Tengjian Zou received his PhD from the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy at the School of Management, Zhejiang University. 

His research interests include organization theory and digital innovation. His research has been published in journals such as Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Annals, Information & Management, Journal of Business Research.

He worked as a technology development engineer in GlobalFoundaries (Singapore) for four years before his PhD study.

Career Experience

August 2020 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy, School of Management, Zhejiang University

June 2011 - June 2015, Senior Engineer of Technology Development, Department of Technology Development, GlobalFoundries (Singapore)

[1]     Mount, M. P., Ertug, G., Shi, W., & Zou, T.* (2026, forthcoming). The anatomy of earnings conference calls: An integrative framework for management research. Journal of Management, DOI: 10.1177/01492063261464503.

[2]     Zou, T., & Cao, Z. (2025). Momentum effects in crowdsourcing contest platforms. Information & Management, 62(7): 104206.

[3]     Zou, T., Sun, X., & Wei, J. (2025). Informal hierarchy and crowdsourcing team performance: The mediating effect of idea quantity and the moderating effect of team familiarity. Journal of Business Research, 201: 115711.

[4]     Zou, T., Xiong, F., Li, S., & Zhang, W. (2025). Understanding the determinants of firms’ usage of A/B testing: A technology–organization–environment framework. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 72: 378-400.

[5]     Zou, T., Ertug, G., & Roulet, T. (2024). Learning from Machines: How Negative Feedback from Machines Improves Learning between Humans. Journal of Business Research, 172: 114417.

[6]     Zou, T., & Ertug, G. (2024). Unwitting Participants at Our Expense: A/B Testing and Digital Exploitation. Business & Society, 63(7): 1513-1517.

[7]     Prato, M., Ertug, G., Castellucci, F., & Zou, T. (2024). The Status of Status Research: A Review of the Types, Functions, Levels, and Audiences. Journal of Management, 50(6): 2266-2308.

[8]     Mount, M. P., Ertug, G., Kavusan, K., George, G., & Zou, T*. (2024). Reeling in the slack: An integrative review to reinstate slack as a central theoretical construct for management research. Academy of Management Annals, 18: 473–505.

[9]     Lu, K., Zou, T., & Du, J. (2024). Two forms of customer involvement and new product development performance in the digital context: The moderating role of new product development stage. Technovation, 134: 103023.

[10] Liu, J., Wei, J., & Zou, T.* (2024). Bridging and bonding: Exploring the influence of community-level networks on product innovation in video game communities. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71: 6044-6062.

[11] Zou, T., Sun, X., & Xiong, F. (2024). A/B testing: The invisible force that drives digital innovation. Tsinghua Management Review, (Z1), 15‑23. (Chinese journal)

[12] Zou, T., Ertug, G., Cuypers, I., & Ferrin, D. (2023). Trust across borders: A review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business. Journal of International Business Studies, 54: 1379-1401.

[13] Collet, F., Carnabuci, G., Ertug, G., & Zou, T.* (2022). Ideological boundaries of status advantages: Legislative effectiveness in the United States House of Representatives. Organization Studies, 43(1): 35-57.

[14] Ertug, G., Brennecke, J., Kovacs, B., & Zou, T*. (2022). What does homophily do? A review of the consequences of homophily. Academy of Management Annals, 16(1): 38-69.

[15] Ertug, G., Gargiulo, M., Galunic, C., & Zou, T. (2018). Homophily and individual performance. Organization Science. 29(5): 912-930.

[16] Cuypers, I. R., Ertug, G., Heugens, P. P., Kogut, B., & Zou, T.* (2018). The making of a construct: Lessons from 30 years of the Kogut and Singh cultural distance index. Journal of International Business Studies, 49(9): 1138-1153. *Authors are listed in alphabetical order.

[17] Zou, T., Ertug, G., & George, G. (2018). The capacity to innovate: A meta-analysis of absorptive capacity. Innovation: Organization & Management. 20(2): 87-121.

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Innovation Management (Undergraduate)

Strategic Management (Undergraduate & MBA)

Organization Theory (PhD)