Dr Chunjia Han
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr. Chunjia Han is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Innovation at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He is also a visiting professor and PhD supervisor at a number of universities (e.g., Beijing Jiaotong University, Sichuan University). By focusing on the {application, development, impact} of digital technologies (e.g., big data analytics, AI, and social media) in influencing practices in business and economy, his research contributes to our knowledge on innovation management, tourism management, digital marketing and digital economy.
Dr Han is the author or co-author of over 30 publications. His research has appeared in journals including IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Product Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Business Research, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management, among others.
He has been serving as a guest editor of special issue for 14 academic journals including Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of Advanced Transportation, International Journal of Engineering Business Management, and Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences.
Dr Han has secured major grants (in total over £4 million) from research councils including EPSRC, ERC, EU Interreg, and NNSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) which involve collaborations both nationally and internationally.
He has co-organised conferences and served as committee member for conferences/workshops including IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, and The Web Conference. He currently serves as deputy director of the International Creative Management Committee.
Dr Han has over 15 years of experience of working with business development, strategic innovation and digital economy, both as a practitioner and an academic. He has provided consultancy services to both private and public sectors in Europe and China. In recent years, he has led and been closely involved with industry on a number of international projects related to digital transformation, data governance and digital marketing. These funded projects aim to help companies to innovate their business model and strategy, develop data governance policy and promote the application of digital technologies in solving industry practical challenges.
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Open innovation, user innovation, and digital innovation
- Social media & digital marketing
- Big data analytics & AI
- Business model innovation and digital entrepreneurial finance (e.g., crowdfunding, initial coin offerings)
- Digitalisation enabled business transformation (e.g., the application of Blockchain technology)
Research overview
Among the research interests listed above, one of the important research areas that I have been studying is the {application, development, impact} of AI in business, society, and e-commerce analytics with a focus on leveraging the value of unstructured data (e.g., text, image, audio and video). Specific interests are:
- Applying machine learning and big data analytics to quantify the business and economic impact of unstructured data.
- Content extraction, understanding, and engineering in the context of social media, user-generated data, and digital marketing.
Selected Research Grants
- “Family business succession patterns and entrepreneurial growth: A dynamic perspective based on socioemotional wealth change” National Natural Science Foundation of China
- “Facilitate the Adoption of Circular Entrepreneurship in the Tourism and leisure sector (FACET)” EU Interreg
- “User Innovation in Online Communities” Greenwich University
- “Dual network embeddedness and manufacturing firms' ambidexterity service innovation: ambidexterity search perspectives” National Natural Science Foundation of China
- “The influence mechanism of female successor leadership on trans-generational entrepreneurial growth of family business” National Natural Science Foundation of China
- “Crowdsourcing ideas: Stimulating innovation by user interaction in online communities” Greenwich University
Editorial Positions
- Guest Editor, "Data-Driven Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making and its Potential Applications", Mathematical Problems in Engineering (ISSN 1563-5147) 2022
- Guest Editor, "Big Data Provenance Management in the Internet of Things", Frontiers in Computer Science (ISSN 2095-2228) 2022
- Guest Editor, "Big Data Provenance Management in the Internet of Things", Frontiers in Big Data 2022
- Guest Editor, "Application of Computer Modeling and Simulation in Social Complex System", Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (ISSN 1526-1492) 2021
- Guest Editor, "Machine Learning for Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (ISSN 1687-1499) 2021
- Guest Editor, "Special Section on Deep Learning Technologies: Architecture, Optimization, Techniques, and Applications", IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (ISSN 1745-1361) 2021
- Guest Editor, "Guest Deep Learning for the Applications of Global Information Management", Journal of Global Information Management (ISSN 1062-7375) 2021
- Guest Editor, "Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Optimization Techniques for Transportation 2021", Journal of Advanced Transportation (ISSN 0197-6729) 2021
- Guest Editor, “Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Business Management”, International Journal of Engineering Business Management (ISSN 18479790) 2020
- Guest Editor, “Holistic Evaluation and Management of Urban Systems Before, During and After Major Emergencies”, International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management 2020
- Guest Editor, "Deep Learning Technologies: Architecture, Optimization, Techniques, and Applications", Journal of Database Management (ISSN 1063-8016) 2020
- Guest Editor, "Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Transportation", Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing (ISSN 1079-8587) 2020
- Guest Editor, Guest Editor, "Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Optimization Techniques for Transportation", Mathematical Problems in Engineering (ISSN 1563-5147) 2019
- Guest Editor, "Machine Learning Methods for Distributed Sensor Network Applications", International Journal of Distributed Sensor Network (ISSN 1550-1477) 2019
Professional Service
- Deputy Director of the International Creative Management Committee, Chinese Society of Technology Economics
- Committee Member, AAAI 2022 Workshop on AI for Transportation, Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 22)
- Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2021)
- Committee Member, International Workshop on the Trust, Security, Privacy, Reliability, and Dependability in Mobile Computing and Communications, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2021)
- Committee Member, International Workshop on Deep Learning for the Web of Things, The Web Conference (DLWoT 2021; 2022)
- Committee Member, International Workshop on Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Data Security Applications, International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2021; 2022)
- Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (IEEE ICCE-TW 2020)
- Committee Member, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2020; 2021)
- Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2020)
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD applicants and PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my research areas. Please check Research Overview section for my research interests in detail.
