Zhiyan Wu

Zhiyan "Z" Wu

Professor of Strategy

School of Management

Zhejiang University

Hangzhou, China

E-mail: zhiyan.z.wu@gmail.com

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Research interests: corporate governance, sustainability, causal inference, abduction.

News

(June 26, 2025) Received the Best Reviewer Award from Journal of Management.
(April 20, 2025) Developing the Workforce: Exploring the Impact of Female Directors on Male-Led Ventures, coauthored with Lucia Naldi, has been accepted for publication in Journal of Business Venturing.
(December 12, 2024) Competitive Dynamics in the Political Marketplace: How Donor Firms’ Political Wins Prompt Product-Market Peers to Appoint Politicians to Their Boards, coauthored with Wenjiao Cao, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.
(October 8, 2024) Learning from Their Daughters paper won the 19th EBS Best Paper Award.
(June 1, 2024) Appointed to Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review.
(May 27, 2024) A Behavioral Theory of Leviathan Inc: State-Firm Responses to Performance Shortfalls, coauthored with Ronald Klingebiel, has been accepted for publication in Strategic Organization.
(October 25, 2023) Tenured at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
(October 5, 2023) Corporate Responses to Social Activism: A Review and Research Agenda, coauthored with Siyu Liu, has been accepted for publication in Journal of Management.
(December 15, 2022) Won the Best New Course of the Year Award at the Strategy & Entrepreneurship department, RSM.
(November 23, 2022) Nominated for the RSM Innovative Teaching Award (one awardee per year at RSM across all disciplines).
(September 16, 2022) Learning from Their Daughters: Family Exposure to Gender Disparity and Female Representation in Male-Led Ventures, coauthored with Lucia Naldi, Karl Wennberg, and Timur Uman, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.
(August 18, 2021) Microlevel Analysis of Institutional Intermediation in a Rudimentary Market-Based Economy: Entrepreneurship in Kathmandu’s Indrachok Market, coauthored with Will Mitchell, Garry Bruton, and Dhruba Gautam, has been accepted for publication in Organization Science.

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