Shipeng YAN 颜示硼
- Fu Jiawei, Yan Shipeng. Forthcoming. "How do new forms of organizations manage institutional voids? Social enterprises' quest for sociopolitical legitimacy." Business & Society.
- Fu Jiawei, Yan Shipeng. 2025. "Institutional complexity and social innovation: The case of Chinese social enterprises." Voluntas, 36(1): 85–97.
- Zhang Ze, Yan Shipeng. 2023. "Air pollution and investors' behavior: A review of recent literature." The Routledge Handbook of Green Finance: 542–562. London and New York: Routledge.
- Yan Shipeng, Ferraro Fabrizio. 2016. "State mediation in market emergence: Socially responsible investing in China." Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. 48B: 173–206. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Bose Indranil, Yan Shipeng. 2011. "The green potential of RFID projects: A case-based analysis." IT Professional, 13(1).
I am open to collaborations — please email shpyan@hku.hk if you find an overlapping interest.
- Corporate reputation
- Religious environmentalism
- Supply chain management
- Carbon leakage
- Environmental innovation
- ESG ratings
- Climate litigation
- Rhetorics in market narratives
- Political movement
- Religious logic
- Institutional trust
PhD Admission at HKU Business School
I regularly receive emails soliciting my interest in hiring PhD students, but in my current institution the PhD admission decisions are committee-based. However, if you are already a doctoral student interested in ESG and institutional analysis from a different institution, there might be a visiting opportunity.
My style as a PhD adviser
- My goal is to help you become an independent and productive scholar.
- I am not a micro-manager. I also respect your boundaries and understand that you have multiple priorities in life. However, if you believe that a healthy dose of structure with reminders and deadlines is helpful for you, please ask for it explicitly.
- In general, I am responsive. In return, I also expect you to be responsive.
- You don't have to agree with me all the time, but you should provide a well-reasoned explanation. This principle applies to responding to reviewers.
- I am on your side when you need support. That means I am with you even if you decide that research is not your cup of tea or your current priority in life. However, you should take the initiative to communicate your concerns in a timely manner.
My intellectual style
As a management scholar, I care about theoretical novelty, empirical rigor, and practical relevance. A good paper should at least have two or more of these elements.
Why PhD in Management?
You will NOT become a CEO of a large multinational firm after doing a PhD in management. On the contrary, doing this will most likely kill your chance to be a CEO. An imperfect but useful analogy is that a management scholar is to a manager as a football game analyst is to a footballer.
Management research treats managerial phenomena as if they can be scientifically analyzed and generalized, and develops abstract theories to describe complex managerial issues in simple ways. Management research must balance between academic rigor and practical relevance.
As a management scholar, you will have the opportunity to help train and educate the next generation of corporate leaders.
Besides research, I also enjoy playing soccer/football. Here are my latest YouTube clips of soccer plays. Each clip is less than 20 seconds on average :)