WHAT'S NEW?

• New article: Artificial Intelligence Forces Us to Rethink Knightian Uncertainty: A Commentary on Townsend et al's "Are the Futures Computable" (accepted in Academy of Management Review) (FT50, UTDallasTop100, SSCI, Q1, IF: 16.4)

• New article: Is that JPEG Worth 70 Million Dollars? Value Creation and Perceptions of Non-Fungible Tokens in a Bubble Economy (accepted in Journal of Marketing Management) (SSCI, Q1. IF: 4.4)

• New award: Finetuning Artificial Intelligence for Entrepreneurial Pitching Effectiveness. Best Paper Award, Technology and Innovation Management Division, The 84th Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Ramoglou, S.,  Schaefer, R., Chandra, Y., McMullen, J. (2024) Artificial Intelligence Forces Us to Rethink Knightian Uncertainty: A Commentary on Townsend et al's "Are the Futures Computable" (accepted in Academy of Management Review, IF: 16.4)

• Walker, R., Zhang, J., Chandra, Y., Dong, B., & Wang, Y. (2023). Revisiting the Academic-Practitioner Divide: Evidence from Computational Social Sciences and Corpus Linguistics. Public Administration Review (SSCI, IF: 8.3). https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13724. (download). A pioneering paper showcasing machine learning and corpus linguistics to map the field of PA. This came out of a 2016 GRF grant where I was a Co-I.

• Chandra, Y*., & Jin, Q. (2022). Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy. Journal of Business Ethics, 188: 441-465 (SSCI, FT50 journal, IF: 6.331). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05283-y (download).  This came out of my 2016/2017 Teaching Excellence Grant at CityU.

• Chandra, Y*. (2022). Non-Fungible Token-Enabled Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Framework. Journal of Business Venturing Insights (published). The first theory development paper on NFT.

• Chandra, Y*., & Paras, A. (2021). Social Entrepreneurship in the Context of Disaster Recovery: Organizing for Public Value Creation. Public Management Review, 23(12): 1856-1877, *corresponding author. Video highlight. (> 8,300 views).  Winner of the Kooiman Best Paper Award 2021, the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM).

• Chandra, Y*., Shang, L., & Roy, M. (2021). Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises: A New Public Governance Perspective. Journal of Social Policy. (SSCI; 2020 IF: 3.269). doi:10.1017/S0047279421000222 Best Paper Award, International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) 2020, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

• Walker, R.M., Chandra, Y., Zhang, J., & Witteloostuijn, A. (2019). Topic Modeling the Research-practice Gap in Public Administration. Public Administration Review, 79(6), 931-937. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13095. A pioneering article showcasing machine learning to map the evolution of PA.  This came out of a 2016 GRF grant where I was a Co-I.

• Chandra, Y*., & Walker, R.M. (2019). How Does a Seminal Article in Public Administration Diffuse and Influence the Field? Bibliometric Methods and the Case of Hood’s “A Public Management For All Seasons?” International Public Management Journal, 22(5), 712-742. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2018.1498817

• Chandra, Y. (2018). New Narratives of Development Work? Making Sense of Social Entrepreneurs' Development Narratives across Time and Economies. World Development, 107, 306-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.02.033 

• Chandra, Y. (2017). Social Entrepreneurship as Emancipatory Work. Journal of Business Venturing, 32(6), 657-673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2017.08.004 (IF: 7.590; FT50 journal; #1 in entrepreneurship). (download). Video highlight.

• Chandra, Y. (2017). A Time-Based Process Model of International Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation. Journal of International Business Studies, 48(4), 423-451. (IF: 9.158; FT50 journal; ranked #1 in international business) (> 12,000+ access).  This came out of my PhD dissertation.

• Chandra, Y*., Styles, C., & Wilkinson, I. (2012). An Opportunity Based View of Rapid Internationalization. Journal of International Marketing, 20(1), 74-102. https://doi.org/10.1509/jim.10.0147 (download). Winner of Citation of Excellence Award by Emerald in 2012. This came out of my PhD dissertation.

