Through the Lens of Uncertainty

My research interest has two streams.

1. E-commerce and online markets, Product Uncertainty

• Product uncertainty (Dimoka, Hong and Pavlou 2011, MIS Quarterly)
• Product fit uncertainty (Hong and Pavlou 2010, ICIS; Under 2nd round review in Information Systems Research)
• Small online vendor capabilities (Wang, Hong, Archer and Wang 2011, Journal of Global Information Management 19:4)

2. Economics of IS

• Using Consumer review data to categorize Products (ICIS 2012, SCECR 2012 with Pei-yu Chen and Lorin Hitt,)
• Quality adjusted consumer surplus. (WISE 2011,  with Paul Pavlou and Pei-yu Chen )
• Strategic Bidding and Personalized Pricing. (WISE 2011, ICIS 2012, and AoM 2012, with Paul Pavlou)
• Price Dispersion in e-markets for Services (AoM 2012)

Services

Reviewer for Journals and Conferences

• Information Systems Research: 2011 (3)
• Management Science: 2012 (1)
• MIS Quarterly:  2010 (1), 2011 (1), 2012 (1)
• Journal of Association for Information Systems: 2011 (1), 2012 (1)
• Information & Management: 2012(1)
• International Journal of IT and Decision Making: 2011 (1)
• IT and People   2009 (1)
• International Conference on Information Systems 2010, 2011, 2012
• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2010, 2012
• Academy of Management Conference: 2011, 2012
• Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, 2012

Other Services:

Session Chair:  2012 Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA
The IT in Firms and Markets Track of OCIS Division
Local Arrangements Chair:  MIS Academic Leadership Conference, Philadelphia, November 1-3, 2012

Honors and Awards:

• ICIS Best Paper Nomination (Economics of IS Track) (2012)
• AMCIS Best Paper Award, second runner-up (2012)
• AMCIS 2012 Doctoral Consortia Member (2012)
• Academy of Management Conference (OCIS division) best paper (2012)
• UW Doctoral Internationalization Consortia (2011)
• The 4th Young Scholar’s Forum Seed Research Fund (with David Reibstein and Karen Xie) $ 1500
• The 4th Young Scholar’s Forum Seed Research Fund (with Kanliang Wang) $ 1200
• Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) Research Scholarship $ 2500
• The 3rd Young Scholar’s Forum Seed Research Fund (with Pei-yu Chen and Lorin M. Hitt) $ 1000
• Fox School of Business, Temple University (2011-2012)
• The 3rd Young Scholar’s Forum Seed Research Fund (with Wenjuan Yuan and Angelika Dimoka)  $ 2000
• Dean’s Outstanding Publication Award (with Angelika Dimoka and Paul A. Pavlou)   $ 1000
• Outstanding Language Specialist for the 29th Olympic Games