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Kyoto University National Taiwan University
▽ James J. Jiang ▽ Chih-Ping Wei ▽ Yung-Chih Lien ▽ Keng-Yu Ho ▽ Wen-Hsin Hsu
James J. Jiang
| ■Affiliation Department of Business Administration, College of Management |
| ■Profile Professor James J. Jiang is the Fu-Bon Chair Professor, Department of Business Administration, College of Management, National Taiwan University (NTU). Prior to join the NTU, he was the Distinguished Professor of IS, the Australian National University, Australia; and Research Professor of IS, University of Central Florida, U.S. Prof. Jiang is also the honorary Guangbiao Chair Professor, ZheJiang University, China. Professor Jiang’s research interests are IS Project/Program Management. He has published over 180 academic journal articles on these areas. He has been ranked as one of the most productive IS researchers globally by articles appeared in CAIS 2005, CASI 2006, EJIS 2007, CAIS 2009, and CAIS 2011. Based upon Harzing Publish or Perish, Professor Jiang has received more than 4500 total citations from his published articles (i.e., h-index = 38). Prof. Jiang has serviced as Associate Editor of Information & Management, Journal of Association of Information Systems (JAIS), and MIS Quarterly, Guest Senior Editor of Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) and Journal of Association of Information Systems (JAIS) and Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly. |
| ■Paper Title IT Multi-Projects Implementation Conflicts and Integrative Conflict Management: Social Interdependence Theory |
| ■Paper Abstract User participation and involvement during the information system development (ISD) process increases user satisfaction and system quality. On the other hand, it also increases the possibility of encountering intra-project team (i.e., users and IS developers) conflict due to different backgrounds and needs. As the evolution of adopting multiple-IT projects to implement organization strategies, organizations begin to face a new kind of conflict Econflict among project teams during a large IS development or implementation. This multi-project conflict is the manifest disagreements among projects on overarching goals and coordination tasks, which can also be named as inter-project conflicts. The objective of this study is, therefore, based upon social interdependence theory, to examine the antecedents of the adoption of integrative conflict management during an IT multi-projects implementation. More specifically, we propose both goal interdependence and overall program goal agreement among projects would positively lead to integrative conflict management which, in turn, influences the satisfaction of conflict resolution among project teams as well as the final program outcomes. |
| ■Paper Keywords Multi-Projects Implementation Conflicts; Integrative Conflict Management; Social Interdependence; Goal Agreement |
Chih-Ping Wei
| ■Affiliation Department of Information Management, College of Management |
| ■Profile Dr. Chih-Ping Wei is a professor of Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Prior to joining National Taiwan University, he served on the faculty at National Tsing Hua University and National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. He received an MS and a Ph.D. degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona in 1991 and 1996, respectively, and a BS degree in Management Science from National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan in 1987. His current research interests include knowledge discovery and data mining, text mining and information retrieval, knowledge management, and patent analysis and intelligence. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Information Processing and Management, IEEE Intelligent Systems, various IEEE Transactions, etc. He has edited special issues of Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Information Processing and Management, and Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems. |
| ■Paper Title Big Data Analytics for Detecting Adverse Drug Events from Electronic Health Records |
| ■Paper Abstract In this study, we focus on developing an advanced analytics technique to detect adverse drug events from a large collection of electronic health records (EHR). A drug’s efficacy and safety must be demonstrated in a series of clinical trials conducted prior to approval. However, these clinical trials involve only a limited number of patients who may not always be representative of the population of all potential users of the drug and a relatively short observation period, making it difficult to detect adverse drug events (ADEs) that are rare or with a long latency. Postapproval ADEs are a global public health problem, accounting for more than 2 million injuries, hospitalizations, and deaths each year in the United States alone. Hence, to protect public health, it is imperative to continue monitoring and evaluating the safety of a drug once it is on the market. In this study, we will propose a novel EHR-based drug safety signal detection technique. Specifically, our proposed technique takes a learning-to-rank method (i.e., Ranking SVM) to analyze Taiwan’s national health insurance claims database. Our empirical evaluation results suggest that our proposed technique outperforms traditional disproportional analysis methods. |
| ■Paper Keywords Big Data Analytics; Drug Safety; Adverse Drug Events; Health Informatics; Data Mining |
Yung-Chih Lien
| ■Affiliation Department of International Business, College of Management |
