GUOGUANG (ALAN) WAN CURRICULUM VITAE September 2014 PhD Candidate Department of Management School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Email: [email protected] Mobile: +852 94191502 EDUCATION BACKGROUND    2009–2015 (expected), PhD, Department of Management, School of Business and Management, HKUST, Hong Kong, China 2009, MPhil in Management, Department of Management, School of Business, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 2003, Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China RESEARCH INTEREST    Top management team composition Corporate governance Firm strategy: Mergers & acquisitions, corporate social responsibility DISSERTATION  Top management team diversity and firm performance: A naïve dialecticism perspective We argue that rooted in Taoism, regional dialectical climate encouraging expectation of change, tolerance of contradictions and holistic thinking helps realize the benefits of diversity by facilitating idea generation and integration but dampening the social categorization processes. By using a longitudinal data set of Chinese publicly listed firms, we found support for the positive moderating effect of regional Taoist influences on the relationship between TMT demographic diversity and firm performance. 1  Socially embedded factional groups: Demographic faultlines and corporate takeovers We explore how the demographic faultlines between the acquirer firm’s top management team (TMT) and the target firm’s TMT would influence the likelihood of M&A deal completion. We argue that demographic faultlines lead to inter-faction negative emotions which impair negotiation and the establishment of consensus, leading to a low probability of completing the M&A deal. However, social relations, in which M&A negotiation teams are embedded, such as managerial ties linking the two factional groups and status differentials between the acquirer and target firms, can mitigate the negative effect of demographic faultlines. Data of takeover deals of large US firms generally supports our arguments. Chair: Jiatao LI Committee members: Prithviraj CHATTOPADHYAY, Jinyu HE, Guochang ZHANG (Accounting), Guoli CHEN (INSEAD) SELECTED PUBLICATIONS    Wang, H., Choi, J., Wan, G.*, & Dong, Q. Effects of organizational slacks on the rent-generating potential of firm-specific knowledge resources. Journal of Management (corresponding author), forthcoming. Li, J. T., Tian, L., & Wan, G. Contextual distance and the international strategic alliance performance: A conceptual framework and a partial meta-analytic test. Management and Organization Review, forthcoming. Wan, G., & Jia, L. 2008. The relationship between the diversification strategies of firms and financial decisions: A conceptual model from a variety of theoretical lens. Economic Management, 8: 4–9 (in Chinese). MANUSCRIPT UNDER REVIEW  Li, J. T., & Wan, G. 2014. Top management team composition and organizational decline. Under review, Strategic Management Journal. WORKING PAPERS TO BE SUBMITTED  Wan, G., He, J., & Wang, H. 2014. Top management team composition and agency behaviors: Exploring the governance effects of managerial mutual monitoring. (Target: Academy of Management Journal) (Job market paper) We propose that top management team (TMT) demographic diversity may increase managerial mutual monitoring through facilitating competition among top managers. As a result, agency behaviors such as perk consumption could be substantially mitigated. Moreover, such mutual monitoring effects can be reduced by CEO power but facilitated by board 2     independence. Empirical tests based on Chinese listed companies generally support our arguments. Wan, G. & Li, J. T. 2014. TMT composition and CEO turnover: A power circulation perspective. (Target: Academy of Management Journal) Wan, G., Li, J. T., & Zhou, J. 2014. Top management team demographic faultlines and M&A activity: A stakeholder perspective. (Target: Organization Science) Wan, G., Wang, H., Geng, X., & Huang, K. G. 2014. The co-evolution of corporate philanthropy and stakeholder reactions in China. (Target: Administrative Science Quarterly) Wan, G. *, Zhou, J. *, & Lu, Q. (*equal contribution) 2014. Governmental policy, opportunities, and the evolution of effects of institutional relatedness on firm acquisition activity (Target: Administrative Science Quarterly) SELECTED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS1         1 Li, J. T., & Wan, G. 2014. Top management team composition and organizational decline. Presented at the 74th annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, US and the special conference of Strategic Management Society, Copenhagen, Denmark. And Wan, G., & Zhou, J. 2014. Top management team demographic faultlines and M&A activity: A stakeholder perspective. Presented at the 74th annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, US. Zhou, J., Wan, G., & Lu, Q. 2014. Regulative legitimacy and firm acquisition activity: A stakeholder perspective. Presented at the 74th annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, US. Li, J. T., & Wan, G. 2014 (equal contribution). Top management team faultlines and CEO turnover: A power circulation perspective. Presented at the 6th biennial meeting of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Beijing, China. Zhou, J., & Wan, G. 2014. Top management team faultlines and the probability of being taken over. Presented at the 6th biennial meeting of the IACMR, Beijing, China. Wan, G., & Li, J. T. 2013. Socially embedded factional groups: Demographic faultlines and deal completion of mergers & acquisitions: The moderating role of cross–cutting ties and status differentials. Presented at the 73th annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Orlando, US. Li, J. T., & Wan, G. 2012. Top management team demographic faultlines and firm performance: The role of organizational slack and managerial discretion. Presented at the 72th annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, US. Wan, G., Wang, H., He, J., & Jia, L. 2012. From Chair dominance to TMT dominance: How institutional change triggers the evolution of Chinese firm’s Presenter is underlined 3      philanthropic giving. Presented at the 5th biennial meeting of the IACMR, Hong Kong, China. Cai, Y., Wan, G., & Jia, L. 2012. Transformational leadership and creativity: The mediating role of challenging work and workload pressure. Presented at the 5th biennial meeting of the IACMR, Hong Kong, China. Wang, H., Wan, G., & Choi, J. 2011. Effects of organizational slacks on the rent–generating potential of firm-specific knowledge resources. Presented at the 71th annual meeting of the Academy of Management, San Antonio, US. Cai, Y., Jia. L., & Wan, G., 2010. How employment relationship affects employees’ creativity? An integrative framework. Presented at the 4th biennial meeting of IACMR, Shanghai, China. Jia, L., Zhou, J., Chen, Y., Wan, G., & Lu, Q. 2010. The governance effect of the biggest shareholder: the perspective of resource slack and diversification. Presented at the 4th biennial meeting of IACMR, Shanghai, China. Jia, L., Wan, G., Lu, Q., & Zhou, J. 2008. Do Categorical and continuous measures capture the same construct of diversity? Evidence from China. Presented at the 3rd annual conference of Chinese Academy of Management, Changsha, China. RESEARCH GRANT  Co-investigator. January 2013 – December 2016, Institutional environments, organization network and firm strategy: A township cluster research. National Natural Science Foundation of China: 71272109 (540,000RMB). AWARDS AND HONORS   HKUST  Dean’s Fellowship for Research Excellence (72000HKD), 2014–2015  Research Postgraduate Studentship, 2009–2013  Research Travel Grant (12000HKD+8000HKD*2), 2011–2013  Hung Long Fellowship (3000HKD*3), 2011–2013 Nanjing University      Ru Zi Niu Fellowship (5000RMB), 2008 Outstanding league member in the Business School, 2007–2008 The second and the third class award of business school academic paper competition, 2008 The outstanding scholarship (1000RMB), 2007 The excellent service award in the Model United Nations, 2007 4  Other   The third award of the eighth social science research of Jiangsu universities. Awarded by Jiangsu Province Education Department, 2012 Best paper of the 3rd annual conference of Chinese Academy of Management (5/600), 2008. TEACHING    Summer, 2012. Instructor, Introduction to Management, MGMT 1110. HKUST. (Overall course evaluation: 79/100; Overall instructor evaluation: 79/100). Spring, 2012. Student advisor, Introduction to Management, MGMT 1110. HKUST. Spring, 2007. Teaching Assistant, Management Research Methodology. Nanjing University. SERVICES AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES       PhD representative, Department of Management, HKUST, 2014–2015 Reviewer, International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) conference, 2012 Member, IACMR, 2008–2014 Member, Academy of Management (AOM), 2011–2014 Soccer team captain, Business School, Nanjing University, 2006–2007 Secretary, Diplomatic Department, Model United Nations Association of Nanjing University, 2006–2007 INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCES  2003–2005. Software engineer and project manager, Southeast Systematic Engineering Company. Xiamen, Fujian, China HOBBIES  Soccer, table tennis, music and poem. REFERENCES Jiatao LI 5 Senior Associate Dean, School of Business and Management Head and Chair Professor, Department of Management Director, Center for Business Strategy and Innovation Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong Tel: +852 2358 7757 Email: [email protected] Heli WANG Professor of Strategic Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business Singapore Management University, Singapore Tel: +65 6828 0728 E-mail: [email protected] Jinyu HE Associate Professor, Department of Management School of Business and Management Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong Tel: +852 2358 7738 E-mail: [email protected] 6