Brian Lee

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Assistant Professor

Department Supply Chain & Information Systems
Office Address 410 Business Building
Phone Number 814-865-7176
Email Address brian.lee@psu.edu

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Brian Lee is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University. His research primarily focuses on information strategy for the future of work, specifically, he studies how new technologies foster innovation and creativity, and how firms and communities manage risk and build resilience through data and information.

Expertise

AI and Digital Platforms, Future of Work, Innovation, Information Management

Education

Ph D, Business Administration (Operations and Information Systems), The University of Connecticut, 2017

M Phil, System Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012

BE, Logistics Management and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2010

Courses Taught

MIS 301 – Business Analytics (3)
Application of computer-based information systems to support management decision making; basic systems design, data organization, and data processing. A student cannot receive credit toward graduation for both M IS 100 or 100W and M I S 301.

SCIS 596 – Individual Studies (Variable)
Creative projects, including nonthesis research, that are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses. A specific title may be used in each instance and will be entered on the student's transcript.

Selected Publications

Lee B., Wang Y., Qi K., Sambamurthy V., Evans J., "Venture Capital, Gender, and Deregulation in IT Startup Performance." Journal of Management Information Systems, 2025
Jin Y., Lee B., Li X., "Curse of Experience in Creative Crowdsourcing Contests and Contest Searches as Remedies." MIS Quarterly, 2025
Lee B., Li X., Liu S., "The Role of Monitoring Effect in Risk Classification: Evidence from Telematics Adoption." Management Science, 2025
Lee B., Mishra A., "Lost Time in Crowdsourcing Contests." Information Systems Research, vol. 36, no. 3, 2025
Ahmed A., Deokar A., Lee B., Summerfield N., "The Role of Commitment in Online Reputation Systems: An Empirical Study of Express Delivery Promise in an E-Commerce Platform." Decision Support Systems, 2024
Ahmed A., Deokar A., Lee B., "Mechanisms of Crowdsourced Vulnerability Discovery: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Directions." Decision Support Systems, vol. 148, no. 113586, 2021
Jin Y., Lee B., Ba S., Stallaert J., "Winning by Learning? Effect and Design of Knowledge Sharing in Crowdsourcing Contests." Information Systems Research, vol. 32, no. 3, 2021, pp. 836-859
Lee B., Stallaert J., Fan M., "Anomalies in Probability Estimates for Event Forecasting on Prediction Markets." Production and Operations Management, vol. 29, no. 9, 2020, pp. 2077-2095
Lee B., Cruz J., Shankar R., "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Issues in Supply Chain Competition: Should Greenwashing be Regulated?." Decision Sciences, vol. 49, no. 6, 2018, pp. 1088-1115
Lee B., Ba S., Li X., Stallaert J., "Salience Bias in Crowdsourcing Contests." Information Systems Research, vol. 29, no. 2, 2018, pp. 401-418
Lee B., Li X., "The Impact of Online Word of Mouth on Channel Disintermediation for Information Goods." Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 35, no. 3, 2018, pp. 964-993

Honors and Awards