THE UNIVERSITY of BRITISH COLUMBIA Curriculum Vitae for Faculty Members

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Curriculum Vitae for Faculty Members

Date: April 20, 2019 Initials:NN

1. SURNAME:Nan FIRST NAME:Ning MIDDLE NAME(S):

2. DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL:Accounting and Information Systems

3. FACULTY:Sauder School of Business

4. PRESENT RANK:Assistant Professor SINCE:June 2012

5. POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

University or Institution Degree Subject Area Dates University of Michigan PhD1 Business Administration August, 2006 University of Minnesota MA Mass Communication July, 2002 Peking University BA Advertising July, 1999

Special Professional Qualifications

6. EMPLOYMENT RECORD

(a) Prior to coming to UBC

University, Company or Organization Rank or Title Dates University of Oklahoma Assistant Professor 2006-2012

(b) At UBC

Rank or Title Dates Assistant Professor 2012-present

1 Title of Dissertation: Unintended Consequences in Central-Remote Office Arrangement: A Study Coupling Laboratory Experiments with Multi-Agent Modeling. Supervisor: Prof. Judith Olson Updated April 20, 2019 - Page 2/15

7. LEAVES OF ABSENCE

University, Company or Organization Type of Leave Dates at which Leave was taken

8. TEACHING

(a) Areas of special interest and accomplishments

My teaching experience includes undergraduate, MBA, and PhD level courses. I seek to deliver both handson technology skills and critical thinking abilities to students. To date, I have taught the following topics:

• E-business (digital business) • Database management • Introduction to Management Information Systems • Complexity theory and computer simulation method • Information systems research

(b) Courses Taught at UBC

Session Course Scheduled Class Hours Taught Number Hours Size Lectures Tutorials Labs Other 2012-T2 COMM 336 3 per week 35 39 6.5 office Section 201 x 13 weeks hours 2012-T2 COMM 336 3 per week 26 39 6.5 office Section 202 x 13 weeks hours 2013-T2 COMM 336 3 per week 24 39 6.5 office Section 201 x 13 weeks hours 2013-T2 COMM 336 3 per week 36 39 6.5 office Section 202 x 13 weeks hours 2014-T2 COMM 336 3 per week 26 39 6.5 office Section 201 x 13 weeks hours 2014-T2 COMM 336 3 per week 28 39 6.5 office Section 202 x 13 weeks hours 2014-T2 BAIT580B 3 per week 6 18 6 office x 6 weeks hours 2015-T2 BAIT513 19.5 35 19.5 2015-T2 BAIT580A 3 per week 3 21 7 office x 7 weeks hours 2015-T2 BAIT580B 3 per week 3 18 6 office x 6 weeks hours 2015-T2 COMM 634 3 per week 3 39 13 office x 13 weeks hours 2016-T2 COMM 336 3 per week 32 39 6.5 office Section 201 x 13 weeks hours Updated April 20, 2019 - Page 3/15

2016-T2 COMM 336 3 per week 29 39 6.5 office Section 202 x 13 weeks hours 2017-T2 COMM 336 3 per week 31 39 6.5 office Section 201 x 13 weeks hours 2017-T2 COMM 336 3 per week 39 39 6.5 office Section 202 x 13 weeks hours 2017-T1 BAIT513 19.5 29 19.5 2017-T2 COMM635 3 per week 3 39 13 office x 13 weeks hours 2018-T1 COMM437 3 per week 44 39 6.5 office x 13 weeks hours 2018-T2 COMM437 3 per week 41 39 6.5 office Section 201 x 13 weeks hours 2018-T2 COMM437 3 per week 42 39 6.5 office Section 202 x 13 weeks hours

Student Name Program Type Year Supervisory Role Start Finish (supervisor, co-supervisor, committee member) Kejia Zhu2 Ph.D. 2007 2014 Dissertation committee member Lior Shmueli Ph.D. 2013 2014 Summer project co-supervisor Usman Aleem Msc 2010 2012 Thesis committee member Mengting Xu Msc 2011 2013 Thesis committee member Atefeh Taghavi Msc 2013 2015 Thesis committee member Moksh Matta Ph.D. 2014 present Summer project co-supervisor, dissertation committee member Ting Li Msc 2013 2015 Thesis committee member Atefeh Taghavi Ph.D. 2016 Present Disseration co-supervisor

(d) Graduate Program Supervision

Student Name Program Type Year Supervisory Role Start Finish (supervisor, co-supervisor, committee member)

