To promote the development of China's information systems field and the production of high-quality research outcomes, the CNAlS-UNNC Paper Development Workshop hosted China Association for Information Systems (CNAIS) and organized by the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC)-will be held on July 13, 2025, in Ningbo, Zhejiang.
This workshop aims to provide a high-level academic exchange platform for scholars, PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers in the field of information systems and related disciplines. The workshop has invited several editors from UTD24 journals and other top international journals to serve as mentors. Through in-depth paper reviews, group discussions, and interactive Q&A sessions the workshop seeks to help participants enhance research quality, expand academic networks, and accelerate international publication.
Specifically, workshop participants will have the opportunities to:
- Present their ongoing research projects and manuscripts;
- Receive constructive feedback from a distinguished panel of journal editors;
- Network with fellow researchers;
- Gain new perspectives through inspiring keynote addresses delivered by Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research;
- Enhance paper writing skills.
The workshop is open to scholars at all levels, and we especially encourage early-career scholars (PhD students, postdocs, and assistant professors) to attend.
Workshop Information
Date: 13 July, 2025
Venue: Nottingham Business School Ningbo China, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Workshop Panel
Suprateek Sarker currently serves as the Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Commerce Professor (Information Technology) at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. He is also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an Honorary Professor at the Business School of the University of Sydney, Australia. Additionally, he is the recipient of the 2023 White Broome Award. Prof. Sarker holds positions on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals, including Information Systems Research (currently as the Editor-in-Chief) and the Journal of MIS (as a member of the board of editors). Furthermore, he serves as an Editorial Advisory Board member for journals such as Information & Organization, Information Technology & People, Decision Support Systems, AIS Transactions on HCI, Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and the International Journal of Information Management. He has previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the AIS and the Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, as well as a Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and the Decision Sciences Journal. Professor Sarker's research has appeared in several top journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Journal of the Association of Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Information & Organization, the European Journal of Science Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Journal, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, the Journal of Information Technology, Information Technology & People, MIS Quarterly Executive, Communications of the AIS, Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on MIS, ACM Data Base, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, IEEE Software, and the Decision Sciences Journal, as well as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
Chee-Wee Tan is a Professor at the Department of Management and Marketing in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Prof. Tan is holding, or has held, Honorary and Guest Professorship positions at Lingnan University (LNU), Monash University Malaysia (MUM), the University of New South Wales (UNSW), the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Additionally, Prof. Tan is a member of Policy Committee for MISQ. Chee-Wee has served or is currently serving on the editorial boards for ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT), DSS, EJIS, Industrial Management & Data Systems (IMDS), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE-TEM), Information & Management (I&M), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), Internet Research (IntR), Journal for the Association of Information Systems (JAIS), Journal of Computer Information Systems (JCIS), Journal of Management Analytics (JMA), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), and MIS Quarterly (MISQ). His research interests focus on design and innovation issues related to digital platforms. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Operations Management (JOM), Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), and Decision Support Systems (DSS), among others.
Huigang Liang is a Professor and FedEx Chair of Excellence in the University of Memphis. Dr. Liang has served as associate editor for MISQ and is currently senior editor for JAIS and associate editor for ISR. His research interests include socio-behavioral, managerial and strategic information technology issues at both individual and organizational levels in a variety of contexts. Dr. Liang’s work has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, Journal of AIS, MIT Sloan Management Review, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Journal and Journal of Strategic Information Systems, among others. His research has been funded by grants from NIH, FedEx and Sloan Foundation.
Jason Bennett Thatcher holds the Tandean Rustandy Esteemed Professorship at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He is also a Full Professor of Management Science at the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester and an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham. He received the College of Business and Behavioral Science's 2008 Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award at Clemson University. He is or has served in senior editor and associate editor roles for several journals, Including Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, AIS Transactions on HCI, Associate Editor at Information Systems Research, Database for Advances of Information Systems. Jason studies individual decision-making, strategic alignment, and workforce issues related to the effective use of information technology in organizations. His more recent projects have focused on cybersecurity, social media, and digital upper echelons. Jason has published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, Harvard Business Review, and others.
Jingjun (David) Xu is a professor in the Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Xu is currently serving as a senior editor for Information Systems Journal (ABS List 4) and associate editor for UTD Journal Information Systems Research (ISR), and he won the Best Associate Editor Award in ICIS 2020 and ISR Best Associate Editor Award in Oct 2021. Before joining University, he was the associate professor of MIS and Bomhoff Endowed Professor of Business at Wichita State University. His research interests include human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, healthcare, social media, technology adoption, and virtual reality. He has over 80 publications including 40 journal papers. His work has been published in all top four information systems journals (i.e., MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Association for Information Systems), interdisciplinary UTD journals such as Management Science and INFORMS Journal on Computing, as well as various IEEE journals.
