Publications 

(1)  Opper., S. & Zou, N. (2023). Trust in difficult people: A social network perspective. Forthcoming at Journal of Management Studies. Doi:  https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12996.   

(2) Zou, N., & Storz, C.  (2023). Why do entrepreneurs thrive? A network content perspective. Journal of Business Research, 161, 113821. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113821

(3) Storz, C., ten Brink, T., & Zou, N. (2022). Innovation in emerging economies: How do university-industry linkages and public procurement matter for small businesses? Asia Pacific Journal of Management. 39(4): p.1439-1480. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-021-09763-z     

(4) Burt, R., Opper, S., & Zou, N. (2021). Social network and family business: Uncovering hybrid family firms. Social Networks. Vol. 65: p. 141-156, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2020.12.005     

(5) Heckel, M., Hüppe-Moon, S., & Zou, N. (2018). Employee well-being in China and Japan: A Media Content Analysis. pp.166-195.  In Amelung et al (Ed.). 2018. Protecting the Weak: Entangled Processes of Framing, Mobilization and Institutionalization in East Asia, London/New York: Routledge 

Ongoing projects

(1) Title removed for blind review. Topic: Intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. 

(2) Title removed for blind review. Topic: Corporate boards and innovation (with Egbert Amoncio, Daniel Armanios, Xiaolan Fu, Sam Garg & Cornelia Storz)

(3) Transgenerational intentions and long-term investments in family firms: Evidence from one-child policy reform in China (with Cristina Cruz and Zhihao Ren)

(4) Varieties of cooperative forms: A landscape of multinational firms' cooperation with Chinese elite research institutions (with Cornelia Storz, Tobias ten Brink and Fei Wang)

(5) Developing reliable and globally valid measures for economic preferences – Worldwide testing of the Global Preference Survey Module (with Michael Kosfeld, Zahra Sharafi & Maira Sontag-Gonzalez)