2023 Lecture review

Overview: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) serves as the main funding source for independent scientific research by Chinese scholars. In recent years, the competition for NSFC grants in economic management has intensified. A successful application requires a unique research focus and concise, compelling writing. This lecture, based on the speaker's experience with four successful NSFC grant applications, provides insights from both the applicant's and the reviewer's perspectives. It emphasizes key steps and considerations in writing NSFC grant proposals, comparing them to social science grants like the National Social Science Fund and the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Fund.

Date: 22 September, 2023

Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (Beijing Time)

Zhen Zhu is a professor at the School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), where he also serves as the head of the Department of Management Science and Engineering. He is a doctoral supervisor and was selected for the Hubei Province Young Science and Technology Morning Light Program in 2016.

His research focuses on digital platform ecosystems, value creation, big data, and AI-driven intelligent management and innovation. Zhen Zhu has led multiple national research projects and published over 40 academic papers in prestigious domestic and international journals. He has received awards for his research contributions.

Zhen Zhu is actively involved in academic organizations and serves as an editor for various SSCI international journals in the field of electronic commerce and management.

Overview: To be a person is to have a story/theory to tell. Mine, which I call “leading a self-disruptive life”, is that you have to do well in your current position, but doing too well is just a waste of life. The optimal excellence would be at the just-good level to enable your trajectory-shift for experiencing desired novelty. If your excellence is much above this, you would be regarded as a success, which then deprives you of such an opportunity of shift. Conversely, if your excellence is much below this, you would be forced to accept the status quo or change for a new trajectory that is out of your control as well. This theory contributes to adding color to mediocre persons’ life such as mine and protecting a to-be-creative life from involution, which can substantially improve social welfare. I will use the longitudinal, real-time collected data of my personal life to illustrate this theory and highlight its boundary conditions and limitations.

Date: 11 September, 2023

Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Beijing Time)

Dr. Hong Hou is an Assistant Professor at the National School of Development, Peking University. His areas of research span the fields of strategy, ecosystem and business model innovation, and digitalization. He received PhD degree from the University of Cambridge. His research work has been published at leading journals such as Long Range Planning and Technovation. Before pursuing a PhD, he worked as a strategy consultant for about 10 years. The deep-rooted industrial experiences allow him to well integrate his academic knowledge to industrial practices, enrich his research as well as teaching to students at different levels.

Overview: Theory development and the associated theoretical contribution are at the heart of most papers published in leading journals in the social and behavioral sciences. Recognizing that this involves both art and science, this workshop will delve into both aspects. The emphasis on theory will be situated within the concept of a broad research program.

Date: 19 July, 20 July, 21 July, 2023

Time: 8:00 AM -11:00 AM (Beijing Time)

Viswanath Venkatesh, who completed his PhD at the University of Minnesota in 1997, is an Eminent Scholar and Verizon Chair of Business Information Technology at the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech. Since Fall 2021, he is also the Director of Pamplin’s Executive PhD program. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in Spring 2021, he was on the faculty at the University of Maryland and University of Arkansas. In addition to presenting his work at universities across the world, he has held visiting appointments at universities around the world. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists, both in terms of premier journal publications and citation impact. He is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the Information Systems Society, INFORMS.

Overview: In this talk, the speaker would like to share with the audience his experiences as an editor of three IS-indexed (SCI and SSCI) journals. The speaker would take an “interactive” approach by not just describing “A Journey from Conducting Research, Writing Papers to Getting Published” but also throwing questions to the audience so that all participants can learn from each other. In particular, the talk will have the following four discussion points:

1. What is research and for what?

2. What editors and reviewers want?

3. Issues on from conducting research to writing papers.

4. Issues on from writing papers to getting the papers published.

If time permits, the talk will end with a Q&A session.

Date: April 20, 2023

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM (Beijing Time)

Professor Patrick Y.K. Chau is Vice Provost for Research and Knowledge Exchange and Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He conducts research in IT adoption and electronic commerce and has more than 100 papers published in prestigious journals in the Information Systems discipline. He has been on Elsevier’s List of Top 2% Scientists worldwide since its first release.  As of January 2023, his Google scholar citations exceed 26,000 with an H-index of 60 and, in Scopus, more than 10,000 with an h-index of 42.

Overview: This seminar is aimed at sharing experiences about the review process and how review comments could be addressed. Particularly, the seminar will walk participants through the review cycle of an article, which has been published in a premium management journal, from initial submission to final acceptance. Participants will have the opportunity to observe the evolution of review comments throughout the review cycle and to also gain hands-on practice at responding to these comments. Actual responses to reviewers will be shared with participants to derive lessons for crafting effective responses to review comments.

Date: April 6 & 7, 2023

Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Beijing Time)

Chee-Wee Tan is a Professor at the Department of Digitalization in Copenhagen Business School (CBS), an Honorary Professor of Business Analytics and Digitalization at the Nottingham University Business School China in the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), an Adjunct Professor at the School of Business in Monash University, a Distinguished Research Scholar at the Faculty of Business in Lingnan University (LNU), a Guest Professor at the School of Management in the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the School of Information Systems and Technology Management in University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Chee-Wee received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of British Columbia. His research interests focus on design and innovation issues related to digital services. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), and Decision Support Systems (DSS), among others. Apart from his current appointment as a Senior Editor for MISQ, Chee-Wee is currently serving on the editorial boards for ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT), Industrial Management & Data Systems (IMDS), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE-TEM), Information & Management (I&M), Internet Research (IntR), Journal for the Association of Information Systems (JAIS), Journal of Computer Information Systems (JCIS), and Journal of Management Analytics (JMA). Finally, Chee-Wee is the co-director of the joint research center between CBS and the Antai College of Economics and Management (ACEM) in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) as well as the Vice President (Designate) of Publications for the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

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