A postdoctoral researcher at the University of Science and Technology Beijing School of Economics and Management (SEM) published a first-author paper in the FT50 journal Journal of Management, co-authored with scholars in China and Singapore.
The paper, titled A Watched Blossom Seldom Blooms: Board Interlocks and Digital Business Model Innovation, was led by Liu Fangyi, with Professor Yi Jingtao of Renmin University of China and Professor Chen Liang of Singapore Management University.
The study examines how the directionality of board interlocks affects firms' digital business model innovation. Using longitudinal network data and a stochastic actor-oriented model, the authors distinguish sent ties from received ties.
They find received ties exert a stronger influence than sent ties on a focal firm's digital business model innovation. Abductive analysis points to attention friction as the key bottleneck in knowledge diffusion through director networks, an effect amplified during CEO succession or high business diversification.
Journal of Management, founded in 1975 and published by SAGE for the Southern Management Association, is ranked among the Financial Times 50 top business-school journals and holds an ABS four-star rating.
