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Yameng is an Assistant Professor at International Business School Suzhou (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She takes the position of Programme Director of BA International Business with Language, and she is awarded as "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctor" by Jiangsu Talent Programme (江苏省“双创”博士) in 2020 and evaluated as Key Talents in Science and Education (科教区骨干人才) by Science Suzhou Industrial Park in 2023. Previously, Yameng obtained her PhD. degree from Adam Smith Business School (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) at the University of Glasgow in 2018, and she was a post-doc researcher at Business School, Sun Yat-sen University (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) between 2018 and 2019. Her research interests lie at the nexus of strategic management and international business (IB). Her research particularly focuses on the impacts of institution and stakeholder network on firms' strategies.

Yameng's research has published in some good-quality international journals such as Journal of Business Research, and one of her IB paper was finalized as "That's Interesting!" Award from Academy of International Business Annual Meeting in 2019. Currently, she is a principal investigator of the project "The Study on the Mechanism and the Dynamic Relationships between International Friendship Cities and Outward Foreign Direct Investment", funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China. Cooperated with a European Research Council Advanced Project (REDEFINE), Yameng successfully obtained National Natural Science Foundation of China and the European Commission "China-EU Talent Project" in 2021.

Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=22AW1vYAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN&citsig=AMD79opQcZPD8M4XuGGugcIiJCOFbr3pRg