2 Disseration title: Embedded Rule Change: Network Exposure and Clinical Practice Guideline Revisions. Placement: Assistant Professor of Management Sciences at University of Waterloo. Updated April 20, 2019 - Page 4/15

(e) Continuing Education Activities

(f) Visiting Lecturer (indicate university/organization and dates)

(g) Other

9. SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

(a) Areas of special interest and accomplishments

My research applies theories and methods of complexity science to understanding how to manage and harness complexity in digital business. My current areas of interests include:

• Digital business stratey • Emergent or self-oganized behaviors in digital contexts • Evolvable IT infrastructure • Blockchain

(b) Research or equivalent grants (indicate under COMP whether grants were obtained competitively (C) or non-competitively (NC))

Granting Subject COMP $ Year Principal Co-Investigator(s) Agency Per Year Investigator NSERC Blockchain and Distributed C $269,758 6 (2019 Victoria Ning Nan CREATE Ledger Technologies Training – 2025) Lemieux Ivan Beschastnikh Program Alexandra Fedorova Chen Feng Cristie Ford Harish Krishnan Victor Leung SSHRC Design without Final Goals: C $32,290 4 (2017 Ning Nan Shan Wang (U of Insight Fractal-based Design – 2021) Saskatchewan) Principles for IT Infrastructure Vancouver Blockchain and Intellectual C $12,000 1 Yi Qian Ning Nan School of Property (2018) Economics (CIDE Small Grants in Innovative Data) Updated April 20, 2019 - Page 5/15

Sauder School Information systems as lever NC $15,000 1 (2016 Ning Nan of Business points in global supply chains - 2017) UBC HSS Information systems as lever NC $2,500 1 (2016 Ning Nan Research Fund points in global supply chains - 2017) NSF China A complex theoretical C $ 32,500 4 (2014 Shan Wang Ning Nan perspective of E-commer (160,000 – 2018) (Renmin U., (collaborator) startup’s innovation RMB) China) behaviors SSHRC for hosting the 2nd C $7,000 1 Ning Nan Connection Symposium on IT and (2014) Complex Adaptive Systems Sauder School Enhancing the motivational C $9,000 1 (2014 Ning Nan of Business affordance of social media for – 2015) crowdsourcing corporate social responsibility projects Sauder School Corporate social C $10,000 1 (2013 Ning Nan of Business responsibility on Web 2.0 – 2014) UBC/SSHRC Corporate social NC $2,000 1 (2013 Ning Nan reapplication responsibility on Web 2.0 – 2014) award UBC’s Online Social Influence NC $4,500 1 Ning Nan Nicole Li International (2013) (undergraduate Undergraduate student hired for Research this project) Award

(c) Research or equivalent contracts (indicate under COMP whether grants were obtained competitively (C) or non-competitively (NC).

Granting Subject COMP $ Year Principal Co-Investigator(s) Agency Per Year Investigator

(d) Invited Presentations (Identify whether International/National/Local)

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Invited Speaker to deliver two seminars on Information Systems Research via a Complexity Theoretical Lens, China Geosciences University, Wuhan, China, October 30 & 31, 2017

UBC Artificial Intelligence Group Public Presentation, 3-Minute Introduction of Research, October 11, 2017.

Digital Competitive Dynamics as Complex Adaptive Systems, China Geosciences University, Wuhan, China, May 12, 2015

The Role of Technology in Hypercompetition, HEC Montreal, September, 2014

Self-organized Crisis Management in Online Communities, Renmin University, Beijing, China, May 28, 2014

Self-organized Crisis Management in Online Communities, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 23, 2014

Information Technology and Hypercompetition, Temple University, October 3, 2013

Harnessing the Power of Self-Organization in Online Communities, University of Texas at Austin, April 26, 2013

(e) Other Presentations

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Self-Organized Governance in Blockchain. Presented at the Symposium of Coordination, Governance, and Trust: The Impact of Blockchain on Organizations, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 2018, Chicago, USA.

From Hidden Order to Hidden Solution: A Multilevel Coevolutionary Perspective of Digital Competitive Interaction, Author Workshop for MISQ Special Issue on Complexity and IS, Austin, Texas, USA, April, 2017.

Improving Complex Adaptive Supply Chain with Top-down and Bottom-up IT Processes. The 12th Global Business and Social Science Research Conference, Beijing, China, August, 2016

Complex Configurations of Digital Competitive Moves, MISQ Special Issue on Complexity and IS Workshop, an affiliated workshop at ICIS 2015, Texas, USA.

