Dr. Ke Rong
Professor, Ph.D. (Cantab.)
Deputy director, Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University
Deputy dean, Institute for Global Industry, Tsinghua University
Deputy dean, Institute for Innovation and Development, Tsinghua University,
Address: Institute of Economics, School of Social Science, Tsinghua University, China, 100084
Email: r@tsinghua.edu.cn
Biography
I am currently the deputy director and tenured professor at the Institute of Economics, School of Social Science at Tsinghua University in China. I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge having obtained a bachelor’s degree at Tsinghua University. Before joining Tsinghua, I was a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter and Bournemouth University in the UK and a visiting scholar in the Harvard Business School. My current research interests focus on Business/Innovation Ecosystems, Digital Economy, and Data Ecosystems. The articles I have had published are numerous – over 60 refereed articles for journals including the Journal of International Business Studies (UTD24), Production and Operations Management(UTD24) and Management Organization Review. I have been the principal investigator of several research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation of China and the British Academy, along with leading firms such as Huawei, Bytedance, China Mobile, Tencent and Haier. These projects explore the business ecosystem and platform strategy in several emerging industries in the global landscape such as digital economy, data market, integrated chips, 3D printing, electric vehicles, smartphone, mobile internet and sharing economy. I have received several awards for my academic work, including the award of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers from Elsevier. I serve as the editor-in-chief of Journal of Digital Economy and also serve on the editorial board of the leading journal Long Range Planning. I am also a member of the Expert Network of World Economic Forum.
Education Background
09/2007–07/2011 University of Cambridge (UK), Ph.D. in Manufacturing and Management, Institute for Manufacturing and Downing College
09/2003–07/2007 Tsinghua University, B. Eng. in Automation
Professional Experience
2016–Now Tenured Professor (2021), Tenured Associate Professor (2018) , Deputy Director (2018) and Associate Professor, Institute of Economics, School of Social Science, Tsinghua University, China
2021–Present Deputy Dean, Institute for Global Industry, Tsinghua University
2015–2016 Senior Lecturer at the Business School of University of Exeter, U.K (Russell Group University)
2014–2015 Visiting Faculty to Harvard Business School
2011–2015 Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Strategy (2014 Promoted) at the Business School of Bournemouth University, UK
Areas of Research
•Business/Innovation Ecosystems
•Digital Economy
•Data Ecosystems
Academic Citizenship
1.Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Digital Economy
2.Member of Expert Network, World Economic Forum.
3.Editorial Board member: Long Range Planning (Leading journal on Strategic Management, SSCI); Cross Cultural & Strategic Management (SSCI)
4.Editorial Advisory Board member: International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior; Management Research.
5.Editorial Review Board member: Management Quarterly Journal (Chinese), a leading management journal in China.
6.Guest Editor: Academy of Management Discoveries (official journal of Academy of Management) working with Prof. Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford Univ.), Prof. Andrew Van de Ven (Univ. of Minnesota) and Prof. Tomi Laamanen (Univ. of St. Gallen), article entitled ‘Business Models, Ecosystems and Society in Sharing Economy’.
7.Guest Editor: Resource, Conservation and Recycling (SCI Q1 journal) special issue on Sharing Economy, article entitled ‘The Sharing Economy and its Implications for Sustainable Value Chains’.
8.Guest Editor: Asian Business & Management (SSCI journal), first guest editor, call for paper entitled ‘Business Ecosystem in Asian Context: Social Embeddedness’.
9.Guest Editor: Journal of Knowledge Management (SSCI Q1): ‘Knowledge Management in Innovative or Complex Inter-Organizational Arrangements: How to Effectively Share, Transfer, Integrate and Apply Dispersed Knowledge’.
10.Guest Editor: Resarch and Development Management (Chinese), special issue on ‘Digital Innovation of Platform Ecosystems’.
11.Guest Editor: Studies in Sciences of Sciences (Chinese), special issue on ‘Digital Innovation’.
12.Committee Member of National Reprensentative, European Academy Management (2019–present).
13.Committee member: Digital Innovation and Management committee in Chinese Association for Science of Science and S&T Policy since 2020.
14.Conference organizer: Track chair in the European Academy of Management 2014–present; Track chair in the Academy of Management 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2022.
15.Ad hoc reviewer: Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, British Journal of Management, Management Organization Review, Organiztion Studies, Long Range Planning, Information System Journal, California Management Review, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Production Economics; AOM, AIB, EURAM, EUROM conferences.
16.Membership: American Economic Association, Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, European Academy of Management, EuroMA.
