Shiyuan Liu

Ph.D. in Information System & Management, Warwick Business School

M.Sc. in Big Data & Digital Futures, University of Warwick

B.Sc. in Finance, Accounting & Management, University of Nottingham

Shiyuan (Eric) Liu is an assistant professor in information system management at Wenzhou-Kean University and an affiliated researcher with the Stockholm School of Economics and the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation. He obtained his Ph.D. from Warwick Business School, UK. Prior to that, he received his Bachelor’s from the University of Nottingham and M.Sc. from the University of Warwick in the UK.

His research interests relate broadly to digital innovation, transformation, and entrepreneurship. His current projects concern how digital ventures grow and compete in contemporary platform-based markets (e.g., complementor growth in platform ecosystems). Recent projects at post-doc concern how industrial firms (e.g., OEMs) navigate their digital transformation journey in autonomous transport markets through developing a ‘digital first’ approach. He is open to and has applied both qualitative and computational approaches, such as process tracing, archival studies, text mining, and applied econometrics, to leverage unprecedented amounts and types of digital trace data in studying contemporary digital phenomena.

His research has appeared at major conferences such as the Academy of Management (AOM), the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), and the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). He served as an editorial board member for the digital repository of the AIS special interest group on Digital Innovation, Transformation, and Entrepreneurship (SIGDITE). He also served as a review coordinator for ICIS 2023.

• Digital platform
• Digital innovation
• Digital transformation
• Digital entrepreneurship
• Digital business strategy

Liu, S., Mähring, M., and Essén, A. (2023) Going digital first while safeguarding the physical core: how an automotive incumbent searches for relevance in disruptive times. International Conference on Information Systems 2023, Hyderabad, India (ICIS 2023)

Liu, S., Mähring, M., and Essén, A. (2023) Searching for relevance in disruptive times: reaching outwards and anchoring inwards to re-establish the significance of the incumbent physical core. 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, America (HICSS 2024)

Shi, R., and Liu, S. (2023) Seeding complementary innovation on nascent platforms: Evidence from Amazon Alexa. Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems 2023, Nanchang, China (PACIS 2023)

Liu, S., Henfridsson, O. and Nandhakumar, J. (2022) Growing through platform distinctiveness in early saturated markets. International Conference on Information Systems 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark (ICIS 2022)

Liu, S., Henfridsson, O. and Nandhakumar, J. (2022) Identity projection strategies for non-focal actors in digital ecosystems. 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, America (HICSS 2022)

Liu, S., Henfridsson, O. and Nandhakumar, J. (2020) Identity projection for growing digital venture: An in-depth study of a Chinese short video venture. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada (AOM 2020)

Liu, S., Nandhakumar, J. and Henfridsson, O. (2019) Balancing user base and user stickiness in platform scaling. 27th European Conference on Information Systems, Stockholm, Sweden (ECIS 2019)