Dr Linxiang Ma
Lecturer
Accounting and Finance
Personal statement
Linxiang Ma joined the Strathclyde Business School as a Lecturer in Finance in July 2023. Before joining SBS, he was a PhD candidate in Finance at the University of Melbourne. He holds an MPhil in Economics from the Tinbergen Institute, two economic master's degrees from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the University of Essex, and a bachelor's degree from the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. Linxiang's research focuses on economic and financial history, political economy, and corporate finance. He is interested in understanding how frictions (e.g., politics, institutions, regulations, behaviours) affect corporate decisions and performances and how these effects evolve in the long run.
Area of Expertise
- Economic and Financial History
- Political Economy
- Corporate Finance
- Operations-Finance Interactions
- ESG
Publications
- Incentivizing emerging market suppliers for responsible international supply chain: Revenue-sharing and government subsidy
- Zhang Siyue, Hong Jiangtao, Ma Linxiang, Zhao Nanyang
- Computers and Industrial Engineering Vol 194 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2024.110351
- Fales hopes : the impact of national leaders' firm visits on industry peers
- Ma Linxiang
- China International Conference in Finance (2023)
Research Interests
Economic/Financial History, Political Economy, Corporate Finance and Governance, Supply Chain Operations, ESG/CSR
Professional Activities
- 2025 Responsible Finance Workshop - "Responsible Business and AI"
- Organiser
- 22/5/2025
- Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2025)
- Member of programme committee
- 2025
- Stigler Center- CEPR Political Economy of Finance Conference
- Speaker
- 2025
- Economic History Society Annual Meeting
- Speaker
- 2025
- Global Finance Journal (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2025
- 2025 Financial Management Association (FMA) European meeting
- Member of programme committee
- 2025
Projects
- REA PGR Studentship - Zitao Zhao
- Ma, Linxiang (Principal Investigator) Zhao, Zitao (Post Grad Student) Andriosopoulos, Dimitris (Co-investigator)
- 29-Jan-2025
- GRS / Diamond Jubilee fee-waiver studentships £64,650 - PhD Scholarship - WEI, YINGHUI
- Marshall, Andrew (Co-investigator) Ma, Linxiang (Principal Investigator) Wei, Yinghui (Post Grad Student)
- Diamond Jubilee Research Scholarships - £64650
- 24-Jan-2024
- GRS / Diamond Jubilee fee-waiver studentships- PhD Scholarship - Yiqing Li
- Ma, Linxiang (Principal Investigator) Li, Yiqing (Post Grad Student) Zhang, Hai (Co-investigator)
- 21-Jan-2024
Contact
Dr
Linxiang
Ma
Lecturer
Accounting and Finance
Email: linxiang.ma@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4545