Publications
Professor Xiao Ma’s research publications, by year, with a link to each one.
In the Chartered ABS Academic Journal Guide
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9
ABS-rated publications across CBIT: 1 × 4* and 8 × 3*
CBIT, as at Sep 2026
Source: CBIT figures registry v1.8 (1 October 2026). Figures and sources
All publications, by year
Each citation links to the publication by its DOI, with its ABS rating where it has one: since CBIT was founded in April 2022 first, then our team’s earlier publications.
Since CBIT was founded (April 2022)
2024: publications
Lu, F., Ma, X., Lyu, R. and Gao, H. (2024). Founder CEOs’ Traditional Value Imprint and Green Innovation in Family Firms. Academy of Management Proceedings (Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2024, Chicago), 2024(1), 19712 (abstract).
Cao, D., Meadows, M. and Ma, X. (2024). Thinking fast and slow: a revised SOR model for an empirical examination of impulse buying at a luxury fashion outlet. European Journal of Marketing, 58(1), pp. 342-368.
Gillani, F., Chatha, K.A., Jajja, S.S., Cao, D. and Ma, X. (2024). Unpacking Digital Transformation: Identifying key enablers, transition stages and digital archetypes. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 203, 123335.
2023: publications
Gillani, F., Cao, D. and Ma, X. (2023). Making beef farming supply chains sustainable: unearthing the role of cognitive digital twins. British Academy of Management Conference 2023 (BAM2023).
Yuan, H., Boakes, M., Ma, X., Cao, D. and Li, S. (2023). Visualising Personal Data Flows: Insights from a Case Study of Booking.com. Intelligent Information Systems: CAiSE Forum 2023, Zaragoza, Spain, 12-16 June 2023, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Springer), pp. 52-60.
Before CBIT: our team’s earlier publications
CBIT was founded at Nottingham Business School in April 2022. The work below was completed before then by members of today’s CBIT team, at their previous institutions.
2021: publications
Zhao, R., Bal, J. and Ma, X. (2021). Creating Lean and Agile Supply Chains with Blockchain. Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Blockchain Technology (ICBCT '21), ACM, pp. 135-146.
Wieringa, J., Kannan, P.K., Ma, X., Reutterer, T., Risselada, H. and Skiera, B. (2021). Data analytics in a privacy-concerned world. Journal of Business Research, 122, pp. 915-925.
Miao, Y., Lin, Z., Ma, X., Ding, G. and Han, J. (2021). Learning Transformation-Invariant Local Descriptors With Low-Coupling Binary Codes. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 30, pp. 7554-7566.
2019: publications
Guo, Y., Lin, S., Ma, X., Bal, J. and Li, C.-T. (2019). Homogeneous Feature Transfer and Heterogeneous Location Fine-Tuning for Cross-City Property Appraisal Framework. Data Mining: 16th Australasian Conference, AusDM 2018, Bathurst, NSW, Australia, 28-30 November 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer), pp. 161-174.
2018: publications
Ng, I.C.L., Wakenshaw, S.Y.L., Dhamotharan, L., Ma, X., Tasker, P., Maull, R., Crowcroft, J. and Parry, G. (2018). Response to Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation consultation. HAT Community Foundation.
2017: publications
Ma, X., Wakenshaw, S.Y.L., Issa, A. and Bal, J. (2017). Co-creation in service assemblages for service innovation: an empirical investigation. WMG Service Systems Research Group Working Paper Series, 01/17. Coventry: Warwick Manufacturing Group.
Ng, I.C.L., Wakenshaw, S.Y.L. and Ma, X. (2017). Creating a primary market for personal data: exchange in an era of IoT: the HAT. International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management (QUIS), Porto, Portugal, 12-15 June 2017.
Wakenshaw, S.Y.L., Dhamotharan, L., Ignatius, J., Ng, I.C.L., Ma, X., Chen, D. and Maple, C. (2017). Privacy, vulnerability, and willingness to share: an empirical investigation using latent growth curve model. Data for Policy Conference, London, UK, 6-7 September 2017.
Ng, I.C.L., Holtby, J., Ma, X., Aucinas, A. and Tasker, P. (2017). White paper on digital dependency: the need for a personal data exchange infrastructure. WMG Service Systems Research Group Working Paper Series, 02/17. Coventry: Warwick Manufacturing Group.
2016: publications
Ma, X., Bal, J., Wakenshaw, S.Y.L. and Issa, A. (2016). Co-creation of value in service assemblage & service innovation. 25th Annual Frontiers in Service Conference, Bergen, Norway, 23-26 June 2016.
Wakenshaw, S.Y.L. and Ma, X. (2016). Consumer relationships in service systems. 5th Forum on Markets and Marketing, Venice, Italy, 13-16 June 2016 (Conference Proceedings).
Dixon, M., Ng, I.C.L., Wakenshaw, S.Y.L. and Ma, X. (2016). Control and trusts mechanisms in addressing vulnerability for the design of business and economic models. 2016 Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Austin, Texas, USA, 19-22 November 2016.
Wakenshaw, S.Y.L. and Ma, X. (2016). Social representations of value: an empirical investigation. 10th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontologies, Trento, Italy, 10-11 March 2016.
2015: publications
Ma, X., Fan, N., He, Z. and Yang, W. (2015). Real-Time Affine Tracking Using Re-located Lucas-Kanade Algorithm. 2015 Third International Conference on Robot, Vision and Signal Processing (RVSP), IEEE, pp. 35-38.
Wakenshaw, S.Y.L., Ma, X. and Ng, I.C.L. (2015). Serving contexts in a value creating ecosystem. 14th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management (QUIS14), Shanghai, China, 18-21 June 2015.
Ma, X., Wakenshaw, S.Y.L. and Ng, I.C.L. (2015). Towards an ecosystem of digital services: an empirical study on Internet of Things and Sensor as a Service. 24th Annual Frontiers in Service Conference, San Jose, California, USA, 9-12 July 2015.
Fan, N., Ma, X., He, Z. and Yang, W.-G. (2015). Visual Tracking via Local Sparse Correlation Filters. 2015 Third International Conference on Robot, Vision and Signal Processing (RVSP), IEEE, pp. 27-30.
2014: publications
Bal, J., Issa, A. and Ma, X. (2014). Orchestrating New Markets Using Cloud Services. Collaborative Systems for Smart Networked Environments: 15th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE 2014), Amsterdam, 6-8 October 2014. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (Springer), 434, pp. 161-168.
Ma, X., Bal, J. and Issa, A. (2014). Using ontology engineering for understanding needs and allocating resources in web-based industrial virtual collaboration systems. WMG Service Systems Research Group Working Paper Series, 01/14. Coventry: Warwick Manufacturing Group.
2009: publications
Ma, X. and Bal, J. (2009). Semantic industrial categorisation based on search engine index. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE'09), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 13-16 July 2009.
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