Management Research Seminar

Theme group: Digital organisation and society (DOS)

Venue: Windsor Building, Room 1-04

Speaker: Patrick Chau, Professor in Strategic Information Management, The University of Hong Kong

Abstract

Defined by the United Nations, sustainable development is about development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.  Seventeen sustainable development goals and their related 169 targets were set by the United Nations in a 2015 UN Summit for the year 2030.  These goals and targets compose of three core elements: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.  In the past five years, big data-driven analytics has extensively penetrated both academic and practical spheres. Harnessing its power in processing large volumes of information, big data analytics techniques can, at least theoretically, help people to discover more truths and make better decisions.  Big data’s potential impact on alleviating sustainability development issues hinges on several aspects. First, interactions between people, resources, ecosystems and climate can be analysed using big data gathered from society and the environment.  Second, interactions between consumers, companies, suppliers and markets can be optimized for sustainable development. Third, the inter-related impacts that the business world and natural world have on each other can also be further investigated.  This talk aims to give an overview of the potential of conducting big data analytics research for sustainability.

Bio

Professor Patrick Y.K. CHAU is Padma and Hari Harilela Professor in Strategic Information Management and Associate Dean (Taught Postgraduate Programmes) at the Faculty of Business and Economics of The University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in business administration from the Ivey Business School, The University of Western Ontario in 1992.

Dr. Chau is known for his research in IT adoption/implementation and electronic commerce. He has over 90 journal publications which are well cited by scholars in the academic community. Many of his papers published in various top-tier and highly reputed journals, including MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Association for Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, and many others.  As of September 2018, the total number of citations of his papers in Google Scholar reaches over 17,000 with an H-index of 50.  He is currently the Editor-in- Chief of Information & Management and a Senior Editor of Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

Dr. Chau’s academic achievements and contributions have been recognized by a number of appointments and awards, including Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China in March 2010, Padma and Hari Harilela Professorship in Strategic Information Management at The University of Hong Kong in February 2014, Qiushi Chair Professorship at Zhejiang University, China in September 2014, and Li Dak Sum Chair Professorship at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China in September 2017. He also received the AIS Fellow Award, awarded by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) to no more than six scholars in the discipline of Information Systems each year globally, in December 2013.