ACADEMIC POSITION

Assistant professor, Business School, Soochow University, July 2021-August 2024

Tenure-track associate professor (untenured), Business for Science and Technology, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, September 2024-Present

EDUCATION

Visiting scholar, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, U.S., August 2023 - July 2024. (Advisor: Tony Tong)

Ph.D. in Management (Strategic Management), National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China, September 2016 - July 2021. (Advisor: Hao Ma)

B.A. in Management, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, September 2012 - July 2016

PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Han, X., Xie, X., & Ma, H. 2019. Review of Research on Business Exit: A Real Options Perspective. Foreign Economics and Management, 41(11): 114-135. (Chinese SSCI).

Han, X., & Ma, H. 2019. Research on Firm Death in Strategic Management: A Critical Review and a Prospective Agenda. Foreign Economics and Management, 41(6): 71-84. (Chinese SSCI).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Han, X., Cai, G., & Gu, Grace. 2023. Disintermediation Governance and Complementor Innovation: An Empirical Look and Amazon.com. Paper presented at AOM, SMS, POMS, and INFORMS Annual Conference.

Han, X., Chen, L & Tong, T. 2022. The Paradox of Relation-Specific Investment: Evidence from Customer-Supplier Relationships under Uncertainty Shocks. Paper presented at the Strategic Management Division at the AOM Annual Conference.

Han, X., Chen, L & Tong, T. 2021. Strategic Responses to Input Shocks: Organizational Determinants of Adjustment Cost (and Benefit). Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference.

Han, X., & Cai, G. 2021. Dynamic Coopetition Strategies: The Impacts of Ex-ante and Ex-post Heterogeneity. Paper presented at the Strategic Management Division at the AOM Annual Conference.

Han, X., & Cai, G. 2020. Co-opetition Strategies: Alliance Formation, Value Creation, and Value Capture. Paper presented to the Strategic Management Division at the AOM Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada (Converted to virtual meeting).

Han, X., & Cai, G. 2019. Dynamic Coopetition Strategies: Why and How to Cooperate with Competitors? Paper presented to the Strategic Management Division at the AOM Annual Conference in Boston, USA.

Han, X., Xie, X. & Xi, T. 2019. The Contingent Value of Political Connections: A Transaction Cost and Embeddedness Framework. Paper presented to the Strategic Management Division at the AOM Annual Conference in Boston, USA.

AWARDS

Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Best Paper Finalist, 2021

Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Best Paper, 2023

Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Best Paper Prize & Research Methods Paper Prize Nomination, 2023

Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Competitive Strategy IG Best Paper Finalist, 2023

Informs Annual Conference, E-Business Cluster's Best Paper Award Winner, 2023