Honors and Awards
2021 Award of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers from Elsevier
2017–2018 Young Scholar of Distinction in Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University
2017–Now The Award of Beijing Excellent Talent Training Program
2016–present Tang Youth Scholar Awards (仲英青年基金)
2015–2016 Best Macro paper award, leading journal: Group & Organization Management
2014–2015 Best Runner-Up paper award, European academy of management annual conference
2012–present Fellowship of Higher Education Academy
2010–2011 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
2009–2010 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
2008–2010 Cambridge Overseas Trust
Publications：
Books：
1.Rong, K and Shi, Y (2014) ‘Business Ecosystems: Constructs, Configuration and Nurturing Process’, Palgrave Macmillan Press, London. Endorsed by Dr. James Moore, the founder of business ecosystem theory.
2.王勇，戎珂，2018，《平台治理:在线市场的设计、运营与监管》，中信出版社，北京
Journal Articles：
1.Rong,K, Zhou, D*, Shi,X, Huang, W, 2022, Social Information Disclosure of Friends in Common in an E-commerce Platform: An Online Experiment, Production and Operations Management, vol.31, issue 3, pp:984-1005. (UTD24, SCI)
2.Rong,K, Kang,Z* and Williamson, P, 2022, Liability of Ecosystem Integration and Internationalization of Digital Firms，Journal of International Management, vol.28, 100939 (SSCI)
3.Shi,X, Hong,H, Luo,Y, Rong,K*, Shi,Y, (2022), Exploring the Process of Business Ecosystem Emergence from Value Chains: Insights from the Chinese Mobile Phone Industry, Management Organization Review, Vol.18 , Issue 1 , pp. 4 - 42 （SSCI QI）
4.Rong,K, Sun,H, Li,D and Zhou,D* 2021, Matching as Service Provision of Sharing Economy Platforms: An Information Processing Perspective, Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Vol.169. (SSCI)
5.Rong,K, Li, B, Peng,X, Zhou,D and Shi,X*, （2021）, Sharing Economy Platforms: Co-Creating Shared Value at a business ecosystem level, Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Vol.169. (SSCI)
6.Shi,X, Sutherland, D, Williams,C and Rong,K 2021, Patent- and Trademark-Seeking Outward Foreign Direct Investment by Chinese Firms: The Role of Business Group Affiliation, Industrial and Corporate Change, accepted (SSCI)
7.Shi,X, Sutherland, Williams, Rong K 2021, Emerging Market MNE Acquisition of Unrelated Foreign Businesses: The Impacts of Diversified Business Group Affiliation, Private Ownership and Strategic Asset Seeking, Journal of Business Research, 20210212 accepted（SSCI）
8.Rong K, Lin Y, Yu J, et al (2020). Manufacturing strategies for the ecosystem-based manufacturing system in the context of 3D printing[J]. International Journal of Production Research, 1-20.（SCI）
9.Rong, K., Lin, Y., Yu, J., Zhang, Y., & Radziwon, A. (2020). Exploring regional innovation ecosystems: an empirical study in China. Industry and Innovation, 1-25. (SSCI)
10.Rong, K., Zhou, D., & Parente, R. C. (2020). Why Do Platform Multinationals Struggle Abroad? The Role of Informal Institutions. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2020, No. 1, p. 16994). （AOM 2020 Best Paper Finalist）
11.Lu, C, Chang, F, Rong, K, Shi, Y and Yu X (2020), Deprecated in policy, abundant in market? The frugal innovation of Chinese low-speed EV industry，International Journal of Production Economics，Vol.225, P107583. (SSCI/SCI)
12.Ren Q., Rong K., Lu C., Liu G., and Ross, M. （2020）, Value-informed Pricing for Virtual Digital Products: Evidence from Chinese MMORPG Industry, International Journal of Market Research，vol.62, issue 3, p350-368 (SSCI)
13.Parente, R., Rong, K.*, Geleilate, J.-M, and Misati, E. (2019). Adapting and Sustaining Operations in Weak Institutional Environments: A Business Ecosystem Assessment of a Chinese MNE in Central Africa. Journal of International Business Studies, vol.50 issue.2, pp275-291 (SSCI, UTD24) (Q1)
14.Rong, K, Xiao F, and Wang Y., 2019, Redundancy in the sharing economy, Resources Conservation & Recycling, vol.151, pp104455，（SCI）.
