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Dawei (David) Zhang
Associate Professor
Decision and Technology Analytics (DATA)
Dawei (David) Zhang, Ph.D. is the program director, MS Business Analytics and holds the Thomas J. Campbell 80' Professorship
Office: RBC 489
daz215@lehigh.edu
610-758-4225
Courses Taught
- Systems Analysis and Design
- Managing Information
David Zhang received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from The University of Calgary, Canada, his master’s degree in Economics from HKUST, Hong Kong, and his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Sun Yat-sen University, China. He joined the Department of Decision and Technology Analytics at Lehigh University in 2015. Before Lehigh, he served as an assistant professor at the Kania School of Management, University of Scranton. Dr. Zhang has published articles in top business journals such as Information Systems Research, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
Education
- Sun Yat-sen University, B.S.
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, M.S.
- University of Calgary, Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Economics of Information Systems
- Business Value of IT
- Health Information Systems
- Business Analytics and Emerging E-business Models
- Wang, K., Mai. Fe., Shang. Z., Zhang. D., X. Peng (2025), “Analyzing Professional Ethics of Physicians Using Online Patient Reviews: A Machine Learning Approach,” Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming.
- Zhang. D., Peng. G., Yao. Y., T. R. Browning (2024), “Is a College Education Still Enough? The IT-Labor Relationship with Education Level, Task Routineness, and Artificial Intelligence,” Information Systems Research, 35(3): 992-1010.
- Wei. J., Wei. X., Zhang. D., J. Liu (2023), “First-party Content and Market Concentration on a B2B E-Commerce Platform: Analytical and Empirical Evidence,” Decision Support Systems, 170, 113958.
- Mai. F., Ko. D., Shan. Zhe., D. Zhang (2023), “The Impact of Accelerated Digitization on Patient Portal Use by Underprivileged Racial Minority Groups During COVID-19: Longitudinal Study,” Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25;e44981.
- Zhang, D., Lyle, M. & Nault, B.R (2023), “Trading volume and open interest from options markets as measures of the effect of IT announcements,” Information Technology and Management, 25, 113-123.
- Zhang, D., Nault, B. R., X. Wei (2019), “The Strategic Value of IT in Setting Productive Capacity,” Information Systems Research, 30(4), 1124-1144.
- Ko. D., Mai. F., Shan., Z., D. Zhang (2019), “Operational Efficiency and Patient-Centered Healthcare: A View from Online Physician Reviews,” Journal of Operations Management, 65(4), 353-379.
- Zhang. D., B. R. Nault (2019), "Measuring Risk from IT Initiatives Using Implied Volatility," Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20(11), 1566-1588.
- Peng, G., D. Zhang (2019), “Does Information Technology Substitute for or Complement Human Labor? A Dynamic Stratified Analysis on European Countries,” Decision Sciences, 51(3), 720-754.
- Lin, X., Zhang, D., Y. Li (2016), “Delineating the Dimensions of Social Support on Social Networking Sites and Their Effects: A Comparative Model,” Computers in Human Behavior, 58, 421-430.
- Zhang, D., Cheng, Z., Mohammad, H. Q., B. R. Nault (2015), “Information Technology Substitution Revisited,” Information Systems Research, 26(3), 480–495.