Staff profiles
Dr Xiaohong Li
Senior lecturer / PhD, MSc, BSc
Phone 0114 225 3106
E-mail x.li@shu.ac.uk
Research centres and institutes associated with
Centre for Business and Management
Research area
Quality and performance
Subject areas
- operations management
- operational research
Research interests
- applied economic/econometric modelling
- performance measurement/management related research
- manufacturing company survival, performance and practices, and causal relationships between these factors
- project management
- supply chain and risk management
She welcomes potential PhD applications and joint research and consultancy projects in above areas. For informal discussions of potential applicants and interested parties, please contact her.
She is currently working on three research areas
- supply chain management-managing risk when outsourcing in emerging markets
- project management-developing effective project management approaches for humanitarian aid and development industry
- economic and econometric modelling - exploring possibilities of applying an econometric modelling approach for UK construction industry
Profile
Xiaohong Li is a senior lecturer at the Sheffield Business School, part of Sheffield Hallam University. She joined the University as a full time lecturer in February 2002 and continues her research. She successfully completed a consultancy project for the public sector of States of Guernsey, by developing and applying an economic modelling approach to construction workload planning. She worked as a research fellow on a Leverhulme funded project on UK manufacturing companies' survival at the University of Luton for two and half year before she joined Sheffield Hallam.
She obtained her BSc at Chongqing University, China in 1988. Afterwards, she had worked as a budget planner for a large manufacturing company for five years. She gained a scholarship to become a visiting student at Lancaster University in 1993. She achieved her PhD on UK manufacturing company performance and practices at the University of Luton in 1999.
Teaching interests
- operations management - applications in operations management/operations planning and control
- business modelling
- performance measurement
- project management
- simulation
Research outputs - key publications since 2001
Li, X (2009), Buyer-supplier relationships and long-term benefits when sourcing from emerging markets, in the Proceedings of the 16th EurOMA conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, June
Li, X and Barnes, I. (2008), Proactive supply risk management methods for building a robust supply selection process when sourcing from emerging markets, Strategic outsourcing: an international journal, Vol. 1, No 3, pp. 252-267.
Li, X and Barnes, I, (2007), Identifying and Developing Supply Risk Management Methods to Support Outsourcing in Emerging Market Strategy, in the Proceedings of the 14th EurOMA conference, Ankara, Turkey, June
Li, X, Ogier, J., and Cullen, J, (2006), Developing and Applying an Economic Modelling Approach for Public Sector Construction Workload Planning, Journal of Construction Management and Economics, November, vol. 24, pp: 1137-1147.
Li, X, Ogier, J., and Cullen, J, (2004), Achieving 'Best Value' Performance through an Economic Modelling Approach in the Guernsey Government Construction Industry, in the Proceedings of the 4th Performance Measurement Conference, Edinburgh, UK, July, pp: 595-602.
Hunter, M and Li, X, (2004), Developing a Performance Measurement System for the UK Police Service to achieve the Successful Implementation of a Problem-oriented Policing Strategy, in the Proceedings of the 4th Performance Measurement Conference, Edinburgh, UK, July, pp: 483-490.
Li, X, Ogier, J., and Cullen, J, (2004), Improving Effectiveness of Aggregate Planning in the Guernsey Public Sector Construction Workload using an Economic Modelling Approach, in the Proceedings of the 11th International EurOMA Conference, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, June, vol. 2, pp: 805-814.
Li, X, (2003), Continuous Improvement and Manufacturing Company Survival - A Case Based Analysis, in the Proceedings of the Joint (10th) International EurOMA and POMS Conference, Como Lake, Italy, June, vol. 3, pp.619-628.
LI, X and Hamblin, D, (2003), The impact of Performance and Practice Factors on UK Manufacturing Companies' Survival, International Journal of Production Research, March, vol. 41, no. 5, pp: 963-979.
Li, X and Hamblin, D, (2002), Building Survival Factors into a Manufacturing Company Performance Measurement System, in the Proceedings of the 3rd Performance Measurement Conference, Boston, USA, July, pp: 331-338.
Li, X and Hamblin, D, (2002), Benchmarking Manufacturing Survival Factors: A Comparative Case Study, in the Proceedings of the 9th International EurOMA Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June, pp: 855-866.
Li, X and Hamblin, D, (2001), Developing a Multivariate Manufacturing Company Performance Model: Effects of Technology and Investment on Two-dimensional Firm Performance, International Journal of Production Research, vol.39, no.13, pp. 2895-2912.
Li, X and Hamblin, D, (2001), Manufacturing Companies' Survival Study-A Framework, in the Proceedings of the 8th EurOMA Conference, Bath, 3-5th, June, vol. 2, pp.1347-1358.