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Personal and Academic Skills for Success (BUMN138H4)
- Strategy and Business Planning (Level 3) (BUMN168H3)
- Qualitative Research Methods (MOMN020H7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Meng, F. and Tian, Y. and Han, Chunjia and Band, S. and Arya, V. and Alhalabi, M. (2023) Study on value symbiosis and niche evolution of the corporate venture capital ecological community for innovation and knowledge. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge 8 (3), ISSN 2444-569X.
- Bai, S. and Zhang, X. and Han, Chunjia and Yu, D. (2023) Research on the influence mechanism of organic food attributes on customer trust. Sustainability 15 (8), ISSN 2071-1050.
- Zheng, Y. and Bai, C. and Wang, L. and Han, Chunjia and Yang, Mu and Pappu, A. (2023) Evolutionary game analysis on the diffusion of general purpose technologies with government multiple supports. Economics of Innovation and New Technology ISSN 1043-8599.
- Bai, S. and Bi, X. and Han, Chunjia and Yang, Mu and He, H. (2023) Exploring the over-time variation in customer concerns on sharing economy services. Journal of Global Information Management 31 (1), ISSN 1062-7375.
- Zhou, F. and Li, X. and Han, Chunjia and Zhang, Lan and Brij, G. (2023) Unpacking the effect of institutional support on international corporate entrepreneurship in entrepreneurial support systems. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal ISSN 1554-7191.
- Liu, Z. and Sun, We. and Hu, B. and Han, Chunjia and Ieromonachou, P. and Zhao, Y. and Zheng, J. (2023) Research on supply chain optimization considering consumer subsidy mechanism in the context of carbon neutrality. Energies 16 (7), pp. 3147.
- Bai, S. and He, H. and Han, Chunjia and Yang, Mu and Yu, D. and Bi, X. and Gupta, B. and Fan, W. and Panigrahi, P. (2023) Exploring thematic influences on theme park visitors’ satisfaction: an empirical study on Disneyland China. Journal of Consumer Behaviour ISSN 1479-1838.
- Huo, H. and Jiang, X. and Han, Chunjia and Wei, S. and Yu, D. and Tong, Y. (2023) The effect of credence attributes on willingness to pay a premium for organic food: a moderated mediation model of attitudes and uncertainty. Frontiers in Psychology 14, ISSN 1664-1078.
- Bai, S. and Zheng, X. and Han, Chunjia and Bi, X. (2023) Exploring user-generated content related to vegetarian customers in restaurants: an analysis of online reviews. Frontiers in Psychology 13 (104384), ISSN 1664-1078.
- Wei, X. and Wu, H. and Yang, Z. and Han, Chunjia and Xu, B. (2023) Simulation of manufacturing scenarios’ ambidexterity green technological innovation driven by inter-firm social networks: based on a multi-objective model. Systems 11 (1), pp. 39. ISSN 2079-8954.
- Li, S. and Gao, L. and Han, Chunjia and Gupta, B. and Alhalabi, W. and Almakdi, S. (2023) Exploring the effect of digital transformation on firms’ innovation performance. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge 8 (1), pp. 100317. ISSN 2444-569X.
- Wang, L. and Han, Chunjia and Zheng, Y. and Peng, X. and Yang, Mu and Gupta, B. (2023) Search for exploratory and exploitative service innovation in manufacturing firms: the role of ties with service intermediaries. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge 8 (1), pp. 100288. ISSN 2444-569X.
- Zheng, Y. and Liu, S. and Zhao, Y. and Han, Chunjia and Zhou, Q. and Wang, L. and Colace, F. and Alhalabi, W. and Alsharif, H. (2023) Game analysis on general purpose technology cooperative R&D with fairness concern from the technology chain perspective. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge 8 (1), pp. 100312. ISSN 2444-569X.
- Yang, Z. and Zhang, W. and Han, Chunjia and Li, Y. and Yang, Mu and Eromonachoud, P. (2022) A semisupervised classification algorithm combining noise learning theory and a disagreement cotraining framework. Information Sciences ISSN 0020-0255.
- Chen, H. and Sui, Y. and Shang, W.-l. and Sun, R. and Chen, Z. and Wang, C. and Han, Chunjia and Zhang, Y. and Zhang, H. (2022) Towards renewable public transport: mining the performance of electric buses using solar-radiation as an auxiliary power source. Applied Energy 325, pp. 119863. ISSN 0306-2619.
