Dr Ying Zhang
Lecturer
Work, Employment and Organisation
Personal statement
I am a Lecturer in International Management and Organisation. Before taking up the lectureship, I worked as a Teaching Fellow at Strathclyde Business School. My research interests lie in the areas of processes and practice of international collaborations with particular attention to individual and organizational identity and trust building among collaborating partners. My broad research interests in identity and trust building also extend to other organizational contexts such as emerging market multinational corporations, public sectors, and small and medium sized enterprises.
Area of Expertise
- Process and practice of international collaborations (joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and partnerships)
- Individual and organizational identity
- Trust
- Cross cultural management
Prize And Awards
Publications
- How stories make strategy : top management and middle managers' storytelling performances
- Enang Etieno S, Zhang Ying, Sminia Harry
- Academy of Management Proceedings Vol 2024 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2024.12010abstract
- Unpacking researchers' embodied sensemaking : a diffractive reading-writing of Mann Gulch disaster
- Enang Etieno, Sminia Harry, Gherardi Silvia, Zhang Ying
- Scandinavian Journal of Management Vol 39 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101299
- Exploring interfirm collaboration processes of small- and medium-sized enterprises : an institutional logics perspective
- Zhang Ying
- Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Vol 35, pp. 402-423 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2022.2103745
- Storying organizational identity and strategy : an antenarrative analysis
- Enang Etieno, Zhang Ying, Sminia Harry
- 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2021)
- Forging a collective entrepreneurial identity within existing organizations through corporate venturing
- Zhang Ying, Biniari Marina
- International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research Vol 27, pp. 1502-1525 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-08-2019-0492
- A relational approach to entrepreneurial opportunity identification/ development and leadership styles : a case study in China
- Liu Jingjiang, Zhang Ying, Peng Yifan
- The Ninth International Association for Chinese Management Research Biennial Conference (2021)
Teaching
I teach across the areas of international business, management, and professional skills development. My current teaching includes: Managing Inter-Organisational Partnerships and Alliances (MBA – Open Learning); Professional Management Practice (MIM & MFM); Managing Across Cultures (MIM); Managing Across Cultures and Frontiers (UG – 3rd year); International Business Analysis (UG – 2nd year). I am experienced in supervising postgraduate and PhD students.
Projects
- Investigating Smartphone App SMEs
- Harker, Michael John (Principal Investigator) Zhang, Ying (Co-investigator)
- The creation and marketing of software applications for smartphones – Apps – is an already significant element of the modern digitalised and services based economy. The small size and temporally amorphous nature of such companies, twinned with little to no sector wide organising and representing organisation means that the working practices of these SMEs is concealed. This multi-disciplinary project would seek to gain insight into the three main aspects of their operations and aspects of work.
1. The development and improvement of technical, coding related skills and knowledge
2. The development and improvement of internal management/Human Resources skills and knowledge
3. The development and improvement of market facing skills and knowledge - 15-Jan-2023 - 13-Jan-2024
- A Study of the Inter-organisational Networking Practices of Scottish SMEs in their Internationalisation into China
- Zhang, Ying (Principal Investigator)
- The importance of inter-organisational networks has long been recognised. However, the inter-organisational networking practices adopted by Scottish SMEs in their internationalisation have received limited scholarly attention. In particular, there is a lack of theoretical and empirical understanding of how Scottish SMEs actually engage in the everyday practices of partnering and networking with other organisations in order to accelerate their international expansion.
This research aims to investigate the inter-organisational networking practices adopted by Scottish SMEs and their impact upon Scottish SMEs’ internationalisation into China. To this end, the research objectives are developed as:
- To investigate the availability of inter-organisational networks for Scottish SMEs in their internationalisation into China
- To examine the inter-organisational networking practices adopted by Scottish SMEs in their internationalisation into China
- To identify the influencing factors for the Scottish SMEs’ inter-organisational networking practices in the Chinese business context
- To critically evaluate the effectiveness of the adopted inter-organisational networking practices upon Scottish SMEs’ performance in their internationalisation into China - 09-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
- Collaborative Training Account / RA4219
- Zhang, Ying (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2004 - 30-Jan-2012
Contact
Dr
Ying
Zhang
Lecturer
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: y.zhang@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 553 6159