Research Highlights

Hou, F., Ng, J., Xu, X., & Zhang, J. J. (2025). Credit information sharing and firm innovation: Evidence from the establishment of public credit registries. Contemporary Accounting Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.13016
Jiang, H., Li, S. Z., & Yuan, P. (2025). Granular information and sectoral movements. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control171, Article 105018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2024.105018
Cao, H., Cheng, C. S. A., Li, X. F., & Zhang, J. J. (2025). Creditor rights, conflict of interest among creditors, and borrowers’ accounting conservatism: Evidence from anti-recharacterization laws. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148558x251317353
Chen, Z., Chen, T., Lin, Y., & Wang, J. (2025). Building tall, falling short: An empirical assessment of Chinese skyscrapers. Journal of Urban Economics145, Article 103731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2024.103731
Guo, J., Ng, J., Yeung, A. C. L., & Zhang, J. J. (2025). How does mandated sustainability disclosure about conflict minerals affect supply chain finance? Journal of Accounting and Public Policy49, Article 107275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2024.107275
Dong, F., & Zhou, F. (2025). Self-fulfilling business cycles with production networks. International Economic Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12752
Chen, S. (2025). International production networks and the propagation of financial shocks. Journal of International Economics153, Article 104039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.104039
Hou, F., Mengistu, M. M., Ng, J., & Zhang, J. J. (2024). Credit information sharing and investment efficiency: Cross-country evidence. Contemporary Accounting Research41(4), 2099-2133. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12972
Dou, H., Khoo, E. S., Tan, W., & Zhang, J. J. (2024). Superstition, risk aversion, and audit quality: Evidence from China. AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory43(4), 51–85. https://doi.org/10.2308/AJPT-2022-140
Liu, Y., Lu, H., & Veenstra, K. (2024). Beauty and accounting academic career. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance39(4), 1121-1138. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148558X221115115
Li, B., Liu, Z., Pittman, J., & Yang, S. (2024). Institutional dual holdings and expected crash risk: Evidence from mergers between lenders and equity holders. Contemporary Accounting Research41(3), 1819-1850. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12966
Liu, Z., & Zhang, N. (2024). The productivity effect of digital financial reporting. Review of Accounting Studies29(3), 2350-2390. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-022-09737-6
Liu, Q., Qiu, L. D., & Zhan, C. (2024). FDI inflows and export quality: Domestic competition and within-firm adjustment. Journal of Development Economics170, Article 103293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103293
Jiang, S., Hu, M., Jin, Y. J., Qiu, L., & Duan, Y. (2024). Impact of technical support and information provision on patient no-show behavior. Production and Operations Management34(1), 79-98. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10591478241276135
Liu, S., Su, L. N., Wu, F. H., & Zhu, X. K. (2024). Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight. Journal of International Business Studies55(9), 1128-1149. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00719-1
Ru, H., Yang, E., & Zou, K. (2024). Early-life experience and CEOs’ reactions to COVID-19. Journal of Accounting and Economics, Article 101734. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2024.101734
Zhan, C., Wang, H., & Hou, C. (2024). Does belt and road initiative attract cross-border M&As from other countries? The World Economy47(5), 1916-1942. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13489
Wang, L. (2024). Partisan conflict and corporate credit spreads: The role of political connection. Journal of Corporate Finance84, Article 102526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2023.102526
Ju, J., Ma, H., Wang, Z., & Zhu, X. (2024). Trade wars and industrial policy competitions: Understanding the US-China economic conflicts. Journal of Monetary Economics141, 42-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2023.10.012
Jing, J., Leung, K., Ng, J., & Zhang, J. J. (2024). Fixing the core, earnings management, and sustainable emergence from financial distress: Evidence from China’s special treatment system. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance39(1), 107-132. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148558X211051169
Huang, Y., Lin, C., Liu, S., & Tang, H. (2023). Trade networks and firm value: Evidence from the U.S.-China trade war. Journal of International Economics145, Article 103811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2023.103811
Geng, H. G., Huang, Y., Lin, C., & Liu, S. (2022). Minimum wage and corporate investment: Evidence from manufacturing firms in China. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis57(1), 94-126. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109021000053
Hribar, P., Mergenthaler, R., Roeschley, A., Young, S., & Zhao, C. X. (2022). Do managers issue more voluntary disclosure when GAAP limits their reporting discretion in financial statements? Journal of Accounting Research60(1), 299-351. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-679X.12401
Xu, Z., Zhou, F., & Zhou, J. (2022). Sentiments and real business cycles. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control141, Article 104399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104399
Jung, B., Kang, T., Lee, W. J., & Zhou, G. (2022). Pro-labor institutions and corporate employment efficiency. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance37(3), 547-561. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148558X20929859
Lei, Z., Yin, D., & Zhang, H. (2025). Deliberative or automatic: Disentangling the dual processes behind the persuasive power of online word-of-mouth. MIS Quarterly, 49(1), 331-346. https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2025/14901
Jiang, D. L., Ye, S., Zhao, L., & Gu, B. (2025). Do reductions in search costs for partial information on online platforms lead to better consumer decisions? Evidence of cognitive miser behavior from a natural experiment. Information Systems Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2022.0432
Lumineau, F., Wang, W., & Schilke, O. (2025). Reframing blockchain’s promise: A commentary on Gregory, Beck, Henfridsson, and Yaraghi’s “Cooperation among strangers”. Academy of Management Review, 1-3. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2024.0375
Ganco, M., Liu, J., Wang, H., & Yamaguchi, S. (2024). Strategic restraint: When do human-capital-intensive companies choose (not) to use noncompete agreements? Strategic Management Journal, 45(13), 2696-2726. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3648
