Here you can find the latest IBSS Department of Intelligent Operations and Marketing news on areas such as student achievements, book publications, keynote speeches, faculty awards and special issue journals.

Keynote Speeches

• Eunkyung Lee. “Bounded rationality, adaptive evolution, and complexity in financial markets”, the 10th-11th Emergency Management Scientists Forum and Financial Risk Management Forum, 26-27 November 2022.
• Lixian Qian. “The Role of Shared Charging Stations in Driving up Electric Vehicle Adoption”, the 2021 Research Workshop on Digital Innovation and Development in Sharing Platforms, Ningbo, China, 15-16 July 2021.

Special Issues

• Guest Editor: Didier Soopramanien. Special issue Individual and Cultural Differences in Sustainable Consumer Behavior in Frontiers in Psychology (2022)
• Guest Editor: Lixian Qian. Special issue on “Consumers’ Transport and Mobility Decisions” in Journal of Consumer Behaviour (2021-2022)
• Guest Editor: Wangshuai Wang. JCB Special Issue on “Marketing in the Post-Pandemic World (2022)
• Guest Editor: Didier Soopramanien. Special Issue on Consumers’ Transport and Mobility Decisions in Journal of Consumer Behaviour (2021)
• Guest Editor: Didier Soopramanien. Special Issue on Cutting-edge technologies for small business and innovation in the era of COVID-19 global health pandemic, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2020)

Media coverage

• Wangshuai Wang. Media coverage by Harvard Business Review: “When consumers feel less powerful, they seek more variety.” 2022.
• Youlin Huang, David Tyfield, Didier Soopramanien, Lixian Qian. Media coverage by The Conversation: “What electric car companies can learn from China, their biggest market.” 2021. 

Others

• XJTLU IBSS and Key Partners Hold 2022 Research Workshop on Smart and Future Mobility, September 2022
• Dr. Lixian Qian from IBSS was selected into the Jiangsu Provincial 333 High-level Talent Programme, IBSS News, June 2022
• Dr. Lixian Qian from IBSS received “Excellent” performance rating result in his completed NSFC grant project, IBSS News, May 2022
• Lixian Qian. Upscale hotels benefit from EV charging stations, study shows, May 2022. A recent study by researchers at XJTLU and Fudan University analysed actual business data to quantify the impact and benefits of hosting charging stations at hotels.