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Zhiling Lin

Zhiling Lin

PhD Student | Management and Human Resources
5266 Grainger Hall, 975 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, U.S.A.

About Zhiling

Zhiling Lin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Management and Human Resources at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

His research spans two interconnected streams within Strategy and Entrepreneurship. The first stream, reflected in his dissertation, advances the behavioral perspective rooted in the Carnegie School tradition by uncovering novel mechanisms through which organizations adapt in response to performance feedback.

The second stream of his work extends the behavioral perspective in entrepreneurship through a series of ongoing projects. He investigates how organizational structure, psychological traits, and project stages shape entrepreneurial pivoting decisions. The second stream extends this behavioral lens to entrepreneurship through a series of ongoing projects that examine how organizational structures, psychological traits, and project stages influence entrepreneurial pivoting decisions.