Songcui Hu

Interests

Research

Behavioral Strategy; Organizational Goals and Decision Making;Organizational Learning and Adaptation;Adaptive Aspirations and Risk Taking.

Teaching

Strategic Management

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Hu, S., & Bettis, R. A. (2013). Adaptive aspirations. In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Basingstoke and New York, NY.: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journals/Publications

• Hu, S., Gentry, R., Quigley, T., & Boivie, S. (2021). Who is in the driver’s seat? Exploring firm-level and CEO-level effects on problemistic search.. Journal of Mangement.
• Hu, S., Gu, Q., & Xia, J. (2021). Problemistic search of the embedded firm: The joint effects of performance feedback and network positions on venture capital firms’ risk taking. Organization Science.
• Zhu, Q., Hu, S., & Shen, W. (2020). New CEOs’ prior board experience and firm strategic change. Strategic Management Journal.
• Hu, S., Zhu, Q., & Shen, W. (2019). Why do some new insider CEOs make more strategic changes than others?. Best Paper Proceedings of the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
• Bettis, R. A., & Hu, S. (2018). Bounded rationality, heuristics, computational complexity and artificial intelligence. Advances in Strategic Management.
• Hu, S., & Bettis, R. (2018). Multiple organizational goals with feedback from shared technological task environments. Organization Science.
• Schilke, O., Hu, S., & Helfat, C. (2018). Quo vadis, dynamic capabilities? A content-analytic review of the current state of knowledge and recommendations for future research. Academy of Management Annals, 12, 1-50.
• Hu, S., He, Z., Blettner, D., & Bettis, R. (2017). Conflict inside and outside: Social comparisons and attention shifts in multidivisional firms. Strategic Management Journal, 38(7), 1435-1454.
• Blettner, D. P., He, Z., Hu, S., & Bettis, R. A. (2015). Adaptive aspirations and performance heterogeneity: Attention allocation among multiple reference points. Strategic Management Journal, 36 (7), 987-1005.
• Hu, S., Blettner, D. P., & Bettis, R. A. (2011). Adaptive aspirations: performance consequences of risk preferences at extremes and alternative reference groups. Strategic Management Journal, 32(13), 1426--1436.

Proceedings Publications

• Blettner, D. P., He, Z., Hu, S., & Bettis, R. A. (2011, Spring). Heterogeneity in adaptive aspirations and reference groups. In Academy of Management Proceedings, 2011, 1--6.
• Wu, X., Xu, S., & Hu, S. (2006, June). A decision model for dynamic capabilities based on learning effects. In Management of Innovation and Technology, 2006 IEEE International Conference on, 1, 42--46.

Presentations

• Deng, S., Wang, J., Xia, J., & Hu, S. (2020, August). Internationalization of R&D through alliances or joint ventures? An information processing perspective. The 80th Academy of Management Conference.
• Hu, S., & Zhu, Q. (2019, March). Reintroducing managerial agency into BTOF: CEO duality, origin, and firm response to performance feedback. Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Las Vegas.
• Hu, S., Zhu, Q., & Shen, W. (2019, Aug). Why do some new insider CEOs make more strategic changes than others? The influence of prior board experience. 79th Annual Conference of the Academy of Management.
• Hu, S., & Zhu, Q. (2018, September). The dual effects of CEO cognition and social status on firm strategic change and performance feedback. 38th Annual Conference of Strategic Management Society.
• Gu, Q., Hu, S., & Lu, L. (2017, Oct). Foreign market entry in family business: The effects of performance feedback and socioemotional wealth configuration. Strategic Management Society Conference.
• Hu, S., Gu, Q., & Xia, J. (2017, Aug). Integrating behavioral and social network perspectives: Risk taking of venture capital firms. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• Boivie, S., Hu, S., Gentry, R., & Graffin, S. (2016, Oct). Under the radar – Understanding the effects of no or low reputation firms. Strategic Management Society Conference.
• Blettner, D., Hu, S., & Bettis, R. (2015, Oct). The impact of psychological attributes on aspiration adaptation and innovative strategies. Strategic Management Society Conference.
• Blettner, D. P., Hu, S., & Bettis, R. A. (2014, Aug). Psychological variation among senior managers: Effect on performance feedback interpretation and strategic change. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• Blettner, D. P., Hu, S., & Bettis, R. A. (2014, Sep). Psychological variation among senior managers: Effect on performance feedback interpretation and strategic change. Strategic Management Society Conference.
• Hu, S., & Posen, H. (2014, Sep). Two faces of experience in organizational learning: Aspiration adaptation and belief adaptation. Strategic Management Society Conference.
• Hu, S. (2013, Oct). Behavioral strategy as arbitrage opportunity: Decision making with bounded rationality. Strategic Management Society Conference.
• Hu, S., He, Z., Blettner, D. P., & Bettis, R. A. (2013, Oct). An examination of the behavioral mechanism underlying attention shifts in adaptive aspirations. Strategic Management Society Conference.
• Blettner, D. P., He, Z., Hu, S., & Bettis, R. A. (2011, Aug). Heterogeneity in adaptive aspirations and reference groups. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• Hu, S. (2011, April). Attention allocation in multiple-inconsistent-goal context: An empirical examination of the automotive industry. Consortium for Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC).
• Hu, S. (2011, Nov). Attention allocation in multiple-inconsistent-goal context: An empirical examination of the automotive industry. Strategic Management Society Conference.
• Hu, S., & Bettis, R. A. (2010, Sep). The portfolio of learning: A NK model based study. Strategic Management Society Conference.
• Hu, S., & Nerkar, A. (2010, Sep). How do firms become competent? Concentration and specialization in R&D. Strategic Management Society Conference.
• Hu, S., Blettner, D. P., & Bettis, R. A. (2009, Aug). Adaptive aspirations: A three-reference point risk preference function and satisficing. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• Hu, S., Blettner, D. P., & Bettis, R. A. (2009, Oct). Adaptive aspirations: A three-reference point risk preference function and satisficing. Strategic Management Society Conference.