Publications

• Zhiyan Wu, Garry Bruton, and Ryan Krause. 2025. Activism Risk and Corporate Self-Regulation: Investigating How Anti-SLAPP Laws Impact Firms’ Institutional Corporate Social Performance. Strategic Management Journal. Forthcoming. [PDF] [Journal Page]

• Zhiyan Wu and Wenjiao Cao. 2025. Competitive Dynamics in the Political Marketplace: How Donor Firms’ Political Wins Prompt Product-Market Peers to Appoint Politicians to Their Boards. Management Science. Forthcoming. [PDF] [Journal Page]

• Zhiyan Wu and Ronald Klingebiel. 2025. A Behavioral Theory of Leviathan Inc: State-Firm Responses to Performance Shortfalls. Strategic Organization. Forthcoming. [PDF] [Journal Page]

• Zhiyan Wu and Lucia Naldi. 2025. Developing the Workforce: Exploring the Impact of Female Directors on Male-Led Ventures. Journal of Business Venturing, 40(5): 106504. Lead Article. [PDF] [Journal Page]

• Zhiyan Wu and Siyu Liu. 2024. Corporate Responses to Social Activism: A Review and Research Agenda. Journal of Management, 50(6): 2046-2072. [PDF] [Journal Page]

• Zhiyan Wu, Lucia Naldi, Karl Wennberg, and Timur Uman. 2024. Learning from Their Daughters: Family Exposure to Gender Disparity and Female Representation in Male-Led Ventures. Management Science, 70(2): 671-693. Lead Article. [PDF] [Journal Page]

• Will Mitchell, Zhiyan Wu, Garry Bruton, and Dhruba Gautam. 2022. Microlevel Analysis of Institutional Intermediation in a Rudimentary Market-Based Economy: Entrepreneurship in Kathmandu’s Indrachok Market. Organization Science, 33(6):2106-2134. [PDF] [Journal Page]

•  Ryan Krause, Zhiyan Wu, Garry Bruton, and Suzanne Carter. 2019. The Coercive Isomorphism Ripple Effect: An Investigation of Nonprofit Interlocks on Corporate Boards. Academy of Management Journal, 62(1): 283-308. [PDF] [Journal Page]

Randomized experiments

• Zhiyan Wu, Lucia Naldi, Karl Wennberg, and Timur Uman. 2024. Learning from Their Daughters: Family Exposure to Gender Disparity and Female Representation in Male-Led Ventures. Management Science, 70(2): 671-693. Lead Article. [PDF] [Journal Page]

Regression discontinuity design 

• Zhiyan Wu and Wenjiao Cao. 2025. Competitive Dynamics in the Political Marketplace: How Donor Firms’ Political Wins Prompt Product-Market Peers to Appoint Politicians to Their Boards. Management Science. [PDF] [Journal Page]

Difference in differences

• Zhiyan Wu, Garry Bruton, and Ryan Krause. 2025. Activism Risk and Corporate Self-Regulation: Investigating How Anti-SLAPP Laws Impact Firms’ Institutional Corporate Social Performance. Strategic Management Journal. Forthcoming. [PDF] [Journal Page]

Instrumental variables

• Zhiyan Wu and Lucia Naldi. 2025. Developing the Workforce: Exploring the Impact of Female Directors on Male-Led Ventures. Journal of Business Venturing, 40(5): 106504. Lead Article. [PDF] [Journal Page]

• Zhiyan Wu and Wenjiao Cao. 2025. Competitive Dynamics in the Political Marketplace: How Donor Firms’ Political Wins Prompt Product-Market Peers to Appoint Politicians to Their Boards. Management Science. [PDF] [Journal Page]

• Zhiyan Wu and Lucia Naldi. 2025. Developing the Workforce: Exploring the Impact of Female Directors on Male-Led Ventures. Journal of Business Venturing, 40(5): 106504. Lead Article. [PDF] [Journal Page]

• Zhiyan Wu, Lucia Naldi, Karl Wennberg, and Timur Uman. 2024. Learning from Their Daughters: Family Exposure to Gender Disparity and Female Representation in Male-Led Ventures. Management Science, 70(2): 671-693. Lead Article. [PDF] [Journal Page]

• Will Mitchell, Zhiyan Wu, Garry Bruton, and Dhruba Gautam. 2022. Microlevel Analysis of Institutional Intermediation in a Rudimentary Market-Based Economy: Entrepreneurship in Kathmandu’s Indrachok Market. Organization Science, 33(6):2106-2134. [PDF] [Journal Page]