主讲人

（单位）

李晓彤

（美国阿拉巴马大学）

主持人

（单位）

何勇

（东南大学）

讲座时间

2025年12月29日（周一）上午10点

讲座地点

经管楼B-201

主讲人简介

Xiaotong Li ([email protected]) is a full professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His research has appeared in many major journals including the Journal of Management Information Systems, Marketing Science, and others. He won the best paper of the year award for an article in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Managementfrom the IEEE Engineering Management Society. He has served on the editorial board of Marketing Science[INFORMS] and is an associate editor of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications[Elsevier].  In 2024, he was designated by Clarivate in its annual global ranking of researchers as a Highly Cited Researcher.  

讲座内容摘要

Coordination failures and inefficiencies in organizational decision making may be caused by a lack of common information. So firms need to understand the potential role of Information Systems (IS) to enhance the commonality of information they share to support better decision making. Due to pervasive relational contracts within and across their organizational boundaries, maintaining shared-information among decision makers is hard to accomplish without effective technology support. In such settings, IS can effectively support such sharing, lessening the uncertainty that always affects organizational decision makers’ ability to coordinate with others. Moreover, evolving digital infrastructure and shared systems in contemporary platform ecosystems can promote interfirm governance through enhanced information commonality. This article offers new insights on foundational issues from Organizational Economics and Strategic Management—to understand how best to support firm decision making when uncertainty is complex and challenging in practice to disentangle. It also provides a new theoretical perspective for IS research and firm management related to multi-firm coordinated decision making, and their technological support and joint business performance in the Age of Digitalization.