报告题目：From Exploitation to Exploration: A Staged Model of Supplier Information Technology Use for Buyer Value Creation

报告人：陈其 （Daniel Qi Chen）   教授

邀请人：曲刚  副教授

时间及地点：2019年6月27日 上午9:00-10:30；大连理工大学经管学院B309

报告摘要：The use of information technologies (IT) in a supply chain has been recognized essential for both organizational exploration and exploitation activities. Despite the consensus on the need for an organization to develop a balance between exploration and exploitation, there is little clarity within the extant literature on how to achieve such balance. In this current study, we contrast the two primary views on the mechanisms designed to help organizations to realize this balance: 1)ambidexterity (i.e., the synchronous pursuit of both exploration and exploitation); 2) and punctuated equilibrium (i.e., the temporal or cycling periods of exploration and exploitation). Drawing upon organizational theories, we submit a punctuated equilibrium approach is most viable when considering the use of IT to expand capacity to explore and exploit in a supply chain network. We test this idea in the context of supplier IT use for generating buyer benefits and propose a staged value creation model.

报告人介绍：Daniel Qi Chen is a Full Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management of the M.J. Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Georgia and also holds an M.B.A degree from Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Chen has combined years of industrial experiences in entrepreneurship, supply chain management, and management consulting in U.S.A. and China before entering the academic field.

Professor Chen’s research addresses the overall question of how information systems (i.e., technological and human resources) can improve organizational decision making at both the strategic and operational levels. In particular, his interests lie across the areas of Strategic Management, Supply Chain Management, and IT-enabled Innovation Management, including the topics of strategic impacts of organizational resources, supply chain integration and innovation, the role and value of IS leadership especially at the CIO level. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in several leading IT and operation management journals such as Decision Sciences Journal, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, MIS Quarterly Executive, among others.

Professor Chen is an Associate Editor for Decision Sciences Journal and Journal of Operations Management. He also serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management.