Full-time Professor

Wen Zheng

Publish Time:2019-09-06

Wen Zheng

Assistant Professor



Research Area

Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship





Contact Information

zhengwen@shanghaitech.edu.cn



Biography

2006.9-2010.5    B.S. in Finance                      East China University   of Science and Technology 

2010.9-2012.5   M.S. in Economics                 Georgia Institute of   Technology

2012.9-2019.5   Ph.D.in Business Administration     University of Illinois at   Urbana-Champaign

2019.7-present  Assistant Professor in SEM          ShanghaiTech University

Research Interests

Technology and Innovation Management; Patent Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Venture Capital; International Business

Selected Publications

Working Papers

1.    Miller, D. J. and Zheng, W. The evolution of diversification in venture capital firm portfolios.

2.    Zheng, W. Optimal timing for entrepreneurs to seek venture capital investment?

3.    Zheng, W., Mahoney, J.T. and Yao, F. MNE headquarters’ international staffing decisions: using a real options len to join institutional theory and the resource-based approach on dynamic adjustment costs 

4.    Mahoney, J.T. and Zheng, W. Firms’ patent abandonment and subsequent inventions: knowledge spillover pool, absorptive capacity, open innovation and complementary patents.

5.    Zheng, W. The impact of firm’s patent abandonment on breadth and depth of subsequent cumulative inventions.

6.    Zheng, W. The focal firm’s patent abandonment and search for subsequent inventions: distant knowledge, new-to-firm inventors and technological search.