A study on institutional voids and entrepreneurship
Title withheld during blind peer review
Invited for major revision at Strategic Management Journal.
Research
Research Papers
“Forced But Unfinished Exit: Necessity Entrepreneurship and the Retention of Organizational Imprints.”
Working paper. Under review at ASQ PDW 2026.
Selected Research Paper
“Entrepreneurship before Markets: Human Carriers, Organizational Capabilities, and Market Formation.”
Summary: We use organizational genealogies and personal career records from Chinese counties to examine how human carriers transport and recombine capabilities accumulated in planned-economy organizations, generating new ventures and local markets during China’s market transition.
“The Optimal State Share: Mixed Ownership, Innovation, and Geoeconomic Risk.”
Summary: Under the US-China technology and trade decoupling, we develop and empirically examine a model of optimal state ownership, showing how mixed ownership balances financing, innovation, and governance trade-offs and how geoeconomic risk reshapes the optimal ownership structure across sectors.