Analytics for Collaborative Organizing in Mobile Workforce:An Approach Combining Field Data and Computer Simulation, NYU 2015 Conference on Digital Big Data, Smart Life, & Mobile Marketing Analytics, October, 2015

Improving Complex Adaptive Supply Chain with Top-down and Bottom-up IT Processes, 3rd Annual Research Symposium on Complexity and IT, Montpellier, France, July 2015

Information Technology and Hypercompetition, Wuhan, China, The Twelfth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business, May 25-26, 2013.

(f) Other

(g) Conference Participation (Organizer, Keynote Speaker, etc.)

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Mentor, MIS Quarterly Reviewer Development Workshop, International Conference of Information Systems, San Francisco, USA, December 16, 2018.

Invited panelist, the Complexity Panel, the 22nd Annual Conference of the Association Information & Management (AIM), Paris, France, May 18th, 2017.

Invited community leader, AIS Community Leaders Meeting, an affiliated meeting at ICIS 2016, Dublin, Ireland.

Co-organizer and Panelist, 3rd Annual Research Symposium on Complexity and IT, Montpellier, France, July 2015

Co-organizer, Professional Development Workshop—Complexity in Information Systems Research & Digital Business, at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2015

Orlando, Florida, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, co-organizer of Professional Development Workshop on Simulation Method in IS Research, August 10, 2013

Austin, Texas, The First Symposium on IT and Complex Adaptive Systems, co-organizer, October 11-12, 2013

Milan, Italy, International Conference of Information Systems, session chair, December 17, 2013

Vancouver, BC, The Second Symposium on IT and Complex Adaptive Systems, co-organizer & host, July 25-26, 2014

10. SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

(a) Areas of special interest and accomplishments

(b) Memberships on committees, including offices held and dates

Member, Sauder APAC (September 2016 to present)

Member, Sauder APTL (September 2015 to August 2016)

Member, Sauder Research Advisory Committee (September 2012 to August 2015)

MIS graduate studies coordinator (September 2013 to present)

11. SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

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(a) Memberships on scholarly societies, including offices held and dates

Founding officer and President, AIS SIGC-Cubed (AIS Special Interest Group on Complexity Causes, Changes, and Consequences), 2015 to present.

Communication Officer: Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group of Agent-Based Information Systems (SIGABIS), December 2012 to December 2013.

(b) Memberships on other societies, including offices held and dates

(d) Memberships on other committees, including offices held and dates

(e) Editorships (list journal and dates)

Associate Editor at MIS Quarterly (2019-2020)

Area Editor at Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (2010 to present)

(f) Reviewer (journal, agency, etc. including dates)

MIS Quarterly: total 2 Associate Editor report, 34 referree reports (3 in 2019, 7 in 2018, 7 in 2017, 9 in 2016, 7 in 2015, 6 in 2014, 2 in 2013, 1 in 2012)

Information Systems Research: total 10 referree reports (1 in 2019, 2 in 2018; 2 in 2017, 1 in 2016, 1 in 2015, 2 in 2014, 1 in 2013, 2 in 2012)

Management Science: total 3 referree reports (1 in 2017, 2 referree reports in 2015)

Organization Science: total 2 referree reports (1 in 2015, 1 in 2016)

Journal of Strategic Information Systems: total 2 referree reports (1 in 2015, 1 in 2016)

Jounral of the Association for Information Systems: 2 referree report in 2017, 3 in 2018, 1 in 2019

European Journal of Information Systems: total 3 referree reports (3 in 2018, 2 in 2017, 1 in 2016)

Information Systems Journal: total 2 referree reports (1 in 2015, 1 in 2017)

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory: 1 referree report in 2014, 1 in 2018

Physica A: 1 referree report in 2014

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems: 2 referree reports in 2013

(g) External examiner (indicate universities and dates)

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(h) Consultant (indicate organization and dates)

(i) Other service to the community

12. AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

(a) Awards for Teaching (indicate name of award, awarding organizations, date)

(b) Awards for Scholarship (indicate name of award, awarding organizations, date)

Best Conference Presentation Paper Award Academy of Management Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division 2012

MIS Quarterly Reviewer of the Year 2016 (awarded in Dec 2017)

(d) Other Awards

13. OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION (Maximum 0ne Page) Updated April 20, 2019 - Page 11/15

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Publications Record

SURNAME:Nan FIRST NAME:Ning Initials:NN MIDDLE NAME(S): Date:April 20, 2019

Policy on authorship: the order of authorship in all publications included in this record is based on the significance of intellectual contribution, with the first author making the most significant contribution to a publication.

1. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

(a) Journals

1. N. Nan and H. Tanriverdi, Unifying the Role of IT in Hyperturbulence and Competitive Advantage Via a Multilevel Perspective of IS Strategy, MIS Quarterly, 41, 3, 2017, pp. 937- 958.

2. A. Espinosa, N. Nan and E. Carmel, Temporal Distance, Communication Patterns and Task Performance in Teams, , Journal of Management Information Systems, 32, 1, 2015, pp. 151-191.

3. N. Nan and Y. Lu. Harnessing the Power of Self-Organization in Online Community during Organizational Crisis, MIS Quarterly, 38, 4, 2014, pp. 1135-1157.

4. N. Nan, R. Zmud, And E. Yetgin. A Complex Adaptive Systems Model of Innovation Diffusion: Theoretical Integration and Validation of a Virtual Laboratory. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 20, 2014, pp. 52-88.

5. N. Nan and S. Kumar. Joint Effect of Team Structure and Software Architecture in Open Source Software, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 60, 3, 2013, pp. 592 - 603.

6. Cheshin, Y. Kim, N.D. Bos, N. Nan, and J.S. Olson. Emergence of Differing Electronic Communication Norms within Partially Distributed Teams, Journal of Personnel Psychology, 12, 1, 2013, pp. 7-21.

7. N. Nan. Capturing Bottom-Up IT Use Processes: A Complex Adaptive Systems Model, MIS Quarterly, 35, 2, 2011, pp. 505-532.

8. E.W. Johnston, D. Hicks, N. Nan, and J.C. Auer. Managing the Inclusion Process in Collaborative Governance, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 21, 4, 2011, pp. 699-721.

9. N. Nan and D. Harter. Impact of Schedule and Budget Pressure on Software Development Cycle Time and Effort. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 35, 5, 2009, pp. 624- 637. Updated April 20, 2019 - Page 12/15

10. N. Nan and E.W. Johnston. Using multi-agent simulation to explore the contribution of facilitation to GSS transition. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 10, 3, 2009, Article 2.

11. E.W. Johnston, N. Nan, D. Hicks, and W. Zhong. Between implementation and outcomes, growth matters: Validating an agent-based modeling approach for understanding collaboration process management. The Innovation Journal. 13, 3, 2008, article 7.

12. N.D. Bos, J.S. Olson, N. Nan, and A. Cheshin. Subgroup biases in partially distributed collaboration. Journal of Information Technology Research. 2, 1, 2009, pp. 1-8.

13. N. Nan. A Principal-Agent Model for Incentive Design in Knowledge Sharing. Journal of Knowledge Management, 12, 3, 2008, pp.101-113.

14. N. Nan, E.W. Johnston and J.S. Olson. Unintended Consequences in Central-Remote Office Arrangement: A Study Coupling Laboratory Experiment with Multi-Agent Simulation. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 14, 2, 2008, pp. 57-83.

(b) Conference Proceedings

J.A. Espinosa, N. Nan, and E. Carmel. Temporal Distance, Synchronicity and Team Performance. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings, 2012.

N. Nan and Y. Yoo. Social Construction of User Beliefs of Collaborative Technology: A Multi- Method Approach. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), December 2010, paper 118.

N. Nan, J.A. Espinosa, and E. Carmel. Communication and Performance across Time Zones: A Laboratory Experiment. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), December 2009, paper 107.

N. Nan, S. Kumar and L. Wang. The Collaboration Network Structure in Open Source Projects. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium on Research in Systems Analysis & Design, Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 2007.

N. Bos, J. Olson, N. Nan, N. Shami, S. Hock and E. Johnston. Collocation Blindness In Partially Distributed Groups: Is There A Downside To Being Collocated? Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, April 2006, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

N. Nan, N. Bos, Y. Kim, A. Cheshin, J. S. Olson. Impact of Personnel Rotation on Performance of Distributed Teams: An Experimental Study. Proceedings of the Eleventh Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 2005, Omaha, NE.

