Faculty Profile

EDUCATION

CURRENT POSITION(S) HELD

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Resource-Based Theory of the Firm and Employee Governance
• Strategic Human Capital
• Stakeholder Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Sustainability and Business Ethics
• Knowledge and Innovation

EDITORIAL SERVICES

• Area Editor. Journal of International Business Studies. July 2025 - present
• Co-Editor. Journal of Management Studies special issue on Property Rights Theory, forthcoming 2026 (with S. Alvarez, N. Foss, W. Hesterly, K. Liu, G. Markman, J. Reuer, and S. Fainshmidt).
• Invited Handling Editor, Academy of Management Review: 2020 - present
• Associate Editor, Academy of Management Review: 2017-2020
• Associate Editor, Academy of Management Journal: 2013 – 2016
• Consulting Editor, Management & Organization Review: Jan 2012 – Sept 2013
• Editorial Review Board, Strategic Management Journal: 2007- 2013
• Editorial Review Board, Journal of Business Research: 2007- 2010
• Editorial Review Board, Strategic Organization: Jan 2011 – July 2013
• Editorial Review Board, Management & Organization Review: Jan 2010 –Dec 2011

SELECTED OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Board Roles:

• Representative-at-Large, Board of Governors, Academy of Management, 2024 – present
• Director-at-Large, Board of Directors, Strategic Management Society, 2019-2022

Conference leadership & key roles:

• Co-organizer. SMS special conference Stakeholder governance: New implications for organizations and society. Hong Kong, June 28-30, 2026
• Co-organizer. SMS special conference Strategies for Sustainable Human Development. Washington DC., 2024
• Co-Organizer. BPS Mid-Career Consortium. Academy of Management 2023 and 2024
• Co-Director, Annual Doctoral Workshop, Strategic Management Society, Minneapolis, 2019
• Chair- Corporate Strategy IG, Strategic Management Society, Denver, 2015
• Program Chair - Corporate Strategy IG, Strategic Management Society, Madrid, 2014
• Associate Program Chair - Corporate Strategy IG, Strategic Management Society, Atlanta, 2013

Others:

• Panelist, BPS Junior Faculty Consortium, Academy of Management, Boston, 2023
• Panelist, PDW - Research Frontiers in Nonmarket Strategy Academy of Management, Boston, 2023
• Organizer. Strategic Management Society China Forum, Webinar on “SMS Journal Editors on Research Publication for Chinese Scholars”, October 2021
• Panelist. On-line panel on The Role of MNCs in Tackling Global Sustainability Challenges, Academy of Management. August 2021.
• Panelist. On-line panel on Firm-Specificity in Human Capital, Strategic Management Society, Strategic Human Capital IG, April 2021
• Panelist, Meeting the Editors session, BPS Junior Faculty Consortium, Academy of Management. Chicago, 2018
• Plenary Panel Presentation on Strategic Human Capital, Strategic Management Society, Milan, Italy, 2017
• Panelist, PDW - Research Frontiers in Nonmarket Strategy Academy of Management, Atlanta, 2017
• Panelist, BPS Junior Faculty Consortium, Academy of Management, Atlanta, 2017
• Track Chair – Strategic Human Capital and Human Resources, Strategic Management Society, Milan, Italy, 2017
• Chair of 2013 William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, Academy of Management, Orlando 2013
• Representative-at-Large - Corporate Strategy and Governance IG, Strategic Management Society 2011-2012
• Track Chair, Strategic Management Society Singapore Conference, June 2012.

AWARDS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Co-PI. Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 Grant, 2019–22 (MOE2018-T2-1-181). Project Title: How to Persuade the "Crowd" to Support Your Entrepreneurial Venture. Amount: SG$350,000
• Collaborator, SMU Societal Challenge Capacity Building Fund (Grant approval no.: SC-RCB-2018-004). Project title: Consumer-led Innovation in Networked
• Communities. 2019-19. Amount: SG$170,000
• Janice Bellace Professorship, 2018-
• Lee Kong Chian Professorship, 2016 -2018
• Academy of Management, Best Paper Proceedings, 2015 Vancouver
• SMU SKBI research fund 2013
• SMU Internal Research fund 2013, 2014
• HKUST RPC research award, 2007-2008.
• Academy of Management, Division Best Paper Award winner. SIM. 2005 Hawaii.
• Hong Kong RGC (Research Grant Council) research award, 2003 - 2004.
• Strategic Management Society Booz Allen Hamilton / SMS Fellow for Best Ph.D. Conference Paper, 2001.
• Ohio State University Graduate Student Alumni Research Award, 2001.
• Ohio State University Council of Graduate Students 15th annual Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, Finalist, 2001.

