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  1. From data to resilience in emerging markets: how platform ecosystems reconfigure retail

    Article • International Journal of Emerging Markets, May 2026, Emerald

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  2. Knowledge dependence in global value chains

    Article • Research Policy, March 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  3. When Venture Capitalists Clash: Exploring the Impact of Ownership and Status Mismatch on New Venture Growth

    Article • SAGE Open, January 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  4. From risk-taking to innovation: Managerial and policy insights on risk management in dual-purpose ventures

    Article • Journal of the International Council for Small Business, August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  5. Financial/Social Trade‐Offs in Dual‐Purpose Companies

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  6. Unleashing corporate entrepreneurship in privatization

    Article • April 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  7. Problemistic search for a better world: risk-taking of social ventures in alleviating poverty

    Article • Journal of Small Business Management, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  8. Divergent trajectories on frontier innovations: A comparison of international venture capital-invested ventures between China and the United States

    Article • Technovation, September 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  9. Innovations and Ambidextrous Transition: Mitigating Earnings Management and Firm Risk in China

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, January 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  10. Achieving harmony: Social identification in academic entrepreneurs’ role transition

    Article • Technovation, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  11. Leapfrogging and partial recapitulation as latecomer strategies

    Article • Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  12. Mission drift or mission fulfillment? Examining microfinance's financial and social performance with growth curve modeling and variance decomposition

    Article • Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, May 2023, Emerald

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  13. Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China

    Article • Journal of World Business, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  14. The Zone of Conformity: A Comparison of Private and State-Controlled Enterprises in M&As

    Article • Management International Review, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  15. Interfirm Transformative Capacity Within Global Value Chains

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, December 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  16. Knowledge Collaboration in Global Value Chains: A Comparison of Supplier Selection between a Forerunner and a Latecomer

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Management, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  17. invisaWear: Building Traction With Crowdfunding

    Article • Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, May 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  18. Understanding institutions and entrepreneurship: The microfoundations lens and emerging economies

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Management, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  19. Fostering Generative Partnerships in an Inclusive Business Model

    Article • Sustainability, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  20. The Glass Pyramid: Informal Gender Status Hierarchy on Boards

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  21. Few Women on Boards: What’s Identity Got to Do With It?

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  22. Openness to Experience and Team Creativity: Effects of Knowledge Sharing and Transformational Leadership

    Article • Creativity Research Journal, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sunny Li Sun, Dr Yuan Jiang

  23. Enriching innovation ecosystems: The role of government in a university science park

    Article • Global Transitions, January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun, Dr Yanli Zhang

  24. Leveraging Current Innovation for the Future: Understanding Generative Capability

    Article • IEEE Engineering Management Review, December 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  25. Future-Time Framing: The Effect of Language on Corporate Future Orientation

    Article • Organization Science, October 2018, INFORMS

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  26. Venture capital as an innovation ecosystem engineer in an emerging market

    Article • International Business Review, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  27. Search and execution: examining the entrepreneurial cognitions behind the lean startup model

    Article • Small Business Economics, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  28. Generative Capability

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  29. Barbarians at the Gate of the Middle Kingdom: The International Mobility of Financing Contract and Governance

    Article • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, December 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  30. Institutional fragility and outward foreign direct investment from China

    Article • Journal of International Business Studies, January 2017, Nature

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  31. Micro-Innovation Strategy: The Case of WeChat

    Article • Asian Case Research Journal, December 2016, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  32. The genesis of fabless business model: Institutional entrepreneurs in an adaptive ecosystem

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Management, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  33. A State-Stewardship View on Executive Compensation

    Article • August 2016, Emerald

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  34. The political determinants of executive compensation: Evidence from an emerging economy

    Article • Emerging Markets Review, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  35. Market-based reforms, synchronization and product innovation

    Article • Industrial Marketing Management, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  36. How Internet companies use the free business model to overpower competitors

    Article • The CASE Journal, April 2015, Emerald

    Dr Sunny Li Sun, Dr Yanli Zhang

  37. Institution-Based View

    Article • January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  38. Institutional open access at home and outward internationalization

    Article • Journal of World Business, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  39. Human Capital and CEO Compensation during Institutional Transitions

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  40. Profits and outreach to the poor

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Management, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  41. Cutting Microfinance Interest Rates: An Opportunity Co-Creation Perspective

    Article • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, August 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  42. An anatomy of state control in the globalization of state-owned enterprises

    Article • Journal of International Business Studies, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  43. Morphing: The Linkage of Inward Private Equity and Outward Ventures

    Article • Thunderbird International Business Review, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  44. Variance-enhancing corporate entrepreneurship under deregulation: An option portfolio approach

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Management, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  45. Board Openness During an Economic Crisis

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  46. Angel investors’ selection criteria: A comparative institutional perspective

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Management, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  47. Domestic alliance network to attract foreign partners: Evidence from international joint ventures in China

    Article • Journal of International Business Studies, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  48. Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  49. Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  50. Corporate governance and organizational survival under punctuational change

    Article • Nankai Business Review International, November 2013, Emerald

    Dr Sunny Li Sun, Dr Yanli Zhang

  51. Enhancing Innovation Through International Joint Venture Portfolios: From the Emerging Firm Perspective

    Article • Journal of International Marketing, September 2013, American Marketing Association (AMA)

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  52. The Challenges of Chinese Outward Investment in Developed Countries: The Case of CITIC Pacific's Sino Iron Project in Australia

    Article • Thunderbird International Business Review, April 2013, Wiley

    Dr Sunny Li Sun, Dr Yanli Zhang

  53. Social network contingency, symbolic management, and boundary stretching

    Article • Strategic Management Journal, March 2013, Wiley

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  54. Disruptive Innovation in Chinese and Indian Businesses

    Article • February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  55. State-Stewardship Theory and Executive Compensation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  56. Cutting Microfinance Interest Rate

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  57. Sub-National Institutional Contingencies, Network Positions, and IJV Partner Selection

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, July 2012, Wiley

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  58. Absorptive capacities and innovation in an emerging wind turbine industry

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  59. A comparative ownership advantage framework for cross-border M&As: The rise of Chinese and Indian MNEs

    Article • Journal of World Business, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  60. The social responsibility of international business scholars

    Article • Multinational Business Review, June 2011, Emerald

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  61. Learning and Recapitulation in Latecomer Innovation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  62. Moving upward in global value chains: the innovations of mobile phone developers in China

    Article • Chinese Management Studies, November 2010, Emerald

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  63. Executive compensation in Asia: A critical review and outlook

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Management, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  64. Behind M&As in China and the United States: Networks, learning, and institutions

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Management, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  65. Morphing: The Linkage Between Inward Private Equity and Outward Venture

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  66. How do networks and learning drive M&As? An institutional comparison between China and the United States

    Article • Strategic Management Journal, October 2009, Wiley

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  67. Internationalization Strategy of MNEs from Emerging Economies: The Case of Huawei

    Article • Multinational Business Review, June 2009, Emerald

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  68. The adolescence of Asia management research: APJM, 1997–2006

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Management, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sunny Li Sun

  69. Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization and Microfinance Institutions

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Dr Sunny Li Sun