Contact Information

	Address:	P7917, 7/F., Academic Building (Purple Zone) City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
	Phone:	+852 2788 9720
	Fax:	+852 2788 8694
	Email:	ch.tan@cityu.edu.hk

Research Areas

• Consumer-based IT (e.g., online decision-aid and shopping website design, commercial mobile application)
• Organizational-based IT (e.g., technology development, deployment and usage in formal and informal organizations such as firms and open source software communities)

Publications

Journal Articles

• Tan, C. H., Teo, H. H., Benbasat, I., "Assessing Screening and Evaluation Decision Support Systems: A Resource-Matching Approach," Information Systems Research, forthcoming.
• Tan, C. H., Yang, X. and Xu, H., “An Investigation of the Word-Processing Software Market War in South Korea: A Game-Theoretic Approach,” Information & Management, forthcoming.
• Tan, C. H., Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H., "Designing an Information Systems Development Course to Incorporate Agility, Flexibility, and Adaptability," Communications of the Association for Information Systems, forthcoming.
• Li, Y., Tan, C. H., Xu, H., and Teo, H. H., "Open Source Software Adoption: Motivations of Adopters and Amotivations of Non-Adopters," The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, forthcoming.
• Tan, C. H., Teo, H. H., and Xu, H., "Online Auction: The Effects of Transaction Probability and Listing Price on a Seller's Decision-Making Behavior," Electronic Markets, forthcoming.
• Tan, W. K. and Tan, C. H., “Teaching Information Systems Development via Process Variants,” Journal of Information Systems Education, forthcoming.
• Tan, C. H., Teo, H. H., Li, Y., and Xie, E., "Designing Sniping Agents," Annals of Operations Research, Volume 168, 2009, 291-305.
• Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "Training Future Software Developers to Acquire Agile Development Skills," Communications of the ACM, Volume 50, Number 12, December 2007, 97-98.
• Yang, X., Li, Y., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., “Students’ Participation Intention in an Online Discussion Forum: Why is Computer-Mediated Interaction Attractive?” Information & Management, Volume 44, August 2007, 456-466.
• Li, Y., Tan, C. H., Teo, H. H., and Tan, B. C. Y., "Innovative Usage of Information Technology in Organizations: Do CIO Characteristics Make a Difference?" IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Volume 53, Number 2, May 2006, 177-190.