15.Rong, K, Xiao, F*, Zhang, X and Wang, J (2019), Platform strategy and User Stickiness in online video industry, Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Vol.143, pp249-259, (SSCI)
16.Liu, Y, Zhang, Y, Batista, L and Rong, K, 2019, Green operations: what’s the role of supply chain flexibility?, International Journal of Production Economics, vol.214, pp30-43.(SCI)
17.Meng, D, Li, X*, and Rong, K (2019), Industry-to-university knowledge transfer in ecosystem-based academic entrepreneurship: Case study of automotive dynamics & control group in Tsinghua University, Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Vol.141, pp249-262, (SSCI)
18.Ma,Y, Rong, K*, Luo, Y, Wang, Y, Mangalagiu, D and Thomas, T (2019), Value Co-creation for Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Sharing Economy in China, Journal of Clean Production, vol.208, pp1148-1158 (SCI）
19.Lin,Y, Luo,J, Ieromonachou,P, Rong,K, Huang,L, (2019) "Strategic orientation of servitization in manufacturing firms and its impacts on firm performance", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 119 No. 2, pp. 292-316 (SCI)
20.Laamanen, T, Pfeffer, J, Rong, K and Van de Ven, A, 2018, Editors’ Introduction: Business Models, Ecosystems, and Society in the Sharing Economy, Academy Management Discoveries. Vol. 4, No. 3, 213–219. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2018.0110
21.Rong, K*., Patton, D. and Chen, W. (2018), Business model and ecosystem in the 3D printing industry: the interplay between business models and business ecosystems. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol.134, pp234-245.(SSCI)
22.Parente, R., Geleilate, M., Rong, K.* (2018). The sharing economy globalization phenomenon: a research agenda. Journal of International Management, Vol.24, No.1, pp52-64 (SSCI，ESI高被引论文)
23.Rong, K, Lin, Y, Li, B, Burstrom, T, Butel, L and Yu, J (2018), Business ecosystem research agenda: more dynamic, more embedded and more internationalized. Asian Business & Management, Vol.17, No.3, pp167-182.(SSCI)
24.Luo, J., Rong, K.*, Yang, K., Zou, Y. and Guo, R. (2018). Syndication through social embeddedness: a comparison of foreign, private and state-owned venture capital (VC) firms in China. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, pp1-29. (SSCI).
25.Rong, K., Hu, J., Ma, Y., Lim, M., Liu, Y. and Lu, C. (2018). The sharing economy and its implications for sustainable value chains. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol.130, pp.188–189 (SCI).
26.Rong, K*., Ren, Q. and Shi X. (2018). The determinants of network effects: evidence from online games business ecosystems. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol.134, pp45-60.（SSCI）
27.Ma, Y., Rong, K.*, Mangalagiu ,D., Thornton ,T. and Zhu, D. (2018). Co-evolution between urban sustainability and business ecosystem innovation: evidence from the sharing mobility sector in Shanghai. Journal of Cleaner Production, vol.188, p942-953 (SCI).
28.Liu, G, Rong,K* and Ko, W (2018), Promoting employee entrepreneurial attitudes: an investigation of Chinese state-owned enterprises, International Journal of Human Resource Management, pp1-19. (SSCI)
29.Rong, K., Secchi, D. and Shou, Y. (2018). Culture, trust and business ecosystems: the mediating role of online chat in China. International Journal of Mobile Communications, Vol.16, No.3, pp247-265 (SSCI).
30.Hao,H, Liu,Z, Zhao,F, Ren,J, Chang,S, Rong,K and Du,J, (2018), Biofuel for vehicle use in China: Current status, future potential and policy implications, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 82:645-653 (SCI)
31.Rong, K., Shi, Y., Shang, A., Chen. Y. and Hao, H. (2017). Organizing business ecosystems in emerging electric vehicle industry: structure, mechanism and configuration patterns. Energy Policy, vol.107, pp.234–247 (SSCI/SCI)
32.Wei, S., Guo, L., Sharma, R. and Rong, K.* (2017). Investigating e-business models' value retention for start-ups: the moderating role of venture capital investment intensity. International Journal of Production Economics, vol.186, pp.33–45 (SCI)
33.Lu, C., Liu, H., Tao, J., Rong, K.* and Hsieh, Y. (2017). A key stakeholder-based financial subsidy stimulation for Chinese EV industrialization: a system dynamics simulation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol.118, pp.1–14 (SSCI).
34.Guo, L., Sharma, R., Yin, L., Lu, R. and Rong, K. (2017). Automated competitor analysis using big data analytics: evidence from the fitness mobile app business. Business Process Management Journal, vol.23, pp.735–762 (SSCI).
35.Van de Ven, A., Laamanen, T., Rong, K. and Pfeffer, J. (2016). Business models, ecosystems and society in Sharing Economy. Academy of Management Discoveries, vol.2 no.2.
36.Lin, Y., Luo, J., Cai, S., Ma, S. and Rong, K*. (2016). Exploring the service quality in the e-commerce context: a triadic view. Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol.116, no.3 (SCI)
37.Rong, K., Hu, G., Lin, Y., Shi, Y. and Guo, L. (2015). Understanding business ecosystem using a 6C framework in Internet-of-Things-based sectors. International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 159, pp.41–55 (SCI)
38.Rong, K., Wu, J., Shi, Y. and Guo, L. (2015). Nurturing business ecosystems for growth in a foreign market: incubating, identifying and integrating stakeholders. Journal of International Management, vol. 21, no.4, pp.293–308 (SSCI)
39.Liu, G. and Rong, K*. (2015). The nature of the co-evolutionary process: complex product development in the mobile computing industry’s business ecosystem. Group & Organization Management, vol.40, no.6, pp.809–842 (SSCI) Best Marco Paper Award of the journal, 2015.
