Chewei Liu

Chewei Liu is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 in Information Systems from the University of Maryland.

His current research interests build on two streams of works: (1) IT and Healthcare; (2) IT Implementation and Adoption. In the first streams of the work, he addresses the interplay of digital technologies with social connections on healthy behavior. Specifically, he explores how to leverage individuals' social connections to increase individuals' physical activity. He conducts two randomized field experiments to examine the effects of different mechanisms (social norms, goal setting, and reciprocity) on habit formation of physical activity. In addition to the filed experiments, he conducts a series of lab experiments in the tradition of behavioral economics to investigate the effect of increasing the information endowment of customers in credence goods markets.

The second stream of his work explores the impact of IT in both emerging and developed markets. For emerging market, he examines the direct effect of computer adoption on short-term wage and IT spillover effects on long-term income mobility by using national survey data in India. He also explores the relationship between online-channel usage and customer performance at a large Chinese securities firm. Extending from this work, he analyzes the impact of mobile adoption on investors’ portfolio diversification. For developed markets, he uses a sample of American higher-education institutions to investigate how IT governance and outsourcing IT security affect the likelihood of cybersecurity breaches.

He has presented his research at several premier conferences and workshops such as the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Conference of Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), International Conference for Smart Health (ICSH), and Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM).

In 2017, he received the All-S.T.A.R Fellowship and CIBER Ph.D. Research award. His research has also been awarded the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Best Paper runner-up and International Conference for Smart Health (ICSH) Best Paper award runner-up.

Education

• Ph.D. , 2018, Information Systems, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (UMD).
• MS, 2007, Information Systems, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU).

Awards, Honors & Certificates

• Frank T. Paine Award for Academic Achievement, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 2018
• International Conference for Smart Health (ICSH 2017) Best Paper Nominee, June, 2017
• All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship ($10,000), awarded by the graduate school to only 16 out of approximately 4000 graduate students at UMD and the only recipient from the Business School, May, 2017
• CIBER PhD Research Award ($4,000), Center for International Business Education and Research, April, 2017
• Summer Research Fellowship ($5,000), University of Maryland Graduate School, June 2016
• Outstanding Graduate Assistantship Award, Top 2% of Graduate Assistants of approximately 4,000 UMD graduate students, University of Maryland Graduate School, May 2016
• International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016) Best Paper (Runner-up), December, 2016

Selected Publications

• Liu, C., Gao, G., and Agarwal, R. (2021). Reciprocity or Self-Interest? Leveraging Digital Social Connections for Healthy Behavior. MIS Quarterly, in press.
• Liu, C., Huang, P., and Lucas, H. (2020). IT Governance, Outsourcing, and Cybersecurity: Evidence from the U.S. Higher Education. Journal of Management Information Systems, 37(3), 758-787.
• Liu, C., Gao, G., Agarwal, R. (2019). Unraveling the “Social” in Social Norms: The Conditioning Effect of User Connectivity. Information Systems Research, 30(4), 1272-1295.
• Agarwal, R., Liu, C., and Prasad, K. (2019). Personal research, second opinions, and the diagnostic effort of experts. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 158, 44-61.
• Whitaker, J., Mithas, S., and Liu, C. (2019). Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Toward a Contextual Understanding of Compensation of IT Professionals Within and Across Geographies. Information Systems Research, 30(3), 892-911.