Gongtai Wang

Ideas

Prospective Students

Current Topics of Interest

  • Effective AI adoption in organizations.
  • The evolution of blockchain technology.
  • Professional services in the AI era.

Expected Student Qualities

  • Eager to read widely across serious publications (e.g., research articles, non-fictions, industry reports) to stay current with the latest developments in the real world and academia, as well as the ins and outs of the development.
  • Self-motivated to explore digital technology and business in depth and conduct careful due diligence to collect and analyze data rigorously and transparently.
  • Able to build clear, evidence-based arguments through seamless logical reasoning, with the ultimate goal of making their insights useful for real-world businesses.

What I Offer

  • Expertise in digital innovation and qualitative research
    • Research Areas:
      Digital innovation, design thinking.
    • Research Approaches:
      Primarily qualitative (case study, grounded theory, and process research), complemented by computational (event structure modeling, and topic modeling).
    • Theoretical Foundations:
      The thesis of line, assemblage theory, affordance theory, general theory of institutional facts, sensemaking, hermeneutics, process philosophy, framing, path theory, and embodied cognition.
  • Active involvement in global research collaborations and cross-cultural teaching.

Expression of Interest: Requirements

Your expression of interest email should include the following components:

  1. Description of a Practical Phenomenon of Interest:
    A clear and concise description of a real-world phenomenon that motivates your research interest and aligns with your scholarly aspirations.
  2. Data Access Potential:
    A brief explanation of your access to data relevant to the chosen phenomenon, demonstrating that the project is empirically grounded and feasible.
  3. Research Proposal:
    A proposal that showcases your intellectual curiosity, originality, and analytical capability, outlining the overarching research question, potential methodological approaches, and anticipated research outcomes.
  4. An Analytical Review of Key Readings:
    A critical review (800–1000 words) of the following five essential readings. This review should demonstrate deep engagement, analytical rigor, and explicit connections between the literature and your research proposal.
    • Yoo, Y., Henfridsson, O. and Lyytinen, K., 2010. The new organizing logic of digital innovation: An agenda for information systems research. Information Systems Research, 21(4), pp.724-735.
    • Henfridsson, O., Nandhakumar, J., Scarbrough, H. and Panourgias, N., 2018. Recombination in the open-ended value landscape of digital innovation. Information and Organization, 28(2), pp.89-100.
    • Yoo, Y., 2010. Computing in everyday life: A call for research on experiential computing. MIS Quarterly, 34(2), pp.213-231.
    • Christensen, C. M. (1997). The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Harvard Business School Press.
    • Verganti, R., 2017. Overcrowded: Designing meaningful products in a world awash with ideas. The MIT Press.
  5. School Admission Requirements:
    Ensure that you meet all formal admission criteria as specified by the school.