Family Business Faculty

Wesley Sine is the John and Dyan Smith Professor of Management and Family Business, academic director of the Smith Family Business Institute, and faculty director of Entrepreneurship Innovation and Technology theme. His research focuses on the emergence of new economic sectors and entrepreneurship in the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. He explores issues related to institutional change, industry and technology evolution, technology entrepreneurship, and new venture structure and strategy. He has examined a diverse set of economic sectors, including the electric power industry and the emergence of the internet. Teaching interests include entrepreneurship, commercializing university technology, new venture growth, the management of technology and innovation, and organizational change. He has consulted and taught executives in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.

Sine has published papers in the following journals: Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Research Policy. Sine is currently a senior associate editor at Organization Science and is the book review editor at Administrative Science Quarterly.

Professor Sungyong Chang is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. His research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, firm strategy, and family business. He examines how entrepreneurial firms navigate resource constraints and capability disadvantages to compete with industry leaders, as well as how ownership structures in family businesses shape firm strategy, governance, and long-term performance. His work also explores topics such as early internationalization, network effects, and the role of technology in firm growth and competitive dynamics.

Chang’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Research Policy. He has received multiple awards, including the Buckley and Casson Dissertation Award from the Academy of International Business.

At Cornell, Chang teaches NBA 6720: Managing Family and Privately Held Firms and NBA 6545: Dilemmas in Founding New Ventures, courses that explore the complexities of ownership, strategy, and decision-making in entrepreneurial and family businesses.

Prior to joining Cornell, Chang was a faculty member at London Business School. He earned his PhD in Management from Columbia University, where he developed computational models to study firm strategy, innovation, and business ecosystems.