RESEARCH

Research Interests

Technology Management   |   Industry Emergence   |   Innovation |   Strategy Making Under Uncertainty   |   Entrepreneurship

Working Papers

Spillover Effect of Technology Failure: Camera vs. LiDAR in the Autonomous Vehicle Industry

Job Market Paper

• 2023 USC Marshall School of Business PhD Fellowship & 2022 Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant (SRF)

• 2024 Best Conference Paper Finalist at the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference 

To Focus or Explore: Experimentation, Failure, and the Adapting of Knowledge Development Strategies in Nascent Industries 

With Violina Rindova and Milan Miric

• 2022 USC Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

Activating the Periphery: How Technology Failure Reshapes Peripheral Technologies

Solo Author

Work in Progress

Software, Hardware, or Both? Adapting Capabilities to Technology Failures in Nascent Industries

With Hyo Kang

Through the Temporal Lens: How Tech Firms Navigate Past and Future in Nascent Industries

With Violina Rindova and Milan Miric

• 2022 Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant (SRF)

Awards & Grants

2026 Best Dissertation Award Finalist, Academy of Management, TIM Division

2026 Outstanding Dissertation Award Finalist, Academy of Management, STR Division

2024 Best Conference Paper Finalist, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference

2023 USC Marshall School of Business Ph.D. Fellowship - Best Dissertation ($10,000)

2022 Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant, Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) ($10,000)

2022 USC Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Best Ph.D. Student Research Award ($4,000)