TIME/DATE：2025.6.19  10:00-11:30

CLASSROOM：A505

ABSTRACT：

This study sheds light on how publicly listed firms in China might use earnings conferences for the purpose of anticipatory impression management (AIM) to proactively build a positive image before the disclosure of negative events. Study the specific event timeline—after committing financial misconduct but prior to regulators’ misconduct announcement—we predict that firms aim to use earnings conferences as an AIM tactic. Besides, the number of earnings conferences will increase with the severity of the misconduct. Moreover, considering the significant impact of qualitative information delivered through earnings conference on investor perceptions, we highlight the casting (i.e., the attendance of independent directors) of such AIM conference, which hinges on the independent directors’ AIM value for the focal firm and their monitoring capabilities in detecting financial misconduct. Lastly, we also posit that AIM conferences will positively influence investors’ perceptions, thus buffering market reactions to misconduct announcements. Based on data from all Chinese-listed firms that committed financial misconduct from 2016 to 2020, we identified 122 AIM conferences, providing strong evidence to support our hypotheses.

GUEST BIO：

Helen Hu is Professor of Strategic Management in the Department of Management and Marketing, the University of Melbourne. She is the Director of the Centre for Asian Business and Economics. Helen’s research interests are corporate governance with focuses on board of directors, ownership structure, CSR, strategic leadership, and internationalization of Asian firms. Her research has been published in top-tier management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Strategic Management Journal. Internationally, her work has been nominated and awarded at leading conferences including the Academy of Management (AOM), Asia Academy of Management (AAOM), Academy of International Business (AIB), Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA), and Strategic Management Society (SMS). In addition, her publications have been awarded by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China) and the Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

TIME/DATE：2024.6.24  10:00

CLASSROOM：A403

ABSTRACT：

We study how gender role expectations from social stakeholders differently shape female and male politicians’ receptivity to corporate campaign donations. We argue that due to social expectations of gender role congruence, female politicians are subject to increased social and moral scrutiny during elections. Given the negative public perception of corporate political donations, female politicians are more concerned about voter backlash than their male counterparts when accepting large political donations, thus accepting fewer corporate donations. We posit that this gender gap is intensified by the greater political resources of female politicians from their political family backgrounds but alleviated by the social reputations of potential corporate donors. Our study provides insights into the complex interplay between gender, business, politics, and society.

GUEST BIO：

Danqing Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST, she taught at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) for five years. She earned her Ph.D. in Management from INSEAD, France. Danqing’s research focuses on gender, diversity, state-firm interactions, and firms’ non-market strategies in emerging economies. Her work has been published in prestigious journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, and Journal of Business Ethics. Currently, she serves as the Senior Editor for Management and Organization Review and is on the editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Global Strategy Journal. In 2024, she received the Organization Science Outstanding Reviewer Award. Danqing was honored with the WAIB Emerging Woman Scholar Award in 2018. Additionally, she received the Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award in 2018 from HKU and has been included in the Dean’s List for teaching excellence multiple times at HKUST.

题目: A Social Influence View of the Internationalization of Cultural Product

演讲人: Dr Xinli Huang, The University of Sheffield

时间：2025年6月19日 15:30

地点：同济大厦A楼505教室

演讲摘要：

A thriving international cultural industry fuels the expansion of the global creative economy. Yet, what drives the international diffusion and performance of cultural products? This study adopts a social influence perspective to examine the international performance of film exports, addressing a critical gap in existing research that often isolates social influences without considering their (in)congruence. Given the subjective nature of cultural products and their vulnerability to multiple influences across global value chains, we theorize and empirically test the effects of congruence and incongruence between supply-side and demand-side social influences on films’ international performance. Analyzing 1,676 U.S. films released between 2009 and 2018, our findings reveal that congruence between supply-side and demand-side social influences significantly enhances a film’s appeal, credibility, and international success. Moreover, this effect is amplified by two key moderators across global value chains, namely, upstream home-country adoption of social media promotion and downstream host-country press freedom. This study contributes to the understanding of the social influence view within global value chains by highlighting the importance of supply-demand congruence and the contextual factors that shape their effectiveness in driving the international performance of cultural products.

