Professor Jie Wu

Biography

Jie Wu, Ph.D., is a chair (full) Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at University of Aberdeen in the UK. His current research focuses on inequality and status identities, culture and institutions, innovation and entrepreneurship, internationalisation, etc. He has published extensively in prestigious strategy, international business, and other journals, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Human Resource Management, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, British Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Research in Marketing, etc.

He is presently serving as an associate editor for both Asian Business & Management and Technovation. Jie’s research has been featured in leading business periodicals, including Forbes and Harvard Business Review. Stanford University's Scientists have rated Professor Wu in the top 2% of a globally recognised science database of citations for the year 2021. See at https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/16487/#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20111%20University%20of%20Aberdeen%20faculty%20members,work%20primarily%20in%20the%20area%20of%20International%20Business.  

He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University (hosted by Professor James G. March), Columbia University Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, etc. He has taught at numerous universities, including University of Leeds, National University of Singapore, University of Auckland, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, University of Macau, etc.

Internal Memberships

Professor Wu is the Co-Director of the Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability Research, launched in 2021.

Collaborations

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue Technovation

Digital Technologies and Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets

This special issue (SI) explores how digital technologies can be better utilized to enhance crowdfunding for entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Entrepreneurial funding in the early stages poses challenges, but the appeal of distributed online financing for new ventures is increasing due to accelerated innovation and market adoption rates. While online social networking initially emerged as a consumer-focused service, entrepreneurs are now leveraging both formal and informal networks to gather capital. Crowdfunding, a type of venture funding obtained through crowdsourcing, has become a rapidly growing online ecosystem. Resource-constrained entrepreneurs are turning to crowdfunding as an innovative way to manage capital by pre-emptively securing funds for production and sales (Frydrych, et al., 2014; Harrison 2013). Rather than pitching to professional investors, entrepreneurs target "amateurs" or consumers with shared interests to pre-finance their services or products. Crowdfunding helps mitigate the risk of underfunding a project for both entrepreneurs and investors since investments are only executed when the minimum funding threshold is met.

In emerging or developing countries with limited access to digital technologies, offline crowdfunding activities still hold significance. These activities include community-based crowdfunding, offline crowdfunding events, local business sponsorships, traditional savings and lending circles, and print media/flyers. However, in recent times, crowdfunding platforms have attracted funding from a wider range of investors to allow entrepreneurs to showcase their ideas and projects to a large audience.

This SI will provide a more solid understanding of the potential to improve funding availability for entrepreneurs. This is likely to democratize access to funding in emerging markets, and open opportunities globally. Thus, it is important to examine the role of digital technologies in supporting crowdfunding in emerging markets’ entrepreneurial ventures.

Timeline:

• Submissions start: April 1, 2024
• Submission deadline: June 30, 2024
• Expected date of publication online by the end of Spring 2026

Detail：https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/technovation/about/call-for-papers

Teaching Responsibilities

60+ MBA (Aberdeen campus)

Course coordinator

EMBA Shanghai – short course

EMBA London - guest lecture

EMBA Shanghai 

7 Courses moderator

All levels student supervision

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