Faculty and Staff Directory
Zhi Tang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Zutes Faculty Fellow
Contact Information
Office Location: LOW-2327
Office Phone: 585-475-5991
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Staff Assistant Phone: 585-475-6057
Fax: 585-475-5975
Zhi's Social Networks
Office Hours
Monday 4:00PM—5:30PM,Tuesday 2:00PM-3:30PM;
and by appointment
Biography
Zhi Tang graduated from the University of Alabama with a Ph.D. degree in Strategic Management in August 2006. He holds a B.S. in Economics from Shandong University, China and an M.S. in Finance from Fudan University, China. His research interests are in the areas of environmental uncertainty, entrepreneurial orientation, and organizational complexity.
Tang likes sports, especially tennis, volleyball, and swimming.
Education
- Ph.D., Management, University of Alabama, 2006
- MA, Finance, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2000
- BA, Economics, Shandong University, Jinan, China, 1997
Experience
- Head Manager of Marketing Department and Business Development Department -- Shanghai Cable Network Co., 2000-2002
- Corporate social responsibility
- Emerging Markets
- Entrepreneurship
- International business
Research Interests & Research in Progress
- Professor Tang's primary research lies in Strategy and Entrepreneurship. His strategy research to date mainly focuses on organizational complexity and related issues, such as organizational variability and organizational dynamism. His entrepreneurship research examines the entrepreneurship orientation process and its related antecedents and outcomes. His secondary research interest relates to Management Information Science and Labor Economics, largely evolving from his application major and economics background.
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
- Forthcoming -- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Journal of Small Business Management -- An Investigation of Entrepreneurial Orientation, Perceived Environmental Hostility, and Strategy Application among Chinese SMEs, with Hull, C, 0
- Forthcoming -- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development. -- An investigation of entrepreneurial orientation and organizational strategies in Chinese SMEs, with Tang, J., Marino, L., Zhang, Y., & Li, Q. , 0
- Forthcoming -- Secondary Author, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. -- Firm-level entrepreneurship: The role of proactiveness, innovativeness, and strategic renewal in the creation and exploitation of opportunities, with Kreiser, P., Marino, L., Davis, J., & Lee, C. , 0
- Forthcoming -- Primary Author, Asia Pacific Journal of Management -- Entrepreneurial orientation and performance of SMEs in China’s changing environment: The moderating effects of strategies, with Tang, J. , 0
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Journal of Small Business Management -- Exploring Proactiveness as a Moderator in the Process of Perceiving Industrial Munificence: A Field Study of SMEs in Four Countries, with Kreiser, P., Marino, L., and Weaver, Mark, 2010
- Primary Author, British Journal of Management -- The Value of Organizational Ambivalence in an Uncertain World, with Dickson, P., Marino, L., Tang, J., & Powell, B. , 2010
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Journal of Enterprising Culture -- Does perceptual acuity matter? – An investigation of entrepreneurial orientation, perceptual acuity, and firm performance, with Sandra Rothenberg, 79-102, March, 2009
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Emergence: Complexity and Organization -- The Application of the Dimensionality Perspective in Organization Study, 58-68, 2009
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, -- A hierarchical perspective of the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation, with Kreiser, P., Marino, L., Dickson, P., and Weaver, M., 2009
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Journal of Information Technology Management -- Deriving a taxnomy of IT transition costs, with Smith, D., Hale, J., November, 2008
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Review of Business Information Systems -- What influences Salary: A study of MIS faculty job offers, with M. Pamela Neely, Thomas Tribunella, Clyde E. Hull, 5-20, July, 2008
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. -- Developing an Entrepreneurial Typology: The Roles of Attributional Styles and Entrepreneurial Alertness, with Tang, J., & Lohrke, F. , 2008
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice -- Exploring An Inverted U-Shape Relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Performance in Chinese New Ventures., with Tang, J., Marino, L., Zhang, Y., & Li, Q, 2008
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal -- Printing industry offshoring: Perspectives from U.S. based printers, with Rothenberg, S., Hira, R., , 2008
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, International Journal of Business and Management -- The Impact of Organizational Goal Setting on the Industrial Munificence-goal Attainment Relationship, with Powell, B., Marino, L., Tang, J., & Dickson, P. , 2008
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business -- The Relationship of Achievement Motivation and Risk-Taking Propensity to New Venture Performance: A Test of the Moderating Effect of Entrepreneurial Munificence., with Tang, J., 2007
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. -- The impact of entrepreneurial orientation and ownership type on firm performance in the emerging region of China, with Tang, J., Zhang, Y., & Li, Q. , 2007
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Journal of Enterprising Culture -- THE STRATEGY CONFIGURATION OF CHINESE SMEs, with Clyde Hull, 229–259, 11, 0
Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Primary Author, In George T. Solomon (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management -- The diversity and relatedness of strategy configuration in Chinese SMEs, with Hull, C. , 2009
Other
- Co-Editor, -- Entrepreneurial acuity: The relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and the convergence of archival and perceptual measures of environmental uncertainty., with Marino, L., Lohrke, F., Dickson, P., and Weaver, M. , 2006
International Business