Help us to congratulate the 2025 Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) grant recipients. Sixteen scholars were awarded a total of $202,000 to advance their research and drive positive, effective, and responsible action in the field of strategic management worldwide.
Learn more about their work and its impact.
Early Career Research Grant (ECRG) Program
Huiyi Litan, Renmin University of China
Research: How Open-Source Developer Communities Create an Often-Invisible Infrastructure of Coordination—a “people layer” of interdependence that links projects through shared contributors.
Giacomo Marchesini, Copenhagen Business School
Research: How does Organizational Design and Knowledge Regimes in Shaping Doctors’ Diagnostic Decision-Making
Kalan Horton, Rochester Institute of Technology
Research: In the Context of Platform Based Ecosystems: How Does the Nature of User-to-User Connections Affect Value Creation in Networked Products?
Jungkyu Sug, New York University
Research: Asks When and How Firms Choose to Disclose Internal Scientific Research; Disclosure as a Dynamic Process rather than 1-time choice.
Research in Strategic Management Grant (RSMG) Program
Pinar Ozcan, Oxford University
Research: Uncovers how entrepreneurial ventures navigate prolonged regulatory hurdles that delay formal scaling.
Daniel Kim, The Wharton School
Research: Investigates the role of venture capital investors’ portfolios as networks that facilitate the redeployment of human capital among startups.
Nataliya Wright, Columbia University
Research: Examines how local resource environments influence startups’ strategic market positioning—collaborative versus competitive—and how this choice shapes their organizational scaling.
Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant (WMDRG) Program
Nety Wu, INSEAD
Research: Explores how artificial intelligence transforms strategic decision-making and organizational learning.
Mostafa Khoshbash, University of California Santa Barbara
Research: Open-Source AI Ecosystem Building: Foundation Models, Openness, and the Nature of Innovation
Haiyang Zhang, Harvard Business School
Research: Examines how firms adapt their boundaries and scope when strategic choices are constrained rather than freely adjustable.
Seungmin Yoo, Boston University
Research: Investigates how two underexplored phases of the skilled migrant lifecycle—student immigration and return migration—shape innovation and entrepreneurship.
Trissanne Keen, University of Michigan
Research: Questions how employees evaluate firms whose actions simultaneously generate societal benefits and harms, and how does perceived authenticity shape those evaluations, effort, and wage expectations?
Rohin Vrajesh, Bocconi University
Research: Asks how large-scale public scientific information releases affect firms’ strategic allocation of R&D effort, and why reductions in scientific uncertainty lead to strategic rebalancing across disease areas rather than uniformly expanded investment.
James Addis, University of Toronto
Research: Looks at an emerging conversation in innovation strategy highlights the importance of different ‘applications’ or ‘uses’ for technology.
Nastaran Alimardaninaghani, The Ohio State University
Research: Explores how firms gain competitive advantage in strategic factor markets when managers interpret uncertainty through behavioral rather than purely rational lenses.
