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Lori Yue

Associate Professor of Business
Management Division
Lori Yue
Areas of Expertise
Business & Society, Globalization, Organizations & Markets, Social Impact, Strategy
Contact
Office: 1191 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
Curriculum Vitae
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Lori Qingyuan Yue is Associate Professor at the Management Division in Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on the interplay among business, society, and government, particularly in how firms respond to contentious social environments and regulatory uncertainty. She has published papers on industry self-regulation, corporate political strategies, corporate responses to social movements, and corporate sociopolitical activism. 

One line of her recent research investigates how firms, particularly those in nascent industries emerging from technological innovations, adopt novel political strategies to influence regulation. Another line examines how firms, especially multinational corporations, navigate the challenges posed by deglobalization and the rise of nationalism. She has developed a theory of corporate rhetorical nationalism and utilized large language models to construct computational measures of nationalism at the firm level (see here for the paper, code, and data).

Professor Yue’s research has been featured in leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals and has earned numerous awards and recognitions from the Academy of Management (AOM), Responsible Research in Business & Management (RRBM), the Strategic Management Society (SMS), the Academy of International Business (AIB), INFORMS, and the Law and Society Association. Her work has also been cited in prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, CNBC, Forbes, and Yahoo! Finance. She previously served as an associate editor of Management Science, a consulting editor for the American Journal of Sociology, and Chair of the Organizational Management and Theory Research Committee at AOM.

Professor Yue has taught at the PhD, MBA, EMBA, Executive Education, and undergraduate levels. In the CBS MBA and EMBA programs, she teaches Top Management Process, a popular elective that explores the multifaceted role of general managers in shaping strategy, operations, and organizational leadership in both entrepreneurial and established firms. In fall 2025, she will teach Global Enterprise Management, a course designed to equip students with the core principles and practices necessary for managing global enterprises in an increasingly complex international business landscape, addressing challenges such as geopolitical tensions and trade policies. Within CBS Executive Education, she leads the Corporate Sociopolitical Strategy module, which examines how corporations leverage nonmarket strategies—such as lobbying, campaign contributions, public mobilization, philanthropic initiatives, and sociopolitical activism—to navigate regulatory uncertainties and contentious social environments.

Before joining CBS, Professor Yue was a faculty member at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, where she taught the undergraduate core course Strategic Management, served as course head, and spearheaded its redesign. She also taught short MBA courses and the PhD seminar in Organizational Theory. She won both teaching and research awards for her contributions.

Education
B.S., Renmin University of China; M.S., Peking University; Ph.D., Columbia Business School
Joined CBS
2021

