Below is a list of my current working papers and publications. Feel free to contact me for working papers.
Yuan Shi*, Rachelle Sampson, Brent Goldfarb, & Rafael Corredoira. The changing nature of firm R&D: Short-termism & technological influence of US firms.
Accepted at Management Science
Research proposal won the 2021 Panmure House Prize.
Sai Yayavaram & Yuan Shi. What is the price of spanning domain boundaries? Distant recombination and the market valuations of firm inventions.
Provisionally Accepted at Organization Science
Yuan Shi*, Olav Sorenson, & David Waguespack. (2024). The new argonauts: The international migration of venture-backed companies. Strategic Management Journal.
Media mentions: Cornell Chronicle, ULCA Anderson Review
Yuan Shi. (2022). A change of tune: Market democratization and crossover production in the U.S. commercial music industry. Administrative Science Quarterly.
2018 AOM OMT Division Best Student Paper Award Runner-Up
Interviewed by Billboard
Media mentions: Boston Globe, Cornell Chronicle, Country Insider (iHeartMedia), Hospitality Net
Rachelle Sampson & Yuan Shi*. (2020). Are U.S. firms becoming more short-term oriented? Evidence of shifting firm time horizons from market discount rates, 1980-2013. Strategic Management Journal.
Media mentions: Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, The Hill and Vox
Research summary available in Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog and Seattle University Law Review
Featured in 2024 AOM Showcase Symposium on short-termism (co-organized with Yu Zhang)
Rafael Corredoira, Brent Goldfarb, & Yuan Shi*. (2018). Federal funding and the rate and direction of inventive activity. Research Policy, 47(9): 1777-1800.
NSF Grant No. 1565555
2016 recipient of "Research Honor" at Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
Yuan Shi*, Olav Sorenson, & David Waguespack. (2017). Temporal issues in replication: The stability of centrality-based advantage. Sociological Science, 4: 107-122.
Featured in Wikipedia article on Hawthorne effect
Yuan Shi & Jiancheng Guan. (2016). Small-world network effects on innovation: Evidences from nanotechnology patenting. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 18(11): 329.
Jiancheng Guan & Yuan Shi*. (2012). Technological diversity, transnational citation, and small world in global nanotechnology patenting. Scientometrics, 93(3): 609-633.
"Domestic Migration of Venture-backed Start-ups" (with Dave Waguespack and Olav Sorenson)
"Legalization of Equity Crowdfunding and Venture Capital Investments" (with Qian Wang)
"Marginal Inclusion in Billboard Hot 100, Artistic Career, and Entrepreneurship" (with Jaewoo Lee)
* in alphabetical order