主持完成包括国家自然科学基金项目、教育部人文社科项目、上海市科委和上海市社科基金项目在内的多项学术研究项目，以及国家电网、中汇、上海海关等多项企业委托的实践项目，并参与了包括863项目在内的其它各项研究工作。目前的研究兴趣在于平台经济与算法价值，企业数字化转型，电商策略。
Liwen Hou, Xinxue (Shawn) Qu, Yixing Chen, Ling Xue (2025). Strategizing Value-Added Services for Platform Firms. Production and Operations Management, Vol. 34(10) 3289–3308
Liwen Hou (2025). Does the Industrial Big Data Environment Matter? An Evaluation of its Effect on the Production Performance. Information and Management, Vol. 62, No. 6, 104159
Ilya Morozov, Stephan Seiler, Xiaojing Dong, Liwen Hou (2021). Estimation of Preference Heterogeneity in Markets with Costly Search. Marketing Science, Vol. 40, No. 5, 871–899
Dali Zhang, Dong Li, Hailin Sun, Liwen Hou. (2021). A Vehicle Routing Problem with Distribution Uncertainty in Deadlines. European Journal of Operational Research, 292, 311-326
Liwen Hou, Weijun Zheng. (2020). A Latent Class Regression Approach to IT Maintenance Outsourcing Service Management. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 67(1), 81-91