演讲嘉宾简介：

黄欣丽博士，助理教授，目前任职于英国谢菲尔德大学（The University of Sheffield）战略企业管理与国际商务系。此前，她在维也纳经济管理大学（Vienna University of Economics and Business, WU）任教。她于2021年在澳大利亚西澳大学（The University of Western Australia）获得管理学博士学位，并先后并先后在对外经济贸易大学（University of Business and Economics, UIBE）取得管理学硕士及学士学位。

黄欣丽博士的研究领域包括创意产业国际化，新兴市场国家企业扩张策略等。她获得了多项研究基金的支持。她的研究成果发表在多个知名学术期刊上，包括Journal of International Business Studies (UTD24, ABS:4*, ABDC:A*), Journal of Management (FT50, ABS:4*, ABDC:A*), Journal of World Business (ABS:4, ABDC:A*), Regional Studies (ABS:4, ABDC:A*), Public Administration Review (ABS:4*, ABDC:A), Management and Organization Review (ABS:3; ABDC: A), Journal of International Management (ABS: 3; ABDC:A) 等。她曾获得多项研究奖项，包括Academy of International Business (AIB) 和 Academy of Management (AOM) 的多项最佳论文提名。目前，她担任Chinese Management Studies副主编，同时为多家国际期刊提供匿名审稿服务。

题目: No Time or No Need to be Nice? Why’s and How’s of Workplace Mistreatment

演讲人: Professor Liu-Qin Yang, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA

时间：2025年6月18日 10:30-12:00

地点：同济大厦A楼505教室

演讲摘要：

In this talk, Dr. Yang will present her journey in studying the phenomenon of workplace mistreatment, as three parts. Part 1 of her journey is focused on consequences of workplace mistreatment, for targets, witnesses, perpetrators as well as for the broader team, organization, and communities. Part 2 of her journey is focused on precursors, buffers, and prevention of workplace mistreatment. Part 3 of her journey is focused on workplace mistreatment in the future of work.

演讲嘉宾简介：

Liu-Qin Yang杨六琴is a Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Portland State University (PSU). She is also a core faculty member of the Quantitative Psychology doctoral program at PSU. Dr. Yang is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). She is the Director of the NIOSH/CDC funded training program at PSU that is focused on training future experts in the areas of Occupational Health Psychology and Total Worker Health®. She is also the President of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP). She holds a Ph.D. in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology, with specializations in occupational health psychology and quantitative methodologies, from the University of South Florida. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in I-O psychology, a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Psychology, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature, all from Beijing Normal University. Dr. Yang specializes in issues of work stress, work motivation, and measurement, particularly workplace mistreatment, emotion dynamics, and their implications for the health/well-being/engagement of workers from various industries like healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and airlines. Her work has been published in various high-quality journals across multiple disciplines, such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, and Journal of International Business Studies. Her work has been funded by NIOSH/CDC, NIMH, NITC and the Chinese equivalent National Science Foundation. She serves on the editorial board for various respected journals, such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Journal of Business and Psychology.

题目: Superficial Strategic Decision Making: The Case of the Muskrat Falls Project

演讲人: Dr. Jianyun Tang, Memorial University of Newfoundland

时间：2025年06月16日 10:00

地点：同济大厦A楼505教室

演讲摘要：

How do strategic leaders cope with their often lack of related knowledge and expertise in making strategic decisions? I induced a midrange theory of superficial strategic decision making (SDM) based on a case study of the multi-year decision process of the Muskrat Falls Project, a hydroelectric megaproject in Canada that experienced significant cost overrun and schedule delay. Superficial SDM is manifested as confirmatory biases, uninformed or misinformed decisions, blind trust, and dismissive of critics, and has as its antecedents individual factors such as prejudice, lack of related experience, and poor judgment, and contextual factors such as intolerant culture, confirmatory context, and dominant power. While superficial SDM seems valuable for coping with strategic leaders’ lack of related knowledge and expertise, it also implies looming perils, in particular, compromised decision quality and leader effectiveness, especially in the long term. This study suggests that mitigating superficial SDM in particular and superficial leadership in general is crucial for effective leadership.

