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Management

Information voids and cross-border bandwagons of foreign direct investment into an emerging  economy
Prof. Jane Lu Wen-zhen
Information voids and cross-border bandwagons of foreign direct investment into an emerging economy

Strategic Management Journal, May 2023 (Online)

Exploring cross-border FDI bandwagons, this study finds cohesion-based mechanisms gain prominence in information voids, impacting global investors' entries into emerging economies.

Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises
Prof. Stan X. Li
Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises

Strategic Management Journal, 2023

Examining crisis impact on structural holes and performance reveals that exclusive structural holes beneficial during crises, informing managerial strategies for firms operating as brokers amid turmoil.

Robust Contract Designs: Linear Contracts and Moral Hazard
Dr. YU Yimin
Robust Contract Designs: Linear Contracts and Moral Hazard

Operations Research, September 2020

Performance-based contracts are increasingly widespread, but how to design effective contracts? We take a look at incentive contracts under model uncertainty.

A multilevel contingency model of employee ownership and firm productivity
Dr. Kyoung Yong Kim
A multilevel contingency model of employee ownership and firm productivity

Organization Science, December 2020

Employee stock ownership supposedly empowers employees and improves organizational financial performance. But how effective is this model across a range of different industries? 

Diversity, Religion and Market Emergence
Dr. Shipeng Yan
Diversity, Religion and Market Emergence

Organization Science, May 2020

Does religion foster entrepreneurship or constrain it? We take a look at the impact of Islamic investment funds 

Why Do Banks Favour Employee-Friendly Firms?
Dr. Zheng Wang
Why Do Banks Favour Employee-Friendly Firms?

Organization Science, April 2020

It pays to be good! Firms treating their employees favourably are charged lower interest rates by their creditors