Changwei Guo, Ph.D. in Management, graduated from the School of Business, Renmin University of China.

Research Interests: Corporate entrepreneurship, business ecosystems, sustainable development, and paradox management in organizations.

Methodological Expertise: Case study and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).

Selected Publications (* denotes corresponding author; + denotes co-first author)

• Wang, F., Guo, C.+, Chen, J., & Sun, S. L. (forthcoming). Financial/Social Trade-Offs in Dual-Purpose Companies. Journal of Management Studies. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joms.13257

• Yan, L., *Guo, C. **, & Cheng, C. (2025). Social Re-embedding of Algorithmic Decision-Making: A Paradoxical Balance of Formal and Substantive Rationalities. Studies in Science of Science, 43(04), 703–711. (in Chinese)

• Zhu, Y., Lin, Y., & Guo, C.* (2025). How Can Disadvantaged Firms Achieve Strategic Green Innovation in Emerging Fields? A Longitudinal Case Study from a Legitimacy Perspective. Studies in Science of Science. Advance online publication. (in Chinese)

• Guo, C., Zhu, Y., Yu, Z., & Sun, G. (2024). How Do Internal Corporate Ventures Break Through? A Longitudinal Case Study from the Perspective of Optimal Distinctiveness. Nankai Business Review, 27(8), 161–171. (in Chinese)

• Guo, C., Zhou, L., & Wang, F. (2024). Configurations of Multidimensional Organizational Change and Innovation in State-Owned Enterprises. Science Research Management, 45(04), 12–19. (in Chinese)

• Guo, C., Wang, F., Zhu, Y., & Qu, Q. (2022). Antecedent Configurations of Internal Corporate Venture Performance: An Optimal Distinctiveness Perspective. Chinese Journal of Management, 19(9), 1345–1353. (in Chinese)

• Zhu, Y., & Guo, C.* (2021). Entrepreneurship as Risk-Taking: A Multi-Level Review of Internal Corporate Entrepreneurship. Foreign Economics & Management, 43(2), 123–139. (in Chinese)

• Zhu, Y., & Guo, C. (2020). A Configurational Study of Employees’ Internal Entrepreneurship Motivation Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. Chinese Journal of Management, 17(11), 1661–1667. (in Chinese)

Conference Proceedings

• (Un)Knotting Paradoxes to Dynamic Disequilibrium: A Process Study of Cross-units Collaboration. Academy of Management Proceedings (2024, Chicago, Best Paper)

• A Configurational Approach to Financial/Social Trade-Offs in Dual-Purpose Companies. Academy of Management Proceedings (2024, Chicago)

• Transparadoxical Enactment and Multivocal Paradox Knotting in Managing Growth Disequilibrium. Academy of Management Proceedings (2023, Boston)

• The Conjoint Effects of Accountability and Capability on Financial/Social Balance. Academy of Management Proceedings (2022, Online)

Textbooks

• Wang, F., Hu, G., Guo, C., & He, W. (2024). Chinese Management: Ideas, Context, and Process. Beijing: Renmin University Press. (in Chinese)

• Wang, F., Guo, C., Li, B., & Li, D. (2023). Management (6th revised edition). Beijing: Renmin University Press. (in Chinese)

Teaching Cases (CMCC Recognized)

• The Green Innovation Journey of Xuda Energy Storage: From Exploration to Breakthrough. Selected as One of the National Top 100 Excellent Management Cases, 2024. (5th author)

• From Preemption to Strategic Leap: How Narada Power Broke Through Path Dependence? Included in CMCC, 2024. (4th author)

• From Coincidence to Inevitability: The Breakthrough and Advancement of Internal Entrepreneurship at Narada Power. Selected as One of the National Top 100 Excellent Management Cases, 2022. (2nd author)

• A Craftsperson in the Fog: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Proton Technology. Selected as One of the National Top 100 Excellent Management Cases, 2020. (4th author)

• Unintentional Success: The R&D Management of Proton Technology. Selected as One of the National Top 100 Excellent Management Cases, 2019. (4th author)