Dr.Lili Wenli Zou

Publications

Dr.Lili Wenli Zou
Title:

Assistant Professor

Education Background:
Ph.D. in Marketing, The University of Hong Kong
M.Phil. in Marketing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
B.A. in Advertising, South China University of Technology
Teaching Area

Marketing

Research

Customer-based strategy, crowding management, AI-user interaction

PublicationsInfo

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

广东省自然科学基金面上项目(2514050000789),人工智能推荐与拟人化策略优化:基于角色一致性的探索,2025.01-2027.12


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.

2. Lili Wenli Zou, Chi Kin (Bennett) Yim, Kimmy Wa Chan, Helen Hailin Zhao, Yue Yuan, "Ambidexterity in Professional Services: Impact of Asymmetries between Service and Sales", Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Service Research.




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. "Morality Salience and Anthropomorphism Preference", with Yoonji Shim.