• Chandra, Y*., Styles, C., & Wilkinson, I. (2009). The Recognition of First Time International Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Evidence from Firms in Knowledge Based Industries. International Marketing Review, 26(1), 30-61. https://doi.org/10.1108/02651330910933195 Winner of Emerald Literati 2010 Outstanding Paper Award. This came out of my PhD dissertation.

Entrepreneurship (social, international, technological)

• Chandra, Y., Belk, R. (2024). Is that JPEG Worth 70 Million Dollars? Value Creation and Perceptions of Non-Fungible Tokens in a Bubble Economy (forthcoming in Journal of Marketing Management) (SSCI, Q1. IF: 4.4)

• Kulshresta, R., Sengupta, S., Sahay, A., Chandra, Y. (2024). Process Typologies of Identity Construction in Entrepreneurship. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Vol 33(2) (forthcoming) 

• Lee, E. K-M., Chandra, Y., Lee, H. Social venture performance, impact, and strategic marketing effectiveness in turbulent environments. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 31(2), 232-251. DOI: 10.1108/JSBED-11-2022-0469 

• Yang, S.J., Chandra, Y., Liu, E.Y. The virtue of calculative mindset: A community-based view of entrepreneurial action and its implications to altruistic venturing. Journal of General Management (forthcoming). DOI: 10.1177/03063070231212533 

• Cheah, J.S.S., Yeoh, Q. and Chandra, Y. (2023). The influence of causation, entrepreneurial and social orientations on social enterprise performance in the nascent ecology of social enterprise. Social Enterprise Journal, 19(3): 308-327. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-11-2022-0102 

• Shang, L., & Chandra, Y. (2023). Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Co-Production Processes in the Disability Sector: Individual and Collection Action Views, Journal of Social Policy (SSCI; 2020 IF: 3.269) (forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279423000077 

• Karami, M., Chandra, Y., Wooliscroft, B., & McNeill, L. (2022). Effectual Control and Small Firms’ International Performance: The Mediating Role of Partnership and Gaining New Knowledge. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research (SSCI, IF: 5.5). https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-02-2021-0097 

• Chandra, Y*., Tjiptono, F., & Setyawan, A. (2021). The Promise of Entrepreneurial Passion to Advance Social Entrepreneurship Research. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Vol 16, e00270. *corresponding author.

• Chandra, Y*., Shang, L., Mair, J. (2021). Drivers of Success in Social Innovation: Insights into Competition in Open Social Innovation Contests. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Vol. 16, e00257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2021.e00257 (download).

• Chandra, Y*., Teasdale, S., & Tjiptono, F. (2021). Social Entrepreneurship Research in the Greater China Region: A Scoping Review and New Research Framework. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 14(2): 152-181. (SSCI; 2020 IF: 2.000). Video highlight.

• Chandra, Y*., Kerlin, J. (2021). Social Entrepreneurship in Context: Pathways for New Contributions in the Field. Forthcoming, Journal of Asian Public Policy, 14(2): 135-151 (SSCI; 2020 IF: 2.000). Video highlight.

• Ong, D., Shang, L., Chandra, Y., Hamidi, M., & Wahab, H.A. (2021). The Role of Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Purpose Development. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 14(2): 272-290. (SSCI; 2020 IF: 2.000).

• Tabarez, A., Chandra, Y., Alvarez, C., & Escobar-Sierra, M. (2021). Opportunity related behaviors in international entrepreneurship research: A multilevel analysis of antecedents, processes, and outcomes. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 17: 321-368. (SSCI; 2020 IF: 5.490) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00636-3 (>2,600 views).

• Chui, C., Chan, C.H., & Chandra, Y. (2021). The Role of Social Enterprises in Facilitating Labour Market Integration for People with Disabilities: A Convenient Deflection from Policy Mainstreaming? Journal of Social Policy (SSCI; 2020 IF: 3.269). doi:10.1017/S0047279421000490 

• Chan, C.H., Chui, C., & Chandra, Y. (2021). The Role of Social Innovation Policy in Social Service Sector Reform: Evidence from Hong Kong. Journal of Social Policy. (2020 IF: 3.269) (in press).

