Yan Zhao

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Shanghai University

This study combined the dual perspectives of team interaction and decision-making stages. Based on 22,654 behavioral units from 20 four-person teams, we developed a team decision-making process model encompassing goal-driven patterns, information sharing, knowledge integration, and decision-making transition. Additionally, we found that high-perfor...

Embedding collaboration networks in the context of open innovation can facilitate firm innovation. Previous studies have not considered the impact of multilevel network structural embedding on firm innovation. In this study, organizational collaboration networks, knowledge networks, and urban collaboration networks are viewed as systems to explore...

The innovative city buildup is an essential strategy for implementing innovation-driven development and plays a supporting role in building a national innovation system. There remains no conclusive evidence on how cooperation between innovative cities affects cities’ innovation efficiency. Therefore, this paper investigates the effects of the innov...

Purpose: This article aims to illustrate that stress is not always a negative experience as it can have both positive and negative outcomes. The term "eustress" describes positive stress, while the term "distress" describes negative stress. To date, research on eustress is in the infancy stage. There are approximately 306 items that can be found i...

Knowledge sharing can improve the efficiency of cooperation between firms as well as improve innovation performance. However, firms will incur some costs in the process of participating in knowledge sharing. Based on the theory of Stackelberg, by constructing corporate game models with and without knowledge sharing, this study analyzes the decision...

The establishment and improvement of an innovation ecosystem have become important issues in building an innovative powerhouse. Built on the background of innovation ecosystem, from the perspective of cooperative interaction and dynamics, this study introduces value co-creation and dynamic capabilities, and analyzes how the proximity between enterp...

Purpose Facing the global public health emergency (GPHE), the conflict of cultural differences and the imbalance of vital resources such as knowledge among different organizations are becoming more severe, which affects the enthusiasm and sustainability of firms' innovation heavily. It is an urgent problem to be solved for firms how to make use of...

Background: For health systems, a fundamental challenge is adapting to changes in the patterns of health services that require technological and scientific innovations. The pace of multiple and interconnected challenges mounts extra stress on medical healthcare professionals and reduces their innovative capabilities, especially in low- and middle-...

Despite a wealth of research on the interaction behavior patterns among team members from different angles, few studies focus on the combination of innovation management and innovation team. With the “Input-Process-Output” theoretical framework, this study takes the coding analysis to explore the differences in the interaction behavior patterns of...

A Correction to this paper has been published: 10.1007/s11356-021-16708-y

This study aimed to explore the influence the value modularity and a firm’s innovation performance, directly and indirectly, using knowledge management as mediating variable. Moreover, in this study, we used the resource integration ability as a moderator between the relationship value modularity and firm innovation performance. We collected data f...

Social identity theory and self-classification theory provide theoretical supports for explaining the formation and action of the technological divisive faultlines. The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of technological divisive faultlines on a clique’s innovation performance and the moderating effects of geographical proximity and cl...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate reputation (CR), and brand equity (BE). Building on the resource-based theory of the firm, this study proposes a theoretical framework. In this framework, CSR is theorized to strengthen CR and brand equity, directly and indirectly,...

The aim of this study to examine how critical success factors (CSFs) affect the project success (PS), directly and indirectly, using the despotic leadership (DL) as a mediating variable. Critical success factors with multiple dimensions, such as organizational factors, team factors, technical factors, and communication factors, were used in this st...

R&D alliances and knowledge networks are vital to the innovation process. Based on the multilevel network approach, our study comprehensively investigates several knowledge attributes of interorganizational knowledge networks and explores how R&D alliance networks are relevant for the relationship between knowledge attributes and organizational inn...

The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between workplace ostracism (WO), workplace incivility (WI), and innovative work behavior (IWB), using job anxiety as a mediating variable. Building on the conservation of resource (COR) theory, this study proposes a theoretical framework. In this framework, workplace ostracism and workplace inci...

Background This study examined how human resource management (HRM) can directly and indirectly influence sustainable organizational performance (SOP), with organizational innovation (OI) as a mediator. Research methods For this quantitative study, a 31-item questionnaire was used to collect data on HRM and SOP from 20 Shanghai branches of five Chi...

This study determined how a toxic workplace environment can influence worker productivity, directly and indirectly, using work depression as a mediating variable. A toxic workplace environment with multiple dimensions (harassment, bullying, ostracism, and incivility) was used in this study. We used a questionnaire survey approach to evaluate the da...

Job related rewards plus recognition on job satisfaction and employee motivation in the banking sector of China. We collect data from five major banks from Shanghai, China at the administrative and operational level. Self-administered questionnaire technique is used for data collection. In this study, correlation analysis is used to test the hypoth...

