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Dr Min Yan

Lecturer
EBS - Management and Marketing
Dr Min Yan
  • Email

  • Telephone

    +44 (0) 1206 874860

  • Location

    EBS.3.43, Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    Thursday 11:00-14:00

Profile

Biography

Min Yan's research interest is around continuance intention of technologies, and the relationship between consumers and smart technologies. Her doctoral research investigates users’ continuance intention of smart technologies. Her research papers have been published in the leading journals, such as Technology Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Information Management. She has a wide range of industry experience as an entrepreneur and a project manager. She was involved in projects related to smart city database building, AI adoption research, CAVs market analysis, smart farming, healthy restaurant start-up, apps design etc.

Qualifications

  • PhD Newcastle University,

  • MSc Newcastle University,

  • BA Zhejiang University,

Research and professional activities

Research interests

Consumer Behaviour

Investigating the relationship between consumer and technology. Exploring how and why consumers build connections with smart technologies.

Key words: Self-extension

Continuance Intention/Behavior intention

Exploring the antecedences and consequences of consumer's continuance intention of online technologies (e.g. health app) and smart technologies.

Current research

When Chatbots Cause Trouble: The Role of Agent Type and Conversation Style in The Consumer Response to Chatbot Failure. European Journal of Marketing.

EMOTIONAL LONELINESS AND FRONTLINE SERVICE PROVIDER PREFERENCE: SERVICE ROBOTS OR HUMAN EMPLOYEES?

Understanding post-pandemic in-person restaurant patronage.

Conferences and presentations

Driven by Emotional Loneliness: Consumer Preferences in Frontline Service

Invited presentation, 2024 ACR ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 26/9/2024

Consumer’s Self-Extension with Smart Technologies: Scale Development and Validation

Invited presentation, 2024 AMS World Marketing Congress, 28/6/2024

Consumer’s Self-Extension with Smart Technologies: Scale Development and Validation

Invited presentation, 2023 AMA Summer Academic Conference, Chicago, United States, 5/8/2023

SERVICE ROBOT IN TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY SERVICES: ARE TECHNOLOGIES DRIVING A LONELINESS PARADOX?

Invited presentation, 2023 Global Marketing Conference, Global Marketing Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 21/7/2023

EXPANDING SELF-EXTENSION THEORY IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS

2021 AMA Summer Academic Conference, 5/8/2021

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Marketing Management (BE511)

  • Marketing Analytics (BE564)

  • Introduction to Marketing (BE501)

Publications

Journal articles (3)

Acikgoz, F., Filieri, R. and Yan, M., (2023). Psychological Predictors of Intention to Use Fitness Apps: The Role of Subjective Knowledge and Innovativeness. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 39 (10), 2142-2154

Yan, M., Filieri, R. and Gorton, M., (2021). Continuance intention of online technologies: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Information Management. 58, 102315-102315

Yan, M., Filieri, R., Raguseo, E. and Gorton, M., (2021). Mobile apps for healthy living: Factors influencing continuance intention for health apps. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 166, 120644-120644

Contact

min.yan@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 874860

Location:

EBS.3.43, Colchester Campus

Academic support hours:

Thursday 11:00-14:00

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