• Chandra, Y*., & Wilkinson, I.F. (2017). Firm Internationalization from a Network-Centric Complex-Systems Perspective. Journal of World Business, 52(5): 691-701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.06.001 

• Chandra, Y*., Lee, K.M.E., & Tjiptono, F. (2021). Public versus Private Interest in Social Entrepreneurship: Can One Serve Two Masters? Journal of Cleaner Production, 282(2): 124499. (SCIE; 2020 IF: 9.297). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124499 

• Chandra, Y*., & Shang, L. (2021). Social Entrepreneurship Interventions in the HIV/AIDS sector: A Social Entrepreneurship-Social Work Perspective. International Social Work, 64(1), 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872818807735 

• Lee, K.M., & Chandra, Y*. (2020). Dynamic and Marketing Capabilities as Predictors of Social Enterprises’ Performance. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 31: 587-600. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-019-00155-y 

• Chandra, Y*. (2019). Whose Value? Problems in Valuing Social Enterprise and Research Implications. Social Enterprise Journal, 15(2), 233-242. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-01-2019-0003 

• Chandra, Y*. (2018). Mapping the Evolution of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research (1990–2013): A Scientometric Analysis. PLoSOne, 13(1): e0190228. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190228 (>15,400 downloads).

• Chandra, Y*., & Shang, L. (2017). Unpacking the Biographical Antecedents of the Emergence of Social Enterprises: A Narrative Perspective. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 28(6), 2498-2529. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-017-9860-2 

• Chandra, Y., & Shang, L. (2017). Social Enterprise as a Mechanism of Youth Empowerment. Hong Kong Journal of Social Work, 51:115-144. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219246217000080 

• Chandra, Y*., & Shang, L. (2017). An RQDA-based Constructivist Methodology for Qualitative Research. Qualitative Market Research, 20(1): 90-112. https://doi.org/10.1108/QMR-02-2016-0014 A pioneer application of R for systematic qualitative data analysis. 

• Chandra, Y*., Jiang, Li., & Wang, C-J. (2016). Mining Social Entrepreneurship Strategies using Topic Modeling. PLosONE, 11(3), e0151342. (Accessed > 6,500+, >2000 downloads). The first application of machine learning called topic modeling in (social) entrepreneurship. 

• Chandra, Y. (2016). Social Entrepreneurship as Institutional-Change Work: A Corpus Linguistics Analysis. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 8(1), 14-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2016.1233133

• Chandra, Y. (2016). A Rhetoric-Orientation View of Social Entrepreneurship. Social Enterprise Journal, 12(2), 161-200. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-02-2016-0003 

• Chandra, Y*., Styles, C., & Wilkinson, I. (2015). Opportunity Portfolio: Moving Beyond Single-Opportunity Explanations in International Entrepreneurship Research. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 32(1), 199-228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-014-9400-1 

• Yang, S-S.J., & Chandra, Y. (2013). Growing Artificial Entrepreneurs: Advancing Entrepreneurship Research Using Agent-Based Simulation Approach. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 19(2), 210-237. A pioneer application of ABM in entrepreneurship research.

• Chandra, Y*., & Leenders, M. (2012). User Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Virtual World: A Study of Second Life Residents. Technovation, 32(7-8), 464-476. (SSCI, IF: 12.5) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2012.02.002 One of the first empirical work on entrepreneurial action in the metaverse.

• Chandra, Y*., & Coviello, N. (2010). Broadening the Concept of International Entrepreneurship: Consumers as International Entrepreneurs. Journal of World Business, 45(3), 228-236. (SSCI, IF: 8.9) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2009.09.006 

• Yang, S.S.J., Yang, F.C., & Wang, K.J., Chandra, Y. (2009). Optimising resource portfolio planning for capital-intensive industries under process-technology progress. International Journal of Production Research, 47(10): 2625-2648 (SSCI, IF: 9.2). https://doi.org/10.1080/00207540701644185

Governance and public management

• Yiran, L., Chandra, Y*., & Fan Y. (2022). Unpacking Government Social Media Messaging Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China. Policy & Internet, 14(3):  651-672 (SSCI, Q1, 2020 IF: 3.800). https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.282 