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Lee, N., Wang, H. Forthcoming. There’s more than meets the eye: Assessing the impact of immigrants on firm environmental performance. Journal of Management
• Gu, Q., Andrews, D.S., Wang, H., Chen V.Z. Forthcoming. Stakeholder management and resource complementarities: Firm performance amid systemic crises. Journal of Management Studies
• Li, Z., Gomulya, D., Wang, H. Forthcoming. Trading with the enemy: A coopetitive perspective of resource exchange at arm’s length. Strategic Management Journal
• Wu,  W., Wang, H., Tong, L., Zhang, Y. Forthcoming. Tailored adaptation: Aligning social issue engagement with types of legitimacy challenges. Strategic Management Journal
• Yu, Q., Cuypers, I., Wang, H. 2024 online. A tale of two signals: Partner CSR, CSiR and alliance formation. Academy of Management Journal. *Authors contributed equally.
• Yang , X., Wang, H., & Zhou, X. 2025. Geographic Distance and State's Grip: Information Asymmetry, State Inattention, and Firm Implementation of State Policy. Journal of Management, 51(2).
• Kim, C., Zang, Y., Wang, H., Niu, K. 2024. When Do Corporate Good Deeds Become a Burden? The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility Following Negative Events. Journal of Business Ethics, 192, 285–306.
• Sullivan, B.N., Mao, K. & Wang, H. 2023. Constrained by localized attention focus: The negative effect of firm-specific knowledge on exploratory firm innovation.  Management and Organization Review. 19 (6): 1104-1126.
• Xia, J., Jiang, Y., Wang, H., Li Y. 2023. Rule Violation and Time-to-enforcement in Weak Institutional Environments: A Good Faith Perspective. Journal of Management, 49(8), 2549-2594.
• Wan G., Wang, H., Geng X., and Huang, K. 2023. Natural Disasters and Corporate Philanthropy: A Double Movement Perspective. Management and Organization Review, 19(1): 98-137
• Wang H., Jia M., Xiang Y., Lan Y. 2022. Social Performance Feedback and Firm Communication Strategy. Journal of Management, 48 (8): 2382-242
• Zhou N., Wang H. 2020. Foreign Subsidiary CSR as a Buffer against Parent Firm Reputation Risk. Journal of International Business Studies. 51: 1256–1282.
• Wang H., Jia M., Zhang Z. 2021. Good Deeds Done in Silence: Stakeholder Management and Quiet Giving by Chinese Firms. Organization Science. 32(3): 527-908.
• Tong, L., Wang, H., Xia, J. 2020. Stakeholder Preservation or Appropriation? The Influence of Target CSR on Market Reactions to Acquisition Announcement. Academy of Management Journal. 63(5): 1535–1560.
• Zhang Y., Wang H., Zhou X. 2020. Dare to Be Different? Conformity vs. Differentiation in Corporate Social Activities of Chinese Firms and Market Responses. Academy of Management Journal. 63(3): 660–684.
• Lu, J., Liang, XJ., Wang, H. 2020. Geographic influences on the relationship between corporate philanthropy and corporate financial performance. Regional Studies. 54(5): 660-676.
• Wang, H., Zhao, S., & Chen, G. 2017. Firm-specific Knowledge Assets and Employment Arrangements: Evidence from CEO Compensation Design and CEO Dismissal. Strategic Management Journal 38: 1875–1894.
• Huang, K G., Geng, X, Wang, H. 2017. Institutional Regime Shift in Intellectual Property Rights and Patenting Strategies of Firms in China. Organization Science. 28(2):355-377.
• Qian, C., Wang, H., Geng, XS, Yang, X. 2017. Rent appropriation of knowledge assets and firm performance in weak institutions. Strategic Management Journal. 38(4):892-911.
• Wang, H., Zhao, S., & He, J. 2016. Exogenous increase in takeover protection and firm knowledge accumulation strategy. Strategic Management Journal. 37(12): 2393–2412.
• Cuypers, I., Koh, P.S., Wang, H. 2016. Sincerity in corporate philanthropy, stakeholder inferences and firm value. Organization Science. 27(1):173-188. Authorship in alphabetical order.
• Luo, X., Wang, H., & Raithel, S. 2015. Information bridge between corporate social performance and financial performance: The mediating role of stock analysts. Strategic Management Journal. 36(1): 123–136
• Koh, P. S., Qian, C. & Wang, H. 2014. The insurance value of corporate social performance: When do shareholders benefit from it? Strategic Management Journal. Authorship in alphabetical order. 35(10): 1464-1482.
• Wang, H., Choi, J., Wan, G, & Dong, J. 2013. Organizational slack and the rent-generating potential of firm-specific knowledge. Journal of Management. Published on line.
• Wang, H. & Choi, J. 2013, "A new look at the corporate social–financial performance relationship: The moderating roles of temporal and inter-domain consistency in corporate social performance", Journal of Management. 39(2): 416-441.
• Wang, H. & Wong, E. 2012. The effect of managerial escalation bias on employee incentives to make firm-specific human capital investments. Journal of Management Studies. 49 (8): 1435-1457.
• Wang, H. & Qian, C. 2011, "Corporate philanthropy and financial performance of Chinese firms: The roles of social expectations and political access", Academy of Management Journal, 54 (6): 1159-1181.
• Wang, H., & Chen, WR. 2010, "Firm-specificity in technological innovation and rent appropriation: The roles of environmental dynamism and technological diversity", Research Policy, 39(1): 141-154.
• He, J., & Wang, H. 2009, "Firm innovative knowledge assets and economic performance: The asymmetric roles of incentive- and monitoring-based governance mechanisms", Academy of Management Journal, 52(5): 919-938. Authorship in alphabetical order.
• Wang, H., He, J., & Mahoney, J. 2009, "Firm-specific knowledge resources and competitive advantage: The roles of economic- and relationship-based employee governance mechanisms", Strategic Management Journal, 30: 1265-1285.
• He, J., Mahoney, J. & Wang, H. 2009, "Firm capability, corporate governance, and firm competitive behavior: A multi-dimensional framework", International Journal of Strategic Change Management, 1: 293-318.
• Choi, J., & Wang, H. 2009, "Stakeholder relations and the persistence of corporate financial performance", Strategic Management Journal, 30: 895-907.
• Wang, H., & Li, JT. 2008, "Untangling the effects of over-exploration and over-exploitation on organizational performance: The moderating role of environmental dynamism", Journal of Management, 34: 925-951.
• Wang, H., & Lim, S. 2008, "Real options and real value: The role of employee incentives to make specific knowledge investments", Strategic Management Journal, 29: 701-721.
• Wang, H., Choi, J., & Li, JT. 2008, "Too little or too much? Untangling the relationship between corporate philanthropy and firm financial performance", Organization Science, 19(1): 143-159.
• Choi, J. & Wang, H. 2007, "The promise of a managerial values approach to corporate philanthropy", Journal of Business Ethics, 75: 345-359. Authorship in alphabetical order.
• Takeuchi, R., Lepak, DP, Wang, H., & Takeuchi, K. 2007, "An empirical examination of the mechanisms mediating between high performance work systems and the performance of Japanese organizations", Journal of Applied Psychology, 92: 1069-1083.
• Lim. S., & Wang, H. 2007, "The effect of financial hedging on the incentives for corporate diversification: The role of stakeholder firm-specific investments", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 62(4): 640-656. Authorship in alphabetical order.
• Wang, H., & Barney, JB. 2006, "Employee incentives to make firm specific investment: Implications for resource-based theories of corporate diversification", Academy of Management Review, 31 (2): 466-476.
• Wang, H., Barney, JB. & Reuer, J. 2003, "Stimulating firm-specific investment through risk management", Long Range Planning, 36(1): 49-59.

