On May 25, 2022, the Division of Business Administration (DBM) arranged a seminar by Dr. Peng Wang. The seminar topic is "Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs ". It is about the relationship between state equity and the dissolution of international joint ventures (IJVs). The paper has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). It is the third replication study in the entire history of JIBS and the first one since 2000. In addition to the research content and methodology in his research, Dr. Wang shared the key points of journal submissions and replication studies.

Dr. Peng Wang is Assistant Professor at UIC. Before joining UIC, he received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the City University of Hong Kong and a Ph.D. in Management from Xi'an Jiaotong University. His research interests cover strategic management, international business, and marketing channel. Dr. Wang has won a lot of academic awards, such as the Winner of GSJ Best Paper Prize at the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Best Student Paper Award at IACMR, Best Reviewer Award at IACMR, and Best Reviewer Award at the Asia Academy of Management.

The seminar was held both online and offline. At the beginning of the seminar, Dr. Wang introduced the basic information of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) and the theoretical significance of replication research. Then he introduced the replicated paper and identified issues in the original paper.

Specifically, Dr. Wang’s paper replicates and extends Mohr et al.'s study via four related studies with a larger sample (SDC database) from the same data source and over a longer period, and a sample of IJVs from the same population but another data source (ACCIE). It has not only verified the research findings of Mohr et al. (2016) but extended their findings in a longer observation period.  It comes to the conclusion that the two-sided effects of state equity lead to a curvilinear relationship between state equity and IJV dissolution, where time is an important boundary condition.

Quite a few questions were raised by the audience in the Q&A session. Prof. Wilson Li raised the question of whether the issue of state-owned enterprises has been investigated in other countries and the qualitative analysis of the paper, while Dr. Jenny Xiao asked the motivation of conducting replication research.

At the end of the seminar, Dr. Wang highlighted the research methodology for replication and summarized several important tips in conducting replication studies. Owing to Dr. Wang’s extensive research experience and knowledge in international business, the seminar was successful and informative.