Prof Hongyan Qu

UNDER REVIEW AND WORKING PAPERS

1.     Qu, H. Symbolic or Essential? Consequences of Immediate Strategic Changes Made by Newly Appointed Outsider CEOs. Strategic Management Journal, under review. 

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

1.       Qu, H., Ding, Z., Ahlstrom, D., Wu, C., & Cai, H. H. (2025). When I have to versus when I am able to: Behavioral and resource explanations for firms’ international expansion via exporting. International Business Review, 34(1), 102358.

2.     Cai, H. H., Khan, N. U., Tang, S., Siddiqui, M., Xia, M., & Qu, H. (2024). Developing environmental sustainability policy–how financing and subsidies are influencing green innovation in mineral extraction industries in China. Journal of Environmental Management, 368, 122218.

3.      Zhang, Y. A., & Qu, H. (2016). The Impact of CEO Succession with Gender Change on Firm Performance and Successor Early Departure: Evidence from China’s Publicly Listed Companies in 1997-2010. Academy of Management Journal, 59(5): 1845-1868.

4.     Wei, J., Zhou, M., Greeven, M., & Qu, H. (2016). Economic Governance, Dual Networks and Innovative Learning in Five Chinese Industrial Clusters. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 33(4): 1037-1074.

5.     Qu, H., & Wu, C. (2014). The Embeddedness of Corporate Governance in Institutional Contexts: An Empirical Study on Chinese Publicly Listed SOEs vs. non-SOEs. Economic Management Journal^*, 5: 175-188. 

6.     Qu, H., & Wu, Y. (2013). Entrepreneurship, Institutional Innovation and the Sustainable Development of Academic Organizations: A Case Study on Journal of Marketing Science. Journal of Management Case Studies^*, 4: 245-261.

BOOK CHAPTERS

1.     Qu, H., & Zhang, L. (2015). “Shanghai Electric Acquiring Akiyama (Japan)”. In Wu, C. (Eds) Internationalization Strategy of Chinese Firms: Case Studies”. Peking University Publication, Beijing.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1.     Qu, H., & Wu, C. 2020. A Behavioral Explanation of Firm's International Trade Behavior in Emerging Markets. Academy of Management Proceedings.

2.     Qu, H. 2018. Institutional Contexts and Contingency Effects of Power. Academy of Management Proceedings.

3.     Zhang, Y. A., & Qu, H. 2014. Gender effects or gender change effects? Academy of Management Proceedings.

4.     Qu, H. 2013. Institutional contexts, resource dependency and informal firms’ formalization intentions. Academy of Management Proceedings.

5.     Qu, H. 2012. Divestiture as impression management, Information asymmetry and CEO’s legitimacy-seeking behavior. Academy of Management Proceedings.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1.     Xia, M., Cai, H., Qu, H., & Yuan, Q. 2024. "Does Governance Patronage Exist? The Impact of Public Policy Engagement on Firms’ Carbon Emission, Evidence From U.S. Listed Firms, 2012–2019". Annual Conference of Academy of International Business, Accepted for presentation in June 2024, Korea. 

2.     Qu, H., & Wu, C. 2020. A Behavioral Explanation of Firm's International Trade Behavior in Emerging Markets. Annual Conference of Academy of Management, August 2020, Vancouver (Virtual meeting online), Canada.

3.     Qu, H. 2018. Institutional Contexts and Contingency Effects of Power. Annual Conference of Academy of Management, August 2018, Chicago.

4.     Qu, H. 2018. The Institutional Embeddedness of Economic Factors and Structural Power: Executive Succession in China’s Publicly Listed SOEs vs. non-SOEs. International Corporate Governance Society Annual Meeting, Shanghai 2018, China.

5.     Qu, H., & Ma, Y. The effects of executive structural power and institutional investors on firm beneficence behavior: Evidence from China’s publicly listed family firms. International Corporate Governance Society, Shanghai 2018, China. 

6.     Zhang, Y. A., & Qu, H. Gender Effects or Gender Change Effects? Investigating the Effect of CEO Gender Change on Firm Performance in China’s Public-Listed Companies. Annual Conference of Academy of Management, August 2014, Philadelphia.

7.     Qu, H. Institutional Contexts, Resource Dependency and Informal Firms’ Formalization Intentions in Developing Countries. Annual Conference of Academy of Management, August 2013, Orlando.

8.     Wei, J., Zhou, M., & Qu, H. Governance Mechanisms, Dual Networks and Innovative Learning in Industrial Clusters. Academy of Management Meeting in Africa, 2013, South Africa. 

9.     Qu, H. Divestiture as Impression Management: Lack of Power and CEO’s Legitimacy Seeking Behavior. Annual Conference of Academy of Management, August 2012, Boston.

10.   Qu, H. Organizational Capabilities, Managerial Cognition and Firm Divestitures. Biennial Conference of International Association for Chinese Management Research, June 2012, Hong Kong.

11.   Qu, H. Trade from Emerging Markets: The Effects of Aspirations, Slacks and Inertia. Annual Conference of Academy of International Business, June 2011, Rio de Janeiro.

Hongyan currently teaches the following modules,

Module leader MGT3324 Strategic Management

Module tutor MGT3173 Strategic Management

Module tutor MGT3123 Global Business Strategy