2021 – present, Assistant Professor at School of Economics and Management, Tongji University

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS：

• 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
• Yang R, & Haleblian J. 2019. Acquisition's Impact on Alliance Network and Market's Revaluations on Alliance Partners. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. 2019(1):15836. DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2019.136.
• Mak, V., Seale, D. A., Gisches, E. J., 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.
• Mak, V., Seale, D. A., Gisches, E. J., Rapoport, A., Cheng, M., Moon, M., & Yang, R. (2018). A network ridesharing experiment with sequential choice of transportation mode. Theory and Decision, 85(3), 407-433.
• Yang, R., Meyskens, M., Zheng, C., & Hu, L. (2015). Social entrepreneurial intentions: China versus the USA–Is there a difference? The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 16(4), 253-267.

RESEARCH FUND

• Research on the Determinants of Market Consensus Structure on the Market Value Performance of Enterprises and Technologies. General Project of the NSFC, Principal Investigator, 2022 - 2025.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Yang, R, & Wang, J. (2024). A Quasi-Experimental Study of Cross-Border Web-search Traffic to E-commerce Amidst Regional Unrest. Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2024. Chicago, IL.
• 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

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIP
Academy of Management (since 2015)
Strategic Management Society (since 2015)
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (since 2017)

HONORS/AWARDS

• Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management (AOM) Proceedings 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 2019
• 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