| ■Profile Dr. Yung-Chih Lien is an Associate Professor in the International Business Department of National Taiwan University (NTU), teaching in the courses of International Business and Management. Before he joined the NTU in August 2008, he was the Assistant Professor at National Sun Yet-Sen University (2007-2008, in Taiwan) and National Taiwan Ocean University (2006-2007, in Taiwan). Dr. Lien’s research interests are concerned with the corporate governance effects on strategic decisions and organizational change, particularly with respect to the multinational firms from emerging economies. He has published several research articles in those prestigious academic journals in both fields of international business and corporate governance, including Journal of International Business, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Asia-Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research and Family Business Review. |
| ■Paper Title Institutional Reform and Corporate Governance Effect of Family Control |
| ■Paper Abstract According to institutional theory, the performance of corporate governance is influenced by the institutional environment in which firms operate. Using panel data on 357 publicly listed firms in Taiwan (1996 to 2009), this study examines how firms with the corporate governance system of family control adapt to institutional reforms. The results of the analyses indicate that institutional reforms reduce a firm’s dependence on family control in performing corporate governance and eliminate the negative performance effect of a pyramidal ownership structure by the controlling family. Moreover, our examination reveals that institutional reforms foster external corporate governance from firms' domestic institutional investors. |
| ■Paper Keywords Family Control; Corporate Governance; Institutional Reform; Pyramidal Ownership; Institutional Investors |
Keng-Yu Ho
| ■Affiliation Department of Finance, College of Management |
| ■Profile Keng-Yu Ho is an associate professor in the Department of Finance and the vice-director of Center for Research in Econometric Theory and Applications, National Taiwan University. Before joining NTU in 2008, Dr. Ho served as an associate professor in the Department of Finance, National Central University, Taiwan. He received the BBA in Finance from National Taiwan University, Taiwan and both the MSc in Economics and Finance and the PhD from University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Dr. Ho’s research interests lie in the field of empirical corporate finance and empirical asset pricing. He has published academic articles in Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Portfolio Management. |
| ■Paper Title Research in Empirical Corporate Finance |
| ■Paper Abstract One of my research interests is empirical corporate finance. Corporate finance is a major field in the research of finance. Related research topics include the determinants of the corporate finance decisions and activities, as well as their effects on the value of the firm. The presentation briefly covers two of my recent journal publications. First, for corporate investment decisions and activities, we examine the relation between CEO overconfidence and significant increases in R&D expenditures. Our findings, which may be attributable to overinvestment and the overestimation of future cash flows, imply that R&D resulting from overconfident behavior does not provide any value to firms. Second, for corporate financing decisions and activities, we investigate the relation between IPO underwriting and subsequent lending. Our evidence supports the notion that firms can derive value from investment bank relationships. |
| ■Paper Keywords Corporate Finance; R&D Expenditure; CEO Overconfidence; Initial Public Offering; Bank Loan |
Wen-Hsin Hsu
| ■Affiliation Department of Accounting, College of Management |
| ■Profile Audrey Wen-Hsin Hsu is an associate professor at the Department of Accounting at National Taiwan University (NTU). Dr. Hsu earned her PhD from Lancaster University, UK. Dr. Hsu currently serves as the member of Financial Accounting Standards Committee in Taiwan. Her area of research includes international accounting standards, financial reporting quality, and corporate governance. Her research has appeared in numerous journals such as Abacus, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, The International Journal of Accounting, Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, International Journal of Accounting Studies, Service Industry Journal, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Accounting Horizons, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, etc. |
| ■Paper Title Can Anglo-Saxon audit committee scheme improve earnings quality in non-Anglo-Saxon environments? |
| ■Paper Abstract Inspired by the debate about globally uniform governance standards on setting up an Anglo-Saxon model of audit committee, this study investigates whether firms adopting audit committee system vis-à-vis a local governance scheme can improve earnings quality. We exploit a unique setting in Japan where firms are allowed to switch to the audit committee from the statutory auditor board under the conventional two-tier structure. We find that improvements in earnings quality cannot be achieved by merely adopting the audit committee but are reaped by firms that converge to the audit committee with substance. Our results indicate that many Japanese firms may adopt audit committee as a fashionable “label Ewithout embracing shareholder primacy. |
| ■Paper Keywords Corporate governance; Anglo-Saxon audit committee; Statutory auditors; Earnings quality |