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Xiang Gong is a professor of Information Systems in the School of Management at Northwestern Polytechnical University. He received his PhD degree from the joint PhD program between the University of Science and Technology of China and City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include sharing economy, social commerce, and metaverse. He has published in international journals, such as Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information & Management, and Information Technology & People.

Zhenxin Xiao is Associate Professor of Marketing in the School of Management at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received his PhD degree in information systems from the joint PhD program between the Xi’an Jiaotong University and City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include marketing strategy and enterprise innovation management. His research has been published in international journals such as Journal of Business Ethics and Technovation.

Xiaoxiao Liu is Associate Professor of Information Systems in the School of Management at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received his PhD degree in Management Science and Engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interests include healthcare technology and sharing economy. His research has been published in international journals such as MIS Quarterly and International Journal of Electronic Commerce.

Matthew K.O. Lee is Chair Professor of Information Systems and E-commerce at the College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. He is the principal investigator of a number of CERG grants and has published more than 100 refereed articles in international journals, such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Information Technology, Information Technology and People, among others. He has served as a special associate editor for MIS Quarterly and the Information Systems Journal.