Juan Feng currently serves as the Hon Hai Chair Professor, Deputy Chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Tsinghua SEM, Professor at the Institute of Innovation Management at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, and Director of the Research Center for Digital Economy (Greater Bay Area) at Tsinghua University's Shenzhen Institute of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SIEM). She is currently serving as a senior editor for Information System Research Journal. Professor Feng's research interests are in economics of Information systems, focusing on both analytical modeling and empirical analysis. She has been working on topics such as keyword auctions, advertising and pricing, the economics of online review, block chain and data ownership, etc. Her research has appeared in Production and Operations Management (POM), Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Science, Marketing Science, Informs Journal on Computing and Electronic Commerce Research and Application.
Qi (John) Dong is an associate professor (with tenure) at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. Previously, he was a tenured faculty member at Trinity College Dublin and University of Groningen, and received a PhD in information systems from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Best Track Paper Award at Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems in 2024, the Association for Information Systems Mid-Career Award in 2023, the MIS Quarterly Outstanding Associate Editor Award in 2022 and the Professorial Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin in 2022. He serves as an associate editor for Information Systems Research and as a senior editor for Journal of the Association for Information Systems. He was an associate editor for MIS Quarterly, which named him "Outstanding Associate Editor". He conducts computational and empirical research at the intersection of information systems, management and marketing. His research appears in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Management. His publications have received more than 7500 citations according to Google Scholar, and Stanford University named him in the World's Top 2% Scientists.
Xiaosong (David) Peng is a professor and associate dean and holds dean’s chair professorship in the College of Business, Lehigh University. David Peng’s research interests are in operations and supply chain strategy, technology management, data analytics and artificial intelligence applications in services and manufacturing operations, and healthcare operations management. Much of his research centers around how technology enables strategy and processes in manufacturing and service operations. Professor Peng’s research has appeared in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and the Journal of Supply Chain Management, among others. His research has been recognized by the Academy of Management Operations and Supply Chain Management division and Decision Science Institute. He has received research awards from the University of Houston, and a research fellowship from the University of Minnesota. The Association for Supply Chain Management has funded Professor Peng’s research on healthcare supply chain management. Professor Peng is a department editor at the Journal of Operations Management and senior editor at Production and Operations Management. He has received several editorial awards, including the Journal of Operations Management Best Associate Editor Award, Production and Operations Management Society Best Reviewer Award, etc.
Xin (Robert) Luo is a Distinguished Professor of Management Information Systems and an Endowed Dean's Professor of Research Excellence at the Robert O. Anderson School of Management of The University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He also serves as the Special Assistant to the Dean for Research Advancement at the Anderson School of Management. He now is an associate editor in Information & Management, and the co-editor of International Journal of Accounting and Information Management. He used to be the ad-hoc Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly, Associate Editor for Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Intellectual Capital, and International Conference on Information Systems. His research interests center around behavioral information systems security management, privacy protection, E-commerce/M-commerce, social commerce, innovative technologies (e.g., blockchain, artificial intelligence vs. human interactions, cloud computing, green IS, e-healthcare, social network, etc.) for strategic decision-making and development, and cross-cultural IT management. His work has been published in numerous top international journals, including Information Systems Research, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Computers & Security, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
Zhenhui (Jack) Jiang is a professor of Innovation and Information Management and the Padma and Hari Harilela Professor in Strategic Information Management at HKU Business School. He formerly served as the Area Head of Innovation and Information Management at HKU. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, he was a full professor of Information Systems and Analytics at School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS), where he served on the Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee. From 2015 to 2018, Prof. Jiang chaired the of SIGHCI of Association for Information Systems (AIS). Prof. Jiang’s research explores the broad economic and behavioral impacts of cutting-edge information technologies (IT) as well as the effective user interface design of such technologies. His work addresses significant issues in AI, human computer interaction, digital innovation, e-commerce, information privacy, social media, and healthcare. Professor Jiang is currently a Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly and he had also contributed to editorial boards of many leading Information Systems journals such as Journal of AIS (Senior Editor), Information Systems Research (Associate Editor), MIS Quarterly (Associate Editor), IEEE Transactions of Engineering Management. Prof. Jiang’s research is published in premier business journals, such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Management Science, and Journal of MIS, as well as in top-tier Computer Science conferences, like CHI. He has secured approximately US$3 million in research funding as a Principal Investigator and an additional US$4 million as a Co-Investigator. Prof. Jiang has taught extensively across MBA, EMBA, DBA, and executive education programs at prestigious institutions such as HKU Business School, NUS School of Computing, NUS Business School, NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. He also held positions as a Visiting Professor at Peking University and as a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Keynote Speaker
Suprateek Sarker
Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Eminent Professor of Commerce, University of Virginia
Editor-in-Chief, Information Systems Research
Workshop Committee
Xunhua Guo
Professor of Tsinghua University
Executive Director and Secretary-General of CNAIS
Zhijie Lin
Associate Professor of Tsinghua University
Deputy Secretary-General of CNAIS
Jie (Joseph) Yu
Associate Professor of University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Conference Co-Chair
Zhao Cai
Professor of University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Conference Co-Chair
Paper Submission
Submission Materials
Please submit a single PDF file that includes the following:
- A shortened version of the research paper, not exceeding 22 pages in total, including all figures, tables, references, and appendices. The manuscript should be formatted using Times New Roman font, 12-point font size, and double spacing.