40.Lu, C., Rong, K., You, J. and Shi, Y. (2014). Business ecosystem and stakeholders’ role transformation: evidence from China’s emerging electric vehicle industry. Expert Systems with Applications, vol.41, no.10 (SCI)
41.Hu, G., Rong, K.*, Yu, J. and Shi, Y. (2014). Sustaining the emerging carbon trading industry development: a business ecosystem approach of carbon traders. Energy Policy, vol.73, pp.587–597 (SSCI) .
42.Chen, Y., Rong, K*., Xue, L. and Luo, L. (2014). Evolution of collaborative innovation network in China’s wind turbine manufacturing industry. International Journal of Technology Management, vol.65, pp.262–299 (SSCI/SCI) .
43.Rong, K., Hu, G., Hou, J., Ma, R. and Shi, Y. (2013). Business ecosystem extension: facilitating the technology substitution. International Journal of Technology Management, vol.63, no.3/4 (SSCI/SCI).
44.Rong, K., Lin, Y., Shi, Y. and Yu, J. (2013). Linking business ecosystem lifecycle with platform strategy: a triple view of technology, application and organization. International Journal of Technology Management, vol.62, no.1 (SSCI/SCI) .
45.Rong, K., Shi, Y. and Yu, J., (2013). Nurturing business ecosystem to deal with industry uncertainties. Industrial Management & Data System, vol.133, no.3(SCI) .
46.Rong, K., Liu, Z., and Shi, Y. (2011). Reshaping the business ecosystem in China: case studies and implications. Journal of Science and Technology Policy in China, vol.2, no.2, pp.171–192.
47.Wu, X., Ma, R., Shi, Y. and Rong, K. (2009). Secondary innovation: the path of catch-up with ‘Made in China’. China Economic Journal, vol.2, no.1,pp.93–104.
48.戎珂、刘涛雄、周迪*、郝飞 2022， 数据要素市场的分级授权机制研究，《管理工程学报》, 第36卷，第6期，15-29.
49.戎珂、杜薇、刘涛雄，2022，培育数据要素市场和数据生态体系，《中国社会科学内部文稿》，第2期，49-58
50.戎珂，康正瑶，James Moore, 2021，工业互联网落地的3I模型，《哈佛商业评论》。
51.戎珂，施新伟，周迪*，2021，如何建立计算产业第二创新生态，《科学学研究》，第39卷, 第6期
52.陈衍泰，厉婧，程聪，戎珂，2021, 海外创新生态系统的组织合法性动态获取研究：以“一带一路”海外园区领军企业为例，《管理世界》, 第8期，页码161-180。
53.周迪，董雪峰，吴悠然，尤毓姝，戎珂*，短视频行业的平台定位模型研究——以抖音、快手为例，《研究与发展管理》，2019 （获得2020年度该杂志优秀论文）
54.戎珂，王勇，康正瑶，2018，从平台战略到生态战略的STEP模型，《哈佛商业评论》，第10期, 页码109-114。
55.戎珂, 肖飞, 王勇, 康正瑶, 2018,‘互联网商业生态的扩张：基于并购的视角’《研究与发展管理》, 第30卷，第4期.
56.戎珂, 王勇, 2017, 分享经济2.0：原生性分享, 《哈佛商业评论》
57.戎珂, 马潇南, 王勇, 2017. 分享经济的十字路口：向左分担, 向右经营. 《环境经济》 vol.4, pp.20–23.
58.陈衍泰, 吴哲, 范彦成, 戎珂, 2017. 研发国际化研究:内涵、框架与中国情境. 《科学学研究》, vol.35, pp.387–395, 418.
59.路江涌, 戎珂, and 王萌, 2016. 滴滴优步如何成功上位-网约车合法化之路及后续挑战. 《清华管理评论》, (11), pp.24–35.
60.卢超, 尤建新, 戎珂, 石涌江, and 陈衍泰, 2014. 新能源汽车产业政策的国际比较研究. 《科研管理》, vol.12
61.姚明明, 吴晓波, 石涌江, 戎珂, and 雷李楠, 2014. 技术追赶视角下商业模式设计与技术创新战略的匹配——一个多案例研究. 《管理世界》, (10), 149–162.
62.侯杰, 陆强, 石涌江, and 戎珂, 2012. 基于组织生态学的企业成长演化: 有关变异和生存因素的案例研究. 《管理世界》, vol.12, 11.