- Sun, W. and Zhao, Y. and Liu, W. and Liu, Y. and Yang, R. and Han, Chunjia (2022) Internet of things enabled the control and optimization of supply chain cost for unmanned convenience stores. Alexandria Engineering Journal 61 (11), pp. 9149-9159. ISSN 1110-0168.
- Bai, S. and Bi, X. and Han, Chunjia and Zhou, Q. and Shang, W. and Yang, Mu and Wang, L. and Ieromonachouc, P. and He, H. (2022) Evaluating R&D efficiency of China’s listed lithium battery enterprises. Frontiers of Engineering Management 9, pp. 473-485. ISSN 2096-0255.
- Rong, D. and Zhao, Y. and Han, Chunjia and Yang, Mu and Liu, F. (2022) Research on dual channel supply chain decision-making of new retailing enterprises considering service behavior in the era of big data. Journal of Global Information Management 30 (9), ISSN 1062-7375.
- Liu, Z. and Qian, Q. and Hu, B. and Shang, W.-l. and Li, L. and Zhao, Y. and Zhao, Z. and Han, Chunjia (2022) Government regulation to promote coordinated emission reduction among enterprises in the green supply chain based on evolutionary game analysis. Resources, Conservation & Recycling 182, ISSN 0921-3449.
- Yang, J. and Zhao, Y. and Han, Chunjia and Liu, Y. and Yang, Mu (2022) Big data, big challenges: risk management of financial market in the digital economy. Journal of Enterprise Information Management 35 (4/5), pp. 1288-1304. ISSN 1741-0398.
- Yu, H. and Jiang, Y. and Zhang, Z. and Shang, W. and Han, Chunjia and Zhao, Y. (2022) The impact of carbon emission trading policy on firms’ green innovation in China. Financial Innovation 8, pp. 55. ISSN 2199-4730.
- Yang, Z. and Shang, W.-l. and Zhang, H. and Garg, H. and Han, Chunjia (2022) Assessing the green distribution transformer manufacturing process using a cloud-based q-rung orthopair fuzzy multi-criteria framework. Applied Energy 311, pp. 118687. ISSN 0306-2619.
- Han, Chunjia and Yang, Mu (2022) Stimulating innovation on social product development: an analysis of social behaviors in online innovation communities. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 69 (2), pp. 365-375. ISSN 0018-9391.
- Yang, Mu and Ooi, Y.M. and Han, Chunjia (2022) Lead users as idea supplier in online community platform: How to choose the right ideas to implement?. International Journal of Production Economics 244, pp. 108366. ISSN 0925-5273.
- Han, Chunjia and Yang, Mu and Piterou, A. (2021) Do news media and citizens have the same agenda on COVID-19? An empirical comparison of twitter posts. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 169, pp. 120849. ISSN 0040-1625.
- Han, Chunjia and Yang, Mu (2021) Revealing Airbnb user concerns on different room types. Annals of Tourism Research 89, pp. 103081. ISSN 0160-7383.
- Chen, W. and Han, Chunjia and Wang, L. and Ieromonachou, P. and Lu, X. (2021) Recognition of entrepreneur’s social ties and firm innovation in emerging markets: explanation from the industrial institutional environment and survival pressure. Asia Pacific Journal of Management 38 (2), pp. 491-518. ISSN 0217-4561.
- Yang, Mu and Han, Chunjia and Cui, Y. and Zhao, Y. (2021) COVID-19 and mobility in tourism cities: a statistical change-point detection approach. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 47, pp. 256-261. ISSN 1447-6770.
- Yang, Mu and Han, Chunjia (2021) Revealing industry challenge and business response to Covid-19: a text mining approach. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 33 (4), pp. 1230-1248. ISSN 0959-6119.
- Yang, Mu and Han, Chunjia (2021) Stimulating innovation: Managing peer interaction for idea generation on digital innovation platforms. Journal of Business Research 125, pp. 456-465. ISSN 0148-2963.
- Han, Chunjia and Thomas, S. and Yang, Mu and Cui, Y. (2019) The ups and downs of open innovation efficiency: the case of Procter & Gamble. European Journal of Innovation Management 22 (5), pp. 747-764. ISSN 1460-1060.
- Han, Chunjia and Thomas, S.R. and Yang, Mu and Ieromonachou, P. and Zhang, H. (2017) Evaluating R&D investment efficiency in China's high-tech industry. The Journal of High Technology Management Research 28 (1), pp. 93-109. ISSN 1047-8310.
- Han, Chunjia and Thomas, S.R. (2012) Why are China's companies doing overseas M&As? The case of Geely and Volvo. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 2 (8), pp. 1-7. ISSN 2045-0621.