Research
Data! Data! Data!.. I can't Make Bricks without Clay.
- by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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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) [Dissertation Chapter 2]
-- 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), 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
• R&D Alliances in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (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
• Mitigating Human Bias in Decision Making through Artificial Intelligence: Evidence from Knowledge Service Operations (with K. Hu & B. Baloch, Under Review) [SSRN]
-- Presented at MOM Workshop at Harvard Business School 2023
• Artificial Intelligence, CEO Turnover, and Directional Change in Firm Innovation (with X. Ma & L. Wu)
-- Presented at MOM Workshop at Harvard Business School 2023, AIML 2022, WISE 2022 (Best paper award, Finalist)
• GPTs and Labor Markets in the Developing Economy: Evidence from China (with H. Sun & T. Sun) [SSRN]
Topic 2: Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Toward Understanding the Bitcoin Mining and Exchange Markets. (with C. Jin, L. Qiu & J. Zhang, Under Review) [SSRN]
-- Presented at 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)
• 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
• You Say, Firm says: An Empirical Study on Employer Brand and Firm Performance. (with F. Jin & L. Hitt, Under Review) [SSRN]
-- Presented at HICSS 2021, WISE 2016
• COVID-19 and Platform Switching of Multihoming Workers in the Gig Economy. (with C. Liang & M. Qu) [SSRN]
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
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
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
TPM: Theory and Practice in Marketing Conference
WINDS: Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium
WISE: Workshop on Information Systems and Economics