2024-,   Associate Professor (without tenure), Tsinghua University.

2021-2024, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University.

2020-2021, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University.

2018-2021, Founding Board Member, Precision MedCare.

Strategic Management

Global Strategy and Organization

Management Research Methods

Current Research in Strategic Management

Research Interests:

Strategic management and technological innovation. Research topics include AI and strategy, IPR and patent litigation, property rights, and entrepreneurial firms.

Research Assistant Opportunities:

Experiences with R, Python, or Mathematica are strongly preferred. If interested, please email me a CV and a cover letter.

Journal Publications:

1. Property Rights and Firm Scope, with Tony Tong and Zhimin Li, Forthcoming, Journal of Management, 2025,51(2), 637-669.
   

2. Substituting Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning: Implications for Organizational Learning, with Natarajan Balasubramanian and Yang Ye, Academy of Management Review, 2022, 47(3): 448-465.

3. How Property Rights Matter to Firm Resource Investment: Evidence from a Property Law Enactment, with Tony Tong and Wenlong He, Organization Science, 2022, 33(1):293-310.

Practitioner Articles:

1. Digitization in the Pharmaceutical Industry （In Chinese), with Xinyu Yang and Peng Wang, Tsinghua Business Review, 2024, (6), 22-27.

2. Why DeepSeek Shouldn’t Have Been a Surprise, with Prithwiraj Choudhury and Natarajan Balasubramanian, 2025, Harvard Business Review (Online).

Working Papers:

1. Scaling Human Capital with Codified Selves with Natarajan Balasubramanian and Prithwiraj Choudhury.

2. The Emergence of GPT-Enabled Startups and Industries, with Natarajan Balasubramanian.

3. Employee Expertise and New Venture Innovation, with Yuchen Zhang, Stephanie Cheng, and Natarajan Balasubramanian.

4. Trolling for Dollars, with Richard Makadok.

5. Patent Monetization and Acquisition, with Tony Tong.

6. Patent Litigation and Entrepreneurial Financing, with Tony Tong and Huiyan Zhang.

7. Shadow of Crisis: The Spillover Effect of Patent Litigation on Patent Strategies, with Aija Leiponen, Yifan Liu, and Yolanda Xue.

8. Hedge Fund Activism and Patent Litigations, with Yurun Tian, Kubilay Cirik, and Wei Shi.

9. Alignment and Divergence in Government and Private VC: The Amplifying Role of Geopolitical Risks, with Victor Cui, Tan Li, and Delin Yang.

Electric motor industry, AI and healthcare industry.

• Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission Grant, 2024-2025.

• Tsinghua University SEM Research Grant, 2024-2025.
  

• Tsinghua University Junior Faculty Startup Research Fund, 2021-2024.

• Distinguished Student Paper Award, STR Division, the Academy of Management, 2019.

• Best Paper Proceedings, STR Division, the Academy of Management, 2019.

• Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue University Graduate School, 2019-2020.

• Ph.D. Student Service Award, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, 2019.

• Outstanding Research Award, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, 2018 and 2019.

• Krannert Certificate for Distinguished Teaching, Purdue University, 2018 Spring and 2018 Fall.

• Graduate Assistantship, Purdue University, 2016-2019.

• Outstanding Reviewer Award, BPS Division, Academy of Management, 2016.

• Laney Graduate School Fellowship, Emory University, 2013-2015.

• Graduate Research Assistantship, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-2013.

• University Scholarship, University of International Business and Economics, 2008-2010.

Editorial Board:

Management and Organization Review, 2022-

Reviewer:

Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Research Policy, Long Range Planning, Management and Organization Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Systems and Management (Chinese), Empirical Economics, AOM, SMS.

Memberships: 

Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, AEA, INFORMS, IACMR, ISA.

Software:

R, Mathematica, ArcGIS, Python, Stata.

Personal Website:

www.mingtaoxu.com