
Stuart SoUniversity of Exeter | UoE
Stuart So
DBA (Macq.) PMP CISA SMIEEE
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Introduction
Stuart is an active researcher in operations, technology & information systems management with a focus on sustainability, behaviour and strategy. He received a doctorate from Macquarie University and completed his research fellowship at City University (HK). Stuart received best paper awards in the 2010 IEEE IEEM Conference and 2012 ANZAM Conference. He serves as a member of editorial board for Library Hi-Tech and International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE).
Additional affiliations
February 2014 - present
July 2008 - February 2011
January 2012 - January 2014
Education
January 2007 - February 2011
January 2002 - January 2003
February 1998 - July 1999
Publications
Publications (44)
The challenge of building a sustainable supply chain with an acceptable low carbon emission requires extensive research and remarkable innovation. Based on a comprehensive literature review, a conceptual model is developed to explain the adoption of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) as a practice of green innovation. The aim of this work i...
The objective of this work is to strengthen organisations’ commitment to using sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), an emerging practice, which involves intra- and inter-organisational activities
underpinned by supply chain operations reference model. The study critically reviews 42 research articles in SSCM that leads to six research propos...
In this study, an empirical model for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) in an electronically–enabled manufacturing supply chain (EMSC) is proposed for supply chain decarbonisation with the aim to shape a low–carbon economy. A hybrid approach is used which involves: (a) technology acceptance model (TAM) and DeLone and McLean's (D&M) informa...
Lean production is proved to be an effective tool for companies to improve
continuously and is widely studied from both practical and theoretical perspectives. However, most previous studies of lean production are limited to internal operations of a company. The research in this paper aims to explain the relationship between electronic-enabled supp...
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to formulate supplier integration strategy with the aim to eliminate Ohno's manufacturing wastes and empirically examines its influence on lean manufacturing adoption in electronic‐enabled manufacturing supply chains (EMSC).
Design/methodology/approach
The proposed theoretical model is tested with the survey da...
Although prior research has highlighted the importance of social media in promotion and communication, a comprehensive framework to clarify how to use social media as a value co-creation platform to promote a green lifestyle has yet to be developed. This research aims to create and test a conceptual model for using social media as a value co-creati...
Understanding the user segment is highly significant in the age of a highly competitive wearable Fitness Technology market. In this study, we leveraged a comprehensive dataset containing information on user interactions, activity logs and device usage records. For effective segmentation of the users, K-Means clustering was employed. The unsupervise...
This position paper summarizes the panelists’ presentations and discussions at the Panel “Fake News, Misinformation and Privacy: How COVID-19 Pandemic Changed our Society,” held at the 15 th International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM 2022) on October 18, 2022. The Panel discussed their views on (i) how to stop the spread...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global business environment is rapidly changing, and many organizations are shifting their business from brick-and-mortar retail to online stores in order to survive in this rapidly changing environment while adapting to changing customer buying behavior, indicating that the online business environment is becoming...
The continuous increase in beverage consumption worldwide results in enormous energy consumption and carbon emission along the life cycle of beverage products. A novel input-process-output product carbon footprint (PCF) model is developed as a generic framework for products and services with complex operations along the supply chain. A PCF of a car...
Facing global warming and recent bans on the use of diesel in vehicles, there is a growing need to develop vehicles powered by renewable energy sources to mitigate greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions. Among the various forms of non-fossil energy for vehicles, hydrogen fuel is emerging as a promising way to combat global warming. To date, most st...
Densely populated cities, suffered from land scarcity, are often encountered the need of exploring new development areas. This initiative in developed cities usually includes reconsolidating container depots and proposing multi-storey cargo centre as part of urban development roadmap. Changes on road network and connectivity between ports and conta...
Purpose
The paper aims to investigate current library instruction programs to help business students make better use of library resources and improve their information. However, students’ information acquisition ability, library usage and their perception toward library user education are inevitably changing along with the rapidly evolving informat...
Air cargo loading in terminals demands precise planning to ensure efficient operations and minimise costs with limited time in the airport. Real-time visualisation and loading optimisation are becoming increasingly important due to dynamic loading considerations, including the segregation of dangerous goods and inherent lithium batteries, weight ba...
The rapid development of information and communication technologies has revolutionized the lifestyles and learning practices of the younger population worldwide. Various new mobile platforms and forms of social media have been so pervasive and influential in the world of higher education that they have contributed much to the training of the next g...
Purpose
This paper aims to study the information needs and online information-seeking behaviors on mobile platforms of performing arts students at a college level.
