Fan, Yang

Name	Yang Fan
Function	Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Office	T7-33
Phone	+31 10 408 1941
Fax	+31 10 408 9013
E-mail	yfan@rsm.nl

Research Interests:

• Contractual Design for Alliances (How do firms design contracts to manage inter-firm relationships? What are the formal governance forms (i.e. the allocation of control rights, the incentives and the decision rules)? How do firms divide tasks and coordinate between themselves?) 
• Value Creation and Value Appropriation in Collaborative Innovation (How does ex-ante value appropriation affect value creation in collaborative innovation? How to make ex-ante value appropriation to increase value creation under incomplete information?) 
• Contractual Design and Renegotiation  
• Knowledge transfer and learning
  
  Biography
  Yang joined the Department of Strategy & Business Environment, RSM in 2009. Before that, she did her PhD at the Department of Strategy & International Management in London Business School, and worked for three years in marketing and IP consulting. She earned her Msc. in International Management from University of Manchester, UK and Bsc. in Business & English from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
  
  Working Papers
  The Impact of Inter-firm Relationships on the Allocation of Control Rights in Bio-pharmaceutical Alliances (presented at SMS2008; AOM2009)
  
  Task Division in Collaborative Innovation: Managing Task Efficiency, Learning Opportunities and Coordination Costs (with P. Puranam)
  
  Performance Implications of the Allocation of Control Rights and Task Division in Bio-pharmaceutical Alliances
  
  Work in Progress
  The Contractual Design of Governance Forms: Complementarity between Control Rights and Equity Stakes