Dr Yong Lin

Dr Yong Lin

Department of Management
Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 9882
Email
y.lin@bham.ac.uk
Address
Department of Management
Birmingham Business School
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Yong Lin is an Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Birmingham Business School, University 麻豆精选. Dr Lin’s work focuses on contemporary management issues at firm, supply chain, and business ecosystem levels. His recent research interests are in digital transformation and sustainability strategies and practices, supply chain risk and resilience, digital logistics platform and business ecosystem.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Management Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 2002
  • MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 1999
  • Senior Fellow of the Advance HE (Higher Education Academy)
  • Certified Management and Business Educator of CABS (Chartered Association of Business School)
  • Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)

Biography

Dr Yong Lin joined the University 麻豆精选 in September 2021 as Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management. Before that, he worked as Associate Professor at the University of Greenwich, and the Huazhong University of Science & Technology. He also had been a visiting researcher at the IfM (Institute for Manufacturing), University of Cambridge, and a research assistant at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.

Dr Lin has contributed to lead and coordinated in several research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the 863 Program (National High Technology Research and Development Program of China), and the European Regional Development Fund. He also devoted to transfer research outputs in helping business via industry consulting projects.

Teaching

  • Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Management

Postgraduate supervision

Yong welcomes PhD applicants who are interested in: 

  • digital transformation in supply chain
  • digital technologies and sustainability
  • logistics platform strategy
  • business ecosystems
  • manufacturing strategies

Research

Research interests

Yong’s recent research interests are in digital transformation and sustainability strategies and practices in:

  • supply chain
  • supply chain risk and resilience
  • digital logistics platform
  • business ecosystems

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Lin, Y, Sun, Y, Shi, Y, Pang, G & Luo, J 2025, '', Long Range Planning, vol. 58, no. 3, 102530.

Ren, Q, Xu, X, Scullion, R, Lin, Y, Wang, S & Rong, K 2025, '', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 212, 124003.

Lin, Y, Pang, G, Duan, K, Luo, J, Wang, S & Qu, J 2025, '', Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 125, no. 2, pp. 535-574.

Duan, K, Pang, G, Lin, Y & Lonsdale, C 2025, '', Industrial Management & Data Systems.

Reilly, D, Warren, L, Kristandl, G & Lin, Y 2024, '', Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 639-656.

Man, LC, Lin, Y, Pang, G, Sanderson, J & Duan, K 2024, '', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 463, 142802.

He, Y, Hu, M & Lin, Y 2024, '', Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 66-78.

Duan, K, Pang, G & Lin, Y 2024, '', Journal of Digital Economy, vol. 2, pp. 244-288.

Gorton, M, Marek-Andrzejewska, E, Pang, G, Andrzejewski, W & Lin, Y 2024, '', Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, vol. 65, 101382.

Rong, K, Lin, Y, Du, W & Yang, S 2023, '', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.

Chen, A, Lin, Y, Mariani, M, Shou, Y & Zhang, Y 2023, '', Journal of Technology Transfer, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 1628-1653.

Lin, Y, Chen, A, Zhong, S, Giannikas, V, Lomas, C & Worth, T 2023, '', International Journal of Operations and Production Management, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 140-165.

Yan, X, Liu, W, Lim, MK, Lin, Y & Wei, W 2022, '', Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 101, pp. 57-70.

Lin, Y, Chen, A, Yin, Y, Li, Q, Zhu, Q & Luo, J 2021, '', International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 235, no. 5, 108112.

Rong, K, Lin, Y, Yu, J, Zhang, Y & Radziwon, A 2021, '', Industry and Innovation, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 545-569.