Awarded by: the MIS Quarterly (MISQ)
A paper co-authored by Prof. Michael Zhang, Associate Professor of the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management (ISOM) has won the MIS Quarterly Best Paper Award for 2013. He will receive this prestigious award in Auckland, New Zealand this December in the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
Published by the Management Information Systems Research Center at the University of Minnesota, the MIS Quarterly (MISQ) is one of the most prestigious academic journals in the field of information systems. The journal provides a channel to share knowledge related to the development of IT-based services, the management of IT resources, and the use, impact and economics of IT with managerial, organizational, and societal implications.
Prof Zhang’s paper - "Impact of Wikipedia on Market Information Environment: Evidence on Management Disclosure and Investor Reaction” is named the “MISQ Paper of the Year”. The paper explains how Wikipedia can improve the information environment in the financial market and underscore the value of information aggregation through the use of information technology. HKUST’s Research Proposal Competition (RPC) funding and RGC’s GRF funding supported this work. Prof. Zhang presented this paper to an audience of managers in one of the Business Insight Talks in 2013.