Prof. LEE Kwok On Matthew (李國安)

https://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/staff/ismatlee

Main research focus: Intersection between IT systems, people, and business. Research context is diverse, ranging from online e-learning systems through multi-user metaverse gaming platforms to corporate ERP systems. Research methods used are mainly theory-driven behavioral, and empirical.

Publications: over 150 articles in leading journals and conferences including MISQ, JIBS, JAIS, JMIS, ISJ, etc.

Major external grants as PI: HK$94 million (8 GRF, 1 TDG, 2 HKJC Charities Trust)

Prizes and honors: IEE Prize, Research.com Business and Management in China Leader Award, Stanford's top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientist (top 1% in the field of Information Systems)

Bibliometrics: h-Index 91, Citations: >42000 (@31.03.2025)

Professor Matthew K. O. Lee is Chair Professor of Information Systems & E-Commerce at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU).  He has a strong multidisciplinary background, holding a first-class honors bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering, an MSc in software engineering, a Ph.D. in computer science, an MBA, and two law degrees.  He is the recipient of several prestigious University scholarships and prizes, including an IEE Prize and a College Scholarship from Oxford University, where he read for one of his degrees. Professor Lee is a qualified Barrister-at-Law in Hong Kong, England & Wales, a Chartered Engineer (UK Engineering Council), and a professional member of the British Computer Society.

Professor Lee's research focuses on the intersection between IT systems, people, and business. It addresses questions on why people use IT systems, how such systems are used, and the results and impacts such usage brings about. He has researched and published many studies on technology acceptance, online shopping and brand community, system implementation success, and adverse impacts of technology use such as addiction, cyber-bullying, and technology stress. The range of IT systems involved in his investigations is diverse, ranging from online e-learning systems through multi-user metaverse gaming platforms to corporate ERP systems. In conducting his research, Professor Lee often employs a theory-driven empirical behavioural approach. 

Professor Lee is involved in top-level corporate governance work and public services. He is a member of the Hong Kong Productivity Council, the Hong Kong Deposit Protection Board, the Process Review Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and the UGC Working Group on Research Assessment Exercise Electronic System. Professor Lee was a former Chairman of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (HKCPEC), advising the HKSAR Government on relevant APEC-related economic and cooperation matters. He has over 2 decades of corporate governance experience at the board level as an independent non-executive director of enterprises listed on the main board of the HK Stock Exchange.  

Professor Lee has published over one hundred refereed articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and research textbooks. His research has generated a substantial impact, as witnessed by his strong citation record. According to the "H-Index for Management Information Systems (MIS)" published by the University of Arizona in May 2022, Professor Lee ranks in the top 3 in Asia as an MIS professor.  He is a top 2% most highly cited scientist globally (according to a recent report by Stanford University) with a citation count of over 39,000 and an h-Index of 89 (as of 1 October 2024). Professor Lee is a recipient of the Research.com Business and Management in China Leader Award, being ranked as one of the top 10 best scientists in the field of business and management in China. He is a current editorial board member of Informatics (a CiteScore Q1 journal indexed within Scopus and ESCI)

LLM - Commercial & Corporate Law (University of London) 
LLB - Law (University of London) 
PhD - Computer Science (University of Manchester) 
MSc - Computation (University of Oxford) 
MBA - Business Administration (University of Sheffield) 
BEng - Electronic Engineering (University of Sheffield)

Chartered Engineer; Chartered Information Systems Practitioner; Barrister-at-Law 

• Digital Competence
• Electronic Commerce and Internet Marketing
• Online Social Networks
• Online Addiction and Other Adverse ICT Impacts
• Knowledge Management
• Managing IT-based Innovation Adoption and Diffusion