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)

• Buyer-supplier structural equivalence and supplier innovation value: 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: The Effects of Supplier Ties Journal of Operations Management 66 7-8 (in press), Tingting Yan, Yang (Sophie) Yang, Kevin Dooley, Sangho Chae.
• Attitudes toward Supplier Integration: the U.S. vs. China International Journal of Operations and Production Management 37 8 (2017), Yang S. Yang, Thomas J. Kull, Abraham Y. Nahm, Benbo Li.
• A theory of supplier network-based innovation value Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management 23 3 (2017), Tingting Yan, Yang (Sophie) Yang, Kevin Dooley.
• Reframing Buyer-Supplier Agency Problems Beyond the Dyad (2016), Yang (Sophie) Yang.

• 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, .
• the Effect of Reputation on Supplier Opportunism: An Agent-based Model (2019), Volume Washington DC, Yang (Sophie) Yang, Piyush Shah, Thomas Kull.
• the Effect of Reputation on Supplier Opportunism: An Agent-based Model (2018), Volume Chicago, IL, Yang (Sophie) Yang, Thomas Kull.
• the Effect of Reputation on Buyer-supplier Agency Problems: An Agent-based Model (2018), Volume Houston, TX, Yang (Sophie) Yang, Thomas Kull.
• Incentives of Supply Network: An Analytical Model of Directed Sourcing (2017), Volume Seattle, WA, Yang (Sophie) Yang, Rui Yin, Thomas Choi.
• The Shadow of the Network: Can interactions among buyers inspire supplier’s cooperation? (2017), Volume Seattle, WA, Yang (Sophie) Yang, Thomas Kull.
• Addressing Supplier Opportunism Beyond the Dyad: the Effect of Network Governance (2016), Volume Austin, Yang (Sophie) Yang.

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