"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish." - Steve Jobs
I am an Associate Professor at the Peking University Guanghua School of Management.
I hold a PhD in Business Administration (Information Systems) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (supervisor: Professor Michael Zhang).
I am interested in understanding how information technologies disrupt and shape social, economic coordination. I study online social networks, user-generated content and crowdsourcing, platform business and financial technologies.
Updates:
October 2017 - I will present a paper on sponsored data services at ICIS 2017.
September 2017 - I am joining the Peking University. Please send your email correspondence to alexwang@gsm.pku.edu.cn.
September 2017 - My GRF proposal "The Impacts and Evolution of Boundary Resources in Platform-based Ecosystems – The Case of Mobile Application Platforms" was funded. My joint (with Zach) course proposal "CB3045 Advanced Seminar on Business Case Analysis" was approved.
March 2017 - My paper with Xin Li on Bitcoin exchange rate determination has been published in Decision Support Systems. Hope you like it! link
November 2016 - My Gateway Education course proposal "Technology Ventures: From ICT Innovations to Successful Enterprises" was approved.
June 2016 - My paper with Kevin Hong and Paul Pavlou published at Information Systems Research feature in LSE Business Review.