Professor Zach W. Y. Lee

Zach W. Y. Lee is Professor of Business Analytics at the University of Leicester and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His research interests include organisational and societal implications of IT use, online consumer behaviours, and platform economy. He has published in international journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information and Management, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Industrial Marketing Management, and among others. Zach serves as a Senior Editor at Internet Research, Associate Editor at Information Systems Journal, and Associate Editor at Information and Management and is an editorial board member of Industrial Management and Data Systems.

My research interests include:

• Organisational and societal implications of IS/IT use (e.g., workplace cyberdeviance, technology addiction, and cyberbullying)
• Online consumer behaviour (e.g., customer engagement, online impulse buying, social media firestorm, and live streaming)
• Platform economy (e.g., sharing economy, cloud gaming)

[J1] Chan, T. K. H., Cheung, C. M. K., Benbasat, I., Xiao, B. & Lee, Z. W. Y. (forthcoming). Bystanders Join in Cyberbullying on Social Networking Sites: Deindividuation and Moral Disengagement Perspectives. Information Systems Research. (AJG4*, FT50, UT24)

[J2] Venkatesh, V., Cheung, C. M. K., Davis, F. D., & Lee, Z. W. Y. (forthcoming). Cyberslacking in the Workplace: Antecedents and Effects on Job Performance. MIS Quarterly. (AJG4*, FT50, UT24)

[J3] Lee, Z. W. Y., Cheung, C. M. K., & Chan, T. K. H. (2021). Understanding Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Addiction: A Hedonic Management Perspective. Information Systems Journal, 31, 33-61. (AJG4)

[J4] Chan, T. K. H., Cheung, C. M. K., & Lee, Z. W. Y. (2021). Cyberbullying on Social Networking Sites: A Literature Review and Future Research Directions. Information & Management, 58(2), 103411. (AJG3) *Most Downloaded Paper*

[J5] Kowalski, M., Lee, Z. W. Y., & Chan, T. K. H., (2021). Blockchain Technology and Trust Relationships in Trade Finance. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 166, 120641. (AJG3)

[J6] Lee, Z. W. Y., Chan, T. K. H., Chong, A. Y-L., & Thadani, D. R. (2019). Customer Engagement Through Omnichannel Retailing: The Effects of Channel Integration Quality. Industrial Marketing Management, 77, 90-101. (AJG3)

[J7] Venkatraman, S., Cheung, C. M. K., Lee, Z. W. Y., Davis, F. D., & Venkatesh, V. (2018). The “Darth” Side of Technology Use: An Inductively Derived Typology of Cyberdeviance. Journal of Management Information Systems, 35(4), 1060-1091. (AJG4, FT50)

[J8] Lee, Z. W. Y., Chan, T. K. H., Balaji, M. S., & Chong, A. Y-L. (2018). Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber. Internet Research, 28(3), 829-850. (AJG3)

[J9] Chan, T. K. H., Cheung, C. M. K., & Lee, Z. W. Y. (2017). The State of Online Impulse Buying Research: A Literature Analysis. Information & Management, 54(2), 204-217. (AJG3, Highly Cited Paper in Web of Science)

[J10] Chan, T. K. H., Cheung, C. M. K., Shi, N., LEE, M. K. O., & Lee, Z. W. Y. (2016). An Empirical Examination of Continuance Intention of Social Network Sites. Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 8(4), Article 5. (AJG2)

[J11] Lee, Z. W. Y., Cheung, C. M. K., & Chan, T. K. H. (2015). Massively Multiplayer Online Game Addiction: Instrument Development and Validation. Information & Management, 52(4), 413-430. (AJG3)

[J12] Cheung, C. M. K., Shen, A. X. L., Lee, Z. W. Y., & Chan, T. K. H. (2015). Promoting Sales of Online Games through Customer Engagement. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 14(4), 241-250. (AJG2)

[J13] Cheung, C. M. K., Lee, Z. W. Y., & Chan, T. K. H. (2015). Self-Disclosure in Social Networking Sites: The Role of Perceived Cost, Perceived Benefits and Social Influence. Internet Research, 25(2), 279-299. (AJG3)

[J14] Lee, Z. W. Y., & Cheung, C. M. K. (2014). Problematic Use of Social Networking Sites: The Role of Self-Esteem. International Journal of Business and Information, 9(2), 143-159.

[J15] Chan, T. K. H., Cheung, C. M. K., & Lee, Z. W. Y. (2014). Investigating the Continuance Intention to Play Massively Multi-Player Online Games. International Journal of Business and Information, 9(2), 160-186.

[J16] Chan, T. K. H., Zheng, X., Cheung, C. M. K., Lee, M. K. O., & Lee, Z. W. Y. (2014). Antecedents and Consequences of Customer Engagement in Online Brand Communities. Journal of Marketing Analytics, 2, 81–97. (AJG1)

[J17] Cheung, C. M. K., Lee, M. K. O., & Lee, Z. W. Y. (2013). Understanding the Continuance Intention of Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities of Practice through the Post Knowledge Sharing Evaluation Processes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(7), 1357-1374. (AJG3)

Emerging phenomena concerning the uses and impacts of IS/IT at individual, organisational, and societal levels, which include but are not limited to the following:

• Organisational and societal implications of IS/IT use (e.g., workplace cyberdeviance, technology addiction, and cyberbullying)
•  Online consumer behaviour (e.g., customer engagement, online impulse buying, social media firestorm, and live streaming)
• Platform economy (e.g., sharing economy, cloud gaming)

 PhD applicants with solid research experiences and excellent written and spoken language skills are desirable.

Information Systems, Digital Marketing, Business Analytics, Research Methods

Organisational and societal implications of IS/IT use, online consumer behaviour, platform economy.