GONG Yan, Assistant Professor, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on capabilities, routines and unexpected events in entrepreneurial firms. His current research explores dynamic paths of how new firms develop routines and capabilities, and how they respond to surprise events in entrepreneurial processes. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Technology Transfer, Handbook of Organizational Routines and Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research.