Dr Gu Pang

Department of Management
Associate Professor in Procurement and Operations Management

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 9251
Email: g.pang.1@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Business School
University House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Gu is the Head of the Procurement and Operations Management Group. She joined Birmingham Business School in January 2018.

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Qualifications

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
PhD, Nottingham University Business School
MSc, Operations Management, Nottingham University Business School
BSc, Management Science, Lancaster University Management School

Biography

The role as an educator enables Gu to promote a student-centred learning environment promoting self-sufficient learners. Gu believes the experience of teaching and the journey of learning enrich educators and learners to explore countless opportunities.

As a researcher, Gu has established a close working relationship with colleagues in operations, marketing, systems and economics. This has enabled her to conduct multi-disciplinary research and to explore new research areas, including big data analysis, digital transformation, and blockchain technology.

Teaching

Exec MBA (UK) Operations Management
BSc Business Management Managing Operations and Projects (Year 2)

Postgraduate supervision

Gu welcomes PhD applicants who are interested in: machine learning, blockchain technology, remanufacturing, reverse logistics, closed-loop supply chains, food value chains, optimisation.

For informal discussion, please forward your email to g.pang.1@bham.ac.uk

Research

Blockchain technology, remanufacturing, reverse logistics, closed-loop supply chains, sustainable supply chains, sustainability of food value chains, food waste management, transportation network design, optimisation, modelling, time series econometrics, machine learning.

Research Projects

EU Horizon 2020 Project VALUMICS on understanding food value chains and network dynamics Proposal No. 727243-2 VALUMICS, 48 months duration, €318,555, completed in May 2020.
ESRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Byker Community Trust on sustainable and strategic marketing strategy, brand development and management of change, 24 months duration, £130,000, completed in July 2020.

Publications

Duan, K., Onyeaka, H., Pang, G., Meng, Z. (2024), Pioneering Food Safety: Blockchain’s Integration in Supply Chain Surveillance. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 101281.

Man, L., Lin, Y., Pang, G., Sanderson, J., Duan, K. (2024), Digitalization to Achieve Greener Healthcare Supply Chain. Journal of Cleaner Production, 463: 142802.

Gorton, M., Marek-Andrzejewska, E., Pang, G., Andrzejewski, W., Lin, Y. (2024), Users’ processing of online marketplace listings for high and low involvement goods. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 65: 101382.

Duan, K., Pang, G., Lin, Y. (2024), Exploring the current status and future opportunities of blockchain technology adoption and application in supply chain management. Journal of Digital Economy, 2: 244-288.

de Amstalden, M., Jabbour, L., Lewis, P., Miri, T., Onyeaka, H., Ögtem-Young, Ö., Pang, G., Shiu, E., Stephens, N., Winnall, L. (2023), Fairness in the food supply chain written evidence submitted by the University of Birmingham to the UK Parliament.

Esfahbodi, A., Pang, G., Peng, L. (2022), Determinants of Consumers’ Adoption Intention for Blockchain Technology in E-commerce. Journal of Digital Economy, 1(2): 89-101.

Phantratanamongkol, S., Casalin, F., Pang, G., Sanderson, J., (2018), The price-volume relationship for new and remanufactured smartphones. International Journal of Production Economics, 199: 78-94.

Casalin, F., Pang, G., Maioli, S., Cao, T. (2017), Inventories and the concentration of suppliers and customers: evidence from the Chinese manufacturing sector. International Journal of Production Economics, 193: 148-159.

Pang, G., Gebka, B. (2017), Forecasting container throughput using aggregate or terminal-specific data? The case of Tanjung Priok Port, Indonesia. International Journal of Production Research, 55: 2454-2469.

Pang, G., Casalin, F., Papagiannidis, S., Muyldermans, L., Tse, Y.K. (2015), Price determinants for remanufactured electronic products: a case study on eBay UK. International Journal of Production Research, 53: 572-589.

Muyldermans, L., Pang, G. (2014), “Variants of the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem”., In: Corber, A. and Laporte, G. (eds.) Arc Routing: Problems, Methods, and Applications. MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization. Philadelphia: SIAM, pp. 221-251.

Ting, S.L., Tse, Y.K., Ho, G.T.S., Chung, S.H., Pang, G. (2014), Mining logistics data to assure the quality in sustainable food supply chain: a case in red wine industry. International Journal of Production Economics, 152: 200-209.

Ramanathan, U., Bentley, Y.M., Pang, G. (2014), The role of collaboration in the UK green supply chains: an exploratory study of the perspectives of suppliers, logistics and retailers. Journal of Cleaner Production, 70: 231-241.

Pang, G., Muyldermans, L. (2013), Vehicle routing and the value of postponement. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 64: 1429-1440.

Muyldermans, L., Pang, G. (2010), On the benefits of co-collection: experiments with a multi-compartment vehicle routing algorithm. European Journal of Operational Research, 206: 93-103.

Muyldermans, L., Pang, G. (2010), A guided local search procedure for the multi-compartment capacitated arc routing problem. Computers & Operations Research, 37: 1662-1673.

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