Research

I like to explore societal challenges. Currently, I'm studying digital transformation and platform strategies, governance mechanisms that explain an organization's socially or environmentally responsible behavior, as well as crisis management in the context of technological change, environmentalism, and poverty. My research achievements have been recognized by the W. P. Carey School of Business Dean’s Early-Career Research Award in 2025. I'm also an affiliated faculty of the Center for AI and Data Analytics (AIDA) for Business and Society.

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My doctoral thesis explores the cultural processes of stigmatization and destigmatization, through empirical projects on the decline of the medical profession and the rise of private business during China's market transition. I believe it is timely and important to study stigma, inequality, trust, and social justice in today's society. The dissertation has won the Grigor McClelland Award in 2022, which recognizes doctoral research that is "expansive and imaginative in that it covers significantly new terrain or counters existing thinking within management and organisational research."​