Research
Research
Research Statement
My research examines the relationships among digital technologies, institutional structures, and social stratification. It follows three main strands. The first focuses on labor markets and social stratification, examining how digitalization and artificial intelligence reshape labor markets and, in turn, influence social attitudes. The second explores the relationship between institutions and organizations, focusing on how social networks and social capital operate across organizations and how changes in the external environment shape firms’ employment decisions. The third, a more recent interest, concerns quantitative methods, particularly age–period–cohort (APC) analysis and its extensions. My methodological interests grow out of substantive questions about social change and labor markets.
Research Areas
Social Stratification and Mobility
Labor Markets
Economic Sociology
Organizational Sociology
Quantitative Methods
Research Projects
Research on Major Employment Risks Facing China under the New Circumstances and Multidimensional Governance
A Comparative Study of Interpersonal Interaction in Virtual and Real Societies
Mechanisms and Policy Responses of Occupational Mobility among Energy Workers
Motivations and Effects of M&A Target Selection in the Chinese Context: An Industrial Policy Perspective
Promoting Interethnic Interaction, Exchange, and Integration and Forging a Strong Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation
Research Impact
My work to date has made three interconnected contributions. First, in labor market research, I draw on risk and institutionalist perspectives to explain the distribution of employment risks in the digital age and their implications for subjective class identification. Second, in research on social networks and social capital, I examine how institutional investors and different types of large shareholders influence corporate innovation, environmental governance, and value creation through mergers and acquisitions, focusing on mechanisms of governance, advice, and knowledge flows. Third, I extend age–period–cohort analysis from outcome levels to regression relationships, proposing the APC-VC model to describe and test temporal heterogeneity in these relationships. Together, these contributions connect research on social stratification, labor markets, organizational governance, and quantitative methods.