Cheng Nie

Research interests:

• Sharing Economy
  
• Online Reviews
  
• Sponsored Search
  
• Recommender Systems
  

Journal Publications

1. A Strategic Group Analysis of Competitor Behavior in Search Advertising Cheng Nie, Zhiqiang Zheng, Sumit Sarkar. Forthcoming at Journal of the Association for Information Systems
   

Journal Papers Under Review

1. Manipulating Consumer Opinion: Incumbents Reaction to Competition from the Sharing Economy Cheng Nie, Zhiqiang Zheng, Sumit Sarkar. Under 3rd round review at MIS Quarterly
   
2. How Online Information Influences Offline Transactions: Insights from Digital Real Estate Platforms Zhengrui Jiang, Hua Sun, Arun Rai, Cheng Nie, Yuheng Hu. Under Review at Information Systems Research
   

Work in progress

1. Not All Strategies Are Created Equal: Evidence from Hotels' Response to Counter the Competition from Airbnb Cheng Nie, Zhiqiang Zheng, Sumit Sarkar
   

Refereed conference publications:

1. Competing with the Sharing Economy: Strategies for Manipulating Consumer Opinions Cheng Nie, Zhiqiang Zheng, Sumit Sarkar. INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 17), Houston, TX, USA October 21-22, 2017.
   
2. Manipulating Consumer Opinion: Incumbents Reaction to Competition from the Sharing Economy Cheng Nie, Zhiqiang Zheng, Sumit Sarkar. 26th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS 16), Dublin, Ireland, December 15-16, 2016. Nominated for Best Paper Award.
   
3. How do Strategic Groups Impact Consumer Behavior in Sponsored Search Advertising? Eric Zheng, Sumit Sarkar, Cheng Nie. 24th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS 14), Auckland, New Zealand, December 17-19, 2014.
   
4. Modeling Open Source Software Bugs with Complex Networks. Cheng Nie, Daniel Zeng, Xiaolong Zheng, Fei-Yue Wang, Huimin Zhao. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI 10), Qingdao, Shandong, China, July 15-17, 2010.
   

Presentations:

1. Firm Competition and Consumer Reaction in Search Advertising: A Strategic Group Perspective.
     SCECR 19, Hong Kong, China Jun 11-12, 2019.
   
2. How Does Online Review Manipulation Influence Sales? Evidence from the Hotel Industry.
     WITS 18, Santa Clara, CA, December 16-18, 2018.
   
3. Competing with the Sharing Economy: Strategies for Manipulating Consumer Opinions.
     POMS 18, Houston, TX, May 4-7, 2018.
   
4. Competing with the Sharing Economy: Strategies for Manipulating Consumer Opinions.
     CIST 17, Houston, TX, October 21-22, 2017.
   
5. Hotel Strategies to Influence Sales: Incumbents Reaction to Competition from Airbnb.
     INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 22-25, 2017.
   
6. Manipulating Consumer Opinion: Incumbents Reaction to Competition from the Sharing Economy.
     WITS 16, Dublin, Ireland, December 15, 2016.
   
7. How do Strategic Groups Impact Consumer Behavior in Sponsored Search Advertising?
     Big XII+ conference at Iowa State University, April 12th, 2015
8. Coordination under competition
     INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 9th, 2014