Research Interests
Innovation System of China
Financial Technologies
Founding Team Dynamics
Venture Financing
Selected Publications
Zheng, Y. & Wang, Qinyu (Ryan). 2025. Blood diamonds? Responses of open source software developers to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal. Forthcoming: Strategic Management Journal. Link
Zhong, W., & Zheng, Y. (2025). Do political connections stifle firm innovation? Natural experimental evidence from China's anti-corruption campaigns. Strategic Management Journal, 45: 1–34. Link
Wang, Qinyu (Ryan) & Zheng, Y. 2023. “Patent regime and the geography of cumulative innovation” Research Policy, 52(7). Link
Wang, Qinyu (Ryan) & Zheng, Y. 2022. “Nest without birds: The dual impact of inventor mobility on left-behind inventions” Research Policy, 51(4). Link
Zheng, Y. & Wang, Q. 2020. Shadow of the great firewall: The impact of blocking Google on innovation in China. Strategic Management Journal, 41: 2234-2260. Link
Hua, X., Huang, Y. & Zheng, Y. 2019 (Editorial). Current practices, new insights, and emerging trends of financial technologies. Industrial Management & Data Systems, 119(7):1401-1410. Link
Zheng, Y. & Xia, J. 2018. Resource dependence and network relations: A test of venture capital investment termination in China. Journal of Management Studies. ISSN: 0022-2380, 55: 295-319. Link
Zheng, Y., DeVaughn, M. & Zellmer-Bruhn, M. 2016. Shared and shared alike? Founders' prior shared experience and impacts on performance or newly founded banks. Strategic Management Journal. ISSN: 0413-2095, 37: 2503-2520. Link
Zheng, Y. & Yang, H. 2015. Does Familiarity Foster Innovation? The Impact of Alliance Partner Repeatedness on Breakthrough Innovations. Journal of Management Studies. ISSN: 0022-2380, 52: 213-230. Link
Yang, H., Zheng, Y. & Zaheer, A. 2015. Asymmetric Learning Capabilities and Returns from Alliances. Academy of Management Journal. ISSN: 0001-4273, 58: 356-374. Link
Yang, H., Zheng, Y. (equal lead author) & Zhao, X. 2013. Exploration or Exploitation? Small Firms’ Alliance Strategies with Large Firms. Strategic Management Journal. ISSN: 0413-2095, 35:146-157 Link
Zheng, Y., George, G. & Miner, A. 2013. Does the Learning Value of Individual Failure Experience Depend on Group Level Success? Insights from a University Technology Transfer Office. Industrial and Corporate Change. ISSN: 0960-6491, 22: 1557-1586. Link
Zheng, Y. & Mai, Y. 2013. A Contextualized Transactive Memory System View on How Founding Teams Respond to Surprises: Evidence from China. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. ISSN 1932-4391, 7: 197-213. Link
Zheng, Y. 2012. Unlocking Founding Team Prior Shared Experience: A Transactive Memory System Perspective. Journal of Business Venturing. ISSN: 0883-9026, 27: 577-591. Link
Zheng, Y. 2011. In Their Eyes: How Entrepreneurs Evaluate Venture Capital Firms. Journal of Private Equity. ISSN: 1096-5572, 14: 72-85. Link
Kotha, R., Zheng, Y. & George, G. 2011. Entry into New Niches: The Effects of Firm Age and the Expansion of Technological Capabilities on Innovative Output and Impact. Strategic Management Journal. ISSN: 0143-2095, 32: 1011-1024. Link
Zheng, Y., Liu, J. & George, G. 2010. The Dynamic Impact of Innovative Capability and Inter-firm Network on Firm Valuation: A Longitudinal Study of Biotechnology Start-ups. Journal of Business Venturing. ISSN: 0883-9026, 25: 593-609. Link
George, G., Kotha, R. & Zheng, Y. 2008. Entry into Insular Domains: A Longitudinal Study of Knowledge Structuration and Innovation in Biotechnology Firms. Journal of Management Studies. ISSN: 0022-2380, 45: 1448-1474. Link