演讲嘉宾简介：

唐箭云博士（教授）目前任职于加拿大纽芬兰纪念大学（Memorial University of Newfoundland）商业管理系，担任战略管理学教授。他于加拿大西安大略大学毅伟商学院（Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario）获得管理学博士学位。唐箭云博士的研究领域包括北美和中国背景下的战略领导力和公司治理。他获得了多项研究基金的支持。他的研究成果发表在多个知名学术期刊上，包括Journal of Management Studies (FT50; ABS:4)，Long Range Planning (ABS:3)，European Management Journal (ABS:2)，Journal of World Business (ABS:4)，以及实践导向类期刊Organizational Dynamics等。

TIME/DATE：2025.6.12  14：00

CLASSROOM：A305

ABSTRACT：

Product reviews, a type of user-generated content (UGC), are found to affect sales; however, their impact on product returns has not been fully explored. Research has revealed that lofty descriptions and catchy images of products may increase returns, which spells trouble for retailers by increasing product returns. To address the issue, we explore how product contextualization in customer-posted images and review texts helps shoppers assess a product’s functionality and aesthetics and, in turn, reduce returns. Using the archival data from an outdoor gear and clothing retailer, we demonstrate that contextual cues in the reviews generally help reduce product returns. When comparing the role of images versus texts, we propose two mechanisms for shoppers’ utilization of contextual information in the UGC to evaluate functional features. The level of detail in writing suggests that contextual cues for these attributes (e.g., the warmth, flexibility, and water-resistance of a jacket) can be better conveyed through text instead of image because many of them can be measured on a scale (e.g., temperature), depicted in subtleties (e.g., running vs. jogging) and, occasionally, on a temporal dimension (e.g., a two-hour storm). As such, shoppers may prefer to use verbal descriptions to make purchases. Alternatively, the picture superiority effect suggests that processing visual information is much more efficient than processing text. Customers may sacrifice some level of detail by using images to assess the functionality. We examine the proposed explanations using experimental and survey studies. Although customers agree that contextual cues in texts are more accurate, detailed, and sufficient, they prefer to use the images to evaluate functional features. Regarding product aesthetics, since customers often adopt a sensory-based strategy to assess these attributes (e.g., color and design), images are likely to be a preferred choice. Our empirical findings support this conjecture. Yet, when a product’s aesthetics are tied to its geometric fit (e.g., the size of a tent), contextual cues in the text have a stronger effect on returns. We offer business insights about how to use UGC to better manage operating costs by reducing product returns.

GUEST BIO：

Dr. Yang Wang is an assistant professor of IT Management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Lubar College of Business. His research focus is on the intersection of management information systems and business analytics. One particular topic he aims to address is product uncertainty in online markets. By collaborating with an online retailer specializing in outdoor clothing and gear, he applies multi-method to answer questions about how user-generated content helps online shoppers reduce pre-purchase product uncertainty and, in turn, reduce product returns. Another topic his research covers is the social impact of online misinformation, e.g., untruthful reviews, fake news, etc. His studies employ various quantitative approaches, including econometric modeling, machine learning algorithms, controlled experiments, etc.

Dr. Wang has published research works in various journals, including Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Information Technology & People, Information Systems Frontier, etc. He has presented research projects at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), ISMS Marketing Science Conference, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), and Workshop on Information Systems and Technology (WITS).

TIME/DATE：2025.6.5  14：00

CLASSROOM：A505

ABSTRACT：

Why do some organizations rapidly gain strategic momentum in turbulent environments while others, despite similar resources or intent, stall? Strategic Affordance Theory (SAT) addresses this puzzle by reframing strategy as the harnessing of affordances—action-enabling environmental features that emerge from actor–environment interactions. Unlike resource-based views (RBV) focusing on internal assets, dynamic capabilities emphasizing reconfiguration, institutional theories centered on legitimacy, or Austrian economics prioritizing alertness, SAT uniquely explains how environments afford differential traction for strategic action before capabilities mature. SAT offers a novel lens for understanding strategic initiatives by predicting early traction and guiding strategic pivots to advance both theory and practice.

