Education Qualifications

Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University, 2000 M.A., Sociology, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, 1993

Academic and Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, 2000 - 2008 Visiting Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 01/2005 - 06/2005 Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, 01/1995 - 12/1996

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

How do Corporate Governance Model Differences Affect Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies?, with Xiaowei Luo; Michael Sobczak, Journal of International Business Studies 40 (3):444-467, 2009 Institutional Logics or Agency Costs: The Influence of Corporate Governance Models on Business Group Restructuring in Emerging Economies, with Xiaowei Luo, Organization Science 19(5) : 766-784, 2008 Human Agents, Contexts, and Institutional Change: The Decline of Family in the Leadership of Business Groups, with Xiaowei Luo, Organization Science 19 (1): 124-142, 2008 Beyond Guanxi: Network Contingencies in Taiwanese Business Groups, Organization Studies 27(4): 461-489, 2006 When and How does Business Group Affiliation Promote Firm Innovation?: A Tale of Two Emerging Economies, with Sea-Jin Chang and Ishtiaq P. Mahmood, Organization Science, 17(5):637-656, 2006 Keeping It All in the Family: the Role of Particularistic Relationships in Business Group Performance during Institutional Transition, with Xiaowei Luo, Administrative Science Quarterly 50: 404-439, 2005 Institutional Transition and Cultural Inheritance: Network Ownership and Corporate Control of Business Groups in Taiwan, 1970s-1990s, International Sociology 19 (1):25-50, 2004 Managerial Structure of Business Groups in Taiwan: The Inner Circle System and its Social Organization, Developing Economies 41(1):37-64, 2003 Markets, Culture and Institutions: The Emergence of Large Business Groups in Taiwan, 1950s-1970s, Journal of Management Studies 38(5):719-745, 2001

Conference Papers

Enter or Exit: An Institutional Perspective on Corporate Restructuring of Business Groups in Emerging Economies, with Xiaowei Luo, AOM Best Paper Proceedings, 2007 A Contingency Theory of Political Connections: Business Group Diversification In Emerging Economies, with Ishtiaq P. Mahmood, and Will Mitchell, AOM Best Paper Proceedings, 2006 Antecedents and Outcome of Diversification-Control Alignment: Top 100 Business Groups in Taiwan, with Feng Mi, AOM Best Paper Proceedings, 2005 The Janus Face of Intra-Firm Ties: Group-Wide and Affiliate-Level Innovation by Multi-Business Firms In Taiwan, with Ishtiaq P. Mahmood, Will Mitchell, AOM Best Papaer Proceedings, 2005

Chapters In Books

Taiwanese Business Groups: Steady Growth in Institutional Transition, with Ishtiaq P. Mahmood, pp. 70-93 in Business Groups in East Asia: Financial Crisis, Restructuring, and New Growth, edited by Sea-Jin Chang, Oxford University Press, 2006

Membership And Professional Activities

Editorial Board Member of Strategic Management Journal Member of Academy of Management

Research Interests

Family, Political Ties, and Business Groups Organization Theory, Networks and Organizations Strategies and Structures of Firms in Emerging Economies

Courses

BMA5004  Management & Organization BMC5008  Cross-cultural Human Resource Management BMO6002  Seminar in Organization Theory MNO1001  Managemenet & Organization MNO3303  Organizational Effectiveness