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School Faculty of Business and Law
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Department Strategy, Leadership & Operations
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Location London
Research activities
UNDER REVIEW AND WORKING PAPERS
1. 听 听 Qu, H. Symbolic or Essential? Consequences of Immediate Strategic Changes Made by Newly Appointed Outsider CEOs.听Strategic Management Journal, under review.听
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
1. 听 听 听 Qu, H., Ding, Z., Ahlstrom, D., Wu, C., & Cai, H. H. (2025). When I have to versus when I am able to: Behavioral and resource explanations for firms鈥 international expansion via exporting.听International Business Review,听34(1), 102358.
2. 听 听听Cai, H. H., Khan, N. U., Tang, S., Siddiqui, M., Xia, M., & Qu, H. (2024). Developing environmental sustainability policy鈥揾ow financing and subsidies are influencing green innovation in mineral extraction industries in China.听Journal of Environmental Management,听368, 122218.
3. 听 听 听Zhang, Y. A., &听Qu, H. (2016).听The Impact of CEO Succession with Gender Change on Firm Performance and Successor Early Departure: Evidence from China鈥檚 Publicly Listed Companies in 1997-2010.听Academy of Management Journal,听59(5): 1845-1868.
4.听听听听听Wei, J., Zhou, M., Greeven, M., &听Qu, H. (2016). Economic Governance, Dual Networks and Innovative Learning in Five Chinese Industrial Clusters.听Asia Pacific Journal of Management,听33(4): 1037-1074.
5.听听听听听Qu, H., & Wu, C. (2014). The Embeddedness of Corporate Governance in Institutional Contexts: An Empirical Study on Chinese Publicly Listed SOEs vs. non-SOEs.听Economic Management Journal*, 5: 175-188.听
6.听听听听听Qu, H., & Wu, Y. (2013). Entrepreneurship, Institutional Innovation and the Sustainable Development of Academic Organizations: A Case Study on Journal of Marketing Science.听Journal of Management Case Studies*, 4: 245-261.
BOOK CHAPTERS
1.听听听听听Qu, H., & Zhang, L. (2015). 鈥淪hanghai Electric Acquiring Akiyama (Japan)鈥.听In听Wu, C. (Eds)听Internationalization Strategy of Chinese Firms: Case Studies鈥.听Peking University Publication, Beijing.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
1.听听听听听Qu, H., & Wu, C. 2020. A Behavioral Explanation of Firm's International Trade Behavior in Emerging Markets.听Academy of Management Proceedings.
2.听听听听听Qu, H.听2018. Institutional Contexts and Contingency Effects of Power.听Academy of Management Proceedings.
3.听听听听听Zhang, Y. A., &听Qu, H.听2014.听Gender effects or gender change effects?听Academy of Management Proceedings.
4.听听听听听Qu, H.听2013. Institutional contexts, resource dependency and informal firms鈥 formalization intentions.听Academy of Management Proceedings.
5.听听听听听Qu, H.听2012. Divestiture as impression management, Information asymmetry and CEO鈥檚 legitimacy-seeking behavior.听Academy of Management Proceedings.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
1.听听听听听Xia, M., Cai, H.,听Qu, H., & Yuan, Q. 2024.听"Does Governance Patronage Exist? The Impact of Public Policy Engagement on Firms鈥 Carbon Emission, Evidence From U.S. Listed Firms, 2012鈥2019".听Annual Conference of Academy of International Business, Accepted for presentation in June 2024, Korea.听
2.听听听听听Qu, H., & Wu, C. 2020. A Behavioral Explanation of Firm's International Trade Behavior in Emerging Markets.听Annual Conference of Academy of Management,听August 2020, Vancouver (Virtual meeting online), Canada.
3.听听听听听Qu, H.听2018.听Institutional Contexts and Contingency Effects of Power.听Annual Conference of Academy of Management,听August 2018, Chicago.
4.听听听听听Qu, H.听2018. The Institutional Embeddedness of Economic Factors and Structural Power: Executive Succession in China鈥檚 Publicly Listed SOEs vs. non-SOEs.听International Corporate Governance Society Annual Meeting, Shanghai 2018, China.
5.听听听听听Qu, H., & Ma, Y. The effects of executive structural power and institutional investors on firm beneficence behavior: Evidence from China鈥檚 publicly listed family firms.听International Corporate Governance Society, Shanghai 2018, China.听
6.听听听听听Zhang, Y. A., &听Qu, H.听Gender Effects or Gender Change Effects? Investigating the Effect of CEO Gender Change on Firm Performance in China鈥檚 Public-Listed Companies.听Annual Conference of Academy of Management,听August 2014, Philadelphia.
7.听听听听听Qu, H.听Institutional Contexts, Resource Dependency and Informal Firms鈥 Formalization Intentions in Developing Countries. Annual Conference of Academy of Management,听August 2013, Orlando.
8.听听听听听Wei, J., Zhou, M., &听Qu, H.听Governance Mechanisms, Dual Networks and Innovative Learning in Industrial Clusters.听Academy of Management Meeting in Africa,听2013, South Africa.听
9.听听听听听Qu, H.听Divestiture as Impression Management: Lack of Power and CEO鈥檚 Legitimacy Seeking Behavior.听Annual Conference of Academy of Management,听August 2012, Boston.
10.听听听Qu, H.听Organizational Capabilities, Managerial Cognition and Firm Divestitures.听Biennial Conference of International Association for Chinese Management Research,听June 2012, Hong Kong.
11.听听听Qu, H.听Trade from Emerging Markets: The Effects of Aspirations, Slacks and Inertia.听Annual Conference of Academy of International Business,听June 2011, Rio de Janeiro.
Current Teaching
Hongyan currently teaches the following modules,
Module leader MGT3324 Strategic Management
Module tutor MGT3173 Strategic Management
Module tutor MGT3123 Global Business Strategy