Research

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Journal Publication:

• Innovation Strategy after IPO: How AI Analytics Spurs Innovation after IPO. (with L. Wu & L. Hitt, Forthcoming in Management Science) [SSRN]

-- Presented at CIST 2018

• Unintended Consequences of Advances in Matching Technologies: Information Revelation and Strategic Participation on Gig-Economy Platforms. (with Y. Liu, X. Zhao & X. Li, Forthcoming in Management Science) [SSRN]

-- Presented at PlatStrat 2022, MIW 2022, POMS 2022, WISE 2021, CIST 2021

• AI on Drugs: Can Artificial Intelligence Accelerate Drug Development? Evidence from a Large-scale Examination of Bio-pharma Firms. (with L. Wu, 2021 in Management Information Systems Quarterly) [SSRN]

-- Presented at ICIS 2019, CHITA 2019 (Best Student Paper Award, Runner-up), INFORMS 2019, CIST 2019, WINDS 2019, CSWIM 2019, SCECR 2019

• Data Analytics Skills, Innovation and Firm Productivity. (with L. Wu & L. Hitt, 2020 in Management Science) [SSRN]

-- Best IS paper published in Management Science, Finalist, 2022

• Data Analytics Supports Decentralized Innovation. (with L. Wu & L. Hitt, 2019 in Management Science) [SSRN]

-- Presented at NBER Summer Institute 2018, WISE 2017, CIST 2017 (Best paper award, Finalist)

Working Paper (by Topics):

Topic 1: Artificial Intelligence and Strategy

• Artificial Intelligence, Alliances, and Innovation. (with E. Rawley, Under Review)

-- Presented at ICSSI 2023, AI in Strategic Management Workshop 2023, POMS 2023, Greater Boston Corporate Governance Workshop 2023, CHITA 2023, ISB AI and Strategy Consortium 2023, AIML 2022, Corporate Strategy and Innovation Conference at Wharton 2022, NetSci 2022 (Complex Networks in Economics and Innovation Satellite), Strategy Science Conference 2022, MOM Workshop at Harvard Business School 2022

• Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Inclusive Service Operations: Empirical Evidence from a Professional Service Platform. (with K. Hu & B. Baloch, Under Review) [SSRN]

-- Presented at MOM Workshop at Harvard Business School 2023

• Artificial Intelligence, CEO Turnover, and Exploration Orientation in Firm Innovation. (with X. Ma & L. Wu, Under Review)

-- Presented at ICIS 2023, CIST 2023, MOM Workshop at Harvard Business School 2023, AIML 2022, WISE 2022 (Best paper award, Finalist)

• Toward a Contextual Understanding of GPTs in the Developing Economy: Impact on the Labor Market and the Role of Geography and Policy. (with H. Sun & T. Sun, Under Review) [SSRN]

-- Presented at WISE 2023

• Generative AI and Entrepreneurship Entry. (with J. Bao & H. Sun, Under Review)

• Artificial Intelligence, Team Disruption, and Innovation: Can Artificial Intelligence Mitigate the Decline in Inventor Performance After Collaborator Loss? (with X. Ma & L. Wu)

Topic 2: Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Enhancing Complementor Innovation through Market Information: A Large-scale Empirical Study of an E-Commerce Platform. (with Z. Yuan, T. Sun & L. Fang, Under Review) [SSRN]

-- Presented at MIW 2024

• Toward Understanding the Bitcoin Mining and Exchange Markets. (with C. Jin, L. Qiu & J. Zhang, Under Review) [SSRN]

-- Presented at INFORMS 2023, CIST 2022, ICSF 2021, ACM EC 2021 (Workshop on Operations of People-Centric Systems), SCECR 2021, M&SOM iFORM SIG 2021

• Makerspaces, Venture Social Focus, and Resource Acquisition. (with J. Bao & J. Oh, Under Review)

-- Presented at SMS 2023, AOM 2023

• Should Firms Reward Referring Customers Based on the Performance of Their Referred Customers? (with Y. Chen)

-- Presented at CODE@MIT 2021, SCECR 2021, TPM 2021

Topic 3: Future of Work

• Does Employer Brand Matter? An Empirical Study on Online Job Reviews, Social Media Usage and Firm Performance. (with F. Jin & L. Hitt, Under Review) [SSRN]

-- Presented at INFORMS 2022, HICSS 2021, INFORMS 2017, WISE 2016

• COVID-19 and Platform Switching of Multihoming Workers in the Gig Economy. (with C. Liang & M. Qu) [SSRN]

-- Presented at CIST 2023

• Less is More: The Impact of Flexible PIN-Based Matching in a Ride-Hailing Platform. (with M. Qu, C. Liang & M. Miric)

Other Paper (Pre-PhD):

• Proposing Ties in a Dense Hypergraph of Academics. Social Informatics. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. SocInfo 2015. (with A. Gerow, E. Duede & J. Evans) [Paper Link]

Acronyms for the conferences and workshops:

AIML: Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Business Analytics

AOM: Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

CHITA: Conference on Health IT and Analytics

CIST: Conference on Information Systems and Technology

CODE@MIT: Conference on Digital Experimentation @ MIT

CSWIM: China Summer Workshop on Information Management

EC: ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

HICSS: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

ICIS: International Conference on Information Systems

ICSF: International Conference on Smart Finance

ICSSI: International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation

INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting

MIW: Marketplace Innovation Workshop

MOM: Methodology, Organization, and Management Workshop

M&SOM: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Conference

NetSci: International School and Conference on Network Science

PlatStrat: Platform Strategy Research Symposium

POMS: Production and Operations Management Society Annual Conference

SCECR: Statistical Challenge in E-commerce Research

SocInfo: International Conference on Social Informatics

SMS: Strategic Management Society Annual Conference

TPM: Theory and Practice in Marketing Conference

WINDS: Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium

WISE: Workshop on Information Systems and Economics