Address
6-245, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
Phone
+852 34428531
Fax
+852 34420370
Email
Public CV
Research Areas
Economics of IT
Financial Technologies
Data Governance and Digitisation
Crowdsourcing and the Sharing Economy
Online Social Networks and Social Media
Artificical Intelligence
Privacy
Qualifications
PhD - Information Systems
MSc - Finance
BSc - Applied Mathematics
Biography
Dr. Chong (Alex) Wang is a Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the College of Business at the City University of Hong Kong. His research explores the impact of information technology on the generation, sharing, and utilization of information across various business and social contexts. His studies encompass a wide range of topics, including social media, online networks, the platform economy, financial technology, artificial intelligence, data governance, and digital privacy. His scholarly work advances the research frontier in these areas, addresses practical challenges faced by practitioners, and employs multiple methodologies to gather empirical evidence. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Management Science. Professor Wang serves as associate editor for prestigious IS journals like MIS Quarterly, Information and Management, and Information Systems Journal.
Publications
Journal Publications and Reviews
Wang, Lin; Wang, Chong (Alex); Yao, Xinyan / Befriended to polarise? The impact of friend identity on review polarisation - A quasi-experiment. May 2024; In: Information Systems Journal. Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 680-710
Zhao, Cheng ; Wang, Chong Alex / A cross-site comparison of online review manipulation using Benford’s law. March 2023; In: Electronic Commerce Research. Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 365-406
Lu, Tao ; Yuan, May; Wang, Chong (Alex); Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael) / Histogram Distortion Bias in Consumer Choices. December 2022; In: Management Science. Vol. 68, No. 12, pp. 8963-8978
Luo, Xuechen; Ge, Ling; Wang, Chong Alex / Crowdfunding for Microfinance Institutions: The New Hope?. March 2022; In: MIS Quarterly. Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 373-400
Zhang, Nan (Andy); Wang, Chong (Alex); Karahanna, Elena; Xu, Yan / PEER PRIVACY CONCERN: CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT. March 2022; In: MIS Quarterly. Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 491-530
WANG, Chong Alex; Zhang, Nan; WANG, Cong / Managing privacy in the digital economy. September 2021; In: Fundamental Research. Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 543-551
Lu, Xianghua; Lu, Tian; Wang, Chong (Alex); Wu, Ruofan / Can Social Notifications Help to Mitigate Payment Delinquency in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending?. August 2021; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 2564-2585
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Wang, Chong (Alex); Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael) / The Economics of IT and Digitization: Eight Questions for Research. March 2021; In: MIS Quarterly. Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 473-477
Wang, Chong (Alex); Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael); Hann, Il-Horn / Socially Nudged: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Friends’ Social Influence in Online Product Ratings. September 2018; In: Information Systems Research. Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 641-655
Li, Xin; Wang, Chong Alex / The technology and economic determinants of cryptocurrency exchange rates: The case of Bitcoin. March 2017; In: Decision Support Systems. Vol. 95, pp. 49-60
Hong, Yili; Wang, Chong (Alex); Pavlou, Paul A. / Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Online Labor Markets. March 2016; In: Information Systems Research. Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 49-69
Zhang, Xiaoquan Michael; Wang, Chong / Network positions and contributions to online public goods: The case of Chinese wikipedia. October 2012; In: Journal of Management Information Systems. Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 11-40
Wang, Chong (Alex); Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael) / Sampling of information goods. January 2009; In: Decision Support Systems. Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 14-22
Conference Papers
Leung, Alvin; Wang, Chong / Analyst-follow Function and Crowdsourcing Earnings Predictions. December 2016; Digital Enablement Conference 2016, 30/11/2016 - 02/12/2016, Sydney, Australia.
GE, Ling; LUO, Xuechen; WANG, Chong / When Microfinance meets Crowdfunding: the Impact of Kiva on Microfinance Institutions. December 2016; 15th Workshop on e-Business, 10/12/2016 - , Dublin, Ireland.
LUO, Xuechen; GE, Ling; Wang, Chong / Crowdfunding for Microfinance: The New Hope?. June 2016; The 10th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), 25/06/2016 - 26/06/2016, , China.
Leung, Alvin; WANG, Chong / To Follow or Be Followed?: Social Interaction and Crowdsourced Stock Prediction. June 2016; Collective Intelligence 2016, 01/06/2016 - 03/06/2016, , United States.
LI, Chen Wei; WANG, C; YUE, W T / WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT CROWDFUNDING? A REVIEW AND A RESEARCH FRAMEWORK. June 2015; Workshop on Internet and BigData Finance (WIBF), 11/06/2015 - 12/06/2015, , China.
Chen, Xi; Wang, Chong (Alex); Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael) / ALL ONLINE FRIENDS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL: DISCOVERING INFLUENCE STRUCTURE IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS. June 2013; 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2013), 18/06/2013 - 22/06/2013, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of.
Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works
Wang, Lin; Wang, Chong (Alex); Xu, Sean Xin; Guo, Fan; Li, Manzhou / People you may know: Friend recommendation, network formation, and online community participation. December 2020; ICIS 2020 Proceedings.
Luo, Dan; Fang, Yulin; Song, Peijian; Wang, Chong / The Impact of Digital Platform Rapid Release Strategy on App Update Behavior: An Empirical Study of Firefox. December 2019; International Conference on Information Systems 2019 Proceedings.
Qiu, Liangfei; Wang, Chong; Jia, Jia / Sponsored Data Services and Consumer Welfare on Mobile Broadband. 2018; ICIS 2017: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation.
Luo, Xuechen; Ge, Ling; Wang, Chong Alex / THE IMPACT OF TEAM RANKING ON TEAM LENDING PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON KIVA. June 2016; Proceeding of the 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2016).
Zhang, Nan Andy; Wang, Chong Alex / Network overlap and network blurring in online social networks. April 2016; Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2016). Vol. 2, pp. 327-332
Feng, Yue; Tam, Kar Yan; Wang, Chong (Alex) / Time to Adoption of a New IT Service. December 2015; ICIS 2015 Proceedings.
Feng, Yue; Wang, Chong Alex; Zhang, Xiaoquan Michael / The impacts of informant and friend relationships on online opinion sharing. December 2013; International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013): Reshaping Society Through Information Systems Design. Vol. 5, pp. 4044-4059
Chen, Xi; Wang, Chong (Alex); Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael) / All Online Friends Are Not Created Equal: Discovering Influence Structure in Online Social Networks. August 2012; ICEC '12 - Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce. pp. 276-277
Wang, Chong; Zhang, Xiaoquan / Network centrality and contributions to online public good - The case of Chinese Wikipedia. 2011; Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. pp. 4515-4524
Zhang, Nan Andy; Wang, Chong Alex; Yan, Xu / Privacy in online social networks. 2011; International Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011. Vol. 3, pp. 2252-2272
Zhang, Xiaoquan; Wang, Chong; Tam, Kar Yan / Role identity salience and user participation in online communities. 2010; ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems.
Zhang, Xiaoquan; Wang, Chong / Social-role identity salience and user participation in social networks. 2010; PACIS 2010 - 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. pp. 333-344
Wang, Chong; Zhang, Xiaoquan / Sampling of information goods. 2007; ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. Vol. 258, pp. 225-234
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