In the gig-economy era, public safety and social justice can be secured simultaneously, according to HKUST’s Yanzhen Chen and Yatang Lin, working with a colleague. While the potential criminality of ride-share drivers has raised concern, governments can work with platforms and communities to safeguard riders without penalizing marginalized groups. Focusing ... 阅读更多

Operations management (OM) research is increasingly drawing from a toolbox of econometric methods to test treatment effects. Offering guidance for future studies, HKUST’s Yanzhen Chen and Yatang Lin, together with colleagues, have surveyed the validity of such tools for establishing causality. Their recent review provides a much-needed summary for those ... 阅读更多