Rate My Professor Jing (Annie) Zhang

Associate Professor Jing (Annie) Zhang serves in the Department of Management at the Otago Business School, University of Otago, within the broader field of Business & Economics. She earned her PhD in strategic innovation and entrepreneurship from the University of Wollongong. Her research specializations center on strategic innovation, entrepreneurship, and ambidexterity, including strategic innovation and competitive advantage, technology entrepreneurship and strategies, innovation and entrepreneurial capital. Zhang specializes in strategic innovation and entrepreneurship, as reflected in her media expertise and primary research focus. She teaches MANT 301: Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship and MANT 551: Strategic Change and Innovation, contributing to student development in strategic management and research methods.

Zhang has published extensively in top-tier journals, demonstrating substantial influence in her field. Key publications include: Zhang, J. A., O'Kane, C., & Bai, T. (2024), 'How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs' in Research Policy; O'Kane, C., Mangematin, V., Zhang, J. A., & Haar, J. (2024), 'How research agendas are framed: Insights for leadership, learning and spillover in science teams' in Research Policy; Chen, S., Zhang, J. A., Gao, H., Yang, Z., & Mather, D. (2022), 'Trust erosion during industry-wide crises: The central role of consumer legitimacy judgement' in Journal of Business Ethics; O'Kane, C., Zhang, J. A., Cunningham, J. A., & Dooley, L. (2020), 'Value capture mechanisms in publicly funded research' in Industrial Marketing Management; Zhang, J. A., Edgar, F., Geare, A., & O'Kane, C. (2016), 'The interactive effects of entrepreneurial orientation and capability-based HRM on firm performance: The mediating role of innovation ambidexterity' in Industrial Marketing Management; and Zhang, J. A., O'Kane, C., & Chen, G. (2020), 'Business ties, political ties, and innovation performance in Chinese industrial firms: The role of entrepreneurial orientation and environmental dynamism' in Journal of Business Research. Her scholarship has amassed over 1,700 citations on Google Scholar, underscoring her impact on strategic innovation and entrepreneurship research. She supervises postgraduate theses in related areas.