DENG Lingfei

Associate Professor

School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-senUniversity

Email: denglf7@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Research Interests

digital platform governance in multisided markets, cultural and creative crowdfunding, sustainable tourism development, generative artificial intelligence

Courses

Accounting

Macroeconomics

Financial Data Analysis in Tourism Industry

Specialty Practice

Educational Qualifications

Sep 2017 – Apr 2022 Ph.D., Management Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology.

Jan 2020 – Aug 2021 Visiting PhD. Student, Finance, The University of Texas at Dallas.

Sep 2014 – Jun 2017 M.S., Finance, Northeast Agricultural University.

Sep 2010 – Jun 2014 B.A., Finance, Northeast Agricultural University.

Selected Papers and Publications

Journal Papers

[1]DaPeng Xu, Hong Hong, Lingfei Deng*, Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang. Crowdfunding Success Factors: A Meta-Analytic Investigation. Information Systems Research, 2025. DOI: 10.1287/isre.2022.0640.(UTD24)

[2]Lingfei Deng, Qiang Ye, Qiuju Luo*. Understanding the Online Restaurant Rating Bias Induced by Air Pollution and the Underlying Spatial and Temporal Effects. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2025, 60(7):1911-1931. DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2024.2407492.

[3]Chunhong Li, Lingfei Deng*, Qiaoqiao Deng, Rob Law. How Consumers React to Online Reviews and Managerial Responses from Marked Source Channels on an Accommodation-Sharing Platform? Tourism Management Perspectives, 2025, 55, 101336. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2024.101336.

[4]Lingfei Deng, Chunhong Li*, Rob Law. Effects of a Platform’s Market Exit Accompanying UGC Transfer on Its’ Competitor: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2024, 122, 103844. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103844.

[5]Lingfei Deng, Chunhong Li*, Qiaoqiao Deng. Time of Day Effects on Consumers’ Online Review Characteristics: Evidence from the Homestay Platform. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2024, 61:115–134. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.09.004.

[6]Lingfei Deng*, Qiang Ye, DaPeng Xu, Fangfang Sun. The “Holiday Effect” in Consumer Satisfaction: Evidence from Review Ratings. Information & Management, 2023, 60(7): 103863. DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2023.103863.

[7]Chunhong Li, Lingfei Deng*, Rob Law. Double Blades: Does a Sharing Platform Benefit from Integration to a Popular OTA Platform? Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 2023, 40(1): 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/10548408.2023.2199767.

[8]Lingfei Deng, DaPeng Xu*, Qiang Ye, Wenjun Sun. Food Culture and Online Rating Behavior. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2022, 52: 101128. DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2022.101128.

[9]Lingfei Deng, Qiang Ye, DaPeng Xu*, Wenjun Sun, Guangxin Jiang. A Literature Review and Integrated Framework for the Determinants of Crowdfunding Success. Financial Innovation, 2022,8:41.DOI: 10.1186/s40854-022-00345-6.

[10]Dapeng Xu, Lingfei Deng*, Xiao Fan, Qiang Ye. Influence of Travel Distance and Travel Experience on Travelers’ Online Reviews: Price as a Moderator. Industrial Management & Data Systems,2022, 122(4): 942-962. DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-07-2021-0444.

[11]Lingfei Deng, Wenjun Sun, DaPeng Xu*, Qiang Ye. Impact of Anonymity on Consumers’ Online Reviews. Psychology & Marketing, 2021, 38(12): 2259-2270. DOI: 10.1002/mar.21565.

Conference Papers

[1]Xianjiao Wu, Xiaochen Liu, Lingfei Deng, Qiang Ye. Responsive Yet Non-Human: The Dual Influence of Financial Chatbots on Empathic Engagement During Stock Price Plunge. Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2024). December 2024.

[2]Lingfei Deng*, Dapeng Xu, and Qiang Ye. Understanding the “Holiday Effect” in Online Restaurant Ratings. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS2021). January 2021.

[3]Lingfei Deng, Hong Hong*, Qiang Ye. Air Pollution and Online Customer Reviews: Evidence from Restaurant Reviews. 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS2019). July 2019. 

Research and Project Grants

National Natural Science Foundation of China: “The Competition and Symbiosis of Local Life Service DigitalPlatforms: Research on the Development Strategies and DevelopmentEffects”, 2024.01-2026.12, Grant No. 72301301. (Principal Investigator)