Faculty of Business Administration
Seminar Series
Neuroscience and Management: its Applications and Development
Prof. Patrick Y.K. CHAU
Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in Information Systems and Operations Management
University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), China
Date: Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Time: 3:00 pm
Format: Online via Zoom
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Abstract
The growth of the use of neuroscience in management research has flourished in the past decade. A growing number of scientists from different backgrounds have combined research methods from neuroscience, experimental and behavioral economics, and cognitive and social psychology to look into human decision-making especially in a managerial context. The talk provides an overview of neuroscience in management research and discusses opportunities and challenges of conducting neuroscience in management research.
Biography
Patrick Y.K. CHAU is Vice Provost for Research and Knowledge Exchange and Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC). Prior to joining UNNC in March 2019, he was Padma and Hari Harilela Professor in Strategic Information Management at The University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chau conducts research in IT adoption/implementation and electronic commerce. He has close to 100 journal publications with many of them published in various top-tier and highly reputed journals, including MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, , Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Decision Sciences and others. As of February 2021, the total number of citations of his papers in Google Scholar reaches over 22,200 with an H-index of 56. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Information & Management and a Senior Editor of Journal of the Association for Information Systems. He received the AIS Fellow Award in 2013 and is currently President-Elect of the Association for Information Systems.
