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Gongtai Wang

Assistant Professor

Overview

Gongtai Wang is an Assistant Professor in Digital Technology at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada. Before, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Business Information Systems Discipline at UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia.

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Academic Area

  • Digital Technology

Interest Topics

  • Technology & Information Systems
  • Innovation

Faculty Details

Profile

Full Bio

Gongtai Wang is an Assistant Professor in Digital Technology at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada. Before, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Business Information Systems Discipline at UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia. He got his PhD in Information Systems and Management from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Gongtai teaches and researches topics related to digital innovation, specifically focusing on how to fundamentally rethink and strategically redesign traditional products/services and business models with emerging digital technologies such as the Internet of Everything, mixed reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. His research has been published in MIS Quarterly and Journal of Product Innovation Management and honored with awards at flagship information systems conferences. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a system engineer in the information technology industry.

Academic Degrees

PhD in Information Systems and Management
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (2018)

Master in System Engineering
Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University, Japan (2011)

Bachelor in Management (e-Business)
Economics and Management College, Dalian Maritime University, China (2007)

Academic Experience

Smith School of Business, Queen's University
Assistant Professor (2022 - Present)

UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2018-2022)

Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Research Associate (2018)

Publications

Journal

  • Andrew Burton-Jones, and Gongtai Wang. (2023), “What Makes a Journal Significant? From the Tyranny of Metrics to True Impact,” MIS Quarterly.
  • Wang, G., Henfridsson, O., Nandhakumar, J., and Yoo, Y. (2022), “Product Meaning in Digital Product Innovation,” MIS Quarterly.
  • Dahabiyeh, L., Najjar, M. S., Wang, G. (2022) “Online Teaching During COVID-19 Crisis: The Role of Technostress and Emotional Dissonance on Online Teaching Exhaustion and Teaching Staff Productivity,” International Journal of Information and Learning Technology
  • Wang, G. (2022), “Digital Reframing: Design Thinking of Digital Innovation,” Journal of Product Innovation Management.

Book Chapter

  • Gongtai Wang (2023), “Digital Value and Organizational Change: It’s Time to Rethink Organization for Value-in-Configuration,” in Advancing Digital Value. Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Gongtai Wang, Andrew Burton-Jones, and Saeed Akhlaghpour. (2023), “Balancing the Momentum of Datafication,” in The Cambridge Handbook of Qualitative Digital Research. Cambridge University Press.
  • Wang, G. (forthcoming), “Digital Value and Organizational Change: It’s Time to Rethink Organization for Value-in-Configuration,” in Advancing Digital Value. Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Wang, G., Burton-Jones, A., and Akhlaghpour, S. (forthcoming), “Balancing the Momentum of Datafication,” in The Cambridge Handbook of Qualitative Digital Research. Cambridge University Press.

Conference Papers

  • Gongtai Wang, and Andrew Burton-Jones. (2023), “Miscellaneous Citation Groups Are Buried in Journal Impact Factors,” in Proceedings of ICIS 2023.
  • Gongtai Wang. (2022), “Digital Mesh: On the Rise of Mesh Computing,” in Proceedings of ICIS 2022.
  • Wang, G. and Burton-Jones, A. (2020), “Rethinking IT Governance Structure and Action,” in Proceedings of ICIS 2020.
  • Wang, G. and Burton-Jones, A. (2020), “Governing Digital Transformation: A New Perspective,” in Proceedings of ICIS 2020.
  • Wang, G. and Nandhakumar, J. (2017), “Strategic Swaying: How Startups Grow Digital Platforms,” in Proceedings of ICIS 2017.
  • Wang, G., Henfridsson, O. and Nandhakumar, J. (2016), “How Do Designers Assemble Representational Practices to Generate Radical Digital Innovations?”, in Proceedings of ICIS 2016.
  • Wang, G. and Nandhakumar, J. (2016), “Affordance-Based Conceptualization of Adaptive Use of Enterprise Systems,” in Proceedings of ECIS 2016.

Business Articles

  • Gongtai Wang. (August 2023), “Six Ways to Ease AI-Induced Stress,” Smith Business Insight.
  • Gongtai Wang. (April 2023), “It’s Time for a Sober View of AI,” Smith Business Insight.
  • Gongtai Wang. (January 2023), “For Digital Innovation, Product Meaning Rises to the Top,” Smith Business Insight.

