Publications

1. Barriola, X.  & Van Wassenhove. L. (2026). The Role of Nearby Suppliers After Natural Disasters, Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming. 

2. Barriola, X.  & Schmidt, W. (2025). The High Impact of Disasters on Prices in Low-Income Communities, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 27(4), 993-1007. 

   • Accepted for EMPOM 2022 at the Wharton School

   • Selected for the Best Paper Proceedings at AOM 2022

3. Deshmane, A. & Barriola, X. (2025). Frame by Fame: Content Creation on Short Video-Format Platforms, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 27(2), 479-495.

   • First Prize: INFORMS 2020 RMP Data-Driven Research Challenge

   • First Prize: Best Student Paper Award 2021 INFORMS Social Media Analytics Section

4. Arias, D., Barriola, X., & Loza Adaui, C. R. (2024). Corporate Purpose and Early Disaster Response: Providing Evidence of Dynamic Materiality? Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(5), 4598-4612.

5. Azar, J. & Barriola, X. (2022). Did the MillerCoors Joint Venture Strengthen the Craft Beer Revolution? International Journal of Industrial Organization, 85, 102890.

   • Featured at: INSEAD Knowledge

6. Barriola, X. (2022). The Effect of Competition on Product Removal. Marketing Letters, 33(2), 203-214.

7. Barriola, X. (2021). The Impact of Gasoline Shortages on Public Bike-Sharing Systems. Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, 34(4), 561-577.

Working Papers

1. “Spillover Effects of Retail Labor Disruptions,” with William Schmidt.

   • Under 2nd Round of Review (1st Round: Major Revision): Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

2. “Participation Trophies: How Owner Ideology Creates Sinecures,” with Winslow Robertson and Benjamin Cole.

   • Major Revision: Management Science

3. “The Resilience Benefits of Store Brands During Supply Disruptions,” with Yasin Alan and William Schmidt.

   • Reject and Resubmit: Management Science

4. “Franchising Defrosts: The Impact of Ownership Structure on Service Availability,” with Yash Babar, Ulrich Laitenberger, and Florian Pethig.

   • Reject & Resubmit: Management Science

5. “Building an Assortment of Durable Goods,” with Mihalis Markakis, Victor Martínez de Albéniz, and Claudio Sánchez.

   • Reject and Resubmit: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

6. “Too Small to Fail? How Store Size Shapes Nanostore Resilience in the Face of Disruptions” with Rafael Escamilla and Jan Fransoo.

   • Reject and Resubmit: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

7. “Divisible Standards and Coordination Escape: Why Item-Level Expiration Data Does Not Reach the Shelf,” with Jan Holmström, Lauri Loikkanen, and Lauri Saarinen.

   • Reject and Resubmit: Journal of Supply Chain Management

8. “Demand-Side Heterogeneity in Cash Transfers: The Influence of Planning Horizons on Food Consumption,” with Claire Tan and Eirini Spiliotopoulou.

   • Under Review: Management Science

9. “Infrastructure Expansion and Firm Reconfiguration: Evidence from the Panama Canal,” with Zhi Li and Jing Wu.

   • Under Review: Management Science

Work in Progress

“Recommendation Diversity and Content Supply: Evidence from a Short-Video Platform,” with Ulrich Laitenberger and Jiaqi Zhu.

“Not All Cyberattacks Are Supply Chain Shocks: Capacity Disruption, Information Theft, and the Survival of Interfirm Relationships,” with Yimeng Niu.

“The Owner Has to Go: Coordinated Employee Activism as a Strategy for Democratic Preservation,” with Winslow Robertson and Benjamin Cole.