Congratulations to iSchool Alumna Weimei Pan who successfully defended her PhD dissertation on March 20, Managing Records As Evidence And Information In China in the Context of Cloud-Based Services.
Her supervisor was Professor Luciana Duranti, and members of her supervisory committee included Dr. Luanne Freund, Giovanni Michetti and Sherry Xie.
Lay Summary
This study explores how electronic records are managed as evidence to help Chinese companies prove their business activities to the government and in court as well as supporting daily operation and competitive advantage. It was found that, owing to many reasons, Chinese enterprises often convert electronic records into paper format or deposit them with a different organization. Yet, examination of the use of these methods shows they may not be able to do the job successfully. Additionally, both cases provided positive evidence as to increasing efforts to exploit the informational content of records for daily operation and strategic planning. Moreover, for the state-owned enterprise, its records management work is largely, if not exclusively, focused on the informational value of records.
