Tian Xu

Name： Tian Xu

Professional title: Associate Professor

E-mail： tianxu@ncu.edu.cn

Main Research Areas and Directions

• Logistics and Supply Chain Management

• Platform Economy Model

• Assortment Planning

• Platform-based Supply Chain

Major Academic Achievements

•Funded Research Projects(Principal Investigator)

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Program: Research on Order Delivery Fees and Consolidated Delivery Strategies in Real-Time Delivery Services(Grant No.: 72501129), 2026 - 2028,

•Journal Articles

1. Crowdsourcing contests with entry cost. International Transactions in Operational Research, 2021, 28(3), 1371--1392.

2. Award scheme in random trial contests. Annals of Operations Research, 2021, 302(1), 313--325.

3. Innovation contests with risk-averse participants. Naval Research Logistics, 2022, 69(4), 599--608.

4. Multiplicative output form and its applications to problems in the homogenous innovation contest model. OR Spectrum, 2022, 44, 709--732.

5. Does an increase in the number of solvers benefit the seeker in heterogeneous contests? Operations Research Letters, 2022, 50(5), 596--601.

6. Award scheme in productivity-based contests. Optimization Letters, 2024, 18, 1071–1093.

7. Investment strategies of information-provision technology in the platform-based supply chain. Naval Research Logistics, 2024, 71(3), 351--364.

8. FinTech and trade credit financing: Evidence from Chinese listed firms. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2026, 96, 103069.

9. Insurer Pricing and Retailer Complimentary Strategy under the Return Freight Insurance Model. Chinese Journal of Management Science, 2026, Accepted。

10. Sustainable Trade Credit Access: The Role of Digital Transformation Under the Resource Dependence Theory. Sustainability, 2026, 18, 1174.