Associate Professor
Management
Biography
Jade Y. Lo is an Associate Professor of Management at the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University. She received her PhD in Management and Organization from the University of Southern California. She is an organizational theorist with interests in innovation, entrepreneurship, and emerging phenomena. Her research aims to understand the dynamics of categories and institutions in organizational fields, the emergence of new markets and industries, and the socio-cognitive processes and mechanisms of entrepreneurial and innovation endeavors. Her work has been published in leading management, entrepreneurship, and innovation journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Research Policy. She currently serves on the research committee of the Academy of Management’s Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division.
Areas of Expertise
- Technology innovation
- Categorization in markets
- Organization Theory
- Entrepreneurship
Selected Works
Articles
Kulkarni, Ankita, Tzabbar, Daniel, and Lo, Jade, Are We on the Same Wavelength? Interdimensional Signal Set and Crowdfunding Success. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (Jul 2024).
Lo, Jade, Xu, Lei, and Park, H. D., Hot Markets, Sociocognitive Cues, and New Industry Entry in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (May 2023).
Soublière, Jean-François, Lo, Jade, and Rhee, Eunice Y., Coherence Within and Across Categories: The Dynamic Viability of Product Categories on Kickstarter. Academy of Management Journal (Apr 2023).
Lo, Jade, Fiss, Peer C., Rhee, Eunice, and Kennedy, Mark T., Category Viability: Balanced Levels of Coherence and Distinctiveness. Academy of Management Review 45 (Jan 2020):85-108.
Lo, Jade, Nag, Rajiv, Xu, Lei, and Anak Agung Istri, Shanti Dewi, Organizational Innovation Efforts in Multiple Emerging Market Categories: Exploring the Interplay of Opportunity, Ambiguity, and Socio-cognitive contexts. Research Policy 49 (Jan 2020).
Lo, Jade, (Book Review) Bubbles and Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation. Social Forces (Aug 2019).
Lo, Jade, and Li, Haiyang, In the Eyes of the Beholder: The Effect of Participant Diversity on Perceived Merits of Collaborative Innovations. Research Policy 47 (Sep 2018):1229-1242.
Lo, Jade, Selling Science: Resource Mobilization Strategies in the Emerging Field of Nanotechnology. Research Policy 44 (Oct 2015):1513-1526.
Lo, Jade, and Kennedy, Mark T., Approval in Nanotechnology Patents: Micro and Macro Factors that Affect Reactions to Category Blending. Organization Science 26 (Oct 2014):119 - 139.
Chapters
Lo, Jade, “Too Much, Too Soon: A Framework for Understanding Unintended Consequences of Cultural Entrepreneurship on Market Emergence.” Advances in Cultural Entrepreneurship (Research in the Sociology of Organizations), Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing, (2022): .
Eliasoph, Nina, Lo, Jade, and Glaser, Vern, “Navigation Techniques and Their Unintended Consequences: How Ordinary Participants Orient Themselves in Scrambled Institutions.” Microfoundations of Institutions, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing, (2019): .
Rhee, Eunice, Lo, Jade, Kennedy, Mark T., and Fiss, Peer C., “Things That Last? Category Creation, Imprinting, and Durability.” Research in Sociology of Organizations, From Categories to Categorization: Studies in Sociology, Organizations and Strategy at the Crossroads, Ed. Rodolphe Durand , Nina Granqvist , Anna Tyllström. Emerald: Emerald Group Publishing , (2017): :295 - 325.
Eliasoph, Nina, and Lo, Jade, “Broadening Cultural Sociology’s Scope: Meaning-making in Mundane Organizational life.” Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, USA: Oxford University Press, (2010): .
Kennedy, Mark, Lo, Jade, and Lounsbury, Michael, “Category Currency: A Framework for Analyzing the Effects of Meaning Construction Processes..” Research in the Sociology of Organizations, USA: Emerald, (2010): .
Proceedings
Li, Xiumei, Lo, Jade, Chen, Tianxu, and Narayanan, V.K., I am the Leader: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Leadership Claiming on Attracting VC Funding., Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings Mar 2018.
Lo, Jade, and Li, Haiyang, Effects of Participant Diversity on the Perceived Merits of Collaborative Innovations, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings Mar 2014.
Soubliere, Jean-Francois, Lo, Jade, and Rhee, Eunice Y., Coherence Within and Across Categories: The Dynamic Viability of Product Categories on Kickstarter, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings Apr 2022. (Jul 2022):
Rhee, Eunice, Lo, Jade, Kennedy, Mark T., and Fiss, Peer C., Things That Last? Category Creation, Imprinting, and Durability, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings Apr 2016. (Apr 2016):
Lo, Jade, The More, the Merrier? Resource Mobilization and Field Diversity in Emerging Fields, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings Apr 2010. (Apr 2010):
Professional Experience
Academic-Organization Science Editorial Review Board member Dec 2016-Nov 00-1
Awards
2023 OMT ABCD (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty) Award (Academy of Management)
2023 OMT Research Committee Award (Academy of Management )
2021 2022 OMT Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award (Academy of Management)
2021 MOC Kauffman Best Paper Awards in Entrepreneurial Cognition Finalist (Academy of Management)
2020 Best Paper Award Finalist (Academy of Management Review)
2018 Faculty Summer Research Award for Tenure/ Tenure-Track Faculty (Drexel University)
2018 Best Paper Proceedings (Academy of Management)
2017 Best Paper Proceedings (Academy of Management)
2016 Best Paper (Western Academy of Management Meetings)
2016 OMT Division Best Paper Proceedings (Academy of Management)
2016 Finalist for the OMT Division Best Symposium Award (Academy of Management)
2015 Best Reviewer Award for the TIM Division (Academy of Management)
2015 Runner-up for the OMT Division Best Symposium Award (Academy of Management)
2015 Finalist for the OMT Division Best Symposium Award (Academy of Management)
2015 SMS Best Conference Paper Prize Nomination (Strategic Management Society)
2014 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (Academy of Management)
2011 Social Science in Practice (SSIP) Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (UCLA)
2010 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (Academy of Management)
Service
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship – Advisory Board Member (2019–Present)
Organization Science – Member (2017–2020)