Roy (Taehee) Han

My decision to pursue a Ph.D. stems from a desire to theorize the real-world situations I faced as a founder. Having built and scaled a two-sided marketplace, my research centers on platform strategy, ecosystem governance, and entrepreneurial cognition through empirical, qualitative, and theoretical lenses.

As a self-taught full-stack developer, I code in TypeScript, Python, and PostgreSQL using Supabase and AWS, while fluidly leveraging R and Stata for research and automated data-cleaning. I am always driven by fresh, exciting research questions and welcome any opportunities to collaborate—please feel free to reach out via email.

Research Interests

Platform Strategy & GovernanceEntrepreneurial CognitionOrganization TheoryCreator Economy

Working Papers

Taehee Han. “Awakening Dormant Creators: Short-Form Content Adoption and the Activation of Long-Form Production on Multi-Format Platforms.” Preparing for submission to Information Systems Research.
Taehee Han. “From Partner to Subcontractor: How Founders Make Sense of Role Erosion in Asymmetric Corporate Partnerships.” Preparing for submission to Journal of Business Venturing.
Taehee Han. “The Recognition Gap: A Critique of the Perception Assumption in Theories of Dependence.” Preparing for submission to Academy of Management Review.

Under Review

Chen Qi and Taehee Han. “Shadow Capital and Institutional Arbitrage: Evidence from EU Accession in Central and Eastern Europe.” Journal of East European Management Studies.SSCI

Publications

Junghwa Woo and Taehee Han. “Simplicity as Strategy: Empirical Evidence on Linguistic Structure and Legitimacy in CEO Communication.” International Journal of Contents, 16(1), 2026.
Wooyoung Yang and Taehee Han. “The Legitimacy Bias: ESG's Asymmetric Effects on Innovation Quantity and Quality.” Innovation and Enterprise Research, 6(1), 2026.