Wang Jin

Digital Fellows
Early ideas are welcomed, innovative thinking is rewarded, and the feedback is exceptional. Being surrounded by talented colleagues and mentors studying technology’s frontier impacts on organizations and society makes the Lab both an inspiring and energizing place to work.”
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Associate Professor, Chapman University

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Wang Jin is an Associate Professor of Management Science at Chapman University and a Digital Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. His research spans the Economics of Digitization, IT Productivity, Organizational Design, and the Future of Work. Using large-scale administrative, platform, and regulatory datasets, he examines how digital technologies—including cloud computing, machine learning, AI adoption, and modern data infrastructure—reshape firm performance, organizational structure, innovation, and labor-market dynamics. His work focuses on the microeconomics of digital transformation, particularly how data-centric technologies alter coordination costs, managerial practices, and productivity. His work has appeared in leading outlets such as Management Science, MIS Quarterly, and Harvard Business Review. He leads and contributes to multiple projects using confidential U.S. Census microdata (Title 13 & 26) and collaborates with industry partners on cloud transformation, digital architecture, and GenAI deployment.

Before joining Chapman, Jin served as a Research Scientist at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, a Research Associate at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and MIT Sloan, and a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He holds a PhD in Economics from Clark University.