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Zhi Tang

Professor

Department of Management
Saunders College of Business
ztang@saunders.rit.edu
585-475-5991
Office Location
LOW-2327

Zhi Tang

Professor

Department of Management
Saunders College of Business

Education

BA, Shandong University (China); MA, Fudan University (China); Ph.D., University of Alabama

Bio

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.

Select Scholarship

Invited Article/Publication
Tang, Z., Leo, E., Hull, C., Fu, X., & Stromeyer, W. (2023). When consumers lose power&#x3a; An examination of the stakeholder dynamics in the pharmaceutical industry. <em>Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility</em> . .
Tang, Z., & Yu, Y. (2023). American Economic Stakeholder Sentiments towards Chinese Firms&apos; Innovation Capability&#x3a; The Role of State Political Environment and Firm Ownership. <em>Sustainability</em> . .
Tang, Z., Rothenberg, S., Tang, J., Renhong, Z., & Hongxin, Z. (2022). Social stratification and the philanthropy engagement strategy&#x3a; Evidence from Chinese entrepreneurial firms. <em>Asia Pacific Journal of Management</em> . .
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Ghitulescu, B., Tang, Z., Khazanchi, S., & Yu, Y. (2018). Proactive Personality and Creative Achievement: The Moderating Impact of Mentoring Relationships. Academy of Management.
Tang, J., & Tang, Z. (2017). Does it Pay to Bribe? The Influence of Firm Bribery Activity on Venture Disbanding. Academy of Management.
Tang, Z., Hull, C., Tang, J., & Li, H. (2016). Born Global and Dying Young: Drivers of the Infancy Survival Rate of Born Globals in China. Academy of Management.
Full Length Book
(2011). Proceedings of the Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Tang, Z., Hull, C., & Rothenberg, S.
(2009). Proceedings of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Tang, Z., & Hull, C.
(2006). Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Tang, Z., Marino, L., Lohrke, F., Dickson, P., & Weaver, M.
Book Chapter
(2011). How corporate social responsibility is pursued affects firm financial performance. Proceedings of the Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Tang, Z., Hull, C., & Rothenberg, S.
(2009). The diversity and relatedness of strategy configuration in Chinese SMEs. Proceedings of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Tang, Z., & Hull, C.
(2006). Entrepreneurial acuity: The relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and the convergence of archival and perceptual measures of environmental uncertainty.. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Tang, Z., Marino, L., Lohrke, F., Dickson, P., & Weaver, M.
Published Conference Proceedings
Tang, Z., & Hull, C. (2009). The diversity and relatedness of strategy configuration in Chinese SMEs. In George T. Solomon (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

Currently Teaching

INTB-225
Global Business Environment
3 Credits
Being an informed global citizen requires an understanding of the global business environment. Organizations critical to the development of the global business environment include for-profit businesses, non-profits, governmental, non-governmental, and supranational agencies. This course introduces students to the interdependent relationships between organizations and the global business environment. A holistic approach is used to examine the diverse economic, political, legal, cultural, and financial systems that influence both organizations and the global business environment.
INTB-710
Global Business Analytics
3 Credits
This course is designed to help students, regardless their backgrounds, to identify global business opportunities, possess necessary analytical skills to evaluate these opportunities, and understand the strategies to explore these opportunities to serve transnational businesses’ goals. Students will be exposed to a variety of analytical skill sets such as collecting and analyzing institutional and primary international business data, reading the multinational firm-level data and understanding how global expansion impacts firms’ bottom lines, developing foreign exchange hedging strategies, and apprehending the basic practices of international trade and foreign investment.

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