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • CaseWorks
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Journal Article
Cai, Yishu , Lori Yue , Fangwen Lin, Shipeng Yan, and Haibin Yang
. “CSR as Hedging Against Institutional Transition Risk: Corporate Philanthropy After the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan.”
Administrative Science Quarterly
(Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
Buchanan, Sean , Lærke Højgaard Christiansen, Lori Yue , and Jochem Kroezen
. “Business Collective Action: An Integrative Review And Framework.”
Journal of Management Studies
(Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
Yue, Lori, Jiexin Zheng, Kaixian Mao, and Tiantian Yang
. “Corporate Endorsement of Controversial Nationalist Movement: Influences of Divergent Customers and Consequences.”
Journal of Management
(Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
Minefee, Ishva and Lori Yue
. “Taking A Stand While Abroad? Towards A Theory of MNCs' Sociopolitical Activism in Host Countries.”
Journal of International Business Studies
vol.
56
, (May 08, 2025):
510
-
529
. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00761-z
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Journal Article
Yue, Lori and Yuni Wen
. “Elite Conflict and Industry Regulation: How Political Polarization Affects Local Restriction and State Preemption of the U.S. Hydraulic Fracturing Industry.”
Political Power and Social Theory
vol.
41
, (November 01, 2024):
113
-
139
. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-871920240000041005
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Journal Article
Wang, Yongzhi (Alex), Lori Yue , Nandini Rajagoplan, and Xun (Brian) Wu
. “The Entry-Deterring Effects of Synergies in Complementor Acquisitions: Evidence from Apple’s Digital Platform Market, the iOS App Store.”
Strategic Management Journal
vol.
45
, no.
13
(July 15, 2024):
2791
-
2817
. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3639
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Journal Article
Yue, Lori, Jiexin Zheng, and Kaixian Mao
. “Firms’ Rhetorical Nationalism: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence from a Computational Analysis of Chinese Public Firms.”
Management and Organization Review
vol.
20
, no.
2
(April 30, 2024):
161
-
203
.
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Journal Article
Wen, Yuni, Edward Walker, and Lori Yue
. “By the People and For the People: The Double-Edged Effects Of Platform User Mobilization On Public Policies.”
Academy of Management Discoveries
vol.
Forthcoming
, (March 18, 2024).
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Journal Article
Yue, Lori and Jue Wang
. “Policy Learning in Nascent Industries’ Venue Shifting: A Study of the U.S. Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Industry.”
Business & Society
vol.
63
, no.
5
(January 10, 2024):
1203
-
1251
. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503231182666
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Journal Article
Yue, Lori, Kate Jue Wang, and Botao Yang
. “Contesting Commercialization: Political Influence, Responsive Authoritarianism, and Cultural Resistance.”
Administrative Science Quarterly
vol.
64
, (January 01, 2019):
435
-
465
.
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Journal Article
Greve, Henrich R. and Lori Yue
. “Hereafter: How Crises Shape Communities through Learning and Institutional Legacies.”
Organization Science
vol.
28
, no.
6
(November 20, 2017):
965
-
1167
.
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Journal Article
Yue, Lori
. “The Great and the Small: The Impact of Collective Action on the Evolution of Interlock Networks after the Panic of 1907.”
American Sociological Review
vol.
81
, no.
2
(February 25, 2016):
374
-
395
.
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Journal Article
Yue, Lori
. “Community Constraints on the Efficacy of Elite Mobilization: The Issues of Currency Substitutes during the Panic of 1907.”
American Journal of Sociology`
vol.
120
, no.
6
(May 01, 2015):
1690
-
1735
.
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Journal Article
Yue, Lori, Hayagreeva Rao, and Paul Ingram
. “ Information Spillovers from Protests against Corporations: A Tale of Walmart and Target.”
Administrative Science Quarterly
vol.
58
, no.
4
(October 21, 2013):
669
-
701
. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839213511243
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Journal Article
Yue, Lori, Jiao Luo, and Paul Ingram
. “The Failure of Private Regulation: Elite Control and Market Crises in the Manhattan Banking Industry.”
Administrative Science Quarterly
vol.
58
, no.
1
(March 01, 2013):
37
-
68
.
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Journal Article
Yue, Lori
. “Asymmetric Effects of Fashions on the Formation and Dissolution of Networks: Board Interlocks with Internet Companies.”
Organization Science
vol.
23
, no.
4
(July 01, 2012):
1114
-
1134
.
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Journal Article
Rao, Hayagreeva, Lori Yue , and Paul Ingram
. “Laws of Attraction: Regulatory Arbitrage in the Face of Activism in Right-to-work States.”
American Sociological Review
vol.
76
, no.
3
(May 26, 2011):
365
-
385
.
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Journal Article
Ingram, Paul, Lori Yue , and Hayagreeva Rao
. “Trouble in Store: The Emergence and Success of Protests against Wal-Mart Store Openings in America.”
American Journal of Sociology
vol.
116
, no.
1
(July 01, 2010):
53
-
92
.
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Journal Article
Ingram, Paul and Lori Yue
. “Structure, Affect and Identity as Bases of Organizational Competition and Cooperation.”
Academy of Management Annals
vol.
2
, no.
1
(January 01, 2008):
275
-
303
.
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Working Paper
Yue, Lori, Fangwen Lin, and Ishva Minefee
. Does It Pay to Take a Stand Abroad? MNC-Country Fit and Consumers’ Reactions to Sociopolitical Activism in Host Countries. Forthcoming.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Yue, Lori and Jue Wang
. “Disruptive Technologies and Local Regulations: Policy Leaning in Venue Shifting.”
Social Science Space
. November 22, 2023.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Yue, Lori
. “Book Review for The Bank Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis, by Neil Fligstein.”
Administrative Science Quarterly
. September 01, 2022.
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Book
Rao, Hayagreeva, Lori Yue , and Paul Ingram
. Activists, Categories and Markets: Racial Diversity and Protests against Wal-Mart Store Openings in America. Edited by
Greta Hsu, Giacomo Negro, and Ozgecan Kocak
.
Emerald Publishing Limited
, 2010.
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Chapter
Yue, Lori
. “Lessons from the National Banking Era Financial Crises in the U.S.” In
Tsinghua Financial Review
,
105
-
109
. 2017.
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Chapter
Yue, Lori and Paul Ingram
. “Industry Self-Regulation as a Solution of Reputation Commons: A Case of the Commercial Bank Clearinghouse.” In
Oxford Handbook of Reputation Commons
, edited by
Michael L. Barnett and Timothy G. Pollock
,
279
-
296
.
Oxford
:
Oxford University Press
, 2012.
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  • Courses
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Course
B8515: Top Management Process
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  • Awards & Honors
2025

