Faculty/Staff

Lin Jiang

Lin Jiang

Associate Professor
linjiang@usf.edu
Room: BSN 3332
Phone: 813-974-6184
Vita

Lin Jiang is an associate professor of entrepreneurship at the Muma College of Business, University of South Florida. She has taught various courses across levels including Strategic Market Assessment for New Technologies (MS), Survey of Business Research on Entrepreneurship (DBA), Social Entrepreneurship (MS), Strategic Management (BA, PhD), and Creativity and Innovation in Entrepreneurship (BA).

Jiang's research focuses on change agents, such as innovators and entrepreneurs, who make a significant impact on their surroundings. She has studied how these change agents create, share, and communicate the value they generate. Her current research interests include entrepreneurs’ communication strategies and identities, as well as the biophilia effect in entrepreneurship and business. Her research has been published in top-tier journals such as Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Research Policy. She has received the William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Best Paper Award and the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management. Her work has been quoted by the chamber of commerce, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (kauffman.org), VoxEU.org, Inside Higher Ed, Wired.com, PhysicsWorld, Phys.org, and Science Daily. 

Jiang received a PhD in management from the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds an MBA/MS in Information Technology Management from the College of Business Administration at Creighton University. She also holds bachelor's degrees in information science and economics from Peking University in China.

Teaching

  • ENT 6186 / EIN 6935 - Strategic Market Assessment for New Technologies
  • GEB 6930 - Survey of Business Research I
  • ENT 6506 - Social Entrepreneurship
  • ENT 6947 - Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship
  • ENT 3163 - Creativity and Innovation in Entrepreneurship
  • GEB 4890 - Strategic Management/Decision Making

Research

  • Jiang, L., Liu, D., Yu, Y., 2026. Outsiders at the Helm: When Institutional Outsiderness Helps or Hurts Public Leaders’ Crisis Management Performance. Organization Science, 37(5): 1834-1859. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2024.18656
  • Zhang, P., Zhong W., Li S. Jiang L., Chan C.M. 2026. Compressing, Cyclic, and Continuing: Rethinking Time in Chinese Management. Organization and Organization Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2026.10134 

  • Oo, P. P., Jiang, L., Sahaym, A., Parhankangas, A., & Chan, R. 2023. Actions in words: How entrepreneurs use diversified and changing speech acts to achieve funding success. Journal of Business Venturing, 38(2): 106289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2023.106289

  • Jiang, L., Yin, D., Liu, D., & Johnson, R. 2022. The More Enthusiastic, the Better? Unveiling a Negative Pathway From Entrepreneurs’ Displayed Enthusiasm to Funders’ Funding Intentions. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221076391.

  • Jiang, L., Yin, D., & Liu, D. 2019. Can Joy Buy You Money? The Impact of the Strength, Duration, and Phases of an Entrepreneur’s Peak Displayed Joy on Funding Performance. Academy of Management Journal, 62(6): 1848–1871. https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amj.2017.1423

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  • Thursby, J. G., Haeussler, C., Thursby, M. C., & Jiang, L. 2018. Prepublication disclosure of scientific results: Norms, competition, and commercial orientation. Science Advances, 4(5): 1–14. http://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar2133

  • Ceccagnoli, M., & Jiang, L. 2013. The cost of integrating external technologies: Supply and demand drivers of value creation in the markets for technology. Strategic Management Journal, 34(4): 404–425. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2020

  • Jiang, L., Clark, B. B., & Turban, D. B. 2022. Overcoming the challenge of exploration: How decompartmentalization of internal communication enhances the effect of exploration on employee inventive performance. Technovation, 102611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102611

  • Haeussler, C., Jiang, L., Thursby, J., & Thursby, M. 2014. Specific and general information sharing among competing academic researchers. Research Policy, 43(3): 465–475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.08.017

  • Jiang, L., Tan, J., & Thursby, M. 2010. Incumbent firm invention in emerging fields: evidence from the semiconductor industry. Strategic Management Journal, 32(1): 55–75. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40961200

  • Rothaermel, F. T., Agung, S. D., & Jiang, L. 2007. University entrepreneurship: a taxonomy of the literature. Industrial and Corporate Change, 16(4): 691–791. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtm023

Service

  • Member, Academy of Management
  • Ad Hoc Referee for Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, and others.