Dr David Xuefeng Shao is an associate professor in management at The University of Newcastle. His research interests include digitalization of firms in emerging economy, supply chain management under Industry 4.0, and renewable energy on carbon neutrality. David earned his master's degree with Distinction and his Ph.D. in Management from the University of New South Wales. Before joining the Newcastle Business School in 2021, he was the education-based lecturer at the University of Sydney, and Research Fellow at University of Technology Sydney. His work has been published in journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Energy Economics, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Safety Science, Journal of International Management, Journal of Environmental Management, Annals of Operations Research, Enterprise Information Systems, Finance Research Letters, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, and others. Since 2021, he has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). In 2022, he won the Young Researcher Award in the International Engineering and Technology Institue (IETI). He currently serves as Program Director of MBA (Global), Member in Emerging Markets Research Group, Editorial Review Board Member of Journal of International Management (ABDC: A) and Management and Organization Review (ABDC: A), Editorial Board Member of Nature: Humanities & Social Science Communication (The only Nature Journal in Social Science) and guest editor of Electronic Commerce Research (ABDC: A).