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Digital platform capability and innovation ambidexterity: The mediating role of strategic flexibility (2024)
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Li, Y., Chen, Y., Wang, J., Zhou, Y., & Wang, C. (2025). Digital platform capability and innovation ambidexterity: The mediating role of strategic flexibility. Journal of Business Research, 186, Article 114971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114971

Despite growing research recognising the role of digital capability in enabling innovation strategy and outcomes, we know little about how firms can effectively adapt to shifts in innovation paradigms caused by digitalisation by leveraging digital pl... Read More about Digital platform capability and innovation ambidexterity: The mediating role of strategic flexibility.

Doing right at home: Do hometown CEOs curb corporate misconduct? (2024)
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Chen, J., Hong, J., Zhong, W., Wang, C., & Liu, X. (2024). Doing right at home: Do hometown CEOs curb corporate misconduct?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 205, Article 123461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123461

While prior conceptualizations acknowledge that CEOs' psychological traits influence their decision making and organizational outcomes, it remains unclear whether and how hometown identity as an important character of CEOs affects corporate misconduc... Read More about Doing right at home: Do hometown CEOs curb corporate misconduct?.

Calculative trust, relational trust, and organizational performance: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach (2023)
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Bai, J., Xin, Z., Su, J., & Wang, C. (2024). Calculative trust, relational trust, and organizational performance: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach. Journal of Business Research, 172, Article 114435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114435

We draw on transaction cost economics and social exchange theory to explore how two different types of inter-organizational trust, namely, calculative trust and relational trust, affect organizational performance. Our meta-analysis of 60 empirical st... Read More about Calculative trust, relational trust, and organizational performance: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach.

TMT functional background heterogeneity and SMEs’ performance: The role of dynamic capabilities and business environment (2023)
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Lu, Q., Meng, X., Su, J., Au Kai Ming, A., Wu, Y., & Wang, C. (2023). TMT functional background heterogeneity and SMEs’ performance: The role of dynamic capabilities and business environment. Journal of Business Research, 160, Article 113807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113807

Drawing on the insights from the upper echelons theory (UET), we advance the understanding of how top management team (TMT) functional background heterogeneity (TMTFBH) influences the performance of technology-based small- and medium-sized enterprise... Read More about TMT functional background heterogeneity and SMEs’ performance: The role of dynamic capabilities and business environment.

Location choice of Chinese outward FDI – An ethnicity-based population ecology perspective (2022)
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Zhu, H., Cantwell, J., Jia, F., & Wang, C. (2023). Location choice of Chinese outward FDI – An ethnicity-based population ecology perspective. Journal of International Management, 29(1), Article 100983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2022.100983

Drawing on population ecology theory (PET) which conceptualizes an individual organization's survival as a result of organizational changes at the population level, we explain why multinational enterprises (MNEs) from emerging markets prefer to enter... Read More about Location choice of Chinese outward FDI – An ethnicity-based population ecology perspective.

Outward FDI and Innovation Performance of Chinese Firms: Why Can Home-Grown Political Ties Be A Liability? (2021)
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Wang, C., Piperopoulos, P., Chen, S., Ming, A. A. K., & Herbert, K. (2022). Outward FDI and Innovation Performance of Chinese Firms: Why Can Home-Grown Political Ties Be A Liability?. Journal of World Business, 57(3), Article 101306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101306

We explain how home-grown political ties of Chinese firms negatively influence the effect of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on the innovation performance of their parent firms. Our results show that these ties can turn into a liability in t... Read More about Outward FDI and Innovation Performance of Chinese Firms: Why Can Home-Grown Political Ties Be A Liability?.

Organizational Learning Under Institutional Complexity: Evidence from Township Clusters in China (2021)
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You, S., Zhou, A. J., Zhou, S. S., Jia, L., & Wang, C. (2021). Organizational Learning Under Institutional Complexity: Evidence from Township Clusters in China. Management and Organization Review, 17(4), 726-754. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2021.16

Drawing from conceptualizations of organizational learning and institutional complexity, we advance the understanding of how the coexistence of multiple institutional logics in a community influences firms’ learning. Viewing communities where firms a... Read More about Organizational Learning Under Institutional Complexity: Evidence from Township Clusters in China.

