REFEREED PUBLICATIONS：

• Yang R, Wang X, Yu R, & Zhan C. 2025. International Involvement of Managed Ecosystems: A Quasi-experiment of Foreign User Traffic to E-commerce Platforms amid Geopolitical Conflicts. Journal of International Business Studies. DOI: 10.1057/s41267-025-00815-w (UTD24)
• Yang R, Shaheer N, Wang Y, & Li Z. 2025. The Internationalization of Digital Cultural Content Creators on Global Social Media: Navigating Virtual Outsidership in a Borderless Space. Journal of International Business Studies. DOI: 10.1057/s41267-025-00789-9 (UTD24)
• Mak V, Seale D, Gisches E, Yang R, Cheng M, Moon M, & Rapoport A. 2018. The Braess Paradox and Coordination Failure in Directed Networks with Mixed Externalities. Production and Operations Management, 27(4): 717-733. DOI: 10.1111/poms.12827 (UTD24)

RESEARCH FUND

• 市场共识结构对企业及技术市值表现的决定作用研究. 国家自然科学基金面上项目. 主持，2022-2025

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Yang R, Yu Q, Gong T, & Zhao Z. Open Letter and Open Source: How Ethical Advocacy Shapes AI Repository Forking on GitHub. Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2025. Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Wang X, Wang, J, Xia J, & Yang R. Courtship and Communication: CEO Twitter Post and Corporate Press Release in Predicting Acquisition Outcomes, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2023, Toronto.
• Yang, R. Audience Coherence and Learning in Social Construction of Market Value: Evidence from DeFi. Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2021. Virtual Conference.
• Yang, R. Managing Technological Coherence and Institutional Conformity in Acquisitions. Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2020. Virtual Conference.
• Yang, R. Identity Consistency as a Signal of Resource Autonomy. Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2020. Virtual Conference.
• Yang, R. & Haleblian, J. The Impact of Acquisition on Changing Alliance Network. Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2019. Boston, MA.
• Yang, R. Using Acquisitions to Achieve Optimal Distinctiveness. Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2019. Minneapolis, MN.
• Yang, R. Value Transfer in Technology Acquisitions: Signaling from Startups’ Common-investor Network. Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2018. Chicago, IL.
• Yang, R. & Zheng, C. Balancing the Tradeoff or Stuck in the Middle? the Distinction of the ‘Distinctiveness’. Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2018. Chicago, IL.
• Yang, R. Balance of Power in Social Defense as the Determinants of Venture Exit Route. Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2017. Houston, TX.
• Yang, R. Acquire to Balance: The Effect of Positional Imbalance on Acquisition Behavior. Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2017. Atlanta, GA.
• Yang, R. Cross-industry Competitive Dynamics and Incumbents’ Defensive Capabilities. Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2015. Denver, CO

• NSFC Grant (No. 72172105) 2021
• Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management (AOM) 2019
• Best PhD Paper Finalist, Strategic Management Society (SMS) 2019
• Best Paper Runner-up, Strategic Management Society (SMS, Corporate Strategy IG) 2019
• Dissertation Year Grant, University of California, Riverside 201
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award (UCR Office of Technology Partnerships) 2019
• AGSM Scholarship, School of Business, University of California, Riverside 2019
• Amnon Rapoport Endowed Ph.D. Research Award 2018
• Doctoral Fellowship, University of California, Riverside 2014 – 2019
• Dean’s Scholarship, University of San Diego 2011 – 2013
• Best Graduate Thesis, Capital University of Economics and Business 2010
• HRA Scholarship (by Association of Foreign and Chinese Enterprises) 2009
• Graduate Research Scholarship, Capital University of Economics and Business 2009