The Management and Organization Review (MOR) Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) Best Paper Award

2025

SMS Annual Conference Best Paper Prize - Nominee

2024

Finalist of the Academy of International Business Annual Conference Best Theory Paper

2020

IACMR-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Management

  • In the Media
  • Articles
In the Media

Does it pay for bosses to embrace nationalism?

The Economist
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Does It Pay for Bosses to Embrace Nationalism?

Economist
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Forbes
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Axios
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Yahoo! Finance
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‘Big Headwind’: Key Actions Boards Can Take Now on Tariffs

Agenda
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Meet 21 DC Power Players Who Shape Federal Policy for Chip Companies like Intel, Nvidia, and TSMC

Insider
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How the Trump Tariffs on Taiwan Chips Could Hurt the AI Trade — and the Likes of Nvidia

Yahoo! Finance
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Big Business Saw an Ally in Eric Adams, and Overlooked His Issues

NY Times
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Why JPMorgan Chase Is Prepared to Sue the U.S. Government over Zelle Scams

CNBC
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Why JPMorgan Chase is prepared to sue the U.S. government over Zelle scams

CNBC
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The System Is Falling Apart’: US Elections Bring Unpredictability for Business

Financial Times Specialist, Agenda
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What We Learned from the Kroger-Albertsons FTC Trial as More Court Battles Loom

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'Uncertain Playing Field' for Noncompete Ban After Courts Split

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Teslas Are Cheaper Than Ever. Here’s How Biden’s China Tariffs Will Affect Costs.

MarketWatch
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Biden looks to boost worker, consumer power as election looms

The Hill
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Biden Looks to Boost Worker, Consumer Power as Election Looms

The Hill
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When Customers Become Lobbyists

Digital Future
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Bosses are exerting their power. What Trump's crackdown could mean for your job

Washington Post
Article

Big App Acquisitions in Apple’s iOS Ecosystem Stifle Competition and Innovation

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When Should Companies Take a Stand? The Risks and Rewards of Corporate Activism

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When Patriotism Pays: How Companies Are Cashing In on Nationalism

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Article

Fractured Lines: How Political Polarization Affects Business Regulations

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Avoiding Red Tape: Nascent Industries Forge New Pathways Amidst Regulatory Challenges

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How New Industries Are Shaping Regulations

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