Stephen X. Zhang

Research

Featured papers in top entrepreneurship and management journals.

  1. Zhang, S. X., & Ertug, G. (2025). Organization research as an applied science: Lessons from fields that shape practice and policy. Organization Science.
  2. Zhang, Z., Mount, M., & Zhang, S. X. (2025). A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–2022. Strategic Management Journal.
  3. Adomako, S., Zhang, S. X., & Medase, K. (2024). How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation. Research Policy.
  4. Tang, J., Ye, W., Hu, M., Zhang, S. X., & Khan, S. (2024). The gendered effect of populism on innovation. Journal of Business Venturing.
  5. Wang, W., Eddleston, K., Zhang, S. X., Chirico, F., Liang, Q., & Deng, W. (2023). Family diversity and business start-up: Do family meals feed the fire of entrepreneurship? Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
  6. Wan, X., Zhang, S. X., & Wei, F. (2022). CEO–TMT congruence in growth-need strength and firm growth. Journal of Management Studies.
  7. Chin, M. K., Zhang, S. X., Afshar-Jahanshahi, A., & Nadkarni, S. (2021). The effect of two dimensions of CEO political ideology on corporate entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Journal, 64(4), 1213–1235.
  8. Tang, S., Nadkarni, S., Wei, L.-Q., & Zhang, S. X. (2020). Balancing the yin and yang: TMT gender diversity, psychological safety, and firm strategic orientation in Chinese high-tech SMEs. Academy of Management Journal.
  9. Zhang, S. X., Gao, R., Odeh, N., & Leatherbee, M. (2020). A micro-foundational model of real options reasoning: The roles of individual search propensity and perceived uncertainty. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
  10. Schmitt, A., Rosing, K., Zhang, S. X., & Leatherbee, M. (2018). Facing the challenge of uncertainty: The role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy for exploration and business opportunity identification under perceived uncertainty. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(6), 835–859.
  11. Zhang, S. X., & Cueto, J. (2017). The study of bias in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(3), 419–454.
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