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Faculty Profile

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ZHANG Man, Cyndi

Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
LKCSB

EDUCATION

2012

Ph. D. in Management (Strategy), INSEAD

 

CURRENT POSITION(S) HELD

2021 - Now Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

2012 - 2021

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Institutional theory, coalitions
  • Learning and decision-making
  • Firm misconduct

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Zhang, Cyndi Man. Forthcoming in 2020. “Mergers and Acquisitions as Strategic Decisions for a Decision-Making Theory.” In Finkelstein, S. and Cooper, C. L (Eds.), Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume 19. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
  • Zhang, Cyndi Man., and Greve, Henrich. R. 2019. Dominant Coalitions Directing Acquisitions: Different Decision Makers, Different Decisions. Academy of Management Journal, 62 (1): 44-65.
  • Jia, Nan., Huang, Kenneth G., and Zhang, Cyndi Man. 2019. Public Governance, Corporate Governance, and Firm Innovation: An Examination of State-Owned Enterprises. Academy of Management Journal, 62 (1): 220-247.
  • Zhang, Cyndi Man, and Greve, Henrich. R. 2018. Delayed Adoption of Rules: A Relational Theory of Firm Exposure and State Cooptation. Journal of Management, 44 (8): 3336-3363.
  • Greve, Henrich. R., and Zhang, Cyndi Man. 2017. Institutional Logics and Power Sources: Merger and Acquisition Decisions. Academy of Management Journal, 60 (2): 671-694.
  • Jia, Nan, Huang, Kenneth G. and Zhang, Cyndi Man. 2015. Agency Incentives and Firm Innovation: Patenting Behavior of State-owned Firms in China. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015: 1, 13758.

 

AWARDS

  • Nan Jia, Kenneth G. Huang, and Cyndi Man Zhang. 2016. State Capitalism, Agency Risk, and Firm Innovation: Evidence from State-Owned Enterprises in China. Winner of the Best paper of the DRUID Asia Conference, 2016, Singapore.
  • Nan Jia, Kenneth G. Huang, and Cyndi Man Zhang. 2015. Agency Incentives and Firm Innovation: Patenting Behavior of State-owned Firms in China. Best papers of the TIM division, the Annual Academy of Management Conference, 2015, Vancouver.

 

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

Editorial Review Board   Academy of Management Journal (2019- )  
Editorial Review Board   Management and Organization Review (2014- )