Title：The Theory Lab: Crafting Interventions for Modern Business Problems

理论实验室：制定现代商业问题的干预措施

Speaker: Prof. Chee-Wee Tan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Time: 2025年10月29日 晚上7点（线上）

Place: 腾讯会议：453-201-964

摘要：Theory-inspired practical interventions are increasingly viewed as an indispensable means of bolstering the quality and impact of academic research. Representing a departure from the conventional detached approach to research, these interventions, which blend practical implications with theory development, entail reciprocal collaborative partnerships that are established between institutions of higher education and their stakeholder communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources. Consequently, knowledge generated from theory-inspired practical interventions is not only innovative based on disciplinary expertise, but it has also been rigorously tested in a pragmatic setting with evidence of direct impact. In this seminar, I will discuss the opportunities and challenges I have personally experienced in conducting studies structured around theory-inspired practical interventions as well as direction in which intervention-based research could take in the foreseeable future. During the seminar, I will also describe an illustrative study that leverages intervention-based research to inform theory and practice.

Bio: Chee-Wee Tan is a Professor at the Department of Management and Marketing in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Before joining PolyU, Chee-Wee is a Professor w/ Special Responsibilities in Research Excellence at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Chee-Wee received his PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of British Columbia. His research interests focus on design and innovation issues related to digital platforms. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Operations Management (JOM), Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), among others. Chee-Wee is holding or has held Honorary and Guest Professorship positions at Lingnan University (LNU), Monash University Malaysia (MUM), the University of New South Wales (UNSW), the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Chee-Wee has served or is currently serving on the editorial boards for ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT), DSS, EJIS, Industrial Management & Data Systems (IMDS), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE-TEM), Information & Management (I&M), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), Internet Research (IntR), JAIS, Journal of Computer Information Systems (JCIS),Journal of Management Analytics (JMA), JMIS, and MISQ. Finally, Chee-Wee is the past Vice President of Publications for the Association for Information Systems.