Curriculum Vita (Mu Xia)

Campus address	Contact
Department of Business Administration College of Business University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 350 Wohlers Hall, 1206 S. 6th St. Champaign, IL 61820	Office: 189 WH Phone: 217-333-2878 Fax: 217-244-7969 Email:

Positions held

Education

Ph.D. (December 2001)
Management Science and Information Systems
Department of Management Science and Information Systems
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

B.E. (July 1995)
Automatic Control
Department of Automation
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Research Interests

• Economics of online sharing communities

• Collaborative e-business standards

• Open source software development

• Electronic markets

• Combinatorial auctions

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

1. Kexin Zhao, Mu Xia, Michael Shaw, Chandra Subramaniam. "The Sustainability of B2B e-Marketplaces: Ownership, Market Competition, and Prior Buyer-Seller Connections," Decision Support Systems, 47, 105-114, May 2009.
2. Mu Xia, Nan Xia. "The Complementary Impacts of e-Markets on Existing Supplier-Buyer Relationships in a Supply Chain," Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 25, No. 3, 9-64, Winter 2008-9.

3. Ramanath Subramanyam, Mu Xia. "Free/Libre Open Source Software Development in Developing and Developed Countries: A Conceptual Framework with an Exploratory Study," Decision Support Systems, 46, 173-186, Dec. 2008.

4. Mu Xia, Yun Huang, Wenjing Duan, Andrew B. Whinston. "Voice of the Crowd: Ballot Box Communication in Online Communities," Communications of the ACM, accepted for publication.
5. Kexin Zhao, Mu Xia, Michael Shaw. "An Integrated Model of Consortia-Based E-business Standardization: Collaborative Development and Adoption with Network Externalities,"  Journal of Management Information Systems, Spring 2007, Vol. 23, No. 4, 247-271.
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6. Kexin Zhao, Mu Xia, Michael Shaw. "Vertical E-Business Standards and Standards Developing Organizations: a Conceptual Framework," Electronic Markets, Special Issue on Vertical Standards, 15(4), 289-300, Fall 2005.

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7. Mu Xia, Jan Stallaert, Andrew B. Whinston. "Solving the Combinatorial Double Auction Problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 164, No. 1, 239-251, July 2005.
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8. Xiubin Wang, Mu Xia. "The Combinatorial Bid generation Problem for Transportation Service Provision," Transportation Research Record, 1923, 189-198, 2005.
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9. Mingzhi Li, Zhangxi Lin, Mu Xia. "Leveraging the Open Source Software Movement for Development of China's Software Industry," Information Technologies and International Development, MIT Press, Vol. 2, No. 2, 45-63, Dec 2004.
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10. Ruth King, Ravi Sen, Mu Xia. "Impact on Web-based e-Commerce on Channel Strategy," International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 8, No. 3, 103-130, Spring 2004.
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11. Mu Xia, Gary Koehler, Andrew B. Whinston. "Pricing combinatorial auctions," European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 154, No. 1, 251-270, April 2004.


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12. Kerem Tomak, Mu Xia. "Evolution of the B2B marketplaces," Electronic Markets, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1-8, 2002.

Working Papers

• "An Empirical Investigation of Consortium-based E-business Standardization: Enables and Barriers of Industry-Wide Collaboration in Standard Consortia", with Kexin Zhao and Michael Shaw.

• "Unravel the Drivers of Online Sharing Communities: An Empirical Investigation", with Wenjing Duan, Yun Huang, Andrew B. Whinston.

• "Do Free-riders Matter? An Empirical Analysis of Online Sharing Communities", with Wenjing Duan, Yun Huang, Andrew B. Whinston.

• "Enhancing Value via Cooperation: Firms¡¯ Process Benefits From Participation in a Consortium," with Kexin Zhao and Joseph Mahoney.