Teaching

Teaching Experience

  • 2024 Introduction to Digital Business and Technology (Undergraduate), Smith School of Business, Queen's University
  • 2024 Advanced Topics in IS Design, Development, and Implementation (PhD) Smith School of Business, Queen's University
  • 2023 Introduction to Digital Business and Technology (Undergraduate), Smith School of Business, Queen's University
  • 2022 System Thinking and Digitalization (Practitioner Master) Smith School of Business, Queen's University
  • 2022 Advanced Topics in IS Design, Development and Implementation (PhD), Smith School of Business, Queen’s University
  • 2022 Information Systems Honours (Honours), UQ Business School, University of Queensland
  • 2021 Transforming Business with Information Systems (Undergraduate), UQ Business School, University of Queensland
  • 2021 Advanced Studies in Business Information Systems (Honours), UQ Business School, University of Queensland
  • 2020 Data Analytics for Business (Master), UQ Business School, University of Queensland
  • 2020 Data Analytics for Business (Undergraduate), UQ Business School, University of Queensland
  • 2020 Meaning-Making in Digital Product Innovation (Master), Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
  • 2020 Business Information Systems Analysis and Design (Master), UQ Business School, University of Queensland
  • 2019 Information Systems Strategy and Sourcing (Master), UQ Business School, University of Queensland
  • 2017 Research Methods (Master), Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Course Design

  • 2023 Introduction to Digital Business and Technology (Undergraduate) Smith School of Business, Queen's University
  • 2023 System Thinking and Digitalization (Practitioner Master) Smith School of Business, Queen's University
  • 2022 Advanced Topics in IS Design, Development, and Implementation (PhD), Smith School of Business, Queen's University

Presentations

Presentations and Invited Talks

  • “Finding the Next Frontiers in DITE Research,” for SIGDITE at the 2023 International Conference on Information Systems
  • “Digital Mesh: On the Rise of Mesh Computing,” at the 2022 International Conference on Information Systems
  • 2022 “Understanding the Diversity of Qualitative Research,” University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Online
  • 2022 “Think as a Reviewer,” China Pharmaceutical University, Online
  • 2021 “An Alternative Theoretical Lens for Understanding Digital Platform Evaluation,” JAIS Theory Development Workshop, Online
  • 2021 “Product Meaning in Digital Product Innovation,” Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Online
  • 2020 “Digital Reframing: Design Thinking of Digital Innovation,” JPIM “Design Thinking and Innovation Management” Workshop, Online
  • 2020 “Rethinking IT Governance Structure and Action,” International Conference on Information Systems, Online
  • 2020 “Governing Digital Transformation: A New Perspective,” International Conference on Information Systems, Online
  • 2019 “Prospective Digital Representing in Design Collaboration in the Digital Age,” International Process Symposium, Greece
  • 2019 “Governing Digital Transformation: A New Perspective,” International Process Symposium, Greece
  • 2017 “Strategic Swaying: How Startups Grow Digital Platforms,” International Conference on Information Systems, South Korea
  • 2016 “How Do Designers Assemble Representational Practices to Generate Radical Digital Innovations?,” International Conference on Information Systems, Ireland
  • 2016 “Affordance-Based Conceptualization of Adaptive Use of Enterprise Systems,” European Conference on Information Systems, Turkey

Awards

Teaching

Smith School of Business Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Students for 2023


Research

The 2020 ICIS Best Short Paper in Conference
The 2020 ICIS Best Short Paper in Track
The 2016 ECIS Best Paper Runner-Up

 

Service

The 2022 ICIS Best Associate Editor for Track
The 2022 ECIS Outstanding Contribution as Associate Editor
The 2022 PACIS Best Reviewer Award Nominee

Service

Academic Service

Review for Journals

  • MIS Quarterly
  • Information Systems Research
  • Journal of Management Information Systems [ABDC-A*; FT50]
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management [ABDC-A*]
  • Journal of the Association for Information Systems
  • European Journal of Information Systems [ABDC-A*]
  • Journal of Strategic Information Systems
  • Information Systems Journal
  • Information & Management
  • Information Technology & People
  • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
  • Information Systems Frontiers [ABDC-A]

Review for Conferences

  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
  • Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
  • Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)

Editor for Conferences

  • 2023 ICIS, Associate Editor, Track: Digital Innovation, Transformation, and Entrepreneurship
  • 2023 PACIS Associate Editor, Digital Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and New Business Models Track
  • 2023 PACIS, Associate Editor, Track: TBD
  • 2022 ICIS, Associate Editor, Track: General IS Topics
  • 2022 AMCIS, Mini-Track Chair, Track: Digital Transformation
  • 2022 PACIS, Associate Editor, Track: Philosophy and Research Methods
  • 2022 ECIS, Associate Editor, Track: General
  • 2020 ICIS, Associate Editor, Track: IoT and the Smart Connected World