Graduate School of China

  • Associate Professor
  • CHEN, BO

Research Interest

Consumer Behavior 
Consumer creativity 
Innovation 
Co-creation 
New Product Development 
Product Design 
Customization

Journal Articles

  • (2024)  Are We Becoming More Ethical Consumers During the Global Pandemic? The Moderating Role of Negotiable Fate Across Cultures.  JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS.  1,  1
  • (2023)  Collective-based ad transparency in targeted hotel advertising: Consumers? regulatory focus underlying the crowd safety effect.  JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES.  72,  5
  • (2022)  Belt and Road Initiative and OFDI from China: the paradox of home country institutional environment between state and local governments.  CHINESE MANAGEMENT STUDIES.  NA,  NA
  • (2022)  The effects of exposure to others' ideas and their ratings on online crowdsourcing platforms on the quantity and novelty of subsequently generated ideas.  JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT.  39,  5
  • (2021)  Crowdsourcing Ideas Using Product Prototypes: The Joint Effect of Prototype Enhancement and the Product Design Goal on Idea Novelty.  MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.  68,  4
  • (2021)  Imitation, Technology, and Firm Performance: The Korean Firms Case in China.  JOURNAL OF KOREA TRADE.  25,  4
  • (2021)  When foreign brands appear local, and local brands appear foreign The asymmetric effects of foreign branding in developing countries.  ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MARKETING AND LOGISTICS.  33,  1
  • (2020)  The effect of attribute originality on consumers ? adoption intention of customization: The role of construal level.  JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES.  55, 
  • (2020)  Enhance creative performance via exposure to examples: The role of cognitive thinking style.  PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES.  154,  -

Conference Paper

  • (2022)  Ethical consumption amid the global pandemic: A moderated moderation model of consumers’ fate belief across cultures.  2022 AMA Winter Academic Conference.  UNITED STATES
  • (2021)  Is Disclosure Good for Online Ad Effectiveness? The Crowd Safety Effect of Collective-Based Transparency.  2021 AMA Summer Conference.  UNITED STATES
  • (2020)  AD DISCLOSURE, TRANSPARENCY STATEMENT AND AD EFFECTIVENESS: AN ONLINE EXPERIMENT.  020 Global Marketing Conference at Seoul.  KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
  • (2019)  When transparency enhances effectiveness of targeted ad.  ANZMAC Conference 2019.  NEW ZEALAND
  • (2018)  A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Idea Generation in Crowdsourcing Communities: The Impact of Exposure to Ideas Posted by Others.  2018 ICAMA (International Conference of Asia Marketing Association).  THAILAND
  • (2017)  Idea Generation in Crowdsourcing Communities: The Impact of Exposure to Ideas Posted by Others.  2017 Summer AMA Conference.  UNITED STATES