Qualifications
- PGcert Certificate, 2020
- PhD. University of Glasgow, 2018
Experience
- PhD supervisor, 2021 to present
- Visiting researcher, The Open University, 2022
- Visiting researcher, The University of Sydney Business School, 2017
- Post-doc researcher, Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, 2018-2019
Research interests
- Strategic leadership and corporate governance
- Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
- International Business
Articles
- Zhang, Y. (corresponding author), & Liu, Z. (Ph.D student) (2023). Connect Globally, Thrive Locally: The Spillover Effect of Sister-City Inward FDI on Regional Innovation. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
- Yu, K., Zhang, Y. (corresponding author), & Huang, Y. (2023). Entrepreneurship at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability, 15(3), 2480.
- Zheng, L. J., Zhang, Y. (corresponding author), Zhan, W., & Sharma, P. (2022). How B2B relationships influence new product development in entrepreneurial firms? The role of psychological tension. Journal of Business Research, 139, 1451-1462.
- He, H. (Final Year Project student), Zhang, Y., & Ding, Y. (2022). When Does CSR Fail to Incentive Employees’ Affective Organizational Commitment? Exploring the Moderating Effects Based on the CSR Concerns Model. Sustainability, 14(13), 8115.
- Zhang, Y. (corresponding author), Sharma, P., Xu, Y., & Zhan, W. (2021). Challenges in internationalization of R&D teams: Impact of foreign technocrats in top management teams on firm innovations. Journal of Business Research, 128, 728-741.
- Zhang, Y., Zhan, W., Xu, Y., & Kumar, V. (2020). International friendship cities, regional government leaders, and outward foreign direct investment from China. Journal of Business Research, 108, 105-118.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.09.056
Proceedings
- Zhou, C., Zhang Y., Bu, M., ‘Out to Escape: Adverse Political Shocks and Outbound M&A Outcomes by Politically Connected Emerging Markets Firm’, Academy of International Business (AIB) 2022 Annual Meeting, Miami, USA, 6 Jun-9 July, 2022
- Xu Y., Zhang Y., Ma, G., ‘Playing it Ethical or Safe? Exploring Earnings Management by Military Executives’, the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Atlanta, U.S., 05-09 August 2022.
- Zhang Y., Wu Z., Xu Y., Kumar V., ‘Birding distance: The Experience of International Friendship Cities, Regional Government Leaders and Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Economies’, Academy of International Business (AIB) 2019 Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-27 June, 2019 (finalist of “That’s Interesting!” Award).
- Zhang Y., Sharma P., Xu Y., Wu Z., ‘Minority-in-Minority: Impact of Foreign Technocrats in Top Management Teams on Firm Innovation’, the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Boston, US, 9-13 August, 2019.
- Liu W, Yang G, and Zhang Y., ‘Does Distance Matter? Firm-Government Geographic Proximity and Strategic Corporate Philanthropy’, Academy of International Business (AIB) 2019 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, 25-28 June, 2018.
- Zhang Y., Buck T., Canales J.I., and von Delft S., ‘Too Comfortable in Saddle? The Effects of CEO Tenure on Board Attributions of Poor Firm Performance’, the 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Atlanta, U.S., 04-08 August 2017.
Chapters, cases, readings and supplements
- Zhang, Y., (2023). From customer-to-manufacturer to farm-to-customer: pinduoduo’s business model transformation for sustainability. In SAGE Business Cases. SAGE Publications, Ltd., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529621273
Grants
- Principle investigator, ‘Open Strategy and Organizational Legitimacy during Different Stages of Internationalization’, Research Development Fund by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 84000 RMB, 2023.1-2025.12.
- Principle investigator, ‘The Study on the Bilateral Driving Mechanism and Influence Path of International Friendship Cities on the Sustainable Development of China's Foreign Direct Investment: A Case Study of Infrastructure Investment in Europe’, Collaborative Project between National Natural Science Foundation of China and European Research Council, 30,000 RMB from Chinese side, 2021.9-2023.3.
- Co-investigator, ‘Re-orienting development: the dynamics and effects of Chinese infrastructure investment in Europe (REDEFINE)’, European Research Council, €2.5 million, 2020-2025.
- Principle-investigator, ‘The impacts of city diplomacy on Chinese technological infrastructure investments to Europe: The case of Wuxi’, Summer Undergraduates Research Fellowship, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 6000 RMB, 2022.
- Principle-investigator, ‘When and how do International Friendship City networks facilitate knowledge transfer and innovation in Jiangsu Province’, Summer Undergraduates Research Fellowship, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 7500 RMB, 2021.
- Principle investigator, 'International friendship cities, knowledge transfer and innovation system, Jiangsu Talent Programme, 150,000 RMB, 2020-2022.
- Principle investigator, ‘The Study on the Mechanism and the Dynamic Relationships between International Friendship Cities and Outward Foreign Direct Investment’, Youth Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 250,000 RMB, 2020-2023.
- Principle investigator, 'International Friendship Cities, Regional Governments and Outward Foreign Direct Investment' The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central University, 7,5000 RMB, 2020-2023
Professional service activities
- Reviewer of Strategic Management Society Annual Conference (2016)
- Reviewer of Academy of Management (2017, 2022)
- Reviewer of Academy of International Business (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023)
- Reviewer of Sustainable Accounting, Management and Policy Journal (2023)
- Reviewer of Journal of Business Research (2022)
- Reviewer of Technovation (2022)
- Reviewer of Journal of International Management (2021)
- Reviewer of Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2018, 2021,2022)
- Paper Session Chair of “Diversity in the Upper Echelon (Sub-session #20664)” of Academy of Management Conference (2019)
Courses taught
- SMO412 Doing Business with Chinese companies and Chinese Customers
- SMO008 Trends in Management
- SMO405 Management Dissertation
- SMO201 Corporate Social Responsibility
- MAN016 Introduction to Business in China
- MAN103 Introduction to Leadership
- BUB303 Final Year Project
Professional memberships
- Reviewers of Asia Pacific Journal of Management (ABS 3), Journal of International Management (ABS 3)
- Academy of International Business (AIB)
- Academy of Management (AOM)
Awards and honours
- “Key Talents in Science and Education” by Suzhou Industrial Park (2023)
- "Innovation and Entrepreneur Doctor" by Jiangsu Talent Programme (2020)
- Principal's Early Career Scholarship (2017)
- Co-scholarship from Chinese Scholarship Council and the University of Glasgow (2014-2018)

电话
+86 (0)51281888346
Email
Yameng.Zhang@xjtlu.edu.cn
地址
BS258(SIP Campus-IBSS Building)
Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District
Suzhou Industrial Park
Suzhou
P.R.China
215123

Yameng ZhangPH.D

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