Design/methodology/approach
Survey instruments were used to collect data from performing arts students at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts (HKAPA), a metropolitan’s major perfor...
The increase in beverage production and consumption has received significant attention in environmental sustainability especially in terms of carbon emission. However, there has been a lack of research on consumer perceptions towards carbon label of beverage products. This study derived the carbon footprint of beverage products and analysed consume...
Corporates and consumers are increasingly concerned about the sustainability of our environment. Purpose-led advertising, which refers to brands that used corporate social responsibility or sustainability messages dominates the 2017 shortlisted Creative Effectiveness campaigns (WARC 2017). Environmental policy directives regarding climate change an...
Cities that can improve their environmental performance will benefit from having a healthier, more productive populace that enjoys a better quality of life. This study attempts to answer the question of how to create a smart sustainable city through developing a culture of sustainability from a waste management perspective. With this concept in min...
The research formulates a sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) strategy for manufacturers weaving green practices. The study demonstrates the potential of lean thinking that leads corporate sustainability
practice to success aiming to help business move away from wasteful work habits. A study of supply chain sustainability adoption was pursue...
Environmental concerns are intricately linked to various aspects of the supply chain. Awareness of such concerns is reflected in the contemporary business environment and in government legislation. The sustainable supply chain is an emerging trend in industrial development, where it is positioned as business innovation in this research. Based on th...
With the aim of decarbonizing manufacturing supply chains, a hybrid approach with the consideration of behavioral dynamics is used to build a research model for examining the adoption of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) in an electronically-enabled manufacturing supply chain (EMSC). This involves Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), DeLone...
The research establishes a structural approach of adopting lean thinking in services by mapping operation processes based on the integration of value stream mapping and customer-chain operations reference (CCOR) model. On this ground, lean services are realized with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and associated software at custome...
This paper empirically examines the influence of lean supply strategy implemented in electronic-enabled manufacturing supply chains (EMSC) on lean manufacturing adoption in a sustainable manner. Adopting lean manufacturing often not only requires a lengthy period but also involves a prolonged decision process which makes sense to identify the antec...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology realizes ambient intelligence (AmI) in real-life and offers not only user-friendly shopping experience to customers but also agile and responsive store operations to merchants. Applying lean services in apparel retail operations may equally benefit to this industry. In this research, recent studies o...
Lean principle preaches simplicity and waste reduction. The bullwhip effect represents a typical manufacturing waste creation scenario in supply chains, i.e., inventory inefficiency. Synchronising production processes with suppliers with lean principles in electronic-enabled manufacturing supply chains (EMSCs) may cope with the scenario. This paper...
Many third-party logistics (3PL) providers in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region are small to medium companies, which play an important role in outbound logistics, managing logistics activities in the manufacturing supply chain in the Greater China. It is necessary for these companies to improve information transparency to their supply chain partne...
In the past two decades, the highly competitive marketplace forces many manufacturing firms in Hong Kong moving their production lines to the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region where the labour cost is low. The changes not only bring ample business opportunity to these firms, but also trigger a structural transformation in distribution logistics. There...
Many third party logistics (3PL) providers in South China are small and medium-sized companies and lack of systematic mean on handling information. Uncertainties are created in the business processes due to insufficient information for decision-making. In this study, a logistics information system called Integrated Logistics Information Management...
Third Party Logistics (3PL) becomes more important nowadays as it aims to improve supply chain efficiency through reducing cycle time and inventory level for both upstream suppliers and downstream retailers. However, many small to medium-sized 3PL providers in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region still highly rely on manual processes, which make them...
One of the biggest myths about technology is the idea that any company can easily embrace it and comfortably expect results. However, successful implementation of a technology for an organisation depends on many factors and organisation readiness is most important. The readiness of strategy, people, process and system maturity should be assured for...
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic identification (auto- ID) technology developed by the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags and readers (Auto-ID Center, 2002; Doyle, 2004; EPC, 2004b; Finkenzeller, 2000; Shepard, 2005). With R...
Third Party Logistics (3PL) service is one of the core logistics services in the local logistics industry nowadays. However, the business operation among the small and medium-sized 3PL facilitators and their trading partners is still manual-based which is inefficient. Hence, there is a need to develop new approach for them. In this paper, a compreh...
Businesses that remain competitive must not only look into their internal operations, but also communicate and work concurrently with all players in its supply chain network. In this paper, the supplier relationship management module of a server-based enterprise collaborative management system (ECMS) using enterprise application integration (EAI) t...