| Kai H. Lim
香港城市大学教授
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【主题1】基于平台的功能特性，口碑，以及电商市场卖家销量的关系研究
【主题2】研究生产力：我是否可以在学术丛林中存活？
【时间】2019年3月8日（周五）上午9:00-11:45
Kai H. Lim, Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Information Technology Innovation and Management and Director of Research and Ph.D. Program at the Information Systems Department, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include cross-cultural issues related to information systems management, IT-enable business strategy, e-commerce, social media, mobile commerce and human-computer interactions. He served two terms (2011-2016) as a Senior Editor of MISQ and has served on the editorial board of ISR, MISQ, and JAIS. His has 14 published and forthcoming papers in the“UT Dallas journals”and is an AIS Fellow. Prior to joining CityU, he was on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University and the University of Hawaii. He has won numerous teaching and research awards and is one of the top-ranking teachers teaching in the CityU’s EMBA program. He is also an Honorary Professor of Fudan University, China.
【Speaker】Kai H. Lim, Professor, the Information Systems Department, City University of Hong Kong.
【Topic 1】Platform-Based Function Repertoire, Reputation, and Sales Performance of E-market- place Sellers (9:00-10:15am)
【Topic 2】Research Productivity: Can I Survive in this Academic Jungle? (10:30-11:45am)
【Time】Friday, Mar 8, 2019, 9:00-11:45 am
【Venue】Room 401, Weilun Building, Tsinghua SEM
【Organizer】Department of Management Science and Engineering
【Abstract for Topic 1】In today’s emerging and competitive e-marketplaces, sellers must take competitive actions to improve their sales performance. E-marketplace platform operators offer sellers a portfolio of platform-based functions that are intended to enhance competitiveness. However, little is known about how these platform-based functions can be used at the repertoire level to improve the sales performance of e-marketplace sellers. Extending competitive repertoire theory to the e-marketplace context and integrating it with the e-commerce literature on reputation, we posit that a seller could improve sales performance by using these functions as a repertoire, featuring such structural characteristics as large volume, high complexity, and heterogeneity. We also posit that the performance impact of this repertoire approach to function use varies depending on seller reputation, manifested as customer ratings. We empirically examined the hypotheses with a unique longitudinal dataset consisting of 43,992 seller-week observations from Taobao, one of the largest e-marketplaces in the world. Our analyses yield a set of interesting findings that unveil more nuanced theoretical relationships between different structural characteristics of the platform-based function repertoire and sales performance under different levels of seller reputation. We elaborate on how these findings contribute to the e-marketplace literature in the information systems field and the competitive action research in the strategy field. We also discuss implications for practice and make suggestions for future works.
【Abstract for Topic 2】Throughout our PhD studies and early academic career, PhD students and junior faculty members often question ourselves whether we can successfully graduate and obtain tenure. One of the key reasons for this constant doubt and lingering question comes from the difficulty in publishing in“top-tier”research journals, which has become a norm or requirement for most of the universities worldwide. Other than“good topics”and“luck”, what does it take to publish in top-tier journal? Are there a set of unique personal and institutional factors that enable a person to be more successful? It is possible for PhD students and junior scholars to learn and transform ourselves into outstanding researchers? Drawing from findings across various disciplines, the presenter will outline a set of personal and institutional factors that were believed and found to be significantly affecting research productivity. The presenter will also highlight some of the traits of“outstanding researchers”based on his observations of highly successful scholars.
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