The Role of Government Affiliation in Explaining Firm Innovativeness and Profitability in Emerging Countries: Evidence from China (2019)
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Wang, C., Kafouros, M., Yi, J., Hong, J., & Ganotakis, P. (2020). The Role of Government Affiliation in Explaining Firm Innovativeness and Profitability in Emerging Countries: Evidence from China. Journal of World Business, 55(3), Article 101047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2019.101047

Drawing from institutional polycentrism, we advance understanding of how affiliation with different government levels influences innovativeness and profitability in emerging countries. Our framework suggests that as different government levels vary i... Read More about The Role of Government Affiliation in Explaining Firm Innovativeness and Profitability in Emerging Countries: Evidence from China.

Lean six sigma applied to process performance and improvement model for the development of electric scooter water-cooling green motor assembly (2019)
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Wang, C., Chen, K., & Tan, K. (2019). Lean six sigma applied to process performance and improvement model for the development of electric scooter water-cooling green motor assembly. Production Planning and Control, 30(5-6), 400-412. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2018.1501810

In response to the environmental issues triggered by global warming, worldwide companies gradually put the factor of carbon emission into the process of product life cycle, developing green technology or adopting cleaner production aimed at sustainab... Read More about Lean six sigma applied to process performance and improvement model for the development of electric scooter water-cooling green motor assembly.

Geographic dispersion and co-location in global R&D portfolios: consequences for firm performance (2018)
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Kafouros, M., Wang, C., Hong, J., Mavroudi, E., & Katsikeas, C. (2018). Geographic dispersion and co-location in global R&D portfolios: consequences for firm performance. Research Policy, 47(7), 1243-1255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.04.010

We examine how the ways in which firms geographically configure their global portfolios of R&D units influence the effectiveness of firms’ own R&D investments and of external technical knowledge in enhancing firm performance. Our analysis indicates t... Read More about Geographic dispersion and co-location in global R&D portfolios: consequences for firm performance.

Foreign and domestic collaboration, product innovation novelty, and firm growth (2017)
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Hsieh, W.-L., Ganotakis, P., Kafouros, M., & Wang, C. (2018). Foreign and domestic collaboration, product innovation novelty, and firm growth. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 35(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12435

Although prior research underscores the benefits of external collaboration for a firm's innovative output, little research has examined the role that collaboration plays across the different stages of the innovation process. Drawing from organization... Read More about Foreign and domestic collaboration, product innovation novelty, and firm growth.

Outward FDI, location choices and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises (2017)
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Piperopoulos, P., Wu, J., & Wang, C. (2018). Outward FDI, location choices and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises. Research Policy, 47(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2017.11.001

Although prior research conceptualizes how knowledge-seeking motivates the internationalization of emerging-market enterprises (EMEs), whether outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) indeed leads to enhanced innovation performance has received limit... Read More about Outward FDI, location choices and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises.

Subnational institutions and open innovation: evidence from China (2017)
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Sun, F., Hong, J., Ma, X., & Wang, C. (2017). Subnational institutions and open innovation: evidence from China. Management Decision, 55(9), https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-11-2016-0781

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how subnational institutions within a country explain the performance consequences of open innovation (OI) in emerging market enterprises (EMEs).
Design/methodology/approach: The paper conducts a regr... Read More about Subnational institutions and open innovation: evidence from China.

The role of state ownership and institutions in the innovation performance of emerging market enterprises: evidence from China (2017)
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Yi, J., Hong, J., Hsu, W. C., & Wang, C. (in press). The role of state ownership and institutions in the innovation performance of emerging market enterprises: evidence from China. Technovation, 62-63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2017.04.002

Although it has been suggested that institutional context influences a firm's innovation performance, the role of regulatory institutions has been underexplored. Extending previous research, this study investigates whether and how regulatory institut... Read More about The role of state ownership and institutions in the innovation performance of emerging market enterprises: evidence from China.

Internationalization and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises: The role of host-country institutional development (2015)
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Wu, J., Wang, C., Hong, J., Piperopoulos, P., & Zhuo, S. (2016). Internationalization and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises: The role of host-country institutional development. Journal of World Business, 51(2), 251-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.09.002

We examine how host-country institutional development influences innovation performance of internationalized emerging market enterprises (EMEs). Our panel-data analysis of Chinese EMEs shows that although host-country institutional development on ave... Read More about Internationalization and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises: The role of host-country institutional development.

Innovation and survival of exporters: A contingency perspective (2013)
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Deng, Z., Guo, H., Zhang, W., & Wang, C. (2014). Innovation and survival of exporters: A contingency perspective. International Business Review, 23(2), 396-406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2013.06.003

We challenge the traditional view that innovations always help exporters prosper in competitive international market, by developing and testing the premise that the relationship between innovation and export performance is contingent on some importan... Read More about Innovation and survival of exporters: A contingency perspective.