题　目：Chief Information Security Officers and AI Innovation: The Moderating Roles of CEO Regulatory Focus and Board Members’ AI Experience

嘉　宾：Daniel Chen（陈其）, Randall W. and Sandra Ferguson Endowed Professor, Baylor University, USA 

主持人：刘益 讲席教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时　间：2026年7月2日（周四）13:30-15:00

地　点：上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院包兆龙图书馆A511

内容简介:

Although firms are increasingly appointing chief information security officers (CISOs) and intensifying their investments in artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, limited research has examined how CISO presence influences firms’ AI innovation activities. This issue is particularly salient given growing managerial concerns about the security risks associated with AI-driven innovation. Drawing on role theory, which suggests that executive roles are shaped by functional expectations as well as social interactional and structural dynamics, this study investigates how CISO presence in the top management team (TMT) affects AI innovation. We further examine how CEO regulatory focus (prevention vs. promotion focus) and board members’ AI expertise moderate this relationship. Using panel data from S&P 500 firms from 2005 to 2022, we find that CISO presence is negatively associated with AI innovation. This negative relationship is strengthened when CEOs exhibit a higher prevention focus but becomes positive when CEOs exhibit a higher promotion focus. In addition, board members’ AI expertise shifts the effect of CISO presence on AI innovation in a positive direction. Together, these findings highlight the importance of how IT executive roles are socially constructed through interactions with CEOs and board members, and how these dynamics shape cybersecurity leadership’s influence on firms’ AI innovation.

演讲人简介：

Daniel Chen is Chair of the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics and holds the Randall W. and Sandra Ferguson Endowed Professorship at the Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University.

His research examines the strategic management of technological innovation, with a particular focus on the investment, deployment, and organizational impact of digital technologies. His work has appeared in leading journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, and Decision Sciences, among others.

Chen is actively involved in the academic community through a range of editorial leadership roles. He currently serves as Senior Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Associate Editor for the Journal of Operations Management and Decision Sciences, Guest Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly, and a member of the Editorial Review Board of Information Systems Research.

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