EDITORIALS

• Amis, J., Barney, J., Mahoney, J.T., Wang, H. 2020. From the editors: Why we need a theory of stakeholder governance – and why this is a hard problem.  Academy of Management Review. 45(3): 499-503.
• Wang H., Gibson G., Zander U. 2020. Editors’ comments: Is research on corporate social responsibility undertheorized? Academy of Management Review. 45(1): 1-6.
• Wang, H., Tong, L., Takeuchi, R., George, G. 2016. Corporate social responsibility: An overview and new research directions. Academy of Management Journal. 59(2): 1-11.

TEACHING CASES

• SMU-25-0010. Wang, H. Lau, C., Chan, CW. Ento Industries: Developing Sustainable Solutions for Food Waste Management Using Black Soldier Flies
• SMU-24-0009: Wang, H. Bhattacharya, L. Is Rice Climate's Next Petrol? Sustainability at Loc Troi Vietnam
• SMU-23-0022: Wang, H. Su, M., Lim, C. Food from the Heart’s Digital Transformation Journey: Change Strategy and Leadership
• SMU-23-0021: Wang, H., Lau, C., Bhattacharya L. Banyan Tree Group: Sustainability through Shared Value
• SMU-22-0026: Wang H., Bhattacharya L. Ant Group backed MYbank: People, Planet, Profit in Rural China
• SMU-20-0040: Wang H.; Mittal S. Hayman Microfinance: CSR in Myanmar
• SMU-19-0041: Wang H.; Mittal S.; Lai A. Bettr Barista: A Shot at Better Lives.
• SMU-19-0004A-C: Wang H; Cheah SM; He B; Zhang H. The Corporate Social Responsibility of TQLS Group in the Liangshan Prefecture (A), (B) & (C)

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