Research
Ke, S., Wu, B., Zhao, C. Learning from a Black Box. Journal of Economic Theory. Conditionally accepted.
Wang, Y., Rajagopalan, N., Yue, L., and Wu, B. Acquisitions and Entries in a Platform Market. Strategic Management Journal. Conditionally accepted.
Levinthal, D., and Wu, B. 2024. Resource Redeployment and the Pursuit of the New Best Use: Economic Logic and Organizational Challenges. Strategy Science. Forthcoming.
Baumann, O., Davis, G., Kunisch, S., Luo, J. and Wu, B. 2024. Organizing for Good—Using Organization Design to Take on Grand Challenges. Journal of Organization Design 12: 165-176.
Giustiziero, G., Kretschmer, T., Somaya, D. and Wu, B. 2023. Hyperspecialization and Hyperscaling: A Resource-Based Theory of the Digital Firm. Strategic Management Journal. 44(6): 1391-1424.
Special Issue Renewing the resource-based view: New contexts, new concepts, and new methods
Chu, L. and Wu, B. 2023. Designing Offline Platforms for Offline Services (O2O): A Market-Frictions Based Perspective. Academy of Management Review 48(1): 78-99.
Posen, H., Ross, J., Wu, B., Benigni, S. and Cao, Z. 2023. Reconceptualizing Imitation: Implications for Dynamic Capabilities, Innovation, and Competitive Advantage. Academy of Management Annals. 17(1): 74-112
Wang, L., Wu, B., Pechmann, C. and Wang, Y. 2023. The Performance Effects of Creative Imitation on Original Products: Evidence from Lab and Field Experiments. Strategic Management Journal. 44(1): 171-196.
Special Issue: Question-Driven and Phenomenon-Based Empirical Strategy Research
Baumann, O. and Wu, B. 2022. The Many Dimensions of Research on Designing Flat Firms. Journal of Organization Design. 11: 1-3.
Xu, Ming, et al. 2021. "US-China Collaboration is Vital to Global Plans for a Healthy Environment and Sustainable Development." Environmental Science & Technology 55 (14): 9622–9626.
Leading journal in the field of environmental science and technology (2019 Impact Factor: 7.864)
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Chu, Leon Y., and Brian Wu, B. 2021. "Designing Offline Platforms for Offline Services (O2O): A Market-Frictions Based Perspective." Academy of Management Review. In press.
Wang, Liangyan, Brian Wu, Cornelia Pechmann, and Yitong Wang. 2019. "The performance effects of creative imitation on original products: Evidence from lab and field experiments." Strategic Management Journal. In press.
Alsabbagh, A., Brian Qu, and Chengbin Ma. 2021. "Distributed Electric Vehicles Charging Management Considering Time Anxiety and Customer Behaviors." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 17 (4): 2422–2431.
#1 in Engineering—Industrial; #3 in Automation and Control Systems; #4 in Computer Science—Interdisciplinary Applications, by journal impact factor.
Wu, Brian. 2020. "Divergence and Convergence: A Brief Reflection and Agenda for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research in China and the United States (创业和创新研究回顾与前瞻:中美对比和合作)." Quarterly Journal of Management (管理学季刊) 2020 (2): 18–21.
Commentary on Y. Wu et al.'s “Entrepreneurship in Dynamic Environments: A Comparison Between the U.S. and China” article in the same issue.
Compare this one with an earlier one (15 years ago) where I was hoping for convergence. Although I started worrying about potential divergence about eight years ago, I was still hoping for a smoother transition, as in "When Suppliers Climb the Value Chain: A Theory of Value Distribution in Vertical Relationships."
Foo, Maw-Der, Balagopal Vissa, and Brian Wu. 2020. "Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 14 (3): 289–301.
Wang, Tang, Vikas A. Aggarwal, and Brian Wu. 2020. "Capability Interactions and Adaptation to Demand-Side Change." Strategic Management Journal 41 (9): 1595–1627.
Du, Xianjin, Meng Li, and Brian Wu. 2019. "Incumbent Repositioning with Decision Biases." Strategic Management Journal 40 (12): 1984–2010.
Chen, Mo, Aseem Kaul, and Brian Wu. 2019. "Adaptation on Multiple Landscapes: Relatedness, Complexity, and Inter-Temporal Coordination Costs." Strategic Management Journal 40 (11): 1791–1821.
Giustiziero, Gianluigi, Aseem Kaul, and Brian Wu. 2019. "The Dynamics of Learning and Competition in Schumpeterian Environments." Organization Science 30 (4): 668–693.
Wan, Zhixi, and Brian Wu. 2017. "When Suppliers Climb the Value Chain: A Theory of Value Distribution in Vertical Relationships." (with Zhixi Wan). 2017. Management Science. 63(2): 477-496.
Academy of Management BPS Division Distinguished Paper Award 2015
Liu, Cecily. 2017, February 19. "Opportunities await the innovators." China Daily.
Kaul, Aseem, and Brian Wu. 2016. "A Capabilities-Based Perspective on Target Selection in Acquisitions." Strategic Management Journal 37 (7): 1220–1239.
Aggarwal, Vikas A., and Brian Wu. 2015. "Organizational Constraints to Adaptation: Intrafirm Asymmetry in the Locus of Coordination." Organization Science 26 (1): 218–238.
Wu, Brian, Zhixi Wan, and Daniel A. Levinthal. 2014. "Complementary Assets as Pipes and Prisms: Innovation Incentives and Trajectory Choices." Strategic Management Journal 35 (9): 1257–1278. (lead article)
Chang, Sea-Jin, and Brian Wu. 2014. "Institutional Barriers and Industry Dynamics." Strategic Management Journal 35 (8): 1103–1123. (lead article)
Featured in "Perverse Advantage" article in The Economist, April 27, 2013.
Wu, Brian. 2014. "Book Review for Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma by Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell, 2012." Academy of Management Learning and Education 13 (1): 141–143.
Wu, Brian. 2012. "Foreword (in Chinese)." In Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell (Eds.), Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma” (Chinese edition). Harvard Business Review.
Wu, Brian. 2013. "Opportunity Costs, Industry Dynamics, and Corporate Diversification: Evidence from the Cardiovascular Medical Device Industry, 1976-2004." Strategic Management Journal 34 (11): 1265–1287. (lead article).
Levinthal, Daniel A., and Brian Wu. 2010. "Opportunity Costs and Non-Scale Free Capabilities: Profit Maximization, Corporate Scope, and Profit Margins." Strategic Management Journal 31 (7): 780–801.
Knott, Anne Marie, Hart E. Posen, and Brian Wu. 2009. "Spillover Asymmetry and Why It Matters." Management Science 55 (3): 373–388.
Wu, Brian, and Anne Marie Knott. 2006. "Entrepreneurial Risk and Market Entry." Management Science 52 (9): 1315–1330.
Winner of the 2005 Annual Best Student Paper Award from the Office of Advocacy of the US Small Business Administration.
"Ego Makes Entrepreneurs." BusinessWeek Online, February 1, 2005
Featured in James Surowiecki's "Epic Failures in the Startup World." The New Yorker, May 19, 2014.
Hu, Qin, Xun Wu, and Clement K. Wang. 2004. "Lessons from Alibaba.com: Government’s Role in Electronic Contracting." info 6 (5): 298–307.
Wuxiang, Zhu, Chen Hanmei, and Brian Wu. 2002. "Product Market Competition and Financial Conservatism: A Theoretical Model and the Case of Yanjing Brewing Corporation." Economic Research Journal (a leading economics journal in China) 52 (8): 28–36.