GUEST BIO：

Stephen X. Zhang is the Mannes Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baylor University. His research examines how entrepreneurs and executives impact their businesses under uncertainty. His work appears in top entrepreneurship journals (Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice; Journal of Business Venturing) and management journals (Academy of Management Journal; Strategic Management Journal). He has secured over US$1.5 million in basic research grants and US$4 million in applied research funding across multiple countries. Before entering academia, he worked in multiple industries and founded several startups.

TIME/DATE：2025.6.12  12:00-13:00

CLASSROOM：A505

TENCENT：159827620

PW：746282

LINK：https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/w2FiAhX6Y319

ABSTRACT：

Fragility of financial markets arises when market prices exhibit amplified reaction to underlying shocks, either fundamental or non-fundamental. The history of financial markets features many examples of such episodes, market-wide or asset-specific, which have generally been of great concern. Using a canonical framework of trading in financial markets, we provide an overview of forces generating fragility. These forces include learning by investors from the price as they make trading decisions, and various channels for strategic complementarities among investors that act against price-induced strategic substitutes. We analyze the informativeness and volatility of prices and how they are related to the fragility concept.

GUEST BIO：

Professor Liyan Yang is a Professor of Finance and Peter L. Mitchelson/SIT Investment Associates Foundation Chair in Investment Strategy at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (with a cross-appointment in the Department of Economics). In 2010, Professor Yang received his Ph.D. in economics at Cornell University. His research interests mainly focus on financial markets, financial institutions, behavioral finance, data economics, and digital economy. He has received the Bank of Canada Fellowship Award and the Bank of Canada Governor’s Award. He is serving as a co-editor at Journal of Financial Markets and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He is a current associate editor at Journal of Economic Theory and Management Science, and a former associate editor at Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He is a senior fellow of Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). He is a fellow of the Accounting and Economics Society, a fellow of Cornell FinTech Initiative, a fellow of Luohan Academy, and a fellow of UIUC Office for Futures and Options Research. Professor Yang’s research has been published in Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies, etc.

TIME/DATE：2025.6.23  10:00

CLASSROOM: A402

ABSTRACT 

Advances in technology have spurred the widespread use of personalization in marketing, with personalized promotions widely seen as enhancing customer value. However, name personalization—featuring recipients’ names in marketing messages—can lead to contradictory consequences. This research documents the negative effects of name personalization and explores how pairing it with sender personalization and content personalization can mitigate or reverse its impact on purchase behavior by increasing message credibility. The study also investigates how personalization effectiveness varies by customer relationship stages (new vs. repeat customer). Empirically, the authors conducted two field experiments on WeChat and four follow-up lab studies. The first field experiment shows that name personalization reduces coupon redemption and that sender personalization offsets this effect, with both effects more pronounced among new customers. The second field experiment replicates these findings and further reveals that content personalization effectively reverses the negative impact of name personalization for repeat customers. A subsequent lab experiment confirms these effects in a controlled setting, improving internal validity. Three additional lab experiments systematically test and confirm message credibility as the dominant mechanism underlying the effectiveness of different personalization strategies. This research provides actionable guidance for tailoring personalization strategies to different customer stages.

GUEST BIO

Dr. Beibei Dong is a Professor of Marketing and the George N. Beckwith ’32 Professor of Marketing at Lehigh University. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Marketing) from the University of Missouri. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she worked for over two years in a management consulting firm, providing services to the two largest telecommunications companies in China. Her research focuses on consumer engagement and co-creation in services marketing and digital marketing. More recently, she has explored emerging topics such as AI, digital advertising, and sharing economy. Her work has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Service Research, and Decision Sciences Journal, among others. Dr. Dong has received several awards for her research, including the AMA Services Marketing SIG “Best Services Article” Award (2014), “Best Services Article Finalist” Award (2017), and the Journal of Service Research “Best Reviewer Award” (2015). She is also the recipient of Lehigh University’s Carl R. and Ingeborg Beidleman Research Award (2024) and the Melone Award (2025). She currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Service Research and is a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Business Research.