Dr. Yang (Sophie) Yang has 3 years of work experience in purchasing and project management in the infrastructure and construction industry. Her main research interest is buyer-supplier relationship management in the supply network context. Her current research projects include addressing buyer-supplier agency problems from the network perspective, identifying critical suppliers in the network, and supplier’s embeddedness.

• Ph D in Business Administration, Arizona State University (2016)
• Ph D in Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University (ASU) (2016)
• MBA in Business Administration, Brigham Young University (2010)
• MBA in Supply Chain Management, Brigham Young University (BYU) (2010)
• BS in Electrical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University (BUAA) (2004)

• More or Complex Actions? Effects of Supply Networks on Firms' Competitive Aggressiveness. International Journal of Operations & Production Management (2024), Yang (Sophie) Yang, Xiaojin Sun, Mengge Li, Tingting Yan.
• Supply chains and the success of M&As: Investigating the effect of structural equivalence of merging firms’ supplier and customer bases International Journal of Operations and Production Management (2022), Sangho Chae, Byung-Gak Son, Tingting Yan, Yang S. Yang.
• Expanding the Boundaries of Buyer-Supplier Agency Problems: Moving From Dyad to Triad Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (2022), Yang S. Yang, Thomas Choi, Craig Carter, Rui Yin.
• Supplier innovation value from a buyer–supplier structural equivalence view: Evidence from the PACE awards in the automotive industry Journal of Operations Management 66 7-8 (2020), Sangho Chae, Tingting Yan, Yang (Sophie) Yang.
• Trading-off innovation novelty and information protection in supplier selection for a new product development project: Supplier ties as signals Journal of Operations Management 66 7-8 (2020), Tingting Yan, Yang (Sophie) Yang, Kevin Dooley, Sangho Chae.

• Know Your Enemies via Your Friends:The Effects of Firms’ Co-embeddedness in Competition-Value Networks on Firms’ New Product Introduction (2023), Volume Atlanta, GA, Yang (Sophie) Yang, Mengge Li, Xiaojin Sun, Tingting Yan.
• Leveraging Suppliers for Innovation Performance: Structuring the Supply Base to Support Idea Generation and Idea Execution (2022), Volume Houston, TX, Jordan M. Barker, Ellie C. Falcon, Yang Yang, Tingting Yan.
• It Takes Two To Tango: The Effect Of Dyadic Structural Characteristics On Competitive Dynamics (2022), Volume Houston, TX, Mengge Li, Xiaojin Sun, Yang (Sophie) Yang, Tingting Yan.
• The Effects of Supply Networks on Firm Competitive Behavior (2020), Volume Virtual, Mengge Li, Xiaojin Sun, Yang (Sophie) Yang.
• The Reconfiguration of Supply Network Governance During Disruptive Technological Changes (2019), Volume New Orleans, Yang (Sophie) Yang, .

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