Publications in Book Chapters and Proceedings

• "A Strategic Analysis of Exchange Based B2B Networks," (with Kerem Tomak), in e-Business Management: Integration of Web Technologies with Business Models, Michael Shaw (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, Chapter 16, 355-371.

• "The structure evolution of B2B enterprise networks," (with Kexin Zhao and Michael Shaw), in Advances in the Economics of Information  Systems, K. Tomak (ed), Idea Group Publishers, 2004.

• "Implicit Many-to-One Communication in Online Communities," with Yun Huang, Wenjing Duan and Andrew B. Whinston, in Proceedinsg of the Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies, C. Steinfield, B.T. Pentland, M. Ackerman, and N. Contractor (Eds.), 265-274, Springer-Verlag, London, UK. (Conference held on June 28-30, 2007 at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.)

Invited Presentations

• "Pricing Combinatorial Auctions," Tsinghua University, China, May 2002.
• "Pricing Combinatorial Auctions," Fudan University, China, June 2002.
• "Open e-Business Standard development and adoption: an integrated perspective," University of Minnesota, USA, February 2004.
• "Collaborative Standards development and adoption with network externalities," University of Florida Decision and Information Science Annual Workshop, February 25, 2005.
• "Collaborative Standards development and adoption with network externalities," Boston University, Information Systems Department Seminar, March 22, 2005.
• "Open Source Software Development in Developing and Developed Countries: A Comparative Study,"Georgia Institute of Technology, April 14, 2006.
• "Drivers of Online Sharing Communities: An Empirical Investigation," Purdue University, Krannert School of Management, MIS seminar, October 20, 2006; Michigan State University, Feb. 2, 2007; University of Illinois at Chicago, Feb. 9, 2007; University of Minnesota, March 30, 2007; University of North Carolina-Charlotte, September 21, 2007.
• "What Drives Industry-Wide Collaboration in Standards Consortia: An Empirical Investigation of Consortium-Based E-business Standardization," University of Illinois strategy group seminar, February 29, 2008.
• "Online sharing communities," University of Illinois Community Informatics Initiative seminar, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, August 27, 2008.

Conference and Workshop Presentations

1. "Pricing bundles in a double-auction market and their implications in business-to-business commerce," INFORMS 2000 Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

2. "Exploring B2B market structures," (with Kerem Tomak), Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2001,New Orleans, Louisiana, USA,  Dec. 15-16.

3. International Conference on E-Business 2002 Beijing (ICEB2002) China, May 23-26.

4. "Outside option, bargaining power, and e-marketplaces," (with Rachel Yang and Michael Shaw), INFORMS 2002 Meeting, San Jose, CA, Nov. 17-20.

5. "Business-to-business collaborations and evolution of enterprise," (with Kexin Zhao, Michael Shaw and Chandrasekar Subramaniam), Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2002, Barcelona, Spain, Dec. 14-15.

6. "The Combinatorial Bid Generation Problem for Transportation Service Provision," (with Xiubin Wang), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 19-22, 2003.

7. "Open e-Business Standard Development and Adoption: An Integrated Perspective," (with Kexin Zhao and Michael Shaw), Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2003, Seattle, WA, December 13-14.

8. "Open e-Business Standard Development and Adoption: An Integrated Perspective," (with Kexin Zhao and Michael Shaw), Workshop for MIS Quarterly Special Issue on Standard Making, Seattle, Washington, December 13-14, 2003.

9. "e-Markets As Complements to Existing Supply Contracts," (with Rachel Yang and Michael Shaw), INFORMS 2004 Meeting, Denver, CO, October 24-27.

10. "The Combinatorial Bid Generation Problem for Transportation Service Provision," (with Xiubin Wang), Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 2005.

11. "Collaborative Standard Development and Adoption with Network Externalities," (with Kexin Zhao and Michael Shaw), IEEE International Conference on Service Science and Service Management, Chongqing, China, June 13-15, 2005.

12. "Software Vendors¡¯ Investment in Unobservable Attributes of Product Quality: An Economic Approach for Enterprise System Products," (with Wooje Cho), INFORMS CIST Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 4-5, 2006.

