Yanlong Zhang

Yanlong Zhang is an Associate Professor of Organization and Strategy Management. He is currently serving as the Executive Director of the MBA and MSEM program at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. He was awarded as the Young Scholars of the Ministry of Education's "Chang Jiang Scholars Program". He received his BA and MA in sociology from Peking University in 2002 and 2005, and received his Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University in 2012. His research interests include organization theory, social networks, corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, and policy diffusion. He published over twenty articles in leading management and sociology journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Business Venturing, and Social Networks. He received Peking University Teaching Excellence Award in 2016; and in the same year received the Brand English Language Course Award from the Ministry of Education. He won the first prize in Peking University Young Faculty Teaching Contest in 2018, and the KGKF (Kerry Group Kuok Foundation) Award for Mentoring Excellence in 2020.

Research Areas

• Organization Theory
• Social Networks and Social Capital
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Entrepreneurship
• Policy Diffusion

Education Background

• 2002 Peking University sociology
  
• 2005 Peking University sociology
  
• 2007 University of Washington international studies
  
• 2012 Duke University sociology
  

Career Experience

• 2012 - 2017: Assistant Professor, Department of Organization and Strategy Management, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
• 2017- : Associate Professor, Department of Organization and Strategy Management, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Research Results

• 2020 Park, Sun-Hyun, and Yanlong Zhang. (In Press). "Cultural Entrepreneurship in Coprorate Governance Practice Diffusion: Framing of "Independent Directors" by U.S.-Listed Chinese Companies." Organization Science.
• 2020 Zhang, Yanlong, Heli Wang, and Xiaoyu Zhou. "Dare to Be Different? Conformity vs. Differentiation in Corporate Social Activities of Chinese Firms and Market Responses." Academy of Management Journal. Vol. 63(3): 717-742.
• 2020 Park, Sun-Hyun, Yanlong Zhang, and Lisa A. Keister. "Governance Innovations in Emerging Markets." Academy of Management Perspectives. Vol. 34(2): 226-239.
• 2018 Li, Ting, Yang Claire Yang, and Yanlong Zhang. "Culture, economic development, social network type, and mortality: Evidence from Chinese older adults." Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 204: 23-30.
• 2018 Hu Qiongjing, Yanlong Zhang, and Jingjing Yao. "Family Involvement in Middle Management and Its Impact on the Labor Productivity of Family Firms." Management and Organization Review. Vol.14(2): 249-274.
• 2018 Wang, Junmin, Yanlong Zhang, and Doug Guthrie. "Economic Openness and Institutional Embeddedness: Global Capital and Firm Performance in China's Stock Market." Social Science Quarterly. Vol. 99(2):807-828.
• 2017 Zhang, Yanlong, Xiaoyu Zhou, and Wei Lei. "Social Capital and Its Contingent Value in Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Western China." World Development. Vol. 93: 350-361.
• 2016 Zhang, Yanlong, and Lisa A. Keister. Management and Organizations in Transitional China. New York: Routledge. (ISBN: 9781138813014).
• 2016 Zhang, Yanlong, Wei Zhao, and Jianhua Ge. "Institutional Duality and Political Strategies of Foreign-invested Firms in an Emerging Economy". Journal of World Business. Vol.51: 451-462.
• 2016 Zhang, Jianjun, Wei Zhao, and Yanlong Zhang. "Institutional Transformation and the Changing Networking Patterns of Private Firms". Management and Organization Review. Vol.12(2):303-331.
• 2016 Zhang, Jianjun, and Yanlong Zhang. "Chairman-CEO Heterogeneity, Power Differential, Rapport and Organizational Performance". Management World (管理世界). No. 268: 110-120.
• 2016 Sun Feiyu, Huijuan Chu, and Yanlong Zhang. "Producing Society or the Self-producing of Society? A Study of an NGO's Difficult Situation on Poverty Reduction". Chinese Journal of Sociology (社会). Vol.36 (1): 151-185.
• 2015 Zhang, Yanlong, Kun Guo, and Haoyu Zhang. "Corporate Political Activities, Bank-firm Relations, and SME Credit Ratings". Quarterly Journal of Finance (金融学季刊). Vol.9 (3).
• 2015 Zhang, Yanlong. " The Diffusion of Public-private Partnerships in China's Urban Infrastructure Sectors". Journal of Public Administration (公共行政评论). Vol.3: 25-51..
• 2015 Zhang, Yanlong, and Nan Lin. "Hiring for Networks: Social Capital and the Staffing Practices in Transitional China". Human Resource Management. (DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21738)
• 2015 Zhang, Yanlong. "The Formation of Public-private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective". Journal of Public Policy. Vol. 35: 329-354.
• 2015 Li, Ting, and Yanlong Zhang. "Social Network Types and the Health of Older Adults: Exploring Reciprocal Association". Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 130: 59-68.
• 2015 Zhang, Yanlong. “The Contingent Value of Social Resources: Entrepreneurs' Use of Debt-Financing Sources in Western China". Journal of Business Venturing. Vol. 30: 390-406.
• 2014 Zhang, Yanlong. "From State to Market: Private Participation in China's Urban Infrastructure Sectors, 1992-2008". World Development. Vol. 64: 473-486.
• 2013 Zhang, Yanlong, and Hang Young Lee. “The Road to Democracy: A Three-Society Comparison of Civic Network Structures”. In N. Lin, Y. Fu, and C. Chen (eds.) Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingencies: A Study of the United States, China and Taiwan. New York: Routledge.
• 2012 Zhang, Yanlong, Nan Lin, and Ting Li. “Markets or Networks: Household Choices of Financial Intermediaries in Western China”. Social Networks. Vol. 34(4): 670-681.
• 2012 Zhang, Yanlong. “Institutional Sources of Reform: A Study of the Diffusion of Land Banking Systems in China”. Management and Organizational Review. Vol. 8 (3): 507-535.
• 2009 Keister, Lisa A. and Yanlong Zhang. “Organizations and Management in China”. The Academy of Management Annals. Vol. 3 (1), 377-420.
• 2009 Lin, Nan, Yanlong Zhang, Wenhong Chen, Dan Ao, and Lijun Song. “Recruiting and Deploying Social Capital in Organizations: Theory and Evidence”. Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol. 19, 225-254.