Do, T. K., & Chan, K. W. (2024). Being alone or together: How frontline anthropomorphized robots affect solo (vs. Joint) service consumption. Journal of Service Research, 27(4), 579-599. https://doi.org/10.1177/10946705231218405
Li, Y.-J., Cheung, C. M. K., Shen, X.-L., & Lee, M. K. O. (2024). Doxing on social networking sites: An extension of the social cognitive theory of moral thought and action. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 25(6), 1466-1499. Article 8. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00898
Hernandez, E., Lee, J. K., & Shaver, J. M. (2024). Toward an improved causal test of network effects: Does alliance network position enhance firm innovation? Strategic Management Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3679
Chen, L., Hsieh, J. J. P.-A., & Chan, W. K. (2024). Techno-service-profit chain: The impacts of IoT-enabled algorithmic customer service systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. MIS Quarterly, 48(3), 1077-1120. https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2023/16664
Pan, J., Hmieleski, K. M., Ma, B., Lysova, E. I., Tang, Z., & Huang, X. (2024). The power of calling: how founder CEOs drive ambidexterity and innovation in firms. Journal of Management Studies, 1-40. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13144
Zeng, J., Fang, Y., Li, H., Wang, Y., & Lim, K. H. (2024). Untangling the performance impact of e-marketplace sellers’ deployment of platform-based functions: A configurational perspective. Information Systems Research, 1-21. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2020.0539
Huang, L. L., Chen, R. P., & Chan, K. W. (2024). Pairing up with anthropomorphized artificial agents: Leveraging employee creativity in service encounters. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science52(4), 955–975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01017-w
Chen, Y., Benitez, J., & Cheung, C. M. K. (2024). Understanding the dynamic and episodic nature of technostressors and their effects on cyberdeviance: A daily field investigation. Information Systems Research, 1-21. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2020.0273
Liu, H., Liu, Y., Chiang, J. T. J., Wang, S., & Wang, H. (2024). When self-love is threatened: Adopting a dual-type view to understand leader narcissism and its impacts on LMX and newcomer work outcomes. Personnel Psychology77(2), 411-439. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12555
Ng, T. W. H., Yim, F. H. K., Chen, H., & Zou, Y. (2024). Employer-sponsored career development practices and employee performance and turnover: A meta-analysis. Journal of Management50(2), 685-721. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063221125143
Jia, H., Huang, Y., Zhang, Q., Shi, Z., & Zhang, K. (2024). Final price neglect in multi-product promotions: How non-integrated price reductions promote higher-priced products. Journal of Consumer Research50(6), 1097–1116. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucad045
Huang, L., Paterson, T. A., & Wang, S. (2024). Identity-consistent self-image maintenance following leader abuse: integrating self-presentation and self-concept orientation perspectives. Journal of Management50(4), 1361-1392. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063221132794
Cheung, C. M. K., Risius, M., & Fang, Y. (2024). Pursuing social justice through doxing on social media: Implications of the 2019 Hong Kong protests. MIS Quarterly, 48(4). https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2024/19277 
Gu, F. F., Leung, F. F., Wang, D. T., & Tang, Y. (2024). Navigating the double-edged sword: Executive hubris and its impact on customer acquisition and retention. International Journal of Research in Marketing41(2), 362-382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijresmar.2023.12.002
Li, S. X., Kim, S., Chan, W. K., & McGill, A. L. (2023). Detrimental effects of anthropomorphism on the perceived physical safety of artificial agents in dangerous situations. Paper presented at La Londe Conference 2023, Porquerolles Island, Francehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijresmar.2023.07.002
Yao, F. K., Yang, J. Y., Chang, S., & Lu, J. W. (2023). Not all threats are equal: symbolic and realistic threats and the deployment of parent-country nationals. Journal of International Business Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00654-7
Tang, Q., Zhang, K., & Huang, X. I. (2022). Indulgent consumption signals interpersonal warmth. Journal of Marketing Research59(6), 1179-1196. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222437221097089
Wei, L. (2022). Workplace ostracism: Its nature, antecedents, and consequences. Personnel Psychology75(3), 769-771. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12531
Yao, F. K., Jiang, K., Combs, D. R., & Chang, S. (2022). Informal institutions and absorptive capacity: A cross-country meta-analytic study. Journal of International Business Studies53(6), 1091–1109. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-020-00361-7
Li, D., Wei, L., Cao, Q., & Chen, D. (2022). Informal institutions, entrepreneurs’ political participation, and venture internationalization. Journal of International Business Studies53(6), 1062–1090. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-021-00402-9
Tang, Y., Lam, C. K., Ouyang, K., Huang, X., & Tse, H. H. M. (2022). Comparisons draw us close: The influence of leader-member exchange dyadic comparison on coworker exchange. Personnel Psychology75(1), 215-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12465
Dust, S. B., Liu, H., Wang, S., & Reina, C. S. (2022). The effect of mindfulness and job demands on motivation and performance trajectories across the workweek: An entrainment theory perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology107(2), 221-239. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000887
Gong, X., Cheung, C. M. K., Liu, S., Zhang, K. Z. K., & Lee, M. K. O. (2022). Battles of mobile payment networks: The impacts of network structures, technology complementarities and institutional mechanisms on consumer loyalty. Information Systems Journal32(4), 696-728. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12366
Li, Y. J., Cheung, C. M. K., Shen, X. L., & Lee, M. K. O. (2022). When socialization goes wrong: Understanding the we-intention to participate in collective trolling in virtual communities. Journal of the Association for Information Systems23(3), 678-706. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00737
Zhao, H. H., Deng, H., Chen, R. P., Parker, S. K., & Zhang, W. (2022). Fast or slow: How temporal work design shapes experienced passage of time and job performance. Academy of Management Journal65(6), 2014–2033. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.1110