Dr Xiao Lin
Senior Lecturer

Profile

Biography

Xiao Lin is a Senior lecturer in Operations Management at the School for Business and Society, University of York. Prior to joining school, Xiao Lin was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark. Before that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark.

She obtained her MSc and PhD in Logistics and Operations Management from Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK. Her research was mainly concerned with the socio-technical transition in sustainable energy and mobility. Xiao Lin has a keen interest in interdisciplinary research including operations management, urban logistics, environment, energy and innovation.

Research

Overview

• Operations management
• Supply chain management
• Sustainable business models
• Sustainability transitions
• Sustainable transportation
• Urban logistics
• Electric vehicles
• Clean Energy

Publications

Selected publications

Zheng, L., Li, Y., Mao, Y., Xue, X., Xu, G. and Lin, X., (2025). Thermodynamic and economic analyses of a novel liquid carbon dioxide energy storage system incorporated with a coal-fired power plant. Energy,p.136212.

Sun, S., Li, W., Sun, X. and Lin, X., (2024). The impact of public procurement on the adoption of circular economy practices. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 30(4), p.100907.

Xu, L., Jia, F., Lin, X. and Chen, L., (2023). The role of technology in supply chain decarbonisation: towards an integrated conceptual framework. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 28(4), p.803-824.

Lin, X., and Sovacool, B.K., (2020). Inter-niche competition on ice? Socio-technical drivers, benefits and barriers of the electric vehicle transition in Iceland. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 35, pp.1-20.

Kester, J, Noel, L., Lin, X., Zarazua de Rubens, G., and Sovacool, B. (2019). The coproduction of electric mobility: Selectivity, conformity and fragmentation in the sociotechnical acceptance of vehicle-to-grid (V2G), Journal of Cleaner Production, 207, pp. 400-410.

Lin, X., Wells, P., and Sovacool, B. (2018). The Death of a Transport Regime? The Future of Electric Bicycles and Transportation Pathways for Sustainable Mobility in China. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 132, p. 255-267.

Lin, X., Wells, P., and Sovacool, B. (2017). Benign mobility? Electric bicycles, sustainable transport consumption behaviour and socio-technical transitions in Nanjing, China. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 103, p. 223-234.

Wells, P. and Lin, X. (2015). Spontaneous emergence versus technology management in sustainable mobility transitions: Electric bicycles in China. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 78, p. 371-383.

Nieuwenhuis, P. and Lin, X. (2015). China’s Car Industry. In: Nieuwenhuis, P and Wells, P. eds. The Global Automotive Industry. Wiley, p. 109-126.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Project and Operations Management

Postgraduate

• Business Analytics
• Managing Business Operations
• Research Methods