This study aims to gauge the extent to innovation strategy has diffused into the strategic plans of the Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and the impact of those innovation strategies on their financial performance. Out of 700 SMEs contacted for survey purpose 409 responded ranging from manufacturing and trade to service industries across Thailand. T...

Innovation has attracted attention of researches in last 20 years, while networks and clusters are relatively new research subjects. In our paper we made an attempt to find the relationship between network centrality indexes and innovation performance. Each index represents different features of being in the network. To find the network indexes we...

For firms, entering industrial cluster means obtaining more opportunities for tacit knowledge transfer and informal communication, while forming strategic alliances can get a wider range of technical cooperation and strategic resources. Using innovation networks in the communication equipment industry of China, based on the impact of network densit...

Researchers have argued that alliance network structure can influence firm innovation. We construct alliance networks of 10 high-technology industries in China to analyze their structure characteristics. We use negative binomial regression to study the impact of alliance network structure on the innovation capability of firms. The empirical results...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of large‐scale collaboration network structure on firm innovation capability. Design/methodology/approach The authors utilize negative binomial regression models to explore the relationships between network structure and patent productivity. Findings Results demonstrate that firms emb...

Enterprise alliance network is considered to have scale-free property. This paper aims to study the correlation between scale-free property and enterprise innovation performance. Networks of alliances in automobile industry are constructed, and then researchers utilize Maximum Likelihood Estimation and KS-test to calculate the p value of the networ...

Social network structure affects the spread and penetration of information, thus to a large extent is advantageous to the promotion of knowledge innovation. This paper analyzes the network structure of the alliance network among Chinese enterprises, and through the association rules mines and then analyzes the impact that the network structure of i...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to categorize industrial clusters, and then compare three industrial clusters of three countries from the perspectives of hard environment, soft environment, factors from supply and demand sides, and the network mechanism. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected through interview with cluster coord...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to categorize industrial clusters, and then compare three industrial clusters of three countries from the perspectives of hard environment, soft environment, factors from supply and demand sides, and the network mechanism. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through interview with cluster coordinato...

High-tech industry acts as a strong radiating role in national economy. This paper builds an index system to evaluate the innovative capacity of high-tech industry after literature review. Then it applies Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis to empirically study the innovative capacity of high-tech industry in 11 provinces and municipalities of Eas...

This paper analyzes the impact of venture capital on accounting performance of the firms, taking 66 Chinese listed companies in SME Board of Shenzhen Stock Exchange as examples. Although ANOVA and cross-section regression analysis show no significant differences of performance between venture capital backed firms and non venture capital backed firm...

There are many scholars doing research on interfirm network. But most of them construct the network manually. The fast algorithm of building interfirm collaboration network is constructed in this paper. The algorithm can automatically build the network according to the rules set by user. It is crucial to increase the efficiency.

Due to the quick advancement of science and technology, the services sector which has a high content of knowledge and technology has experienced globally expeditious development in the past decade. Development in general and the growth of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) such as Information and Communication Technology services (ICT ser...

Agent distortion issue occurs as traditional Holmstrom- Milgrom model is applied to venture business. To wipe out this difficulty, this paper does reconstructions and extensions towards classical principal-agent theory, brings forward ob-endeavor theorem, validates moral hazard with hidden action, and discovers synergy effect of the endeavor level...

The large collection of formal concepts can be a hedge of the application of FCA. Development of methods which help to overcome the problem of the huge size of concept lattice is thus an important task. This paper proposes clustering-based reduction algorithm for reducing the size of fuzzy concept lattices. At the end, experiment results show that...

For the bottleneck of ontology learning is the acquisition of relations between concept especially non-taxonomy relations. Event-based knowledge acquisition technologies are proposed and first introduced to ontology learning to overcome this problem. It starts from a small core ontology constructed by domain experts. The concepts and taxonomic and...

Ontology is an important tool of knowledge representation, but its construction is a difficult and tedious task. Ontology constructed by formal concept analysis is quite complicated in terms of the number of concepts generated and can not deal with the vague and uncertain information in practice. A new method is developed to create fuzzy ontology b...

A large collection of formal concepts can be a hedge of the application of formal concept analysis and is not directly comprehensible for a user. It is thus an important task to develop methods which help to overcome the problem of large number of extracted formal concepts. This paper proposes concept hierarchies learning for getting more concise c...

Ontology is more and more popular in all kinds of knowledge management system, but the manual acquisition of ontologies still remains a tedious, cumbersome task. Meanwhile moving toward semi-automation or automation of ontology construction is a solution. In this paper, we proposed a semiautomatic ontology building approach. In this approach the sy...

Moral hazard and cooperation exist together in a venture business. For the interest of best distribution of the equilibrium output, This work, with a two-person general sum game, discusses the cooperation between venture entrepreneur and venture capitalist to reach a welfare optimization, under the wealth constraint of the venture entrepreneur. The...