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N. Nan, E. W. Johnston, J. S. Olson and N. Bos. Beyond Being in the Lab: Using Multi-Agent Modeling to Isolate Competing Hypotheses. CHI Late Breaking Result Papers, April 2005, Portland.

N. Bos, J. S. Olson, A. Cheshin, Y. Kim, N. Nan and N. Sadat Shami. Traveling Blues: The Effect of Relocation on Partially Distributed Teams. CHI Late Breaking Result Papers, April 2005, Portland.

N. Bos, N. Sadat Shami, J. S. Olson, A. Cheshin and N. Nan. In-group/Out-group Effects in Distributed Teams: An Experimental Simulation. Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conference Proceedings, November 2004, Chicago.

F. Wan, N. Nan and M. Smith. Consumers’ Optimal Experience on Commercial Web Sites: A Congruency Effect of Web Atmospheric Design and Consumers’ Surfing Goal. Conference Materials of eBRF (Frontiers of e-Business Research) (September 2004, Tampere, Finland). Nominated for Best Conference Paper Award.

N. Nan, D. Harter and T. Thomas. The Impact of Schedule Pressure on Software Development: A Behavioral Perspective. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) December 2003, Seattle.

N. Nan and F. Wan. Web Users' Optimal Online Experience: An Examination of Matching Hypothesis. Proceedings of Experiential 3D E-commerce Conference September, 2001, East Lansing.

F. Wan and N. Nan. The Competition of Perceived Gratification Niche between the Internet and Traditional Consumption Channel: Two Exploratory Studies of Young Consumers. Proceedings of Winter Conference of Society for Consumer Psychology February, 2001, Tempe, AZ.

2. NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

(a) Journals

(b) Conference Proceedings

3. BOOKS Updated April 20, 2019 - Page 14/15

(a) Authored

F. Wan, N. Nan, and M. Smith, Consumers' Optimal Experience on Commercial Web Sites: A Congruency Effect of Web Atmospheric Design and Consumers' Surfing Goal, in Contemporary Research in eBranding, Ed. Subir Bandyopadhyay, Garry, Indiana: Idea Group Inc.

(b) Edited

4. PATENTS

5. SPECIAL COPYRIGHTS

6. ARTISTIC WORKS, PERFORMANCES, DESIGNS

7. OTHER WORKS

8. WORK SUBMITTED (including publisher and date of submission)

N. Nan, I. Vessey, O. El Sawy, A. Majchrzak, H. Tanriverdi, and W. McKelvey. Using a Three- Theme Organizing Schema to Harness a Complexity Stance in IS Research. Status: manuscript was submitted for the 2nd round review to Journal of the Association for Information Systems on March 17, 2019.

M. Mandviwalla and N. Nan. Enabling Organizational Adaptation During Environmental Change: A Complex Adaptive Systems Model of Supply Chain. Status: manuscript was submitted for the 1st round review to Information Systems Research on February 20, 2019.

N. Nan, G. Chow, and M. Matta. The Interplay of Location Information and Adaptation in Mobile Workforce: A Study Combining Field Data and Computer Simulation. Status: manuscript was submitted to MIS Quarterly for the first round of review on March 24, 2018. And was invited for Major Revision on September 21, 2018. The revised manuscript is 80% completed. Intended resubmission date is June, 2019.

9. WORK IN PROGRESS (including degree of completion)

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H. Tanriverdi, Y. Yoo, B. McKelvey, N. Nan, and H. Benbya. Introduction to the special issue on complexity and information systems research in the emerging digital world. Status: this is a full-length research commentary for a forthcoming MIS Quarterly special issue. The manuscript is 90% completed. It will be published as part of the special issue.

J. Gu and N. Nan. Consumer Social Adaptation and Dynamic Firm Product Strategies: Modeling the Challenge and Opportunity of Digitally Enhanced Consumer Free Will. Status: manuscript is 95% completed. Intended submission date is April 2019.

N. Nan, S. Wang, and F. Wang. Design without Final Goals: Fractal-based Enterprise IT Infrastructure for Evolvability. Status: manuscript is 90% completed for submission. Intended submission date is June 2019.

F. Wang, N. Nan, and J. Zhao. Effective Strategy for Mobile App Customer Base Growth: An Empirical Test of the Landscape Search Model. Status: data analysis and literature view are completed; manuscript writing is 50% finished.

Q. Yi, D. Cai, N. Nan. Blockchain and Intelletual Property Protection. Status: analytical model development and analysis is completed; manuscript writing is 50% finished.