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Business and Management
China
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
90
Citations
33852
World Ranking
87
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in China Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in China Leader Award

Overview

Kee-hung Lai is affiliated with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China. Their research spans multiple domains within business, management, and engineering, with a particular focus on sustainable supply chain management and industrial engineering.

The main fields of study for Kee-hung Lai include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Engineering

Their subfields cover:

  • Strategy and Management
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Management Information Systems
  • Economics and Econometrics

Key research topics addressed in their publications comprise:

  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Maritime Ports and Logistics
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Advanced machining processes and optimization
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Advanced Machining and Optimization Techniques

Kee-hung Lai has contributed to several publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Production Economics
  • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
  • Energy
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Among recent notable papers are:

  • "Linkages between big data analytics, circular economy, sustainable supply chain flexibility, and sustainable performance in manufacturing firms" (2021), International Journal of Production Research
  • "Green supply chain innovation: Emergence, adoption, and challenges" (2022), International Journal of Production Economics
  • "Digital supply chain management in the COVID-19 crisis: An asset orchestration perspective" (2021), International Journal of Production Economics
  • "Small and medium manufacturing enterprises and Asia's sustainable economic development" (2020), International Journal of Production Economics
  • "Trust and elderly users' continuance intention regarding mobile health services: the contingent role of health and technology anxieties" (2021), Information Technology and People

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kee-hung Lai include:

  • Wei Cai
  • Fuzhen Liu
  • Xitong Guo
  • Christina W.Y. Wong
  • Shun Jia

Best Publications

  • An Organizational Theoretic Review of Green Supply Chain Management Literature

    Joseph Sarkis;Qinghua Zhu;Kee Hung Lai

  • Confirmation of a measurement model for green supply chain management practices implementation

    Qinghua Zhu;Joseph Sarkis;Kee Hung Lai

  • Green supply chain management: pressures, practices and performance within the Chinese automobile industry

    Qinghua Zhu;Joseph Sarkis;Kee Hung Lai

  • Responsive supply chain : A competitive strategy in a networked economy

    Angappa Gunasekaran;Kee hung Lai;T. C. Edwin Cheng

  • Institutional-based antecedents and performance outcomes of internal and external green supply chain management practices

    Qinghua Zhu;Joseph Sarkis;Kee Hung Lai

  • Green supply chain management implications for “closing the loop”

    Qinghua Zhu;Joseph Sarkis;Kee Hung Lai

  • Firm-level correlates of emergent green supply chain management practices in the Chinese context

    Qinghua Zhu;Joseph Sarkis;James J. Cordeiro;Kee-Hung Lai

  • “Black‐box” and “gray‐box” supplier integration in product development: Antecedents, consequences and the moderating role of firm size

    Xenophon A. Koufteros;Edwin Tai Chiu Cheng;Kee Hung Lai

  • Examining the effects of green supply chain management practices and their mediations on performance improvements

    Qinghua Zhu;Joseph Sarkis;Kee Hung Lai

  • Initiatives and outcomes of green supply chain management implementation by Chinese manufacturers.

    Qinghua Zhu;Joseph Sarkis;Kee Hung Lai

  • Circular economy practices among Chinese manufacturers varying in environmental-oriented supply chain cooperation and the performance implications

    Qinghua Zhu;Yong Geng;Kee hung Lai

  • Measures for evaluating supply chain performance in transport logistics

    Kee-hung Lai;E.W.T Ngai;T.C.E Cheng

  • Green supply chain management innovation diffusion and its relationship to organizational improvement: An ecological modernization perspective

    Qinghua Zhu;Joseph Sarkis;Kee-Hung Lai

  • Green logistics management and performance: Some empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing exporters

    Kee-hung Lai;Christina W.Y. Wong

  • Green operations and the moderating role of environmental management capability of suppliers on manufacturing firm performance

    Christina W.Y. Wong;Kee-hung Lai;Kuo-Chung Shang;Chin-Shan Lu

  • Adopters and non-adopters of e-procurement in Singapore: An empirical study

    Thompson S.H. Teo;Sijie Lin;Kee Hung Lai

  • Service capability and performance of logistics service providers

    Kee Hung Lai

  • Mobile commerce integrated with RFID technology in a container depot

    E. W. T. Ngai;T. C. E. Cheng;S. Au;Kee-hung Lai

  • Corporate social responsibility for supply chain management: A literature review and bibliometric analysis

    Yunting Feng;Qinghua Zhu;Kee-Hung Lai

  • From intention to action: How do personal attitudes, facilities accessibility, and government stimulus matter for household waste sorting?

    Bin Zhang;Kee hung Lai;Bo Wang;Zhaohua Wang

  • Relational stability and alliance performance in supply chain

    Jie Yang;Jinjun Wang;Christina W.Y. Wong;Kee-Hung Lai

Frequent Co-Authors

T.C.E. Cheng
T.C.E. Cheng Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Christina W.Y. Wong
Christina W.Y. Wong Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Qinghua Zhu
Qinghua Zhu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Joseph Sarkis
Joseph Sarkis Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Eric W.T. Ngai
Eric W.T. Ngai Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Andy C.L. Yeung
Andy C.L. Yeung Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Zhaohua Wang
Zhaohua Wang Beijing Institute of Technology
Yong Geng
Yong Geng Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Xenophon Koufteros
Xenophon Koufteros Texas A&M University
Daniel Indarto Prajogo
Daniel Indarto Prajogo Monash University

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