Publication:

• Steven Jiawei Hai & Eddie Yixuan Wang. (2025). Contesting a Contested Cryptocurrency Entrepreneurship in China: Diverse Local Innovation and Changing Globalisation. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cyberpsychology. (forthcoming)


• Steven Jiawei Hai. (2025). What’s happening in China’s semiconductor industry? Economics Observatory.​


• Klingler-Vidra, R., & Hai, Steven J. (2024). China’s chip industry is gaining momentum: it could alter the global economic and security landscape. The Conversation. 


• Alsudairi, M., Hai, Steven. J., & Alahmad, K. (2023). How Saudi Arabia Bent China to Its Technoscientific Ambitions. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 


• Steven J. Hai and Klingler-Vidra R. (2022). Chinese Blockchain: Convergence Around a Beijing-aligned Strategy. Global Policy Journal. 


• Klingler-Vidra, R., Hai, Steven J., Liu, Y., & Chalmers, A. W. (2021). Is the Jack Ma trajectory unique? Assessing the place-based hypothesis on entrepreneurial success. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 34:4, 419-442.


• Xin Sun and Steven J. Hai. (2020). “State-Business Relations Under Xi: What has (and hasn’t) changed and what are the implications?”, LSE IDEAS.

Working Papers:

• Understanding the Globalisation of Chinese Entrepreneurship from Below: The Development of Chinese MNE in Slovenia and the EU Common Market, with Martina Bofulin and Igor Regelja
• Navigating the Future River: Datafication and Digital Public Health Governance in the Pandemic Era U.K.
• Not for Troublesome: The Political Economy of a Globalised Chinese NFT (Non-Fungible Token) Platform
• Sonata: Blockchain Development and State-Market Relationships in China
• Flow Me Through the River: Cross-Border Data and Information Regulation in China
• Red Neuromancer: The Algorithm, AI Entrepreneurship, and Chinese Governmentality
• Computing Algorithmic Cyborgs: The State-Market Nexus in China’s Cloud Computing Industry
• Borderland or Frontier?: Joint Innovation Park in Shenzhen and Hong Kong
• Red Stars over Metaverse: The Political Economy of Minecraft in China
• We Shall Tango in Techno Music: Institutional Outsourcing and Regulatory Innovation on Digital Governance in China

Entrepreneurial & Industrial Projects:

• In Crypto We YOLO (you only live once): Crypto Entrepreneurship in China and Vietnam, with Fatdoods NFT & Kyber Network
• Do Cyborgs Dream of Digital Cats?: Ethics and Genetic Pharmaceutical Industry in China
• ​You Are Not Calling Alone: Sino-South African 5G Telecommunication Cooperation