Yang Sophie Yang-Sun

Professional Summary

Sophie Yang-Sun, PhD, is an associate professor of Supply Chain Management at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. She received her PhD in Supply Chain Management from Arizona State University. Her main research interest is supply networks. In particular, she has two research streams: 1) how the co-embeddedness of a firm and its suppliers in the supply and demand network affects the firm’s decisions (e.g., M&A target selection), strategies (e.g., innovation and sustainability) and performances; and 2) how the supply and demand network changes over time and adapts after major events, such as M&As and the changes in the geopolitical environment. 

Yang has published in supply chain journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, the Journal of Supply Chain Management, and the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. She has been a member of the Decision Sciences Institute and the Production and Operations Management Society since 2012. 

Education

• 2016 - PhD, Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
• 2010 - MBA, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
• 2004 - BS, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing, China

Courses

• MGT 3325 – Operations management

Research Interests

• The structure of supply networks and their impacts 
• The evolution/adaptation of supply networks

Selected Publications

• Yang, Y., Chae, S., Yan, T., & Linderman K., (2024) “Consolidate? Diversify? Post-M&A Supply Base Structural Changes and Operational Performance”. Decision Sciences (forthcoming).
• Yang, Y., Sun, X., Li, M. & Yan, T. (2024). “More or complex actions? Effects of supply networks on firms' competitive aggressiveness”. International Journal of Operations and Production Management (forthcoming).
• Chae, S., Son, B., Yan, T., and Yang, Y. (2022), “The effect of value network relatedness on post-M&A performance”. International Journal of Production and Operations Management. 42(8), 1272-1293.
• Yang, Y., Choi, T. Y., Carter, C. R., & Yin, R. (2022), “Expanding the boundaries of buyersupplier agency problems: Moving from dyad to triad”. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management 28(3), 1-11.
• Yan, T., Yang, Y., Chae, S., & Dooley, K. (2020), “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) 933-957 (a finalist for 2020 Jack Meredith Best Paper award).
• Chae, S., Yan, T., & Yang, Y.  (2020), “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) 820-838.