Chong Wang

Dr. Alex Wang is an Associate Professor at the Peking University, Guanghua School of Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Information Systems) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He got an MSc in Finance from Tsinghua University and a BS in Applied Mathematics from Peking University.

Dr. Wang's research focuses on social and economic impacts of modern information technologies. Specifically, he is interested how information technologies, such as the Internet, blockchain and artificial intelligence shape and enhance social, economic coordination/intelligence. He studies social media production, online social networks, crowdsourcing, emerging financial technologies and online privacy. He has published in journals such as Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. He serves as an associate editor for Information Systems Journal.

Research Areas

• Online social networks
• Digital platforms
• Financial technology
• Digital privacy

Journal Publications

• Chong (Alex) Wang, Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang and Il-Horn Hann, 2017, “Socially Nudged: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Friends’ Social Influence in Online Product Ratings,” Information Systems Research, forthcoming.
• Xin Li and Chong (Alex) Wang, 2017, “The Technology and Economic Determinants of Exchange Rates of Cryptocurrencies – The Case of Bitcoin,” Decision Support Systems, 95, pp. 49-60.
• Yili Hong, Chong (Alex) Wang and Paul Pavlou, 2016, “Comparing Open versus Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Online Labor Markets,” Information Systems Research, 27(1), pp. 49-69.
• Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang and Chong (Alex) Wang, 2012, “Network Positions and Contributions to Online Public Goods: The Case of the Chinese Wikipedia,” Journal of Management Information Systems, 29(2), pp. 11-40.
• Chong (Alex) Wang and Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang, 2009, “Sampling of Information Goods,” Decision Support Systems, 48(1), pp. 14-22.

Conference Proceedings

• “Sponsored Data Services and Consumer Welfare on Mobile Broadband,” with Liangfei Qiu and Jia Jia, ICIS 2017, Paper 17 (Economics).
• “The Impact of Team Ranking on Team Lending Performance: An Empirical Study on Kiva,” with Xuechen Luo and Ling Ge, PACIS 2016 Proceedings, Paper T27-719 (Economics of IS).
• “To Follow or Be Followed? Social Interaction and Crowdsourced Stock Prediction,” with Alvin Leung, Collective Intelligence Conference 2016.
• “Network Overlap and Network Blurring in Online Social Networks,” with Nan (Andy) Zhang, ICEIS 2016.
• “Time to Adoption of a New IT Service: A Field Experiment on Adopting Office365,” with Yue Feng and Kar Yan Tam, ICIS 2015 Proceedings, Paper 21 (IT implementation).
• “The Impacts of Informant and Friend Relationships on Online Opinion Sharing,” with Yue Feng and Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang, ICIS 2013 Proceedings, Paper 9 (Economics of IS).
• “All Online Friends are not Created Equal: Discovering Influence Structure in Online Social Networks,” with Xi Chen and Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang, PACIS 2013 Proceedings, Paper 56 (1st Runner-up, Best Paper Award), 2013.
• “Privacy in Online Social Networks,” with Nan Zhang and Yan Xu, ICIS 2011 Proceedings, Paper 3, 2011.
• “Role Identity Salience and User Participation in Online Communities,” with Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang and Kar Yan Tam, ICIS 2010 Proceedings, Paper 206, 2010.