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 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)