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Songcui Hu

  • Associate Professor, Management/Organizations
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
  • (520) 626-0722
  • McClelland Hall, Rm. 405MM
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • songcuih@arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Strategy and Entrepreneurship
    • University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
    • A Behavioral Perspective on Attention Allocation among Multiple Goals: An Exploratory Examination of the Automotive Industry

Awards

  • Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
    • Management and Organization Dept. UofA, Spring 2015
  • Strategy Process Best Proposal Award in Strategic Management Society Conference
    • Strategic Management Society Conference, Fall 2013

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Interests

Teaching

Strategic Management

Research

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

Courses

2025-26 Courses

  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Fall 2024)
  • Strategic Management I
    MGMT 633 (Fall 2024)
  • Strategic Management II
    MGMT 634 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Research
    MGMT 900 (Spring 2024)
  • Strategic MGMT & Org Theory I
    MGMT 605 (Spring 2024)
  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Spring 2024)
  • Strategic Mgmt & Org Theory II
    MGMT 606 (Spring 2024)

2022-23 Courses

  • Acad+Prof Dev (Research)
    MGMT 696A (Spring 2023)
  • Preceptorship
    MGMT 491 (Spring 2023)
  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Spring 2023)
  • Strategic Management I
    MGMT 633 (Spring 2023)
  • Strategic Management II
    MGMT 634 (Spring 2023)
  • Acad+Prof Dev (Research)
    MGMT 696A (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Preceptorship
    MGMT 491 (Spring 2022)
  • Strategic MGMT & Org Theory I
    MGMT 605 (Spring 2022)
  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Spring 2022)
  • Strategic Mgmt & Org Theory II
    MGMT 606 (Spring 2022)

2020-21 Courses

  • Strategic Management I
    MGMT 633 (Fall 2020)
  • Strategic Management II
    MGMT 634 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Preceptorship
    MGMT 491 (Spring 2020)
  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Spring 2020)
  • Topics in Organization Theory
    MGMT 696S (Spring 2020)
  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Spring 2019)

2017-18 Courses

  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Spring 2018)
  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Spring 2017)
  • Topics in Strategic Mgmt
    MGMT 696T (Spring 2017)

2015-16 Courses

  • Strategic Management
    MGMT 471 (Spring 2016)

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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.

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