Faculty Profile

Ping Wang Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies Phone: (301) 593-4518 Office: 4117K Hornbake Building, South Wing Email: pwang@umd.edu

Ping Wang is an assistant professor at the College of Information Studies – Maryland's iSchool. He has a joint appointment at the Decision, Operation and Information Technologies department of the R. H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He is also a faculty member of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) and the Center for Information Policy and E-Government (CIPEG).

Dr. Wang's research addresses how and why organizations innovate with information technologies. Specifically, his research seeks to understand the popularity of IT innovations and the effects of popular innovations on organizations. At Maryland, he leads two interdisciplinary research teams, both supported by grants of over $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation, to apply natural language processing to innovation research and to develop large-scale datasets and visual analytic tools for monitoring and understanding innovation trends in IT, biotechnology, and nanotechnology.

Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. from UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2005 and his MBA from the Smith School in 1998.

• Wang, P., 2010, Chasing the hottest IT: Effects of information technology fashion on organizations, forthcoming in MIS Quarterly, 34(1).
• Wang, P. and Ramiller, N.C., 2009, Community learning in information technology innovations, MIS Quarterly, 33(4), pp. 709-734.
• Wang, P., 2009, Popular concepts beyond organizations: Exploring new dimensions of information technology innovations, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 10(1), pp. 1-30.
• Wang, P. and Swanson, E. B., 2008, Customer relationship management as advertised: Exploiting and sustaining technological momentum, Information Technology and People, 21(4), pp. 323-349.
• Ramiller, N.C., Swanson, E.B., and Wang, P., 2008, Research directions in Information Systems: Toward an institutional ecology, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 9(1), pp. 1-22.
• Wang, P. and Swanson, E. B., 2007, Launching professional services automation: Institutional entrepreneurship for information technology innovations, Information and Organization, 17(2), pp. 59-88.
• Swanson, E.B. and Wang, P., 2005, Knowing why and how to innovate with packaged business software, Journal of Information Technology, 20(1), pp. 20-31.