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Qin Weng

Assistant Professor, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University

Dr. Qin Weng is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. She received her PhD in Information Systems from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on IT project governance and control. She is interested in how IT projects and teams could be successfully managed to benefit individuals, organizations, and society. She has published in Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Internet Research, and proceedings of major IS conferences. She is an AIS Distinguished Member, and mini-track chair at the Americas Conference on Information Systems and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Prior to her academic career, she had gained over 10 years of professional IT experience in the healthcare industry in the US.

Contact 

Email : qin_weng@baylor.edu

Office : Foster 310.05

Phone : (254) 710-4097

Address : One Bear Place #98005, Waco, TX 76798

Research 

Research Interest

Area: Project management, Health IT

Keywords: control, team, collaboration, personality, network, identity, security, value

Publication 

Min Ou, Hope Koch, Qin Weng (accepted). “Exploring the Impact of Intelligent Technologies on Knowledge Work”. Proceedings of 30th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Salt Lake City, Utah, August. 

Qin Weng, Danping Wang, Stephen De Lurgio II, Sebastian Schuetz (2024). "How Do Small-to-Medium-Sized E-Commerce Businesses Stay Competitive? Evidence on the Critical Roles of IT Capability, Innovation and Multihoming," Internet Research. read

Tom Mattson, Jie Ren, Qin Weng (2024). “The Bright and Dark Side of Social Media in the Marginalized Contexts,” Proceedings of 57th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Oahu, HI, January: 7204. 

Tom Mattson, Qin Weng, Jie Ren (2024). “Curse or Cure: Exploring Responses to Mental Health Related Posts in Reddit and ChatGPT Using Terror Management Theory,” Proceedings of 57th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Oahu, HI, January: 7225-7234. 

Qin Weng (2023). “Agile CRISP-DM for Analytics Projects: Understanding Diabetes Treatment Using fsQCA,” Proceedings of 29th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Panama City, Panama, August. 

Qin Weng, Franck Soh (2023). “The Influence of Project Initiators’ Person-to-Person Followership on Project Popularity in Open Source Communities: The Role of Reach and Importance,” Journal of Strategic Information Systems 32(2): 101771. read

Viswanath Venkatesh, Qin Weng, Arun Rai, Likoebe M. Maruping (2023). “Guidelines for the Development of Three-Level Models: Bridging Levels of Analysis and Integrating Contextual Influences in IS Research,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems 24(1): 65-106. read

Qin Weng, Wendy Wang, Amber Young (2022). “How Is IT Identity Claimed and Manifested?” Proceedings of 28th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Minneapolis, MN, August. (Selected as a top paper for AMCIS 2022) 

Qin Weng, Wendy Wang, Jignya Patel (2019). “Exploring the Formation of IT Identity: A Technology-Value Fit Model,” Proceedings of 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Cancun, Mexico, August. 

Qin Weng (2018). “Why Do Project Participants Work Together? An Investigation of the Antecedents of Collaboration Tie Strength in Cyberinfrastructure Projects,” Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Chaired by Dr. Laurie J. Kirsch) 

Gregory D. Moody, Laurie J. Kirsch, Sandra A. Slaughter, Brian Kimball Dunn, Qin Weng (2016). “Facilitating the Transformational: An Exploration of Control in Cyberinfrastructure Projects and the Discovery of Field Control,” Information Systems Research 27(2): 324-346. read

Laurie J. Kirsch, Qin Weng (2015). “IT Standards,” Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, 3rd Edition, Volume 7, Management Information Systems. 

Qin Weng, Nikhil Sharma, Brian S. Butler (2011). “Just-in-time Knowledge: Knowledge Mobilization in a Public Health Network,” Proceedings of 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Detroit, MI, August. 

Kendall Giles, K-M. Bryson, Qin Weng (2001). “Comparison of Two Families of Entropy-Based Classification Measures with and without Feature Selection,” Proceedings of 34th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui, HI, January. 

Teaching

QBA 3305: Introduction to Business Analytics (Undergraduate) 

Baylor University / Spring 2024

Designed to aid in understanding what has happened in the past in a firm (descriptive analytics), using past data to predict what is going to happen in the future (predictive analytics), and helping to determine the best course of action to take (prescriptive analytics). Explores how to combine statistical modeling and computer techniques (e.g., R, RStudio) to help make principled decisions in the context of business.

ISYS 5103: Data Analytics Fundamentals (Graduate)

University of Arkansas / Fall 2018~2023

Fundamental knowledge and skills in several major areas of business data analytics. Emphasis on the management and use of data in modern organizations, intermediate & advanced spreadsheet topics; relational databases & SQL; and programming (such as Python). 

ISYS 4193: Business Analytics and Visualization (Undergraduate)

University of Arkansas / Fall 2018

Introductory study of business analytics, visualization, and systems to provide analytics-based information derived from data within and/or external to the organization. Business analytics used to support management in the decision making. Application of tools in business analytics, problem solving, visualization, and decision making. 

CMP 283: Database Management Systems (Undergraduate) 

Chatham University

Database Concepts, ER diagrams, normalization, SQL, MS Access. 

BUSBIS 1060: Introduction to Management Information Systems (Undergraduate)

University of Pittsburgh

Fundamental MIS topics, including database, decision support, business intelligence, e-commerce, and crowdsourcing. Excel, Access, RapidMiner (data analytics), and Google sites. 

INFO 258: Objected-Oriented Programming (Undergraduate)

Virginia Commonwealth University

Objected-oriented programming with Visual Basic, and relevant techniques including VB form design, VB programming, ADO, and ActiveX.

Service 

Conference 

Associate Editor, Digital Technologies and the Future of Work Track, ICIS, 2024 

Mini-track Chair, Bright and Dark Side of Social Media in the Marginalized Contexts, in Information Technology, Social Justice, and Marginalized Contexts Track, HICSS-57, 2024–2025 

Mini-track Chair, Digital Frontiers of Social Computing for Social Good, in Social Computing Track, AMCIS, 2024 

Mini-track Chair, The Dark Side of Social Media, in Social Computing Track, AMCIS, 2018–2023 

Associate Editor, IS in Healthcare Track, ICIS, 2022

Reviewer 

For Journals 

MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, Internet Research, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of Service Science and Management 

For Conferences 

Americas Conference on Information Systems, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, International Conference on Information Systems, European Conference on Information Systems