Yang, Weikun（楊唯坤）
BBA(HKBU); MA, PhD (University of Michigan)
Assistant Professor
Contact Room 807, 8/FCheng Yu Tung Building
12 Chak Cheung Street
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
+852 3943 8100
weikunyang@cuhk.edu.hk
Biography
Yang Weikun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His research applies the resource-based view to the study of corporate strategy, with a particular focus on diversification, innovation, competition, and capability selection. He employs large-scale data and formal modeling techniques to explore how firms leverage resources.
Teaching Areas
Strategic Management
International Business
Research Interests
Resource-based View
Corporate Strategy
Innovation
Competitive Strategy
- Publications & Working Papers
Publications
- W. Yang, Y. M. Zhou, and S. Ethiraj (2025), “Unconventional times: Competition, capability, and process innovation in the oil and gas extraction,” Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025(1), 10385.
- Y. M. Zhou, W. Yang, and S. Ethiraj (2023), “The dynamics of related diversification: Evidence from the health insurance industry following the Affordable Care Act,” Strategic Management Journal, 44(7), 1753–1779.