Sekar Yeshwant Raj

Sekar Yeshwant Raj

Sekar Yeshwant Raj

Title : Assistant Professor

Education : Ph.D. in International Management, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

OfficePhone : 39102 (PG-IC507-2)

OfficeHour : Tuesday – 12.00 PM- 17.30 PM, Wednesday- 12.00PM -17.30 PM, Appointment by

E-mail : yeshwantraj@thu.edu.tw

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Journal Papers

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2026
Raj. S, Y., & Chang, Y. Y. (2026). Curious minds at work: how organizational support and motivation relate to employee creativity. The Learning Organization, 33(3), 486-506. (JCR Q2- ESCI)
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2026
Chang, Y. Y., & Raj, S. Y. (2026). Feasibility triggers intention? A longitudinal study of self-efficacy and expertise-embedded mechanisms in practice-based entrepreneurship education. The International Journal of Management Education, 24(2), 101377. (SSCI-Q1)
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2025
Y. -Y. Chang, V. Davidavičienė, A. Bronner and Y. Raj. S., "Overqualified Yet Motivated: Work Motivation, Technology Uncertainty and Overqualified Employees’ Innovative Behavior," in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 72, pp. 952-965, 2025. (SSCI-Q1)
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2025
Y. -Y. Chang, K. Sathornsantikun, Raj, S. Y. and H. -Y. Chen, "The Power of Curiosity: Exploring the Relationship Between Joyous Curiosity, Self-Efficacy, and Entrepreneurship," in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 72, pp. 1486-1499, 2025. (SSCI-Q1)
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2025
Chang, Y. Y., Raj. S, Y., & Somransukawat, N. (2025). Beyond migrant entrepreneurship: how mixed embeddedness and STEM backgrounds shape entrepreneurial intentions. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 1-23. (SSCI-Q2)

Conference Papers

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2026
Chang, Y-Y., Raj. S, Y., & (2026, June 23-26). The Human Costs of Generative AI Emergence at Work: Job Insecurity as a Pathway to Burnout. 2026 ICSSI 2026 Conference, TIES, National Chung Hsing University.
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2024
Chang, Y. Y., Sathornsan, K., Raj. S, Y., & Chen, H. Y. (2024). Joy is Strength: Understanding Curiosity, Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy, and Entrepreneurship. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2024, No. 1, p. 15960). Valhalla, NY 10595: Academy of Management.
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2024
Chang, Y.-Y., Sathornsantikun, K., Chen, H.-Y., & Raj, Y. S. (2024, September 2-6). The power of curiosity in entrepreneurship education: How entrepreneurial self-efficacy converts joyous exploration into entrepreneurship. 2024 British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Nottingham Trent University. [Best Full paper Award]
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2023
Chang, Y.Y. & Raj, S, Y (2023, August 28-30). Harnessing the Darkness: Unmasking the Influence of Dark Personality Traits on Social Entrepreneurial Intentions. Asia Pacific Management conference (APMC). Brisbane, Australia.
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2023
Chang, Y.Y. & Raj, S, Y (2023, September 1-6). How Organizational Design Affects Employee Creativity: The Pivotal Role of Work Curiosity. 2023 British Academy of Management Conference. Brighton, UK.

Research Projects

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2023
2023 National Science and technology Council’s (NSTC) award for doctoral candidates in the fields of humanities and social sciences to write doctoral thesis assignments, accepted the award under the National Science and Technology Development Fund to write the following doctoral thesis: See Beyond the Obvious: Understanding how Entrepreneurial Alertness Shapes Entrepreneurial Cognition through the Interaction between Lean Startup Approach and Entrepreneurial Team Diversity, Approved number: NSTC112-2424-H-006-001-DR.
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2022
2022 Spring Veritas et Conscientia Scholarship (VCS) Awardee for Existing PhD Students- National Cheng Kung University