One of China’s many startup communities built by the government

Chinese characters below are translated “Hackerspace”

Research

Select Peer-Reviewed Papers*

*All authored and published work up to this point are solo- or first-author.

  1. Tien, Grace. “Culture and Charisma in Startups: How Founders Narrative Strategies Shape Resonance with Investors” (R&R, Strategic Management Journal)

    ASA Award for Best Student Paper in Economic Sociology and Entrepreneurship

  2. Tien, Grace. A Paradox of Risk: How Entrepreneurs Navigate Regulatory Uncertainty in an Autocracy (R&R, Socio-Economic Review)

  3. Tien, Grace. 2023. The Protestants’ Dilemma: When Cultural Mismatches Shape Deliberate Action (Published, Sociology of Religion)

Working Papers

  1. Entrepreneurship and Disinvested Urban Communities

  2. Strangers at Home and Abroad: Theorizing Foreignness and Ethnoracial Legitimation

  3. Community Kin Networks and the Unhoused

  4. From Charismatic Leadership to Charismatic Authority (with Edward J. Zajac)

Book

Tien, Grace, and María E. Funes. Religion & Racial Capitalism

(Published, Palgrave MacMillan)

Much of the discourse around diversity, equity, and inclusion have encountered two blind spots. First, discourse in the academy and beyond have prioritized the intersectionality of race and gender but neglected the intersectionality of race and class. Secondly, the resurgence (and now backlash) to diversity, equity, and inclusion have largely benefited cultural and economic elites on the political left and left behind the working class. This book suggests that the framework of racial capitalism can help bring attention to these gaps, in part due to renewed scholarly interest in racial capitalism across academic disciplines. This book is motivated by these theoretical gaps and focuses more specifically on how religion and religious institutions have both exacerbated or made efforts to address racial capitalism.

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