Sean X. XU Assistant Professor Email:seanxu@ust.hk PhD 2005 University of California, Irvine, Information Systems M.Sc. 2000 Tsinghua University, Strategic Management B.Eng. 1998 Tsinghua University, Information Systems

• Assistant Professor, HKUST, 2006-present

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

   Articles

• "Information Technology in Supply Chains: The Value of IT-Enabled Resources under Competition," Information Systems Research, 2009, 20(1), pp.18-32 (with Shutao Dong and Kevin Zhu)

• "How does Information Technology Shape Supply Chain Relationships? Evidence on the Number of Suppliers," Journal of Management Information Systems, 2008, 25(2), pp.41-72 (with Jason Dedrick and Kevin Zhu)

• "Communication Platforms in Electronic Commerce: A Three-Dimension Analysis," Info: The Journal of Policy, Regulation and Strategy for Telecommunications, 2008, 10(2), pp.47-56 (with Xu Yan and Xiaona Zheng).

• “The Process of Innovation Assimilation by Firms in Different Countries: A Technology Diffusion Perspective on E-Business,” Management Science, 2006, 52(10), pp.1557-1576 (with Kevin Zhu and Ken Kraemer).

• “Migration to Open-Standard Interorganizational Systems: Network Effects, Switching Costs, and Path Dependency,” MIS Quarterly, 2006, 30, pp.515-539 (with Kevin Zhu, Ken Kraemer and Vijay Gurbaxani).

• “Information Technology Payoff in E-Business Environments: An International Perspective on Value Creation of E-Business in the Financial Services Industry,” Journal of Management Information Systems, 2004, 21(1), pp.17-54 (with Kevin Zhu, Ken Kraemer and Jason Dedrick).

• “Global Technology, Local Adoption: A Cross-Country Investigation of Internet Adoption by Companies in the United States and China,” Electronic Markets, 2004, 14(1), pp.13-24 (with Kevin Zhu and Jennifer Gibbs).

• “E-Business Adoption by European Firms: A Cross-Country Assessment of the Facilitators and Inhibitors,” European Journal of Information Systems, 2003, 12(4), pp.251-268 (with Kevin Zhu and Ken Kraemer).

   Book Chapters

• “The Global Diffusion and Convergence of E-Commerce: Cross-Country Analyses,” in Global E-Commerce: Impacts of National Environments and Policy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2006, ISBN: 05218-4822-9 (with Kevin Zhu and Ken Kraemer).

• “What Drives E-Business Diffusion among Firms? Evidence from European Companies.” in European E-Business Report: A Portrait of E-Business in 10 Sectors of the EU Economy, Enterprise Publications, Luxembourg, 2004, ISBN: 92-894-7952-3 (with Kevin Zhu, Ken Kraemer, Werner B. Korte and Karsten Gareis).

SERVICE ACTIVITIES WITHIN COLLEGE AND PROFESSION

• China AIS 2007 Conference Procedure Committee

• CSWIM 2007 Program Committee

• INFORMS-CIST 2004 Program Committee

• Reviewer of Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Production and Operations Management, Decision Support Systems, OMEGA, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, International Journal of Management Reviews, International Journal of Production Economics, Communications of the AIS, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, ICIS, HICSS, INFORMS-CIST, CSWIM

HONORS

• Vernon Zimmerman Best Paper Award, with Joanna Ho and Anne Wu, the 19th Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2007.

• Best Paper Award, with Kevin Zhu and Ken Kraemer, international track, the 10th Americas’ Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2004, New York, NY.

• Best Theme Paper Award, with Kevin Zhu and Jason Dedrick, the 24th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2003, Seattle, WA.

• SAP Doctoral E-Business Research Award, international competition sponsored by SAP Inc. and the eBusiness Research Center at Pennsylvania State University, 2003.

• Best Paper Award (conference theme), with Kevin Zhu and Ken Kraemer, conference theme, the 23rd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2002, Barcelona, Spain.