Michael Shi

Job Title(s)

Associate Professor of Information Systems, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, The University of Texas at Austin 2012;

BA in Economics, BS in Mathematics, Peking University, 2007

Research Areas

Large-scale Data Analytics

Online Markets, Social Media, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Representative Publications

"An Economic Analysis of Product Recommendation in the Presence of Quality and Taste-Match Heterogeneity," Forthcoming at Information Systems Research.

"The Spillover of Spotlight: Platform Recommendation in the Mobile App Market," Information Systems Research, 2019.

"Learning from Your Friends’ Repeated Check-Ins: An Empirical Study of Location-Based Social Networks," Information Systems Research, 2018.

"Towards a Better Measure of Business Proximity: Topic Modeling for Industry Intelligence," MIS Quarterly Special Issue on Transformational Issues of Big Data and Analytics in Networked Business, 2016.

"Hidden Suppliers Can Make or Break Your Operations," Harvard Business Review (digital article), 2015.

"Content Sharing in a Social Broadcasting Environment: Evidence from Twitter," MIS Quarterly, 2014.

"Network Structure and Observational Learning, Evidence from a Location-Based Social Network," Journal of Management Information Systems, 2013.

Awards

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, W.P. Carey School of Business, 2015-2016