore how two manufacturers can achieve efficient buffer stock sharing using the blockchain technology (BCT). We first build an analytical basic model with a deterministic lead time for material replenishment and quantify the benefit of adopting a buffer stock sharing scheme. In the ...Show More

Using Blockchain to Improve Buffer-Stock-Sharing and Combat Cheating Behaviors Under Virtual Pooling

Tsan-Ming Choi;Sai-Ho Chung;Xuting Sun;Xin Wen

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Collection Responsibility Choice for Competing E-Tailing Supply Chains With Consumer Returns

Tiaojun Xiao;Tsan-Ming Choi;T. C. E. Cheng

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (14)
For implementing consumer returns policy in e-tailing, to whom consumers should return their purchases is a crucial operations decision. We develop game models of competing e-tailing supply chains to study how price competition, channel structure of competitor, and consumer returns policy affect collection responsibility scenario. There are two collection responsibility scenarios: manufacturer col...Show More

Collection Responsibility Choice for Competing E-Tailing Supply Chains With Consumer Returns

Tiaojun Xiao;Tsan-Ming Choi;T. C. E. Cheng

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

International Sustainable Supply Chain Management Under Bilateral Governments’ Policy Intervention and Power Asymmetry

Jiuh-Biing Sheu;Tanmoy Kundu;Tsan-Ming Choi

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (4)
This article aims to address the issue of international sustainable supply chain management under bilateral governments’ policy intervention. The dynamic and stochastic features of bilateral governments’ policy, focusing on collaboration and power asymmetry, are analytically considered. Specifically, various cross-governmental interaction factors, such as green investment efforts, interaction exte...Show More

International Sustainable Supply Chain Management Under Bilateral Governments’ Policy Intervention and Power Asymmetry

Jiuh-Biing Sheu;Tanmoy Kundu;Tsan-Ming Choi

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Roles of Innovation Leadership on Using Big Data Analytics to Establish Resilient Healthcare Supply Chains to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multimethodological Study

Surajit Bag;Shivam Gupta;Tsan-Ming Choi;Ajay Kumar

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (73)
This article empirically examines the effect of big data analytics (BDA) on healthcare supply chain (HSC) innovation, supply chain responsiveness, and supply chain resilience under the moderating effect of innovation leadership in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The scanning interpretation–action–performance model and organization information processing theory are used to explain BDA, HSC in...Show More

Roles of Innovation Leadership on Using Big Data Analytics to Establish Resilient Healthcare Supply Chains to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multimethodological Study

Surajit Bag;Shivam Gupta;Tsan-Ming Choi;Ajay Kumar

Year: 2024 | Volume: 71 | Journal Article |

Using Internet of Things (IoT) in Agri-Food Supply Chains: A Research Framework for Social Good With Network Clustering Analysis

Sanjeev Yadav;Tsan-Ming Choi;Sunil Luthra;Anil Kumar;Dixit Garg

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2023 | Volume: 70, Issue: 3 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (17)
Agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) are critical in our society. Proper management of AFSCs is crucial for improving social welfare. Over the past years, digitization in AFSCs has emerged as a new paradigm. In this context, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing approach, providing a huge amount of information to manage AFSCs. Thus, the purpose of this article is to examine extensive studies on IoT...Show More

Using Internet of Things (IoT) in Agri-Food Supply Chains: A Research Framework for Social Good With Network Clustering Analysis

Sanjeev Yadav;Tsan-Ming Choi;Sunil Luthra;Anil Kumar;Dixit Garg

Year: 2023 | Volume: 70, Issue: 3 | Journal Article |

Proactive Hoarding, Precautionary Buying, and Postdisaster Retail Market Recovery

Jiuh-Biing Sheu;Tsan-Ming Choi

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2023 | Volume: 70, Issue: 12 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (2)
Disasters affect consumers and retailers selling necessities in the market both physically and psychologically. Motivated by various real world scenarios of meteorological disasters such as tropical cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons caused by global warming, we explore in this article the retail market recovery challenge via studying disaster-induced retailers’ proactive hoarding and consumers’ p...Show More

Proactive Hoarding, Precautionary Buying, and Postdisaster Retail Market Recovery

Jiuh-Biing Sheu;Tsan-Ming Choi

Year: 2023 | Volume: 70, Issue: 12 | Journal Article |

Consumer-to-Consumer Product Trading With Strategic Consumer Behaviors in the Sharing Economy

Juzhi Zhang;Tsan-Ming Choi;Ya-Jun Cai

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2023 | Volume: 70, Issue: 5 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (15)
Technological advancements have led to an increase in the popularity of consumer-to-consumer product trading (C2C-PT). How C2C-PT affects the manufacturer (called the “firm”) and consumers in the market is unclear. We, therefore, build analytical models to explore this problem. We consider a case in which a firm develops and sells a product to consumers in the market. Consumers possess heterogeneo...Show More

Consumer-to-Consumer Product Trading With Strategic Consumer Behaviors in the Sharing Economy

Juzhi Zhang;Tsan-Ming Choi;Ya-Jun Cai

Year: 2023 | Volume: 70, Issue: 5 | Journal Article |

Second-Hand-Clothing Imports in Least-Developed-Countries: The Collapse of Local Clothing Manufacturing and Remedial Measures

Shu Guo;Tsan-Ming Choi;Juzhi Zhang

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Year: 2023 | Volume: 70, Issue: 5 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (11)
Considering the overwhelming global trend of second-hand clothing trade, domestic clothing manufacturing industries in many least developed countries (LDCs) have collapsed. Governments of many LDCs, therefore, have imposed tariff policies on the imports of second-hand clothing. Motivated by the real-world practices, we develop a two-stage Stackelberg supply chain gaming model to study the competit...Show More

Second-Hand-Clothing Imports in Least-Developed-Countries: The Collapse of Local Clothing Manufacturing and Remedial Measures

Shu Guo;Tsan-Ming Choi;Juzhi Zhang

Year: 2023 | Volume: 70, Issue: 5 | Journal Article |

IEEE Account

Purchase Details

Profile Information

Need Help?

A not-for-profit organization, IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
© Copyright 2025 IEEE - All rights reserved. Use of this web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions.