Topic: Online Consumer Review in Cross-Border Electronic Commerce

Speaker: Prof. J. Leon Zhao, City University of Hongkong

Host: Pro. ZHOU Weihua

Time: 14:00-15:30 March 12th, 2017 (Sunday)

Venue: Room 404

Abstract:

Since  the dawn of Information Systems (IS) as a new academic discipline 50  years ago, IS has grown into a mature discipline.  However, IS has many  reference disciplines and has many fractions such as design science,  behavioral science, organizational science, and IS economics.  This  fractional view makes the IS discipline complex to study by doctoral  students and difficult to understand by other disciplines. The presenter  will show that the current factional view is based more on research  methodology and less on research outcome.  Further, there is a  noticeable trend that various research fractions are converging towards  data-centric research paradigms in the big data era. A new literature  platform called ISTopic.org under development in City University of Hong  Kong and several data centric papers he has published in MISQ, JoC, and  I&M will be outlined as part of this talk.

About the Speaker:

J.  Leon Zhao is currently Chair Professor in IS, City University of Hong  Kong. He holds Ph.D. from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He is  director of Center on Global Internet Finance and Lab on Enterprise  Process Innovation and Computing. He was awarded Chang Jiang Scholar  Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University in 2009.