LIANG Tian

LIANG Tian

Postdoc

Dr. LIANG Tian is a postdoctoral fellow at ZIBS. She received her Ph.D. in Technology Management from Tsinghua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan. 2022). Within the area of innovation and entrepreneurship, her research interests focus on university technology transfer, and entrepreneurial behaviour in well-established organizations and start-ups. She has published in the Minerva (SSCI). 
  • Education
    • 05/2022, Ph.D. in Technology Management, Tsinghua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
    • 07/2013, Master in Management Science, Yangming Chiao-Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
    • 07/2011, BM in Business Administration, China Agricultural University
  • Work Experience
    • 11/2022 – Present, Postdoctoral fellow, Zhejiang University
    • 01/2022----05/2022/, Co-lecturer in Management, Undergraduate course, Tsinghua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
    • 01/2021-07/2021, Co-lecturer in Management, Undergraduate course, Tsinghua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
    • 09/2014-08/2016, Consultant in a local consultant firm
  • Publications
    Journal Articles
    • Chang, Yuan-Chieh, Tung-Fei Tsai-Lin, and Tian Liang (2022), "Entrepreneurial Orientation and Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness: The Effect of Organizational Commercial Slack." Minerva (2022): 1-22.

    Conference Papers
    • Tian Liang, Yuan-Chieh Chang. “Organizational ambidexterity and entrepreneurial universities: antecedents, mediators and moderators”, British Academy of Management, 7-9 September 2017, University of Warwick, Coventry, England.
    • Tian Liang, Yuan-Chieh Chang. “Entrepreneurial orientation and organizational ambidexterity in entrepreneurial universities: Empirical evidence in Taiwan”, Technology Management Academic Conference in Taiwan and Mainland China,25-26th November 2017, Southern China of Technical University, Guangzhou, China.
    Working papers 
    • The behavioral theory of entrepreneurial universities: the antecedent and contingency of slack-rich entrepreneurship (almost done, target to Research Policy, SSCI, co-author with Prof. Chang, Yuan-Chieh) 
    • Where do new opportunities come from? The perspective of ecology theory on entrepreneurial orientation. (target to Small Business Economics, SSCI)
  • Research Interests
    • Innovation and entrepreneurship 
    • University technology transfer 
    • Organizational entrepreneurial behaviour
    • Organization change
  • Awards & Honors
    • 2013-2019, scholarship, Tsinghua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
    • 2011-2013, scholarship, Yanming Chiao-tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
LIANG Tian