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Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- About
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- Email Address
- jie.wu@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- Business School
Biography
Professor Jie Wu (Ph.D.) is a Chair Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Aberdeen in the UK. He has published extensively in prestigious academic journals, among which over ten have been published in Financial Times Top 50 Journals and UTD Top 24 journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Human Resource Management, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, etc. His current research interests include digital inclusiveness, female entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence and renewable energies, innovation and internationalisation, culture and institutions, among others. His comprehensive study is highly acknowledged in elite business magazines such as Harvard Business Review and Forbes.
Professor Wu is serving as Area Editor of Technovation, Associate Editor of Asian Business & Management, and Regional Editor of Asia Pacific Business Review.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Professor Wu is the Co-Director of the Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability Research, launched in 2021.
- External Memberships
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He held the position of a visiting scholar at prestigious institutions such as Stanford University (under the guidance of Professor James G. March), Columbia University Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, among others. He has instructed at several universities, such as University of Leeds, National University of Singapore, University of Auckland, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, University of Macau, and others.
Prizes and Awards
Professor Wu has been continuously one of the world's top 1% of scientists (ranked #345 out of 52318 in 2022-2023; #538 out of 53336 in 2021-2022) ranked by the experts at Stanford University to identify all scientists who are among the top ones across all fields from 149 countries. This rank is recognized worldwide as a major factor contributing to determining the international stature of an academic. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/16487/#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20111%20University%20of%20Aberdeen%20faculty%20members,work%20primarily%20in%20the%20area%20of%20International%20Business
- Research
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Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Management.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Management
Accepting PhDsResearch Specialisms
- International Business
- Gender Studies
- Strategic Management
- Cultural Studies
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Collaborations
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue Technovation
Digital Technologies and Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
This special issue (SI) explores how digital technologies can be better utilized to enhance crowdfunding for entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Entrepreneurial funding in the early stages poses challenges, but the appeal of distributed online financing for new ventures is increasing due to accelerated innovation and market adoption rates. While online social networking initially emerged as a consumer-focused service, entrepreneurs are now leveraging both formal and informal networks to gather capital. Crowdfunding, a type of venture funding obtained through crowdsourcing, has become a rapidly growing online ecosystem. Resource-constrained entrepreneurs are turning to crowdfunding as an innovative way to manage capital by pre-emptively securing funds for production and sales (Frydrych, et al., 2014; Harrison 2013). Rather than pitching to professional investors, entrepreneurs target "amateurs" or consumers with shared interests to pre-finance their services or products. Crowdfunding helps mitigate the risk of underfunding a project for both entrepreneurs and investors since investments are only executed when the minimum funding threshold is met.
In emerging or developing countries with limited access to digital technologies, offline crowdfunding activities still hold significance. These activities include community-based crowdfunding, offline crowdfunding events, local business sponsorships, traditional savings and lending circles, and print media/flyers. However, in recent times, crowdfunding platforms have attracted funding from a wider range of investors to allow entrepreneurs to showcase their ideas and projects to a large audience.
This SI will provide a more solid understanding of the potential to improve funding availability for entrepreneurs. This is likely to democratize access to funding in emerging markets, and open opportunities globally. Thus, it is important to examine the role of digital technologies in supporting crowdfunding in emerging markets’ entrepreneurial ventures.
Timeline:
- Submissions start: April 1, 2024
- Submission deadline: June 30, 2024
- Expected date of publication online by the end of Spring 2026
Detail:https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/technovation/about/call-for-papers
Supervision
Professor Wu would be interested in supervising potential PhD students in these areas:
- Gender inequality and social identities
- Culture and insititutions
- Innovation and internationalization of emerging multinational enterprises
- Top management team/board of director diversity and faultline's strategic influences
- Institutional complexity and Political/business connections
- Imitation, innovation and entrepreneurship
- Dynamic capabilities in managing international alliances
- Emerging economies firms' CSR and sustainability practices
- Internationalisation of SMEs and family firms
- Teaching
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Courses
Teaching Responsibilities
60+ MBA (Aberdeen campus)
Course coordinator
EMBA Shanghai – short course
EMBA London - guest lecture
EMBA Shanghai
7 Courses moderator
All levels student supervision
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- Publications
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Institutional Forces and Knowledge Search Strategies as Predictors of Entrepreneurial Venture Performance
Journal of Small Business Management, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 2160-2188Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBuddhist entrepreneurs, charitable behaviors, and social entrepreneurship: Evidence from China
Small Business Economics, vol. 59, pp. 1197–1217Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPrevious military experience and entrepreneurship toward poverty reduction: evidence from China
Management Decision, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 1969-1989Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Role of FDI Motives in the Link between Institutional Distance and Subsidiary Ownership Choice by Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises
British Journal of Management, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1371-1394Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEntrepreneurship Knowledge: When East meets West
Asian Business and Management, vol. 21, pp. 317–342Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://rdcu.be/cPFtN
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41291-022-00187-1
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/19217/1/Wu_etal_ABM_Entrepreneurship_Knowledge_When_AAM.pdf
- [ONLINE] SSRN
Female entrepreneurship in Asia: a critical review and future directions
Asian Business & Management, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 343-372Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCorporate Foresight: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research trajectories
Journal of Business Research, vol. 144, pp. 289-311Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Performance Impact of Gender Diversity in the Top Management Team and Board of Directors: A Multiteam Systems Approach
Human Resource Management, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 157-180Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22086
National culture and international business: A path forward
Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 53, pp. 516-533Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-020-00365-3
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Reducing poverty through the shared economy: creating inclusive entrepreneurship around institutional voids in China
Asian Business and Management, vol. 21, pp. 155-183Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41291-020-00113-3
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus