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Xu Jinou

Researcher

Jinou (Valentina) Xu is an Assistant Professor and Researcher in the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (DIG) at Politecnico di Milano.

She is lecturer of Production Management and Supply Chain Management in the Master of Science program at Politecnico di Milano and in several post-graduate Master programs at POLIMI Graduate School of Management.

Her research covers supply chain ethics, circular economy transitions, technology adoption, and inter-organisational relationships.

Career

PhD: Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

MSc: Management Engineering (Double degree). Politecnico di Milano & Politecnico di Torino (Alta Scuola Politecnica)

BSc: Mechanical Engineering (Double degree). Politecnico di Milano & Tongji University (PoliTong)

Research

Jinou's research footprint covers supply chain ethics, circular economy transitions, technology adoption, and inter-organisational relationships. Her work attends to the structural conditions of global production, including labour conditions, power asymmetries, and the perspectives most often marginalised in both practice and scholarship. Her research is committed to how capabilities and resources are formed, distributed, or withheld, across supply chains undergoing transformation, and what these transitions mean for the people and communities embedded within them.


She is particularly interested in interpretivist and constructivist traditions, critical management studies, and feminist approaches, with a commitment to plurality, contextuality, and reflexivity about how knowledge is produced.

Selected Publications

  1. Burini, G., Xu, J., Pero, M., & Sandberg, E. (2025). Reverse supply chain configurations in the fashion and textile industry. Sustainable Production and Consumption.
  2. Xu J., & Pero M. (2023). A resource orchestration perspective of organizational big data analytics adoption: evidence from supply chain planning, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 53, 71-97
  3. Xu J., Pero M., & Fabbri M. (2023). Unfolding the link between big data analytics and supply chain planning, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 196
  4. Abdelkafi N., Xu J., Pero M., Ciccullo F., & Masi A. (2023). Does the Combination of Sustainable Business Model Patterns Lead to Truly Sustainable Business Models? Critical Analysis of Existing Frameworks and Extensions. Journal of Business Economics, 95, 597-634
  5. Xu J., Pero M., Ciccullo F., & Sianesi A. (2021). On relating big data analytics to supply chain planning: towards a research agenda, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 51, 656-682


Grants, awards and Honours

  1. Faculty Visiting-Out research grant, SoM, 2026. €8,500. Granted (University of Leicester)
  2. Seed Fund for Interdisciplinary Research (SF4IR), SoM, 2025. €10,000. Candidate
  3. Faculty Visiting-Out research grant, SoM, 2024. €3,000. Granted (Cardiff University)
  4. Young Scholar Networking Grant, EurOMA, 2023. €5,000. Candidate

Community service

  1. Reviewer for international journals: JSCM, IJOPM, IJPE, IJPDLM, TFSC, ComInd, OMRA;
  2. Reviewer for international conferences: EurOMA, IPSERA, AIDI Summer school "Francesco Turco"
  3. Visiting scholar at University of Leicester (2026, 3 months)
  4. Visiting scholar at Cardiff Business school (2024, 1 month)
  5. Committee member of DTIM (International Conference on Digital Transformation and Innovation Management), 2024-2025-2026
  6. Committee member (Scientific and Organization) of "Setting the future: Sustainable and Digital Transition in Cultural and Creative Industries" conference, 27-29 November 2023
  7. Member of research communities: EurOMA, AIDI and IPSERA
  8. Member of International Relationship delegation in SOM