The RI&E Initiative supports faculty engaged in any of the following research areas:
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Basic, applied, or pedagogical projects are welcome. The methods could be quantitative, qualitative (including case studies), behavioral experiments or any combination of these methods.
We support research projects in the near-submission stage (Advance to Submission) or currently under review (Conquer the R&R). For more details, please see below.
Awardees
Advance to Submission Grant, Spring 2024
Project Overview: In this project, Prof. Ruan examines whether and how banks extract proprietary soft information from Standards Setting Organizations to understand a borrower’s R&D investments and price in that information in loan contracts.
Advance to Submission Grant, Spring 2024
Project Overview: In this project, Prof. Jeong seeks to investigate the correlation between socio-economic conditions, particularly economic inequality and relevant cultures, and social entrepreneurship.
Advance to Submission Grant, Fall 2023
In this project, Prof. Yiwen Chen investigates content creation strategies employed by creative entrepreneurs. With the competing interests of different stakeholders in mind, creative entrepreneurs need to strike a balance between organic and commercial content. To this end, this research attempts to provide guidance by investigating the roles of video structure and video content in increasing audience engagement.
Conquer the Revise-and-Resubmit Grant, Fall 2023
In this project, Prof. Lihua Wang and colleagues investigate the role of Chief Technology officers in high-tech new ventures. Their investigation empirically demonstrates that chief technology officers promote innovation activities in these new ventures. Additionally, other chief technology officer characteristics can increase or hinder these activities. This work is currently under (third round) revise-and-resubmit in one of the RIE Initiative’s recommended journals.
Advance to Submission Grant, Spring 2023
Project Overview: In this project, Prof. Jang focuses on digital business start-ups. Once a digital business start-up successfully develops its new products and services, the next critical step is to predict future sales for investor relations (IR). While it is a standard industry practice to predict sales for at least three years for IR, it can be challenging for a start-up to accurately predict its sales, especially with a short data period, limited financial information, and few human resources. As a result, start-ups often struggle to provide reliable investment information to interested parties, including internal managers and external financial investors. To address this challenge, Prof. Jang proposes an innovative sales prediction model based on several key marketing factors, including the number of new members, online advertising, and consumer reviews on social media.
Advance to Submission Grant, Fall 2022
Project overview: In this study, Prof. Petkova and her collaborators explore the unique challenges faced by social entrepreneurs in balancing their ventures’ social missions with commercial activities to support operations. Social ventures introduce innovative technologies to solve major societal and environmental challenges, yet they struggle to build initial reputation with prospective customers and the general public. This in-depth qualitative study aims to shed new light into the formation and content of early customer perceptions and evaluations that comprise the initial reputation of a new social venture. The results of this study will advance research in social entrepreneurship and organization by offering new insights into the complex processes of social evaluations. It also will provide some practical guidance to social innovators and entrepreneurs on how to channel stakeholders’ perceptions and evaluations to the advantage of their ventures’ reputation.
Advance to Submission Grant, Fall 2022
Project Overview: Entrepreneurs rely on angel investors, venture capitalists, and crowdfunding sources to obtain the resources they need to ensure the success of their business idea. In my research, I examine the ways in which venture capitalists and crowd funders make decisions about the efficacy of an entrepreneur’s idea, particularly examining how entrepreneurs use of communicative abstraction in framing their pitch can serve to erroneously bias venture capitalists' decision-making about the efficacy of an entrepreneur’s idea. Furthermore, I examine whether the impact of communicative abstraction on funding decisions is contingent on funding context (pitch competition versus crowdfunding platform). Because men and women differ in their use of communicative abstraction, venture capitalists’ reliance on communicative abstraction when making funding decisions may serve to perpetuate gender differences in entrepreneurial outcomes.