Research

REFERRED JOURNALS
  1. Zaffar, M., Kumar, R., and Zhao, K. “Using Agent-based Modelling to Investigate Diffusion of Mobile-Based Branchless Banking Services in a Developing Country”, Decision Support Systems, forthcoming.
  2. Zhao, X., Zhao, K., and Deng, J. “Geography Still Matters: Examine the Role of Location in Online Markets for Foreign Branded Products”, Decision Sciences, forthcoming.
  3. Zhao, K., Zhang, B., and Bai, X. “Estimating Contextual Motivating Factors in Virtual Inter-organizational Communities of Practice: Peer Effects and Organizational Influences”, Information Systems Research, forthcoming.
  4. Zhao, K., Stylianou, A., and Zheng, Y. “The Sources and Impacts of Social Influence from Online User Reviews”, Information and Management. 55(1), pp. 16-30, 2018.
  5. Zhang, P., Zhao, K., and Kumar, R. “The Impacts of Firm Characteristics and IT Governance on IT Control Material Weaknesses”, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. 30(2), pp. 88-111, 2018.
  6. Khan, S., Zhao, K., Kumar, R., and Stylianou, A. “Examining Real Options Exercise Decisions in Information Technology Investments”, Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 18(5): Article 2, 2017.
  7. Zhao, K., Zhao, X., and Deng, J. “An Empirical Investigation of Online Gray Markets”, Journal of Retailing. 92(4), pp. 397-410, 2016.
  8. Zhang, P., Zhao, K., and Kumar, R. “How IT Governance and IT Capability Explain Firm Performance Variation”, Information Systems Management. 33(4), pp. 357-373, 2016.
  9. Zhao, K., Zhao, X., and Deng, J. “Online Price Dispersion Revisited: How Do Transaction Prices Differ from Listing Prices”, Journal of Management Information Systems. 31(1), pp. 261-290, 2015.
  10. Zhao, K. and Xia, M. “Forming Interoperability through Interorganizational Systems Standards”, Journal of Management Information Systems, 31(1), 261-290, 2014.
  11. Zaffar, M., Kumar, R., and Zhao, K. “Impact of Interorganizational Relationships on Technology Diffusion: An Agent-Based Simulation Modeling Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 61(1), pp. 68-79, 2014.
  12. Zheng, Y., Zhao, K., and Stylianou, A. “The Impacts of Information Quality and System Quality on Users’ Continuance Intention in Information-Exchange Virtual Communities: An Empirical Investigation”, Decision Support Systems, 56(1), pp. 513-524, 2013.
  13. Zhao, K., Stylianou, A., and Zheng, Y. “Predicting Users’ Continuance Intention in Virtual Communities: The Dual Intention-Formation Processes”, Decision Support Systems, 55(4), 903-910, 2013.
  14. Xia, M., Zhao, K., and Mahoney, J.T. “Enhancing Value via Cooperation: Firms’ Process Benefits from Participation in a Standard Consortium”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 21(3), pp. 699-729, 2012.
  15. Khouja, M., Jeong, B., and Zhao, K. “The Impacts of Piracy and Supply Chain Contracts on Digital Music Channel Performance”, Decision Support Systems, 52, pp. 590-693, 2012.
  16. Jeong, B., Zhao, K., and Khouja, M. “Consumer-Piracy Risk: Conceptualization and Measurement in Music Sharing”, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 16(3), 89-118, 2012.
  17. Zhao, K., Xia, M., and Shaw, M.J. “What Motivates Firms to Contribute to Consortium-based E-Business Standardization”, Journal of Management Information Systems, 28(2), pp. 305-334, Fall 2011.
  18. Zhao, K., Khan, S., and Xia, M. “Sustainability of Vertical Standard Consortia as Communities of Practice: A Multi-Level Framework”, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 16(1), pp. 11-40, 2011.
  19. Zaffar, M., Kumar, R., and Zhao, K. “Diffusion Dynamics of Open-Source Software: An Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) Approach”, Decision Support Systems, 51(3), pp. 597-608, 2011.
  20. Zhao, K., Xia, M., Shaw, M.J., and Subramaniam, C., “Sustainability of B2B E-Marketplaces: Ownership, Market Competition, and Prior Buyer-Seller Connections”, Decision Support Systems, 47(2), pp. 105-114, 2009
  21. Zhao, K., Xia, M., and Shaw, M.J., “An Integrated Model of Consortium-Based E-business Standardization: Collaborative Development and Adoption with Network Externalities”, Journal of Management Information Systems, 23(4), pp. 247-271, 2007.
  22. Zhao, K., Xia, M., and Shaw, M.J., “Vertical e-Business Standards and Standards Developing Organizations: a Conceptual Framework”, Electronic Markets, 15(4), pp. 289-300, 2005.
REFERRED BOOK CHAPTER
  1. Zhao, K., Shaw, M.J., Xia, M., and Subramaniam, C., “Structure Evolution of B2B Enterprise Networks”, in Advances in the Economics of Information Systems, edited by Kerem Tomak, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA., 2004.