Conference/Workshop Proceedings

• Gasimov, A., Sutanto, J., Phang, C. W., Tan, C. H., “An Exploratory Field Experiment on Actual Usage of Discount Coupons,” Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on HCI Research in MIS (SIGHCI), December 2009.
• Bolloju, N. and Tan, C. H., “Synthesizing System Integration Requirements Model Fragments,” Proceedings of the 13th Pacific Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Hyderabad, India, July 2009.
• Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "Would I Use My Personal Blog for Commercial Exchange?," Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Verona, Italy, June 2009.
• Li, Y. Tan. C. H., and Teo, H. H., “Aligning CIO Characteristics to Business Strategy: An Empirical Investigation,” Proceedings of the 42th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS), Big Island, Hawaii, January 2009.
• Yu, T., Teo, H. H., and Tan, C. H., "Direct and Indirect Use of Information Systems in Organizations: An Empirical Investigation of System Usage in a Public Hospital," Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Paris, France, December 2008.
• Li, Y., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "Open Source Software Adoption: An Investigation into Motivations and Amotivations of Users," Proceedings of the 14th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Toronto, Canada, August 2008.
• Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "Understanding the Exchange Intention of Individual Blogger," Proceeding of the IFIP Working Group 8.2 Working Conference on IT and Institutional Change in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century (IFIP WG8.2), Toronto (Ontario), Canada, August 2008.
• Tan, C. H., Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H., "Training Students to be Agile Information Systems Developers: A Pedagogical Approach," Proceedings of the 46th ACM SIGMIS International Conference on Computer Personnel Research (SIGMIS-CPR), Charlotteville (Virginia), United States, April 2008.
• Li, Y., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "Firm-Specificity and Organizational Learning-related Scale on Investment in Internal Human Capital for Open Source Software Adoption," Proceeding of the 46th ACM SIGMIS International Conference on Computer Personnel Research (SIGMIS-CPR), Charlotteville (Virginia), United States, April 2008.
• Tan, C. H., Goh, K. Y., and Teo, H. H., "An Investigation of Online Group-Buying Institution and Buyer Behavior," Proceeding of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (ICHCI), Beijing, China, July 2007.
• Yang, X., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "User Response to Free Trial Restrictions: A Coping Perspective," Proceeding of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (ICHCI), Beijing, China, July 2007.
• Goswami, S., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "Exploring the Website Features that can Support Online Collaborative Shopping?" Proceedings of the 11th Annual Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Auckland, New Zealand, July 2007.
• Tan, C. H., Yang, X., and Teo, H. H., "When Counterfactual Thinking Meets Technology Acceptance Model: An Investigation," Proceedings of the IFIP Working Group 8.6 Working Conference on Organizational Dynamic of Technology-based Innovation: Diversifying the Research Agenda (IFIP WG8.6), Manchester, United Kingdoms, June 2007, 507-511.
• Tan, C. H., Goh, K. Y., Teo, H. H., and Sim, K. S., "Buyout Option & Reserve Price in Online Auctions: Should I Bid or Buy Out?" Proceeding of the 27th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Miwaukee (Wisconsin), United States, December 2006.
• Yang, X., Teo, H. H., and Tan, C. H., "A Psychological Reactance Perspective on Time and Functionality Restrictions of Free Trial Software: Are You Willing to Evaluate the Software?" Proceeding of the 27th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Miwaukee (Wisconsin), United States, December 2006.
• Li Y., Tan, C. H., Teo, H. H., and Watson, R. T., "An Institutional Perspective of Open Source Software Adoption in Organizations: A Cross-Country Investigation," Proceedings of the 16th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Miwaukee (Wisconsin), United States, December 2006.
• Li Y., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "A Discriminant Analysis of Organizations' Adoption of Open Source Software: A Human Capital Perspective," Proceeding of the World Congress on Intellectual Capital (WCIC), Seoul, South Korea, August 2006 (best paper award).
• Li, Y., Tan, C. H., Teo, H. H., and Mattar, A.T., “Motivating Open Source Software Developers: Influence of Transformational and Transactional Leaderships,” Proceeding of the 44th ACM SIGMIS International Conference on Computer Personnel Research (SIGMIS-CPR), Claremont (California), United States, April 2006.
• Tan, C. H., Yang, X., Teo, H. H., and Lin, G., "An Empirical Investigation of the Auction Buyer's Choice to Buy Out or Bid: Cry of Regret or Laugh of Satisfaction?" Proceeding of the 26th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Las Vegas (Nevada), United States, December 2005, 783-795.
• Li, Y., Tan, C. H., Teo, H. H., and Siow, A., "A Human Capital Perspective of Organizational Intention to Adopt Open Source Software," Proceeding of the 26th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Las Vegas (Nevada), United States, December 2005, 137-149.
• Tan, C. H., Yang, X., Chan, Y. P., and Teo, H. H., "An Investigation of Book Market Aggregation in Amazon," Proceeding of the 11th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Omaha (Nebraska), United States, August 2005, 10-17.
• Tan, C. H., Goswami, S., Zhong, Y. Q., and Chan, Y. P., "Conceptual Evaluation of Weblog as a Computer-Mediated Communication Application," Proceeding of the 11th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Omaha (Nebraska), United States, August 2005, 2361-2367.
• Yang, X. Li, Y., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "The Motivators of Students' Behavioral Intention towards Online Discussion Forum Participation," Proceeding of the 11th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Omaha (Nebraska), United States, August 2005, 563-571.
• Tan, C. H., Chan, Y. P., Yang, X., Chan, H. C., and Teo, H. H., "Effects of Choice Contrast and Order Sequence on Consumer Judgment and Decision in Comparison-Shopping Assisted Environment," Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Workshop on HCI Research in MIS (SIGHCI), Washington, D. C., United States, December 2004, 90-94.
• Tan, C. H., "Battle for Dominance in the Word-Processing Software Market in Korea: How and Why Microsoft Tipped the Market as an Entrant? Is it by Chance?" Proceeding of the 8th Annual Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Shanghai, China, July 2004, 1641-1653.
• Li, Y., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "The Dynamic Transformation of an Open Source Software Project Leader: A Micro-Organizational Behavioral Perspective," Proceeding of the 8th Annual Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Shanghai, China, July 2004, 2226-2232.
• Yang, X., Li, Y., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H., "What Motivates a Student to Participate in the Electronic Discussion Forum: A Survey Study of Students' Participation Intention," Proceeding of the 8th Annual Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Shanghai, China, July 2004, 701-712.
• Tan, C. H., "Comparison-Shopping websites: An Empirical Investigation on the Influence of Decision Aids and Information Load on Consumer Decision-Making Behavior," Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle (Washington), United States, December 2003, 1-14.
• Tan, C. H., Teo, H. H., Lee, T. S. Y., and Hui, K. L., "Effects of Visual Cues on Buyer Information Acquisition: An Empirical Investigation at Yahoo! Auction, What Attracts Auction Buyers!" Proceedings of the 6th Annual Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Tokyo, Japan, September 2002, 206-219.
• Tan, C. H., Teo, H. H., and Wan, W., "Withering Comparison-Shopping Agent: Strategies for Survival," Proceedings of the 6th Annual Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Tokyo, Japan, September 2002, 230-245.

Teaching Materials and Media Coverage

• • Mobile Zukunft: Trends für Entwickler, Computerworld.ch (primary online magazine on technology; http://www.computerworld.ch/aktuell/businesssoftware/48882/index.html; translated into german), 17-Aug-2009.
• 国大Second Life虚拟校园 游戏世界变大学课室, Lianhe Zaobao (primary local Chinese daily newspaper in Singapore), 11-June-2008.
• Nothing is Permanent except Change: How to Train Students to be Agile in Information Systems Development, CDTLink, 12 (1), March 2008.

	Professional Activities

• Member of Association for Information Systems since 2003