Jing'an Tang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Dr. Jing’an Tang is an assistant professor of management at the John F. Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in business administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, MBA from the University of Maryland at College Park and B.A. in economics from Renmin University of China in Beijing. He teaches strategic management and international business courses at SHU, where he won the Faculty Excellence award in 2008. 

His research is focused on international strategy, foreign peer networks and MNE performance, which has been published in various journals such as Journal of Asia Pacific Business, International Journal of Business and Systems Research, Journal of Business and Policy Research and International Journal of Business and Social Sciences. He has presented his research at the Academy of Management (AOM), Academy of International Business (AIB), Strategic Management Society (SMS) and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). He has won several awards for research, including the best paper award from the International Management Division at the 2006 AOM meeting in Atlanta and best paper in strategy/IB theory at the 2010 AOM meeting in Montreal, Canada, and an honorable mention award (2nd place) from the international business division at the ASAC meeting in 2004.  His doctoral dissertation was nominated for Berry Richman Best Dissertation Award (Finalist of four worldwide) at 2008 AOM in Anaheim, California and his paper for Promising Scholar Award at the 2008 AIB conference in Milan, Italy. 

Contact:

Office: Roncalli Hall 268
Phone: 203-371-7960
Fax: 203-365-7538
Email: tangj3@sacredheart.edu