Editor-in-chief Electronic commerce Research (Springer)

05/01/2024

My book Audit Analytics: Data Science for the Accounting Profession (2nd ed. 2024) is now out in hardback. The first edition was incredibly successful, and I'm hoping to add to the audience with this expanded version.

03/29/2024

I am happy to announce that the March 2024 issue of Electronic Commerce Research is now published. This Special Issue presents 23 new research studies on Electronic Commerce in Banking and Finance. I want to extend my congratulations and sincerest gratitude to the Guest Editors who contributed their time and effort to creating this Special Issue: Anas Ali Al-Qudah, Abdulmuttaleb M.A Musleh · Manaf Mowfaq, Al-Okaily · Satish Kumar,· Prashant Gupta, Weng Marc Lim, Geeta Dupatti, Prashant Sharma, Myong K. Jeong, Jian Mou, and Taeho Hong. I think they should feel very proud of the quality and breadth of articles in this ECR Special Issue.

03/26/2024

The 2nd edition of Audit Analytics is out!

This book, using R and RStudio, not only demonstrates how to render a legally and statistically defensible audit opinion, but also provides practical guidance on how to analyze, extract, and manipulate accounting data, and build a risk assessment matrix. It's a comprehensive resource that empowers you to conduct a cost-effective audit program and more.

Today, information technology plays a pivotal role in financial control and auditing: most financial data is digitally recorded and dispersed among servers, clouds, and networks, over which the audited firm has no control. Additionally, a firm’s data―particularly in the case of finance, software, insurance, and biotech firms―comprises most of the audited value of the firm. Financial audits are critical mechanisms for ensuring the integrity of information systems and organizational financial reporting. They help avoid the abuses that led to the passage of legislation such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (1977) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002).

Audit effectiveness has declined over the past two decades as auditor skillsets have failed to keep up with advances in information technology. This book, designed to meet the increasing needs of audit professionals, provides the latest insights on information technology and the controls required to manage it. This 2nd edition includes updated code and tests, ensuring you stay informed and up-to-date in your field.

The material included in this book is not just theoretical but also highly practical. It focuses on the requirements for annual Securities and Exchange Commission audits (10-K) for listed corporations, which are the benchmark auditing procedures for specialized audits. Many examples reflect the focus of the 2024 CPA exam, ensuring you're well-prepared and confident in your knowledge.

02/08/2024

Book recommendations: Two of my colleagues, Jonathon Clements and Avi Datta have new books out that I highly recommend.

Jon is an authority on Chinese and Japanese history, and an insightful and irreverent observer of East Asian history. For anyone wanting to understand the current politics surrounding Taiwan and China, Rebel Island is a must-read, and a very accessible narrative on a complex topic.

Avi is an award winning Sci-Fi author who also happens to be an academic in my area (and in Illinois). His new book "The Reset" is a page turner and the 3rd in his "Time Corrector" series. All of his books are free to borrow on Kindle Unlimited (so what's stopping you?)

https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Island-incredible-history-Taiwan-ebook/dp/B0C9JZQ2LW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1J2OBX3DXOBW8&keywords=rebel+island+taiwan&qid=1707413008&sprefix=rebel+island%2Caps%2C384&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Reset-Time-Corrector-Book-ebook/dp/B0CP7K77M1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1A3TZ7WPP5U1U&keywords=avi+datta&qid=1707413308&sprefix=avi+datta%2Caps%2C366&sr=8-1

01/30/2024

I’ve just completed my new book "The Book of Light" which is my extended meditation on light and all of its associated technologies. This is the second in a series of books intended to introduce young readers to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) topics in an engaging way. I am hoping to find enough success to continue the series on numerous other interesting STEM topics. But light has been a particular passion of mine, and this book has given me the opportunity to experiment with literary styles.

Here is the link to purchase my book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTJ14YSR

The Book of Light arose from my fascination with light and all of its intricacies. Light is the substance that conceptually binds the quantum to the relativistic worlds. Relative spatial reference frames have been around since Galileo, but light (or the constancy of its speed in all reference frames) spawned the Einsteinian revolution. Newton thought that light was made of particles. A century after Newton’s Opticks the prodigy Thomas Young conducted his two-slit experiment to support a wave theory of light. Today we accept light as being both wave and particle, as with all matter. Light is our window to reality.

