At 9 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, the Business School of Central University of Finance and Economics successfully held the 11th Distinguished Academic Forum of 2026 via Tencent Meeting. Professor Xia Jun from the Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas, was invited as the keynote speaker. More than 20 participants, including faculty members, doctoral students and master's students from the Business School, as well as scholars from other universities, attended the online academic event.
The forum was presided over by Professor Lin Song of the Business School. Before the lecture began, he gave an introduction to Professor Xia Jun's academic background. Currently a professor at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas, Professor Xia's research focuses on organizational theory, strategic management and international business, with particular attention to resource dependence theory, institutional environment and corporate strategy. He has published numerous high-quality papers in top international journals and serves on the editorial boards of journals including the Journal of International Business Studies.
The title of Professor Xia's lecture was How Commercial Diffusion of Dual-Use Technologies Produces Techno-Bloc Polarization: A Theory of Strategic Latency. He delved into the critical issue of how commercial openness could inadvertently evolve into hidden risks to national security, and put forward the core concept of Strategic Latency — referring to the growing geopolitical significance of a dual-use technology ecosystem before it is officially identified as a security threat by relevant nations. Through cross-border production, knowledge exchange and ecosystem integration, commercially successful open cooperation may gradually lead to strategic dependence, vulnerability of key nodes and rising political sensitivity.Professor Xia established a four-agent framework covering home countries, multinational enterprises, host countries and third-party states, and developed a recursive process model to explain how the commercial diffusion of technologies gradually gives rise to Techno-Bloc Polarization. Taking the advanced semiconductor industry as a case, he pointed out that contemporary technological fragmentation is more likely to take the form of selective polarization rather than full decoupling. This research offers a brand-new theoretical perspective for understanding the complex interplay between technology governance and business strategy amid geopolitical dynamics.
After the lecture, teachers, students and scholars present held an in-depth discussion with Professor Xia on topics such as the strategic management of dual-use technologies, corporate decision-making amid geopolitical risks, global trends of technological decoupling and polarization, and coping strategies for Chinese enterprises. The discussion greatly boosted the exchange and collision of academic ideas.
As a key platform for the Business School of Central University of Finance and Economics to fulfill its mission of advancing new management knowledge, the Distinguished Academic Forum centers on frontier issues in business administration and the management practices of Chinese enterprises. It pools global wisdom and innovative insights, and strives to provide theoretical support and practical solutions for the sustainable social and economic development of China.
