Justin Yan

Professional Summary

Justin obtained his PhD in strategy and entrepreneurship from The University of Tennessee and the MBA in Finance from Seton Hall University. He worked at Bloomberg LP as a financial analyst prior to his doctoral study. He co-founded an online education service firm dedicated to assisting foreign students in the U.S. He has taught entrepreneurship, strategic management and international business courses at his doctoral institution and he is currently teaching BUS 4385 and ENT 4310 at Baylor. He likes both college football and basketball. He is a lifetime fan of Tennessee Volunteers and Seton Hall Pirates.

Education

• 2020 – PhD, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
• 2014 – MBA, Finance, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
• 2012 – BS, International Business, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

Courses

• BUS 4385 - Strategic Management
• ENT 4310 - New Venture Finance: The Entrepreneur’s Perspective

Research Interests

• Entrepreneurial internationalization
• IPO
• Social entrepreneurship
• Behavioral strategy

Selected Publications

• Yan, J., & Williams, D.W. (2021). Timing is Everything? Curvilinear Effects of Age at Entry on New Firm Growth and Survival and the Moderating Effect of IPO Performance. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(5): 106020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106020
• Mmbaga, N.A., Yan, J., & Gras, D. (2022). Broad Versus Narrow Organizational Scope Among Nonprofits: The Moderating Effects of the Task Environment. Strategic Organizations. https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270221114913
• Yan, J., Mmbaga, N.A., & Gras, D. (2022). In Pursuit of Diversification Opportunities, Efficiency, and Revenue Diversification: A Generalization and Extension for Social Entrepreneurship accepted at special issue of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
• Boss, A., Yan, J., & Reger, R. (2023). Keep On Keeping On: A Psychological Approach to Entrepreneurial Persistence. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 19(June): e00393.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00393
• Yan, J., Mmbaga, N., Lerman, M., & Munyon, T. (2023). Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 35(9-10), 885-904.
  https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2023.2232757
• Yan, J., Boss, A., & Reger, R. (2023). The Unrelenting Entrepreneur: Taking Stock of Research on Entrepreneurial Persistence and Related Constructs. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 20 (November): e00420. 
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00420
• Yan, J., Wang, X., Munyon, T. P., Crook, T. R., & Kim, T. (2024). Firm actions and Media tenor after a data breach: A quasi replication and extension of Zavyalova et al.’s (2012) product harm study. Journal of Management Scientific Reports, 2(1), 27-61. 
  https://doi.org/10.1177/27550311231225957
• Wang, X., Yan, J., Munyon, T., & Crook, T. (2024). Breached but Not Broken: How Attributional Information and Mitigating Circumstances Shape Firms Stock Market Performance After Data Breaches. Corporate Reputation Review.  
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41299-024-00179-1