Overview
My research interests lie largely at the intersection of innovation, entrepreneurship and corporate strategies, with a particular emphasis on the influences from external actors on strategic choices and performance in high technology settings. In the past, I also involved in research related to diversity and leadership, some of the findings have been published on Academy of Management Journal and received media coverage from Huffington Post, CNN, WSJ.com, Inc.com, Harvard Business Review.
One of the things I enjoyed most in my research is to explore theoretically meaningful and interesting questions that are also relevant to everyday managerial practice through most appropriate and oftentimes unique quantitative data sets. I tracked down major oil spills in the U.S. over the 50 years, as well as millions of facility-activity level environmental compliance and violation records through EPA's API service, to study what motivates organizations to learn from serious errors with sever externalities. I collected half a million law school admission data at individual level to explore organizations' conformity to industry wide standard under a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD). In my dissertation, I will conduct quantitative studies based on big data to explore how extensive interorganiztaional collaboration and knowledge sharing under open innovation can create economics value for new ventures, using econometric models that can derive casual inferences.
Here are some of the research projects that I'm currently working on, in collaboration with professors from McCombs School of Business, UT Austin