My series of STEM books is intended to engage younger readers, just as I was engaged in such books when I was growing up. I originally saw these as childrens' books for adults, using slightly larger print and vivid, fanciful, hallucinatory illustrations to emphasize and augment the prose. I found that according to a January 2023 WordsRated statistics, 51% of young adult (YA) books are purchased by people between the ages of 30 and 44, and 78% of those buyers said that they intended to read the books themselves. In recent years, librarians report that more middle grade readers (traditionally eight- to 12-year-olds) are “reading up” to YA books.

Here are pictures of the cover, table of contents and the first few stories.

01/13/2024

I’ve just completed my new book Revolutionary Bites: Bite-Size Tales from Science, Industry and Politics, a set of 60 short stories intended to introduce young readers to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), management and finance topics in an engaging way.

I wanted this to engage teenage readers, just as I was engaged in such books when I was growing up. To capture young minds, you need a bit of “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll” but in family-friendly form (sorry, no NSFW content).

Here is the link to purchase my book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CS79VZC9?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

I originally envisioned this as a children’s book for adults, using slightly larger print and vivid, fanciful, hallucinatory illustrations leading each of the 60 stories. But then I found that according to a January 2023 WordsRated statistics, 51% of young adult (YA) books are purchased by people between the ages of 30 and 44, and 78% of those buyers said that they intended to read the books themselves. In recent years, librarians report that more middle grade readers (traditionally eight- to 12-year-olds) are “reading up” to YA books.

Here are pictures of the cover, table of contents and the first few stories.

09/16/2023

Announcing the September 2023 volume of Electronic Commerce Research

04/17/2023

04/17/2023

The June 2023 edition of Electronic Commerce Research has just been released with 25 new articles on all aspects of electronic commerce. Here is our line-up for June 2023

Smartphone-based information acquisition and wheat farm performance: insights from a doubly robust IPWRA estimator
H. Zheng · W. Ma 633
Variance does matter in affecting the box office: a multi-aspect investigation
Q. Li · Y. Tang · W. Xu · M. Wang 659
Employing singular value decomposition and similarity criteria for alleviating cold start and sparse data in context-aware recommender systems
K.V. Rodpysh · S.J. Mirabedini · T. Banirostam 681
Why do peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms fail? The gap between P2P lenders' preferences and the platforms’ intentions
G. Klein · Z. Shtudiner · M. Zwilling 709
Personal antecedents of perceived deceptive pricing in online retailing: the moderating role of price inequality
I.P. Riquelme · S. Román 739
A study of cognitive effort involved in the framing effect of summary descriptions of online product reviews for search vs. experience products
J. Jin · C. Lin · F. Wang · T. Xu · W. Zhang 785
Managing consumer privacy risk: The effects of privacy breach insurance
Y. Cheng · S. Mei · W. Zhong · X. Gao 807
Nominal effect vs actual effect: overconfidence in a consignment omnichannel
Z. Chen · C. Tang · J. Peng 843
Gender difference in visual attention to digital content of place-based advertising: a data-driven scientific approach
T. Suh · R.T. Wilson · S. On 877
Defective products identification framework using online reviews
Y. Abbas · M.S.I. Malik 899
A semantic transfer approach to keyword suggestion for search engine advertising
J. Zhang · J. Zhang · G. Chen 921
Mining sustainable fashion e-commerce: social media texts and consumer behaviors
Z. Shen 949
Market reaction to the announcement of online sales channel investment in enterprises: Evidence from a relatively stable market environment
Y. Lei · Q. Zhou · W. Cheung · X. Cui · L. Peng 973
Capacity pooling games in crowdsourcing services
Z. Shi · E. Cao · K. Nie 1007
Game theoretic analysis of logistics service coordination in a live-streaming e-commerce system
L. Zhu · N. Liu 1049
Shill bidding in lenders’ eyes? A cross-country study on the influence of large bids in online P2P lending
D. Chen · X. Li · F. Lai 1089
The influence of patient-generated reviews and doctor-patient relationship on online consultations in China
Y. Hu · H. Zhou · Y. Chen · J. Yao · J. Su 1115
What determines the differentiation in the e-commerce adoption by consumers: evidence from Russia
I. Lola · M. Bakeev 1143
The effect of surcharge on price in online auctions
E. Haruvy · B. Lim · P.T.L.P. Leszczyc 1161
Exploring the development of environmentally sustainable products through reward-based crowdfunding
F. Corsini · M. Frey 1183
Investment decisions and pricing strategies of crowdfunding players: In a two-sided crowdfunding market
X. Tang · H. Lu · W. Huang · S. Liu 1209
Online marketplace sellers’ influence on rating scores and comment orientation
E.Y. Huang · S.-C. Lin · I.-T. Hsieh 1241
Research on the positioning method of online community users from the perspective of precision marketing
X. Zhao · H. Zhang · H. Shen · Y. Zhou 1271
Real-time bidding campaigns optimization using user profile settings
L. Miralles-Pechuán · M.A. Qureshi · B.M. Namee 1297
Can investors’ collective decision-making evolve? Evidence from peer-to-peer lending markets
D. Kim 1323

