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 of Management Science at the College of Business and Public Management, Wenzhou-Kean University. He is also an affiliated researcher at the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation. He received his Ph.D. from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK, and subsequently held a postdoctoral research position at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.

His research focuses on digital innovation, digital platforms, and digital transformation, with particular interests in how firms navigate technological disruption and evolving ecosystem relationships to pursue innovation and growth. His current research spans three interconnected areas: (1) how digital ventures pursue rapid growth and compete in platform ecosystems; (2) how incumbent firms reconfigure their innovation processes in response to emerging digital technologies; and (3) how artificial intelligence reshapes platform competition, organizational practices, and value creation.

His research has been published in MIS Quarterly and presented at leading international conferences, including ICIS, AOM, ECIS, PACIS, and HICSS. He was selected for the Wenzhou Ouyue Talent Program and awarded a research grant under the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund.

He actively contributes to the international information systems research community through conference organization (e.g., ICIS, ISSSI), editorial service (e.g., PACIS, SIG DITE), and journal reviewing (e.g., ISR, EJIS, JSIS, and JIT). His research primarily employs qualitative approaches to develop theoretically grounded insights into contemporary digital phenomena and their implications for business innovation and transformation.

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

Journal Papers

Liu, S., Henfridsson, O., Hummel, J., and Nandhakumar, J. (2025). The complementor’s dilemma: Navigating growth ambitions and the dependency on focal actors in platform ecosystems. MIS Quarterly, 49(3), 1123-1152. (UTD, FT-50, ABS-4*)

Conference Papers

Hummel, J., Liu, S., Henfridsson, O., and Nandhakumar, J. (2026). Algorithm envelopment through data repurposing. 4th European Digital Platform Research Network Summit, Helsinki, Finland (EU-DPRN 2026)

Liu, S., Essén, A., Mähring, M., and Henfridsson, O. (2026). Committing without specifying: How incumbents design future interdependencies in digital innovation. The 4th International Symposium on Supply Chain and Service Innovation, Wenzhou, China (ISSSI 2026)

Liu, S., Mähring, M., and Essén, A. (2024). 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)

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)

David, R., Saadatmand, F., Liu, S. (2023). Collective Learning: Resolving AI Explainability And Supply-side Asymmetries in Airbnb Hosting. The 2023 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2023)

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. 55^th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, America (HICSS 2022) — Best Paper Nomination

Liu, S., Henfridsson, O. and Nandhakumar, J. (2022). Path channeling for stimulating platform growth in early saturated markets. 4^th Nordic Workshop on Digital Foundations of Business, Operations, Strategy and Innovation, Umea, Sweden (DBOSI’ 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. International Conference on Information Systems 2020, Hyderabad, India (ICIS 2020)

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. 27^th European Conference on Information Systems, Stockholm, Sweden (ECIS 2019) — Best Work-in-Progress Paper Nomination