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Dawei (David) Zhang
Associate Professor
Decision and Technology Analytics (DATA)
Office: RBC 470
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 Fall 2015. Before joining Lehigh’s faculty, 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, 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
- “Is College Education Still Enough? Explicating the Relationship between Information Technology and Human Labor” (with Gang Peng, Oliver Yao, and Tyson Browning). Working Paper.
- Zhang. D., Lyle. M., B. R. Nault, “Trading Volume and Open Interest from Options Markets as Measures of the Effect of IT Announcements,” Information Technology and Management, Forthcoming.
- 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.
- 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.
- Peng, G., D. Zhang (2019), “Does Information Technology Substitute for or Complement Human Labor? A Dynamic Stratified Analysis on European Countries,” Decision Sciences (First published: 21 January 2019).
- Zhang, D., Nault, B. R., X. Wei (2019), “The Strategic Value of IT in Setting Productive Capacity,” Information Systems Research, 30(4), 1124-1144.
- 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.