Zhixiang (Steven) Liang earned his PhD in Management from John Molson School of Business, Concordia University. His primary research situated on the intersection of family business, business group, and corporate governance. Build upon theoretical lenses from economic and sociology perspectives, he is currently exploring how business groups facilitate, shape or even manipulate the institutional environment to enhance their own competitive advantages. He is also interested in comparative corporate governance by associating institutional and cultural indicators with governance practice in examining existing divergence between de-jure rules and de-facto implementations.
Prior joining academic, he served multiple positions in finance industry, non-profit organization, and consulting firms in China.
Education
Ph.D in Business Administration, Concordia University
Areas of expertise
Emerging markets, Business Group, International Strategy, Comparative governance
MBA 650 Crafting and Implementing Successful Strategies
COMM 401 Strategy and Competition
Liang, Z. & Carney, M.,(2020) Business Group Persistence and Institutional Maturity:The Role of Management Practices, Industrial and Corporate Change https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtaa028
Carney, M., Estrin, S., Liang,Z., & Shapiro, D. (2018). National institutional systems, foreignownership and firm performance: The case of understudied countries. Journal of World Business, 54(4), 244-257 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2018.03.003
Estrin, S., Liang, Z., Shapiro, D &. Carney, M., (2018). State Capitalism,Economic Systems and Performance of State-Owned Firms. Acta Oeconomica, https://doi.org/10.1556/032.2019.69.S1.11
Liang, Z. (2016). Business Families: Strategy Patterns in a BroaderScope. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016, (1), 12376
Liang, Z. Shapiro, D., Nonmarket Strategy and Internationalization--The caseof Chinese OFDI across Business Systems
- Global Strategy and Emerging Markets Conference, Dallas, 2019
Shapiro, D. Liang, Z. Estrin,S. & Carney, M., Exportperformance and business group affiliation in emerging markets: missinginstitutions, selection bias and nonmarket capabilities
- The 6th Copenhagen Conference on: 'Emerging Multinationals': Outward Investment from Emerging Economies, Copenhagen, 2018
- Academy of International Business Annual Conference, Copenhagen, 2019
Liang, Z. & Carney, M., Can business group affiliates create sustainablecompetitive advantage? Institutional development and business group persistence,
- Academy of International Business Annual Conference, Minneapolis, 2018
- Global Strategy and Emerging Markets Conference, Miami, 2018
Carney, M., Estrin, S., Liang,Z., & Shapiro, D. National institutional systems, foreign ownership andfirm performance: The case of understudied countries.
- International Corporate Governance Society Conference, Rome, 2017
- Global Strategy and Emerging Markets Conference, Boston, 2017
Liang, Z. Beyond market failures: business groups’ social contribution in emergingmarkets
- Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Montreal, 2017
Liang, Z. Business Families: Strategy Patterns in a Broader Scope,
- Academy of Management Annual Conference, Anaheim, 2016
