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Abandoning innovation projects, filing patent applications and receiving foreign direct investment in R&D (2021)
Journal Article
Li, R., Yan, J., Yao, N., Tian, K., Xia, S., Yang, X., & Xiong, Y. (2022). Abandoning innovation projects, filing patent applications and receiving foreign direct investment in R&D. Technovation, 114, Article 102435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2021.102435

Foreign direct investment in R&D is one of the popular channels indigenous firms use to upgrade their technological capacities and improve market intelligence following innovation setbacks. Firms often employ various signals to secure higher levels o... Read More about Abandoning innovation projects, filing patent applications and receiving foreign direct investment in R&D.

The bright and dark sides of institutional intermediaries: industry associations and small-firm innovation (2021)
Journal Article
Yao, N., Guo, Q., & Tsinopoulos, C. (2022). The bright and dark sides of institutional intermediaries: industry associations and small-firm innovation. Research Policy, 51(1), Article 104370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104370

Institutional intermediaries are often seen by governments as avenues for increasing firm level innovativeness. This is because they can provide both information and legitimacy, which enable access to government support. Yet, close engagement with in... Read More about The bright and dark sides of institutional intermediaries: industry associations and small-firm innovation.

How consumers’ perception and information processing affect their acceptance of genetically modified foods in China: a risk communication perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Guo, Q., Yao, N., & Zhu, W. (2020). How consumers’ perception and information processing affect their acceptance of genetically modified foods in China: a risk communication perspective. Food Research International, 137, Article 109518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109518

This study aims to explore the roles of consumers’ risk and benefit perception and food information processes in predicting their acceptance of genetically modified food. We integrate the protective action decision and heuristic systematic models to... Read More about How consumers’ perception and information processing affect their acceptance of genetically modified foods in China: a risk communication perspective.

Crisis spillover of corporate environmental misconducts: The roles of perceived similarity, familiarity, and corporate environmental responsibility in determining the impact on oppositional behavioral intention (2020)
Journal Article
Ouyang, Z., Yao, N., & Hu, X. (2020). Crisis spillover of corporate environmental misconducts: The roles of perceived similarity, familiarity, and corporate environmental responsibility in determining the impact on oppositional behavioral intention. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(4), 1797-1808. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2474

Negative impact of a firm's environmental misconduct can spread to other firms under the same category due to stakeholders' categorization. Such problem implies a sociocognitive process that has yet to be explored. Therefore, this study extends the c... Read More about Crisis spillover of corporate environmental misconducts: The roles of perceived similarity, familiarity, and corporate environmental responsibility in determining the impact on oppositional behavioral intention.