Education

　　Ph.D. (Majored in Business Administration), Business School of Nankai University, 2001.

　　M.E. (Majored in Business Administration), South-Central University for Nationalities, 1998.

　　B.E. (Majored in Business Administration), South-Central University for Nationalities, 1995.

　　Overseas Visiting and Training

　　Visiting Scholar, University of Bath, UK, Jan. 2006- Dec. 2006.

　　Teaching Entrepreneurial Thought and Action (TETA)，Babson College, USA, March, 2012

　　Courses Taught

　　Entrepreneurship

　　Managerial Economics

　　Introduction to Management

　　Research Interests

　　Entrepreneurship

　　Small and Medium Enterprise

　　Management of Technology

　　Representative Research Papers

　　(1) Yiyuan Mai, How On-the-job Embeddedness influences New Venture Creation and Growth, Journal of Small Business Management (SSCI), Forthcoming. (with Y Zheng.)

　　(2) Yiyuan Mai, The Mobility of Nascent Entrepreneur’s Social Capital and Venture Gestation, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2010.2(with X Gu. & Q Ye)

　　(3) Yiyuan Mai, Venture Capitalists’ Herd Behavior: Theoretical Analysis of Chinese Venture Capital Market, Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Vol.4,No.1, 2010,107-127(with Li Y. & W Hu. & Z Li)

　　(4) Yiyuan Mai,Entrepreneurial opportunities, capacities and entrepreneurial environments: Evidence from Chinese GEM data, Chinese Management Studies. Vol.1, No.4, 2007,(with Z Gan.)

　　(5) Yiyuan Mai, The Driven Motivation for Innovative Entrepreneurship, Science Research Management, Vol.31, No.5, 2010, 9(with S Zhou)(in Chinese)

　　(6) Yiyuan Mai, How Job Embeddednedd Influences New Venture Creation by High-tech Employees, Nankai Business Review, Vol.12,No.2,2009,67-74(with S Zhou.& L Mei.) (in Chinese)

　　(7) Yiyuan Mai, Will Work Experience Certainly Help the Entrepreneurial Process: Analysis of Work-based Embedded,Nankai Business Review, No.2, 2011, 144 -149(with X Gu) (in Chinese)