Xiaoyu Zhou
Assistant Professor
| Research Area Strategic Management Organizational Theory Corporate Sustainability Contact Information zhouxy@shanghaitech.edu.cn |
Biography
Xiaoyu Zhou is an assistant professor and principal investigator at the School of Entrepreneurship and Management, ShanghaiTech University. He earned his Ph.D. in business administration from Peking University in 2014 and a Bachelor’s degree in management from Sun Yat-sen University in 2009. During his doctoral studies at Peking University, Xiaoyu had received many scholarships and awards, such as the National Scholarship of China, Japan Foundation Scholarship, Sylff Association Scholarship, and the Honored Graduate of Beijing City.
Professor Xiaoyu Zhou offers entrepreneurship and management related courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels for ShanghaiTech students, such as Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Business Analytics, Entrepreneurial Marketing, etc. He has participated in many international teaching programs, including the Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning at Harvard Business School, the Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators at Babson College, and the Interdisciplinary Science and Art Summer School at the University of Padova.
Research Interests
Dr. Xiaoyu Zhou’s research interests focus on strategic management, organizational theory, and corporate sustainability. His recent projects include: (1) Corporate social responsibility strategies of Chinese listed firms; (2) The mechanism of academic entrepreneurship in China; (3) Field experiments for studying how macro-level factors influence human behaviors.
His research works have been published at the top journals in the fields of general management, business ethics, and regional development, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and World Development. He also published several works at the top Chinese management and marketing journals such as the Nankai Business Review, Journal of Management Science, and Journal of Marketing Science.
His research papers on corporate social responsibility strategies have won the Best Paper Awards in several academic conferences such as the Asian Academy of Management (2017), International Conference of Asian Marketing Associations (2015), Chinese Academy of Management (2014), and Chinese Marketing Science (2014). He now serves as an ad-hoc reviewer at the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Relations, Managament and Organization Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
Selected Publication
Cheng, Y., Zhou, X., and Yao, K., “LGBT-Inclusive Representation in Entertainment Products and Its Market Response: Evidence from Field and Lab,” Journal of Business Ethics [FT 50, ABS 3], in press.
Zhang, Y., Zhou, X., and Lyles, M., “Reaching Optimally Distinctive CSR Strategy: Examining the Antecedents of CSR Scope Conformity and Emphasis Differentiation among Chinese Publicly Listed Companies,” Management and Organization Review [ABS 3], in press.
Ding, H., Hu, Y., Yang, X., and Zhou, X., “Board interlock and the diffusion of corporate social responsibility among Chinese listed firms,” Asia Pacific Journal of Management [ABS 3], in press. [equal contribution]
Zhang, Y, Wang, H., and Zhou, X. “Dare to Be Different? Corporate Social Activities of Chinese Firms and the Responses of Security Analysts,” Academy of Management Journal [UT-Dallas 24, FT 50, ABS 4*], 2020, 63(3): 717–742.
Zhang, Y., Zhou,X., and Lei, W., “Social Capital and its Contingent Value in Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Western China,” World Development [ABS 3], 2017, 93: 350-361.
Zhou X., Han Y., and Wang, R., “An Empirical Investigation on Firms’ Proactive and Passive Motivation for Bribery,” Journal of Business Ethics [FT 50, ABS 3], 2013, 118(3): 461-472.
Publications in Chinese:
Zhou, J. Zhou, X., and Wang, H., “The Influence of Ego Network Characteristics in Customer Churn,” Journal of Management Science (管理科学) [CSSCI and Chinese Core Journals: Management A], 2017, 30(5): 28-37.
Zhou, X., Fu, G., and Wang, R., “Are Relationship-based Strategy and Innovation Strategy Substitutes or Compliments? Evidence from China’s Private Sector,” Nankai Business Review (南开管理评论) [CSSCI and Chinese Core Journals: Management A], 2016, 19(4):13-26.
Wang, R and Zhou, X., “Customer Satisfaction and Shareholder Value: New Insights from a Dynamic Bayesian Analysis,” Journal of Marketing Science (营销科学学报), 2012, 8, 1-12
Chen, Y. and Zhou, X., “The Empirical Study of Bias in International Rating Organizations,” Economic Science (经济科学) [CSSCI and Chinese Core Journals: Economics A], 2012, 4, 24-34
