Sang-Yong Tom Lee is a professor of Hanyang University School of Business (HUBS). He received a B.A. (1990) and a M.S. (1992) in Economics from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. (1999) from Texas A&M University. Before joining Hanyang University, Professor Lee was on the faculty of Department of Information Systems, National University of Singapore as an assistant professor.

He has taught various courses such as Management Information Systems, Business Telecommunications, Business Analytics, and others in the MIS area. His research interests are in economics of information systems and data analytics. More specifically, his recent works are on online information privacy/security, value of IT, social media analytics, and fintech. His papers have been published in various journals such as Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information & Management, Electronic Commerce Research & Applications, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, and others.

Professional Experience

• Dean, School of Business, Hanyang University, 2022 – 2024. 

• Vice President for Budget and Planning, Hanyang University, 2020 – 2022.

• Associate Dean for MBA, School of Business, Hanyang University, 2018 – 2019.

• Professor, School of Business, Hanyang University, 2011 – present.

• Associate Professor, School of Business, Hanyang University, 2004 – 2011.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 1999 – 2004.

Education

• Ph.D., Department of Economics, Texas A&M University, 1994 – 1999

• MS, Department of Economics, Seoul National University, 1990 – 1992

• BA, Department of Economics, Seoul National University, 1984 – 1990   

Research Interests

• Economics of Information Systems

• Information Privacy and Security

• Value of ICT investments (ICT Productivity / ICT Spillover)

• Econometrical Analysis on Big Data

• Social Media Analytics

• Fintech

Selected Journal Papers

(Please refer to https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=g5e8gjIAAAAJ for a full list.)

• "The differential impact of IT investments in the long term: a long-horizon event study," (with Lim, Jung, and Eom), Industrial Management & Data Systems, August 2024.

• "Social informedness and investor sentiment in the GameStop short squeeze," (with K. Kim and R. Kauffman), Electronic Markets, May 2023.

• "Does R&D Mediate the Impact of ICT on Productivity through Knowledge Transfer?," (with C. Jeong), Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems, December 2022.

• "The dynamics of cryptocurrency market behavior: sentiment analysis using Markov chains," (with K. Kim and S. Assar), Industrial Management & Data Systems, February 2022.

• "Fashion informatics of the Big 4 Fashion Weeks using topic modeling and sentiment analysis," (with Y. Choi, S. Yoon, B. Xuan, and K. Lee), Fashion and Textiles 8 (1), 2021.

• “Are information and communication technologies (ICTs) displacing workers? The relationship between ICT investment and employment,” (with W.J. Jung and H.W. Kim), Information Development. 36(4), November 2020.

• “The impact of information sharing legislation on cybersecurity industry,” (with A. Yang and Y.J. Kwon), Industrial Management and Data Systems. 120(9), September 2020.

•  “Information security breaches and IT security investments: Impacts on competitors,” (with C. Jeong and J.-H. Lim), Information & Management, 56(5), July 2019.

•  “ICT R&D and technology knowledge flows in Korea,” (with W.J. Jung), Journal of Database Management. 29(4), November 2018.

•  “Combining machine-based and econometrics methods for policy analytics insights,” (with Kauffman, Kim, Hoan, and Ren), Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 25, September 2017.

•  “Leveraging social media for electronic commerce in Asia: Research areas and opportunities,”(With C.W.D. Phang), Electronic Commerce Research and Applications 14, May 2015.

•  “Korean Online Game's Platform Competition under Two-Sided Market Characteristic,” (with S.J. Kang), Journal of Global Information Management, 2014.12.

•  “The impact of technology transfer contract on a firm’s market value in Korea,” (with J-S Han), Journal of Technology Transfer, October 2013

•  “Impact of Vendor Selection on Firms' IT Outsourcing: The Korea Experience," (with J-S Han), Journal of Global Information Management, 20(2), 25-43, April 2012.

•  “Information and Communications Technology (ICT) International Spillovers,” (with Gholami, Guo, and Higon), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 56(2), 329-340, May 2009.

•  “Measuring Open Source Software Success,” (with Kim and Gupta), OMEGA : The International Journal of Management Science, 37(2), 426-438, April 2009.

•  "Differential Effects of IT Investments: Complementarity and Effect of GDP Level," (with Kim, Kang, and Sanders), International Journal of Information Management, 28(6), 508-516, December 2008.

•  "Consumer Privacy and Marketing Avoidance," (with Hann, Hui, and Png) Management Science, 54(6), 1094-1103, June 2008.

•  "A Time Series Analysis of International ICT Spillover," (with Zhang), Journal of Global Information Management, 15(4), 64-78, October-December 2007.

•  "Overcoming Online Information Piracy Concerns: An Information Processing Theory Approach," (with Hann, Hui, and Png), Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 13–42, Fall 2007.

• "Price Comparison and Price Dispersion: Different Products and Different Retailers at Different Internet Maturity Stages," (with Bock and Li), International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 101–124. Summer 2007.

•  "The value of IT to firms in a developing country in the catch-up process: An empirical comparison of China and the United States," (with Meng), Decision Support Systems, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 737-745, April 2007.

•  "The Value of Privacy Assurance: A Field Experiment," (with Hui and Teo), MIS Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 19-34, March 2007.

•  “Who Gets Spammed?,” (with Hann, Hui, and Png), Communications of the ACM, Vol. 49, No. 10, pp. 83-87, October 2006.

•  “The Causal Relationship between Information and Communication Technology and Foreign Direct Investment,” (with Gholami and Heshmati), World Economy, Volume 29, No.7, pp. 43-62, January 2006.

•  “Time Series Analysis in the Assessment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Impact at the Aggregate Level,” (with Gholami and Tong), Information & Management, Volume 42, No. 7, pp.1009-1022, October 2005.

•  “Buyer Shopping Costs and Retail Pricing: An Indirect Empirical Test,” (with Png), Review of Marketing Science, Volume 2, Article 6, 2004.

•  "Bundling Strategy in Base-Supplemental Goods Markets: The Case of Microsoft," European Journal of information Systems, pp. 217-225, December 2000.

Current Working Papers

• "Social Sentiment and Mobile Trader Informedness," with K. Kim and R. Kauffman.

• "Double-edged Entrepreneurship: Founders in IT Firms," with Y. Kwon, A. Yang, and S. Kim.

• "Friend or Foe? Bike-Sharing and Ride-Sharing in New York City," with Y. Kwon, A. Yang, and S. Kim.

• The Differential Impact of IT Investments in the Long-Term: A Long-Horizon Event Study," with C Lim, W.J. Jung, and C Eom.

External Professional Service (selected)

• Editor-in-Chief, Asian Pacific Journal of Information Systems, 2014 – 2017.

• Senior Editor, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2018 – present.

• Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2015 – 2018.

• Associate Editor, Information & Management, 2021 – present.

• Editorial Board Member, Information & Management, 2012 – 2020.

• Editorial Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2012 – present.

• Editorial Board Member, Journal of AIS, 2012 – 2014.

• Ad hoc reviewers of MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Management Science, and others.