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Mengshi Lu

Business, Management and Accounting · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2010
Supply Chain and Inventory ManagementRisk and Portfolio OptimizationTransportation and Mobility InnovationsSupply Chain Resilience and Risk ManagementSustainable Supply Chain Management

Publications

27

Citations

715

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

15

Publishing since 2010

Research summary
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Mengshi Lu's research focuses on operations management topics such as supply chain contracts, inventory and pricing decisions, and the design of shared-resource systems like carsharing and electric vehicle networks. Much of the work uses mathematical optimization and decision models to study how risk, uncertainty, and information asymmetry affect supply chain and service-system design. This work is typically published in operations management journals and involves both theoretical modeling and applied questions in logistics, retail, and infrastructure planning.

Supply chain contracts and risk allocationInventory and pricing optimization under uncertaintyShared mobility and vehicle-to-grid systemsProject outsourcing and contract negotiationRobust operations management and decision-making under model uncertainty

Publication output has been relatively low and fluctuating over the last decade, peaking around 2020 and slowing somewhat in the most recent years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
2017: 3 publications172018: 1 publication182019: 3 publications192020: 5 publications5202021: 3 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 2 publications242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×10
  • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management×4
  • Production and Operations Management×4
  • Management Science×1
  • Omega×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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