Wei Chen

Associate Professor

OPIM

Education/Professional Certification

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Biography

Wei Chen is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management (OPIM) at the School of Business, University of Connecticut. He is also the academic director of the UConn Digital Frontiers Initiative, which aims to facilitate collaborations between industry and academia, with a current emphasis on the business applications of generative AI.

Wei’s research studies platforms & crowds, financial technologies (FinTech), and the design and governance of generative AI. Utilizing theoretical models and granular data, he seeks to provide rigorous evidence to inform system and market design in these areas. His work has been published in leading academic journals, such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Production and Operations Management. He has received several best paper awards and nominations in information systems conferences and workshops, and the Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award from the INFORMS Information Systems Society.

Prior to join UConn in 2023, Wei was a tenured faculty member at the MIS department, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. He received his PhD in Innovation, Technology and Operations from the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego.

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Selected Publications

Recreational Cannabis Legalization and Illicit Drugs: Mortality, Usage, and Darknet Transactions (with Louis Liu and Karen Xie). Production and Operations Management, Accepted.
Signaling Effects under Dynamic Capacity in Online Matching Platforms: Evidence from Online Health Consultation Communities (with Liwei Chen, Arun Rai, and Xitong Guo). Information Systems Research, Forthcoming. [SSRN]
Quality Differentiation and Matching Performance in Peer-to-peer Markets: Evidence from Airbnb Plus (with Hongchang Wang, Benjamin Williams, and Karen Xie). Management Science, 2024, 70(7), 4260-4282. [SSRN]
How Incumbents Beat Disruptors? Evidence from Hotel Responses to Home Sharing (with Jianwei Liu, Karen Xie, Yong Liu, and Yunlong Sun). Production and Operations Management, 2023, 32(9), 2758-2774. [SSRN]
Regulating Professional Players in Peer-to-Peer Markets: Evidence from Airbnb (with Zaiyan Wei and Karen Xie). Management Science, 2023, 69(5), 2893-2918. [SSRN]
The Battle for Homes: How Does Home Sharing Disrupt Local Residential Markets? (with Zaiyan Wei and Karen Xie). Management Science, 2022, 68(12), 8589-8612. [SSRN]
Flourish or Perish? The Impact of Technological Acquisitions on Contributions to Open-Source Software (with Fujie Jin and Ling Xue). Information Systems Research, 2022, 33(3), 867-886. [SSRN]
Competition among Proprietary and Open-Source Software Firms: The Role of Licensing on Strategic Contribution (with Terrence August and Kevin Zhu). Management Science, 2021, 67(5), 3041-3066. [SSRN]
Emphasizing the Entrepreneur or the Idea? The Impact of Text Content Emphasis on Investment Decisions in Crowdfunding (with Wei Wang, Kevin Zhu, and Hongwei Wang). Decision Support Systems, 2020, 136(September), 113341. [SSRN]
Measuring and Managing the Externality of Managerial Responses to Online Customer Reviews (with Qiang Ye, Bin Gu, and Kevin Zhu). Information Systems Research, 2019, 30(1), 81-96. [SSRN]
Engaging Voluntary Contributions in Online Communities: A Hidden Markov Model (with Xiahua Wei and Kevin Zhu). MIS Quarterly, 2018, 42(1), 83-100. [SSRN]

Awards, Honors, and Grants

2022 Best Paper Runner-up, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2022)
2020 Best Paper Award in Track, and Best Paper Nominee for International Conference on InformationSystems (ICIS 2020)
2020 INFORMS Information Systems Society Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award
2020 Center for Management Innovations in Healthcare (CMIH) Research Grants
2019 NET Institute Summer Research Grant
2019 Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Research Grants
2018 Best Paper Runner-up, The 12th China SummerWorkshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2018)
2018 Co-PI, General Research Fund, The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2018-2019)
2017 Best Paper Award in Track, and Best Paper Nominee for International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017)
2016-2021 Eller College Dean’s Small Research Grants
2016 Best Paper Award, The 10th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2016)
2014 Best Paper Nominee, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2014)