19 May 2025 - 19 May 2025
9:30AM - 3:00PM
Durham University Business School, Waterside Building
Free but registration required
The Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations (CSTIO) is proud to host the IS & OM PhD Student Workshop taking place on 19th May at the Waterside Building.
The topic of this workshop is generally about AI, Digital Technologies, Data-Driven Decision Making, and related subjects. There will be total 8 PhD students from both IS and OM attending and sharing their work, with each 20-minute presentation and 10 minutes Q&A. The details of each presentation and bios of presenters can be found in the attached file. There will be refreshments and lunch provided on that day.
Before 09:50
Warm-up & Free Activities
09:50-10:00
Opening and Welcome
Professor Kieran Fernandes
Executive Dean in Durham University Business School
Time
Session
Title
Presenter
Track
10:00-12:00
1A
From Top-down to Locked-in: Normalizing Digital Technologies in Hierarchical Organizations
Chuying (Pearl) Ding
IS
1B
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Supply Chain Carbon Footprinting and Climate Change Disclosures of Global Firms
Qidi Wu
OM
1C
Prospective Theorising in Blockchain Applications: Contrasting Academic Sentiment and Practical Adoption
Nicole Maekineste
1D
Modelling and Context-aware Decision-making in Multi-machine Maintenance Optimization
Yipu Yao
Lunch Time
13:00-15:00
2A
Influencer Marketing Effectiveness: A Meta-Analytic Review
Meizhi (Maggie) Pan
2B
Beyond Trust? Experimental Evidence from Interaction Between Human Clinicians and Artificial Intelligence Assistance for Medical Decisions
Xinyu Li
2C
From Office Walls to Virtual Worlds: Professional Identity in the Virtual Office
Myrto Dimitriou
2D
Ride-Hailing with Baby Seat Requirements: A Partially Pooled Queueing Approach to Fleet Allocation and Pricing Trade-offs
Zibo Zhang
Closing & Free Activities