Xiaotong Li, Ph.D.

Xiaotong Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems

Office: Business Administration Bldg. 311
Phone: 256.824.6762
Fax: 256.824.2929
Email: Xiaotong.Li@uah.edu
Homepage: http://cba.uah.edu/lixi

Education

  • Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, School of Business Administration, The University of Mississippi, August 2001
    • Minors: Quantitative Analysis and Financial Economics
  • B.A. in Economics and International Business, School of Pharmaceutical Business, China Pharmaceutical University, August 1997

Academic Experience

  • Assistant Professor of MIS, Department of Accounting and MIS, College of Business Administration, University of Alabama in Huntsville, August 2001 - present
  • Founding Research Assistant, Robert M. Hearin Research Center for Applied Enterprise Science, University of Mississippi, 1999 - 2001
  • Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi, 1998 - 1999

Research Interests

  • Strategic Information Transmission in Supply Chain (or Channel) Coordination
  • Behavioral and Bayesian Game-theoretic Modeling of IT diffusion and adoption
  • Incomplete Contract and Dynamic Bargaining in Technology Investment
  • Information Economics Modeling of Information, Incentives and Technology
  • Economics of Information Externalities and Network Externalities
  • Real Options Modeling of Technology Competition

Teaching Interests

  • Database Management
  • High-Tech Diffusion and Marketing
  • Computer Programming Languages
  • Economics of IT and Applied Game Theory
  • Supply Chain and Information Technology
  • Computer Networking and Security
  • MIS Principles
  • System Analysis and Design

Publications

Journals

  • Xiaotong Li, "Cheap Talk and Bogus Network Externalities in the Emerging Technology Market ," forthcoming in Marketing Science , 2005.
  • Robert J. Kauffman and Xiaotong Li, "Technology Competition and Optimal Investment Timing-A Real Options Model ", forthcoming in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 2005.
  • Xiaotong Li, " Informational Cascades in IT Adoption ", Communications of the ACM , 47(4), 93-97, 2004.
  • Na, Kwan-Sik, Xiaotong Li, James Simpson, and Ki-Yoon Kim, "Uncertainty Profile and Software Project Performance: A Cross-National Comparison," Journal of Systems and Software , Vol. 70, 155-163, 2004.
  • Xiaotong Li and John D. Johnson, "Evaluate IT Investment Opportunities Using Real Options Theory," Information Resource Management Journal , July-September, 15(3), 32-47, 2002.
  • Xiaotong Li, "Concurrency Control in the Domain of Multidatabase: A Semi-semantic Approach," International Journal of Information and Management Sciences , 10(3), 25-40, 1999.

Working Papers

  • Xiaotong Li, "Strategic Information Technology Entrenchment," Under Review.
  • Robert J. Kauffman and Xiaotong Li, "Understanding Informational Cascades and Payoff Externalities: Strategic Implications for Firm and Market-Level Information Technology Adoption", (University of Minnesota MIS Research Center Working Paper No. 03-36, another version appeared in the 2003 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology Proceedings.), Under Review.
  • Xiaotong Li, Jeet D. Gupta and James Koch, "Effect of Technological Breakthroughs on Electronic Markets", Revised and Resubmitted to Electronic Commerce Research.
  • Xiaotong Li, "Cheap Talk, Simple Coordination Contracts and Dynamic Renegotiations," In Progress.

Presentations

  • February 2004: "Strategic Information Technology Entrenchment," University of Minnesota, MIS Research Center.
  • March 2004: "The Dark Side of IT Adoption: Management Entrenchment in the Knowledge-Driven Economy," The University of Mississippi, Hearin Research Center for Enterprise Science.
  • May 2004: "Strategic Information Technology Entrenchment," Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Logistics.

Professional Memberships

  • INFORMS
  • DSI

Professional Activities

Referee for

  • Information System Research
  • HICSS 2004 (Competitive Strategy, Economics & IS Track)
  • HICSS 2005 (Competitive Strategy, Economics & IS Track)
  • Electronic Commerce Research Journal
  • Journal of E-Commerce in Organization

Research Grants

  • 2003 UAH Faculty Research Seed Grant of $10,000 for "Understanding Informational Cascades and Payoff Externalities: Strategic Implications for Firm and Market-Level Information Technology Adoption" with Robert J. Kauffman.
  • 2003 UAH Business School Summer Research Grant of $5,000 for "Managerial Incentives and Reputational Herding in Information Technology Adoption."
  • 2002 UAH Business School Summer Research Grant of $5,000 for "Path Dependent Supply Chain Coordination under Asymmetric Information."

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