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Yameng is an Associate Professor at International Business School Suzhou (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA), Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She takes the position of Director of Research Center of Excellence (Sustainability and ESG), 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. Her research interests lie at the nexus of strategic management and international business (IB), particularly focusing on the impacts of institution and stakeholder network on firms strategies. Yamengs research has published in some good-quality international journals such as International Business Review, Journal of Business Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and one of her IB paper was finalized as Thats Interesting! Award from Academy of International Business Annual Meeting in 2019. 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=22AW1vYAAAAJhl=zh-CNcitsig=AMD79opQcZPD8M4XuGGugcIiJCOFbr3pRg
Research interests
Strategic leadership and corporate governance
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
International Business
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
Teaching
SMO422 Business Ethics and Responsibility, 2024-present
IOM445 Advanced Methods, 2023-present
SMO412 Doing Business with Chinese companies and Chinese Customers, 2023-present
SMO008 Trends in Management, 2021
SMO405 Management Dissertation, 2019-present
SMO201 Corporate Social Responsibility, 2020-2023
MAN016 Introduction to Business in China, 2020
MAN103 Introduction to Leadership, 2019
BUB303 Final Year Project, 2019-present
Awards and honours
Best Paper Award in Women in Academy of International Business (2024)
教育部学位中心全国本科毕业论文(设计)抽检评审专家 (2023)
“Key Talents in Science and Education” by Suzhou Industrial Park (2023)
Innovation and Entrepreneur Doctor by Jiangsu Talent Programme (2020)
Principals Early Career Scholarship (2017)
Co-scholarship from Chinese Scholarship Council and the University of Glasgow (2014-2018)
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
PGcert Certificate, 2020
PhD. University of Glasgow, 2018
Research areas
- Strategic Management
- International business
- Sustainability Management
Person Types
- Staff
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Alternative Protein in China – the intersection of production of locality and sustainable consumption
Zhao, L. (PI), Castka, P. (PI), Fang, E. (PI), Zhang, Y. (PI) & Yu, K. (PI)
31/10/24 → 21/08/26
Project: Internal Research Project
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Open Strategy and Organizational Legitimacy during Different Stages of Internationalization
Zhang, Y. (PI)
1/01/23 → 31/12/25
Project: Internal Research Project
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Plastic Recycling Awareness Raising In Suzhou Project
Zhang, Y. (PI), Kakuda, N. (Team member) & Zhou, X. (Team member)
10/12/24 → 31/12/24
Project: Collaborative Research Project
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The Development of Matching Cases in Business and Chinese modules on Virtual Reality Platform
Zhang, Y. (PI), Wang, H. (CoI) & Mao, Z. (CoI)
1/09/23 → 1/09/25
Project: Internal Research Project
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Home–country technological legitimacy in crowdfunding: The moderating role of positive psychological capital language
Yu, H., Attah-Boakye, R., Zhang, Y., Adams, K. & Owusu-Yirenkyi, D., Mar 2025, In: Technovation. 141, 103185.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Learning by Doing: The Drivers of UTC (Travel Expert)’s Sustainability Transformation
Zhang, Y., Mao, Z. & She, X., Jan 2025, SAGE Business Case Originals. SAGE Publications LtdResearch output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Role of international sister-city partnerships in facilitating sustainable urbanisation: practices between Manchester and Wuhan
Zhang, Y., Zhao, B. & Chen, W., 23 Oct 2025, In: Global Sustainability.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The insights from the crowd: Drawing inferences from many approaches to key empirical questions in international business
Delios, A., Hu, T., Yu, S., Zhou, N., Wen, L. & Zhang, Y., 2025, In: Journal of International Business Studies. p. 1 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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中国新能源出海企业绿色融资能力及其提升路径研究
Zhang, Y., Yu, H., Qian, L., Salike, N., She, X., Su, Y. & Luo, Y., Jun 2025, 48 p. (ESG30青年学者计划系列课题成果)Translated title of the contribution :The Green Financing Capacity of Chinese New Energy Enterprises Going Abroad and Its Improvement Path Research output: Book/Report/Edited volume › Commissioned report
Activities
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Preservation, Production and Reproduction
Brillhart, A. (Organiser), Zhang, X. (Organiser), Tang, B. (Member of programme committee), Schnabel, M. A. (Participant), Han, J. (Chair), Kuang, X. (Chair), Williams, E. (Chair), Chen, G.C.-F. (Chair), Traynor, K. (Chair), Lu, X. (Chair), Bandyopadhyay, S. (Participant), Tao, Y. (Participant), Winter, T. (Participant), Baek, M. J. (Participant), Vichnevetskaia, A. (Participant), Zhu, Y. (Participant), Wu, K. (Participant), Zhang, Y. (Participant), Hu, W. (Participant), Han, Z. (Participant), Zhang, L. (Participant), Li, Y. (Participant), Corti, E. (Participant), Zhu, Y. (Participant), Azadian Qomi, M. (Participant) & Cui, N. (Participant)
29 Aug 2025 → 30 Aug 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event e.g. a conference, workshop, …
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How governments engage firms to adopt voluntary environmental management
Honglan Yu (Speaker), Yameng Zhang (Speaker), Chengang Wang (Speaker) & Wei Zhang (Speaker)
25 Jul 2025 → 31 Jul 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar
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中国新能源出海企业绿色融资能力及其提升路径研究
Yameng Zhang (Speaker)
17 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Advancing ESG Investing in ASEAN and East Asia: Best Practices, Impact Analysis, and Future Prospects
Yameng Zhang (Organiser) & Nimesh Salike (Organiser)
21 Apr 2025 → 22 Apr 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event e.g. a conference, workshop, …
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Plastic Recycling Awareness Raising In Suzhou
Yameng Zhang (Consultant), Nakaya Kakuda (Consultant) & Xinyi Zhou (Consultant)
1 Dec 2024 → 31 Dec 2024Activity: Consultancy