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Dr. Wenqi Zhou is Associate Professor of Information Systems and Technology at the Palumbo Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University. She currently holds the PwC Alumni Fellowship and was previously awarded the Inaugural David Warco Faculty Fellowship. 
   
Dr. Zhou’s research investigates the economic and societal implications of emerging technologies, with a specific focus on AI policy, user-generated content platforms, digital transparency in healthcare, social media bots, and ethical challenges in e-business. Her work has been published in leading academic outlets, including the Journal of MIS, Decision Support Systems, and Information & Management. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of Information & Management and as an Area Editor of “AI and Management Science” at CMOT. In 2025, she served as Co-Chair of the Workshop on e-Business. 
   
Recognized for her expertise in technology ethics, Dr. Zhou serves as the Managing Director of the Viragh Institute for Business Ethics. She maintains active research affiliations with the CMU IDeaS and CASOS centers, as well as the Duquesne Grefenstette Center. 
   
Dr. Zhou’s scholarly contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including Best Paper Awards, the Paluse Grant, Duquesne Presidential Scholarship Award, the Beard Research Fellowship in Ethics, and multiple Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Research and Excellence in Scholarship.

At Duquesne, she designs and teaches IS and analytics related courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and serves as the faculty director of IST mentorship program. Her teaching has been recognized by multiple Dean’s teaching awards.

Education

  • Ph.D., Information and Technology Management, George Washington University
  • M.S., Zhejiang University, China
  • B.S., Zhejiang University, China

School

Duquesne University

  • Paluse Faculty Research Grant, 2022-2023
  • Faculty Scholar, Carl G. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law, 2021-2022
  • Presidential Scholarship Award, 2015

Palumbo-Donahue School of Business

  • David Warco Faculty Fellow in Information Systems and Technology, 2021-2024
  • Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, 2022
  • Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2022
  • Annual Summer Research Grant, 2014-2019
  • Eugene P. Beard Research Fellowship in Ethics, 2017-2018
  • Excellence in Scholarship Award, 2017
  • Excellence in Scholarship Award, 2016

External

  • Michael J. Shaw Best Reviewer Award, Workshop on e-Business, 2021
  • Best Paper, International Conference on Information Systems Pre-Workshop, 2018-2019
  • Best Paper, Workshop on e-Business, 2018
  • Best Paper, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2017
  • Best Paper, Workshop on e-Business, 2012
  • Doctoral Research Enhancement Fund, School of Business, George Washington University 2011-2012

Journal Articles 

Zhou, W. (2025). Social media disclosure: Maximizing versus satisficing effects on default preferences. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 42(2), 133–145

Guo, A., Zhou, H., Zhou, W., Zhang, L., & Chen, J. (2025). How user interactions affect idea generation in innovation communities: A cross-level analysis of privacy protection. Internet Research.

Cheng, C., Duan, W., & Zhou, W. (2024). Assessing the impact of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act on pharmaceutical companies' payments to physicians. PLOS ONE. Advance online publication.

Wang, C., Deng, L., & Zhou, W. (2022). We Missed You! A Joint Optimization Strategy of Appointment Window and Reminder Sending. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 169.

Chen, H., Lachaud, K., & Zhou, W. (2021). The Sales Effect of Free App of the Day on Amazon Appstore: An Empirical Study. Digital Business, 2(2).

Zhou, W., Duan, W., & Chen, H. (2021). When Products Receive Reviews Across Platforms: Studying the Platform Concentration of Electronic Word of Mouth. Information and Management, 58.

Craciun, G., Zhou, W., & Shan, Z. (2020). Discrete Emotions Effects on Electronic Word-of-mouth Helpfulness: The Moderating Role of Reviewer Gender and Contextual Emotional Tone. Decision Support Systems, 130(3).

Chapters

Phillips, S.C., Ng, L.H.X., Zhou, W., Carley, K.M. (2024). Moral and Emotional Influences on Attitude Stability Towards COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media. In: Thomson, R., et al. Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14972. Springer, Cham.