Publications
Publications
Assistant Professor
Marketing
Customer-based strategy, crowding management, AI-user interaction
Publications:
1. Lili Wenli Zou, Ricky Y.K. Chan (2019), "Why and When Do Consumers Perform Green Behaviors? An Examination of Regulatory Focus and Ethical Ideology", Journal of Business Research, 94, 113-127.
2. Lili Wenli Zou, Chi Kin (Bennett) Yim, Kimmy Wa Chan (2022), "How Firms Can Create Delightful Customer Experience? Contrasting Roles of Future Reward Uncertainty", Journal of Business Research, 147, 477-490
3. Lili Wenli Zou, Chi Kin (Bennett) Yim, "Customer Traffic and Customer Experience: Creating a Contrived Similarity to Address the Crowding Dilemma", International Journal of Research in Marketing (forthcoming).
Grant:
NSFC (No. 7190217) : Customer Crowding Dilemma Management: Role of Incidental Similarity in Alleviating Customers' Perceptions of Crowding, Its Underlying Mechanism, and Boundary Conditions; 180,000RMB, 2020.01-2022.12
Papers Under Revision:
1. Lili Wenli Zou, Mengxin Li, Cheng Yi, and Harry J. Wang, "Digital Resilience to Covid-19: Evidence from the Medical Aesthetics Industry", Revise and Resubmit at Production and Operations Management.
Working Papers & Work in Progress:
1. Politeness in AI-Human Communication: Evidence from AI-Based Facial Diagnosis Systems",
with Mengxin Li, Cheng Yi, and Harry J. Wang.
2. Should AI Lie? Evidence from AI-Based Facial Diagnosis Systems", with Mengxin Li, Cheng Yi, and Harry J. Wang.
3. “The Value of Beauty: How Visual Design of Earnings Call Conference Slides Influences Investor Behaviors", with Claudia Townsend, Rui Shen, and Jian Zhang, Xinyu Zhu.
4. "React or Regulate: How Self-Construal Determines the Effect of Social Crowding on Immoral Behaviors", with Yunjia Chi, Fu'e Zeng, Michelle Andrews, Chenglu Wang.
5. "Social Crowding vs. Spatial Crowding: Differential Influences on Customers' Preference for Anthropomorphized Self-Service Technologies", with Chi Kin (Bennett) Yim and Echo W. Wan.
6. "Ambidexterity in Professional Services: Impact of Asymmetries between Service and Sales", with Chi Kin (Bennett) Yim, Kimmy W. Chan, and Helen H. Zhao
7. "Morality Salience and Anthropomorphism Preference", with Yoonji Shim.