Nan Jia
Professor of Strategic Management, USC Marshall School of Business
Recent Research
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Will Artificial Intelligence “Democratize” Corporate Political Activities? Amplifying the Role of “Know Who” in the Age of Enhanced “Know What”
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Spreading the Style: Firm Leaders’ Early Life Experiences and Employees’ Behavior and Performance
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The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Baptist and Bootlegger” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency Building
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Introducing Machine-Learning-Based Data Fusion Methods for Analyzing Multimodal Data: An Application of Measuring Trustworthiness of Microenterprises
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AI Can Help People Feel Heard, but An AI Label Diminishes This Impact
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Forced to Innovate? Consequence of U.S. Anti-Dumping Sanctions on Chinese Exporters’ Innovations
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Perceived Fairness of Human Managers Compared with Artificial Intelligence in Employee Performance Evaluation
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Corporate Political Connections: A Multidisciplinary Theoretical Review
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The Limits of State-Led Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Patents
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When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity
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Reputation, Competition, and Lies in Labor Market Recommendations
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The Promise and Pitfalls of Government Guiding Funds
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Using supervised machine learning for large-scale classification in management research: The case for identifying artificial intelligence patents
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Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity
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The Janus Face of Artificial Intelligence Feedback: Deployment Versus Disclosure Effects on Employee Performance
Nan Jia is a Professor of Strategic Management at the USC Marshall School of Business. Her research examines how firms navigate the intersection of business, government, and emerging technologies, with a particular focus on corporate political strategy, business–government relationships, and the organizational and strategic implications of artificial intelligence. Her work has been published in leading journals including Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science, and has received multiple best paper and research excellence awards.
Nan is also a leader in teaching innovation in product management. She is the co-creator and academic director of USC Marshall’s Graduate Certificate in Product Management (effective summer 2025) and a co-creator of the Undergraduate Minor in Product Management (program pending university approval). Her courses emphasize data-driven decision making, human–AI collaboration, and applied, cross-functional product leadership.
Within the field, Nan previously served as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and is currently serving as a Guest Editor for the Strategic Management Journal special issue on Strategy and AI. She also sits on the editorial boards of several top journals and holds elected leadership roles in the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management. At USC Marshall, she has led major faculty recruiting and personnel committees and actively mentors doctoral students and junior faculty.