H. Kenny Cheng
Chair
- Gainesville FL UNITED STATES
- Warrington College of Business
H. Kenny Cheng’s research is focused on the impact of internet technology and software development.
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H. Kenny Cheng’s research is focused on analyzing the impact of internet technology and software development and marketing, in addition to information systems policy issues, in particular, net neutrality. He teaches information technology strategy, e-commerce and supply chain management.
Areas of Expertise
Media Appearances
Internet of Things financial sustainability depends on quality and security
KU News online
2022-12-20
Modern technology terms such as “data mining,” “cryptocurrency” and “influencer” went from obscurity to pervasiveness in a matter of months. It’s time to add the Internet of Things (IoT) to that list. The term describes physical objects that connect and exchange data with other devices/systems over communication networks.
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Articles
Special Issue Editorial: Information Systems Research in the Age of Smart Services
Journal of the Association for Information SystemsYu-chen Yang, et al.
2021-05-04
The rapid expansion of innovative smart technologies is creating exciting new opportunities and causing disruptions in many different sectors, including manufacturing, finance, insurance, and healthcare. This special issue seeks to identify the latest trends and research directions on this topic by presenting research on the development, evaluation, management, and organization of smart technologies in the age of smart services.
Knowledge Sharing Ties and Equivalence in Corporate Online Community: A Novel Source to Understand Voluntary Turnover
SSRNYuan Chen, et al.
2021-06-10
An increasing number of companies start to use corporate online communities as a new information technology tool to facilitate internal knowledge sharing. The corporate community also offers companies a novel source to understand the operations such as workforce management. Little is known, however, about whether and to what extent an employee’s voluntary turnover is related to their knowledge-sharing activities in the corporate online community.
Can “Gold Medal” Online Sellers Earn Gold? The Impact of Reputation Badges on Sales
Journal of Management Information SystemsHsing Kenneth Cheng, et al.
2020-12-01
Reputation systems have been an important component for improvement of online markets’ efficiency by reducing uncertainty about the quality of the sellers. Most, if not all, reputation systems examined in the extant literature reflect the sellers’ long-term accumulative reputation, which has several drawbacks that impede accomplishing the intended goals of the reputation systems.
Does Identity Disclosure Help or Hurt User Content Generation? Social Presence, Inhibition, and Displacement Effects
Information Systems ResearchJingchuan Pu, et al.
2020-06-10
Many user-generated content websites are experimenting with disclosing users’ identities to increase accountability for the generated content. However, the effects of identity disclosure on users’ content-generation behaviors are not well examined. In this study, we address this critical issue by using a natural experiment—a large corporate online community chose to disclose users’ identities in one section (the focal section) but not the other (the neighbor section).
Implications of Counterfeit in a Common E-tailer Channel
SSRNHonggang Hu, et al.
2020-06-08
Along with the growing prominence of e-commerce, counterfeiting business also shows a rapid growth in the online marketplace and has developed into a substantial threat to online retailing. In this paper, we investigate the impact of counterfeiting in a distribution channel where both the brand seller and the counterfeiter sell their products through a common e-tailer and two distinct contract types -- wholesale contract and agency contract.