- An optional one-page description outlining the specific issue(s) on which the participant would like to receive feedback during the workshop.
The workshop will adopt a small-group discussion format. Each group will be led by a senior scholar serving as a mentor, along with another scholar acting as a discussant, who will jointly guide 2 to 3 participants. Each participant will have approximately 20 minutes to present their research ideas, theoretical framework, research design, or preliminary findings. Following the presentation, the mentor and discussant will provide feedback.
In the spirit of fostering broader academic dialogue, the paper development sessions will be open to all registered conference participants.
Paper submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cnaisunncpdw2025
Workshop registration link: https://cnais.printkz.com/pages/login/index
Paper submission deadline: 10 June, 2025
Submission acceptance notification: 15 June, 2025
Workshop registration fee:
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Early Bird
Before 20 June 2025
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Regular Price
20 June 2025 – 13 July 2025
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Faculty
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1500 RMB
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1800 RMB
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Students
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1200 RMB
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1500 RMB
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For more information regarding conference registration and paper submission, please kindly scan the below QR code to get in the WeChat group and contact our staff in the group:
Workshop Agenda (Tentative)
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Time
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Session
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8:30-9:00
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Welcome and Registration
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9:00-9:15
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Opening Speech
Prof. Kok Wei Khong
Dean of Nottingham University Business School China
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9:15-10:15
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Keynote Speech
Prof. Suprateek Sarker
University of Virginia
Editor-in-Chief, Information Systems Research
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10:15-10:30
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Group Photo and Coffee/Tea Break
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10:30-12:00
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Parallel Session
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Editor Roundtable I
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Editor Roundtable II
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12:00-13:30
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Lunch Break
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13:30-16:00
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Parallel Feedback Sessions for Early/Advanced-stage Research
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16:00-17:00
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Networking Session
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Cancellation and Refund Policy
To cancel your registration or request a refund, please send a written request to the CNAIS-UNNC Committee by email at xmexcellent@yeah.net. To ensure proper handling, we kindly ask that all requests be made in writing—telephone requests cannot be processed.
Academic conferences are generally not designed for profit, and registration fees go directly toward covering the costs of the event. For this reason, we encourage all participants to review the refund policy carefully in case plans change.
Refunds will be processed as quickly as possible, and no later than one month after the event has concluded. All refunds will be issued to the original payment method used at the time of registration.
Refund Schedule:
- Full Refund – Full refunds will be granted for requests submitted by email on or before 15 June 2025.
- 50% Refund – Requests received between 16 June and 1 July 2025 will be eligible for a 50% refund.
- No Refund – Unfortunately, we are unable to offer refunds for requests received after 1 July 2025.
Recommendation Hotels
Liberal-Arts Hotel (in-campus)
- Address: 199 Taikang East Road, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China.
- Room rate: 308 RMB per night (breakfast for one); 328 RMB per night (breakfast for two)
- Contact for Reservation: 0574-88180818
Tianwei Art Hotel (1.4 kilometers away from the campus)
Hilton Garden Inn Ningbo (2.1 kilometers away from the campus)
- Address: 1099 Yinzhou Blvd, Yinzhou, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
- Room Rate: 400 RMB per night (breakfast for one); 460 RMB per night (breakfast for two)
- Contact for Reservation: 18268711859 (Oliver Lin)