Ying Zhang
Academic and research departments
Centre of Digital Economy, Department of Business Analytics and Operations.About
My research project
Blockchain adoption in organisationsBlockchain technology has garnered extensive attention from both the media and academia due to its promising business benefits in replacing established intermediaries, promoting trust, and reducing transaction costs. However, the adoption of blockchain technology across industries remains limited. We study the influencing factors of blockchain adoption by organisations in diverse contexts. Importantly, trust and privacy are two permeating elements in the process of blockchain adoption. Systematic literature review (SLR), inductive study (grounded theory approach), and survey with structure equation modelling are main methods used in this project.
This project has been funded by University of Surrey. I am honoured to have received the Doctoral College Studentship Award in 2021.
Supervisors
Blockchain technology has garnered extensive attention from both the media and academia due to its promising business benefits in replacing established intermediaries, promoting trust, and reducing transaction costs. However, the adoption of blockchain technology across industries remains limited. We study the influencing factors of blockchain adoption by organisations in diverse contexts. Importantly, trust and privacy are two permeating elements in the process of blockchain adoption. Systematic literature review (SLR), inductive study (grounded theory approach), and survey with structure equation modelling are main methods used in this project.
This project has been funded by University of Surrey. I am honoured to have received the Doctoral College Studentship Award in 2021.
ResearchResearch interests
Innovation; Distributed ledger technology and blockchain; Technology adoption; Tourism demand
Research interests
Innovation; Distributed ledger technology and blockchain; Technology adoption; Tourism demand
Publications
To capture the role of politics in tourism, we propose a novel measure to quantify political relations based on text analysis of published diplomatic statements. We explain how political relations affect outbound tourist flows from China to Japan and Korea. Estimated on monthly data (1997m1-2018m12), our model shows how China-Japan disputes affect tourist flows to Korea and how China-Korea clashes influence the number of Chinese tourists going to Japan. The political effects are estimated to peak after three months, but half of the effects vanish in six months. We also observe asymmetries in the political effects—the tourists respond more to negative political shocks than to positive ones, and more to territorial disputes than to war history disputes.