10/28/2022

I am please to announce the publication of the latest issue of Electronic Commerce Research (Volume 22 · Number 4 · December 2022)

We have an expanded set of excellent articles listed below:

Exploring side effects of ridesharing services in urban China: role of pollution–averting
behavior
W. Chen · J. Chen · G. Yin 1007
Impact of air quality on online restaurant review comprehensiveness
J. Fang · L. Hu · X. Liu · V.R. Prybutok 1035
Semantic model to extract tips from hotel reviews
S. Kumar · C.R. Chowdary 1059
Leveraging consumer behaviors for product recommendation: an approach based
on heterogeneous network
W. Deng 1079
Analyzing ICT-enabled agricultural advisory services in Pakistan: evidence from a
marginalized region of Punjab province
N.A. Khan · Q. Gao · S. Ali · B. Shahbaz · P. Khan · M. Abid 1107
Group interaction and evolution of customer reviews based on opinion dynamics
towards product redesign
F. Zou · Y. Li · J. Huang 1131
E-business adoption costs and strategies for retail micro businesses
M. Mkansi 1153
Experiences in consumer flow in online supermarkets
D. Morales-Solana · I. Esteban-Millat · A. Alegret Cotas 1195
Intermediation in reward-based crowdfunding: a cash deposit mechanism to reduce
moral hazard
E. Erjiang · M. Yu · G. Peng 1227
Measuring the consumer engagement related to social media: the case of franchising
E. Calderón-Monge · J.M. Ramírez-Hurtado 1249
Optimal advertising for a generalized Vidale–Wolfe response model
Y. Yang · B. Feng · J. Salminen · B.J. Jansen 1275
Should the assembly system with direct omnichannel introduce integrated management
service? A game-theoretical modelling study
Z. Chen · J. Peng 1307
Online sequential bundling: profit analysis and practice
A. Gayer · A. Aiche · E. Gimmon 1351
The influence of community engagement on seller opportunistic behaviors in
e-commerce platform
J. Wang · S. Cai · Q. Xie · L. Chen 1377
How Citizen Demand Affects the Process of M-Government Adoption: An Empirical
Study in China
Y. Zheng · L. Ma 1407
A knowledge graph approach for recommending patents to companies
W. Deng · J. Ma 1435
Exploitative or explorative innovation? An event study of cloud computing business value
Z. Li · N. Wang · S. Ge 1467
A comparison between the wholesale model and the agency model with different launch
strategies in the book supply chain
H. Ke · S. Ye · Y. Mo 1491
Linear feedback shift register and integer theory: a state-of-art approach in security
issues over e-commerce
A. Bhowmik · S. Karforma 1515
A service recommendation approach based on trusted user profiles and an enhanced
similarity measure
A. Noulapeu Ngaffo · W. El Ayeb · Z. Choukair 1537
A multi-perspective lens on web assurance seals: contrasting vendors’ intended and
consumers’ perceived effects
J. Löbbers · S. Lins · T. Kromat · A. Benlian · A. Sunyaev 1573
Will the community O2O service supply channel benefit the elderly healthcare service
supply chain?
J. Zhao 1617
Monopoly or competition: strategic analysis of a retailing technology service provision
F. Hu · Z. Zhou 1651