prof. dr. Carol Ou

Bio

Carol Xiaojuan Ou is a full professor of Information Management at Tilburg University. Her research interests include digital transformation, digital platforms, applied business analytics, cross-cultural studies, knowledge management, social networks, computer-mediated communication, and electronic commerce. Carol is serving as a Senior Editor for Information Systems Journal, Information & Management, as well as IT and People. She is a Certified IS Auditor, an Academic Advocate or IS Audit and Control Association, as well as a Committee Member of various conferences on IS and IT. She is now the Head of Management Department together with Aswin van Oijen.

Teaching

320124 IT Governance and Strategic Sourcing

Courses

• IT Governance and Strategic Sourcing
• Thesis Information Management
• Purchasing Management
• Enterprise Governance and Digital Transformation
• Purchasing Management
• Thesis Information Management
• Purchasing Management

Recent publications

1. Making the developing world a better place with high-impact IS resear…

   Andrade, A. D., Techatassanasoontorn, A. A., & Ou, C. (2019). Making the developing world a better place with high-impact IS research. Information Systems Journal, 29(4), 838-841.

2. Media or message, which is the king in social commerce? - An empirica…

   Wang, W., Chen, R. R., Ou, C. X., & Ren, S. J. (2019). Media or message, which is the king in social commerce? An empirical study of participants' intention to repost marketing messages on social media. Computers in Human Behavior, 93, 176-191.

3. Adopted globally but unusable locally: What workarounds reveal about …

   Davison, R. M., Wong, L. H. M., Alter, S., & Ou, C. (2019). Adopted globally but unusable locally: What workarounds reveal about adoption, resistance, compliance and non-compliance. In Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) [19] Stockholm, Sweden : Association for Information Systems.

4. Modeling shopping cart decisions with heterogeneous product involveme…

   Gao, H., Ou, C., & Liu, H. W. (2019). Modeling shopping cart decisions with heterogeneous product involvement and reviews. In Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) Xi’an, China.

5. Predicting re-loan success based on friendship network characteristic…

   Gao, H., Liu, H., Ou, C., Pavlou, P. A., Zhu, H., & Zhan, M. (2018). Predicting re-loan success based on friendship network characteristics in the online micro-loan marketplace. In Proceedings of 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems (2018 AMCIS): Digital Disruption [14] New Orleans: Association for Information Systems.