Research Interest
I investigate how entrepreneurs incorporate and/or communicate information to address uncertainty. More specifically, I am interested in the processes in which entrepreneurs respond to external information and recognize entrepreneurial opportunities and convey private information and acquire financial resources.
- Phenomenon: opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial finance, crowdfunding, pitching
- Theory: entrepreneurial action, signaling, screening, narrative
- Method: qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), experiments, natural language processing
Publication
- Wang, J., Denoo, L., & Knoben, J. (2026). Two hearts that beat as one: Signals, narratives, and financing (less) novel ventures via equity crowdfunding. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, sej.70026. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.70026
Work in Progress
- With Xiaofei Qu, Xiaowei Zhang. “Exploiting Unmet Demands as Entrepreneurial Opportunities: The Dynamics between Salient Releases on Steam and New Projects on Kickstarter.” (Stage: data analysis)
- Job market paper.
- With Yuxuan Dai. “Abstract or Concrete? A Process Model of Entrepreneurial Framing, Investor Response and Fundraising Performance.” (Stage: working paper)
- Included in best paper proceedings, 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, the U.S.
- With Lien Denoo, Joris Knoben. “How Do Entrepreneurs Overcome Surface Homophily Bias? The Strategic Use of Different New Venture Creation Approaches.” (Stage: data analysis)
- With Lien Denoo, Joris Knoben. “Constrained Storytelling and Fundraising: The Unintended Consequence of Standardized Fundraising Templates on Equity Crowdfunding.” (Stage: conceptualization)
- With Lien Denoo, Joris Knoben. “Multimodal Storytelling and Fundraising.” (Stage: conceptualization)
- With Cedric Gutierrez Moreno. “When, Why, and How Female Entrepreneurs Can Mitigate the Gender Penalty: The Interplay Among Proscriptive, Prescriptive, and Predictive Violations.” (Stage: conceptualization)