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Mengze Shi

Mengze Shi

Professor of Marketing, Ellison Professor of Marketing, PhD Program Coordinator

Degrees:

PhD, MSIA, Carnegie Mellon University
M.A., University of International Business and Economics, Beijing
BSc, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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Phone:

(416) 946-7963

Bio

Mengze Shi is the Ellison Professor of Marketing at Rotman. His research is focused on incentives and motivation mechanisms - how people respond to different consumer and sales contracts and how organizations should design the programs and structures. He also studies how the advances in information technology can shape the marketing and sales practices. Mengze is an Associate Editor of Management Science and a member of the Editorial Review Board of Marketing Science. He is the area's PhD program coordinator where he enjoys working with doctoral students.

Academic Positions

  • from 2001

    Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Marketing, Rotman School of Management

  • 1997-2001

    Assistant Professor of Marketing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Selected Publications - Papers

  • Video mining: measuring visual information using automatic methods

    with Li and Wang

    International Journal of Research in Marketing

    Issue:June

    2019

  • Measuring rank-based utility in contest

    with T. Hossain and R. Waiser

    Journal of Marketing Research

    2019

  • Managing Consumer Deliberations in Decentralized Distribution Channel

    with X. Li and D. Li

    Marketing Science

    2018

  • Is a Monogamous Relationship always Better? Loyalty Programs and Consumer Responses to Demotion from Elite Memberships

    with P. Agarwal

    Journal of Association for Consumer Research

    2018

  • Product and price decisions in crowdfunding

    with M. Hu and X. Li

    Marketing Science

    Issue:3

    2015

  • Threshold Effects in Online Group Buying

    with Wu, J. and M. Hu

    Management Science

    Issue:9

    2015

  • Money Talks: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Incentives for WOM referrals.

    with A. Wojnicki

    Journal of Advertising Research

    Issue:March

    2014

  • Sequential and Simultaneous Group Buying Mechanism

    with Hu and Wu

    Management Science

    Issue:12

    2013

  • Strategic Relationship between Endogenous and Exogenous Switching Costs

    M. Shi

    Quantitative Marketing and Economics

    Issue:2

    2012

  • Consumer Value-maximizing Sweepstakes & Contests: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation

    with A. Kalra

    Journal of Marketing Research

    Issue:April

    2010

  • Empirically Investigating the Value of a Brand Alliance in Professional Team Sports

    with Yupin Yang and Avi Goldfarb

    Marketing Science

    Issue:November

    2009

  • A B2B Bargaining Model for a First-time Interaction under Asymmetric Beliefs on Supply Reliability

    with H. Gurnani

    Management Science

    Issue:6

    2006

  • Price competition with reduced consumer switching costs: the case of wireless number portability in cellular phone industry

    with J. Chiang and B. Rhee

    Management Science

    Issue:52

    2006

  • Managing Capacity through Reward Programs

    with B. Kim and K. Srinivasan

    Management Science

    Issue:4

    2004

  • Salesforce compensation scheme and consumer inference

    with Ajay Kalra and Kannan Srinivasan

    Management Science

    Issue:May

    2003

  • Virtual Progress: The Effect of Path Characteristics on Perceptions of Progress and Choice Behavior

    with D. Soman

    Management Science

    Issue:9

    2003

  • Designing Optimal Sales Contests: A Theoretical Perspective

    with Ajay Kalra

    Marketing Science

    Issue:Spring

    2001

  • Reward Programs and TAcit Collusion

    with Byung-Do Kim and Kannan Srinivasan

    Marketing Science

    Issue:Spring

    2001

  • Optimal Mailing of Catalogs: A New Methodology Using Estimable Structural Dynamic Programming Models

    with Fusun Gonul

    Management Science

    Issue:September

    1998

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

  • Online group buying and crowdfunding: Two cases of all-or-nothing mechanisms

    with M. Hu and J. Wu

    Springer

    Issue:Sharing Economy

  • Manage customer value through incentives

    University of Toronto Press

    Issue:Chapter 11 in Flux, edited by Soman and Soberman

    2013

Research and Teaching Interests

Mengze's research focuses on incentives and motivation mechanisms in sales and marketing. He is best known for his research in customer relationship programs and sales force management. In recent years he has found interests in understanding the impact of emerging technologies on marketing and sales practices. Mengze has taught a range of marketing courses including managing customer value, marketing research, marketing data analytics, and sales and channel management.

Honors and Awards

  • 2013, 2012, 2006

    Excellence in Teaching Award, Rotman School of Management

  • 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014

    Distinguished/Meritorious Service Award, Management Science

  • 2003

    Roger Martin and Nancy Lang Awards for Excellence in Research, Rotman School of Management

Academic / Professional Service

  • Present

    Associate Editor, Management Science, Informs

  • Present

    Editorial board, Marketing Science, Informs