• Li, Y., Chandra, Y., Lin, L., & Fan, Y. (2020). From Women for Women: The Role of Social Media in Online Nonprofit Activities during Wuhan Lockdown. Public Administration and Development, 40: 267-272. https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1898 

• Li, Y., Chandra, Y., Kapucu, N. (2020). Crisis Coordination and the Role of Social Media in Response to COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. The American Review of Public Administration, 50 (6-7):  698-705. https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074020942105 

Editorship (excluding journal editor roles)

• Lead editor, virtual special issue on Entrepreneurship and Web 3.0 (with Cristiano Bellavitis and Dominic Chalmers) in Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2023)

• Guest editor, special issue on "Social Entrepreneurship in Context"  (with  Janelle Kerlin) in Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF: 2.00, SSCI) 2021.

Books and Book Chapters

• Walker, R., Zheng, J., & Chandra, Y. (2024). Topics in Public Administration: Perspectives from Computational Social Science and Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

• Shang, L., & Chandra, Y*. (2023). Discrete Choice Experiments Using R: A How-To Guide for Social and Managerial Sciences (Nature Springer). (link)

• Chandra, Y*., & Shang, L. (2019). Qualitative Research Using R: A Systematic Approach. Springer Nature: Singapore. Downloaded > 35,000 times. Chinese translation by Renmin University Press (China) 2021 "质性研究——基于R" and in JingDong.

• Chandra, Y., & Wong, L. (2016). Social Entrepreneurship in the Greater China Region: Policy and Cases. Routledge, UK. (foreword written by Carrie Lam, ex-CEO of the Hong Kong Government and Stan Shih, founder of Acer Corporation, Taiwan). The first scholarly volume on social entrepreneurship research in and on the Region.

Book Chapters

• Tse, K.K., Choi, R.Y., Chandra, Y., & Lee, G. (2023). Social Enterprises and Certified B Corporations in Hong Kong: Development, Key Lessons Learnt and Ways Forward. In Peter, H., Vasserot, C.V., Silva, J.A. (Eds.) International Handbook of Social Enterprises Law: Benefit Corporation and Other Purpose Driven Companies, Springer, Cham.

• Chandra, Y., & Shang, L. (2021). Qualitative Research Using R to Enact the Gioia Approach. In Paulus, T., & Lester, J. (Eds.). Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (An invited contribution by Trena Paulus)

• Chandra, Y. (2019). Platform Cooperatives: A Humanistic Organizing Model for the People. In A New Era of Platform. Geppo, Vol 1: 10-36. Shakai-Hyoronsha Publisher (Chapter in Japanese entitled プラットフォーム協同組合−−−−民衆のための人間的な組織モデル).

• Chandra, Y. (2018). Entrepreneurial Rehabilitation: The Promise of Social Entrepreneurship in Disengaging Religious Terrorists. In Gunaratna, R., & Muhammad Hussin, SB. (Eds.). Rehabilitation: A Game Changer in Fighting Terrorism. Routledge Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific.

• Chandra, Y. (2016). The Entrepreneurship Process in High Performing Hybrid Organizations: Insights from Diamond Cab. In Chandra, Y., & Wong, L. (2016). Social Entrepreneurship in the Greater China Region: Policy and Cases. Routledge, UK.

• Wong, L., & Chandra, Y. (2015). Service Leadership Education Embedded in a Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Framework. In Shek, D.T.L., & Chung, P (Eds.). Promoting Service Leadership Qualities in University Students: The Case of Hong Kong. Springer: Singapore. 

Reports and Cases

• Surveying the Landscape of Social Innovation and Higher Education in Hong Kong, British Council (2019) (with Alex Nicholls and Richard Hazenberg).

• Service Leadership Education at the City University of Hong Kong, Nova Science Publishers (2017) (with Mark Hayllar, Linda Wong, Maggie Lau, Eddie Yu, Joan Leung, Timothy Ma)

• Soap Cycling: Transforming Soap into Hope. Vietnam Social Enterprise Casebook, British Council, Hanoi, Vietnam (2016).