13. "Do Free Riders Matter? An Empirical Analysis of Online Sharing Communities," (with Wenjing Duan, Yun Huang and Andrew B. Whinston), INFORMS CIST Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 4-5, 2006.

14. "Implicit Many-to-One Communication in Online Communities," (with Yun Huang, Wenjing Duan and Andrew B. Whinston), Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, June 28-30, 2007.

15. "Drivers of Online Sharing Communities: An Empirical Investigation," (with Yun Huang, Wenjing Duan and Andrew B. Whinston), Workshop on Implicit Communities, Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, June 28-30, 2007.

Research Grants and Awards

• Bradley L. Goldberg Endowment Research Assistant Award, RA support for summer 2003, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Faculty Research Award for summer 2003, Office of Research, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ($7500)

• University of Illinois Campus Research Board award, May 2003. ($3600)

• University of Illinois CIBER Faculty Research Award, December 2003. ($5000)

• Summer Research Assistant Award, RA support for summer 2004, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• University of Illinois CIBER Faculty Research Award, November 2004. ($2500)

• Summer Research Assistant Award, RA support for summer 2005, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• University of Illinois Campus Research Board award, January 2006. ($3945)

• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Development Project Grant, ¡°Communications in an online non-verbal community,¡± grant number TG-NCR060001N, September 2006.

• Summer Research Assistant Award, RA support for summer 2007, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Summer Research Assistant Award, RA support for summer 2008, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Administrative Services

• Faculty coordinator of the undergraduate MIS program (2005--present)

• MIS group proseminar organizer (2002--present)

Teaching Experience

At the University of Illinois:

• E-commerce Applications and Web-based Systems

• Enterprise Computing Management

• Software Programming, Development and Management
• Database Design and Management
• Electronic Commerce in the Financial Industry (Short course taught to executives of China¡¯s leading banks in the China Executive Leadership Program).

At the University of Texas:

• Object-oriented Analysis and Design with Java

Professional Services

• Editorial board, Information Systems and e-Business Management.

• Co-chair, e-Business Special Interest Group (SIG eBiz), Association for Information Systems (AIS).

• Co-chair, e-Business Special Interest Group, Association for Information Systems (AIS).

• Reviewer, Decision Support Systems, Journal of MIS, European Journal of Operational Research, Information Systems and e-Business Management.

• Reviewer, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), American Conference of Information Systems (AMCIS), International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).

Program Committees

• Program committee member, Workshop on e-Business (WeB) 2003, Seattle, WA, December 13-14.

• Co-chair, e-Business Cluster, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, October 24-27, 2004.

• Program committee member, Eighth Pacific-Asian Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Shanghai, China, July 8-11, 2004.

• Mini-track co-chair, Business-to-business e-commerce, American Conference of Information Systems (AMCIS) 2002, August 9-11, Dallas, TX.

• Co-chair, e-Business Cluster, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 5-8, 2006.

• Program committee member, Workshop on e-Business (WeB), Milwaukee, WI, 2006.

• Program committee member, First China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM2007), Shanghai, China, July 22-23, 2007.

• Program committee member, Ninth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2007), Minneapolis, MN, USA, August 19-22, 2007.

• Program committee member, Workshop on e-Business (WeB), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 9, 2007.

• Program committee member, Second China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM2008), Chengdu, China, June 29-30, 2008.

• International Program Committee member, Seventh Wuhan International Conference on E-Business, Wuhan, China, May 31-June 1, 2008.

• Program committee member, International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Innsbruck, Austria, August 18-22, 2008.

Students Advised

On dissertation committees of: (graduation year, placement)

• Kexin Zhao (2007, University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
• Jingquan Li (2005, Texas A&M University, San Antonio)
• Ravi Sen (2003, Texas A&M University)
• Hsin-Lu Chang (2003, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan)

Last updated: September 26, 2008.