Feng Zhang, Ph.D.

Refereed Journal Publications

Zhang, F. (forthcoming). Globalization or Regionalization of Technological Knowledge Learning Activities in Multinational Corporations. International Journal of Technology Management. 

Zhang, F. 2022. Technological Knowledge Access and Transfer of Multinational Corporations from Emerging Economies: A Comparison Study. Chinese Management Studies.16(1) 26-44.  

Zhang, F. 2021. Patent Citation-based Knowledge Inflow Measures: The Case of Emerging Economy Multinational Corporations. Thunderbirds International Business Review. 63(5) 651-660.  

Zhang, F. 2021. EMNC Technological Competence Creation: Key Mechanisms and Innovative Performance. International Journal of Emerging Markets, 16(8) 1840-1865. 

Zhang, F. 2021. Strategically Accessing External Technological Knowledge: The Case of Foreign Subsidiaries in China. Global Business Review, 22(3) 571-587.  

Jiang, G., Kotabe, M., Zhang, F. 2020. Founder Ethnic Composition, Early Internationalization, and New Venture Performance. Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 18(4) 419-443. 

Jiang, G., Kotabe, M., Zhang, F., Wang, C., & Paul, J. 2020. The Determinants and Performance of Early-Internationalizing Firms: A Literature Review and Research Agenda. International Business Review. 29(4).  

Zhang, F. 2020. EMNC Technological Knowledge Flow Patterns: An Overview of the U.S. Patents Granted. Multinational Business Review, 28(1). 129-155.  

Zhang, F., Jiang, G., Cantwell, J. 2019. Geographically Dispersed Technological Capability Building and MNC Innovative Performance: The Role of Intra-firm Flows of Newly Absorbed Knowledge. Journal of International Management, 25(3).  

Zhang, F., & Jiang, G. 2019. Generating ‘Hard to Imitate’ Technologies Through Combining Complementary Technological Knowledge Categories. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management. 18(2).  

Zhang, F., Jiang, G., & Xu, H. (Penn State undergraduate student) 2019. The Strategic Choices of Multidimensional Exploration and Performance. Journal of Strategic and International Studies, XIV(1). 40-46.  

Zhang, F., and Jiang, G. 2018. Patenting Choices for Valuable Subsidiary Inventions Created in an Uncertain and Fast Changing Environment. Journal of Asia Business Studies, 12(4). 441-454.  

Zhang, F., Jiang, G., and He, X. 2018. Patent Citations and Value: Through the Lens of a Social Network Approach. International Journal of Management and Network Economics, 4(2). 115-143. 

Zhang, F. 2016. The Evolution of National Innovation System and Globalization:  An Open Innovation Perspective. Economics & Business Journal:  Inquiries & Perspectives, 7, 1-20.  

Zhang, F., Jiang, G., and Cantwell, J. A. 2015. Subsidiary Exploration and the Innovative Performance of Large Multinational Corporations. International Business Review, 24(2), 224-234.  

Zhang, F., Cantwell, J. A., and Jiang, G. 2014. The Competence Creation of Recently Formed Subsidiaries in Networked Multinational Corporations: Comparing Subsidiaries in China and Subsidiaries in Industrialized Countries. Asian Business and Management, 13(1), 5-41. 

Jiang, G., Zhang, F., and Huang, S. (2014). The Determinants of Business Start-up Activities Across Different Countries: A Systematic Approach. Business and Management Quarterly Review, 5(1), 30-39. 

Zhang, F., Cantwell, J. A. 2013. Regional and Global Technological Knowledge Search Strategies and the Innovative Performance of Large Multinational Corporations. Industry and Innovation, 20(7), 637-660. 

Cantwell, J. and Zhang, F. 2013. Do Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries in China Follow a Distinctive Pattern of Technological Knowledge Sourcing? Management and Organization Review, Special Issue on Knowledge Search, Spillovers, and Creation in Emerging Markets, 9(3), 489-512 (authors in alphabetic order). 

Zhang, F. and Jiang, G. 2013. Subsidiary Non-Localized Search and MNC Performance: The Role of Subsidiary Intra-firm Knowledge Outflows. International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, 9(3), 212-231. 

Zhang, F. and Jiang, G. 2013. Determining Critical Factors of Location Choice of Cross-border Merger and Acquisition: The Case of Chinese Firms. Business and Management Quarterly Review, 4(2), 1-11.  

Cantwell J. and Zhang, F. 2011. Technological Complexity and the Evolving Structure of MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Accumulation. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 38(4), 5-33. 

Dunning, J. and Zhang, F. 2008. Foreign Direct Investment and the Locational Competitiveness of Countries. Transnational Corporations, 17(3): 1-30. 

Book Chapters 

Cantwell, J. and Zhang, F. 2012. Knowledge Accession Strategies and the Spatial Organization of R&D. In M. Andersson and B. Johansson (eds.) Firms, Innovation and Growth. Oxford University Press: Oxford. 

Zhang, F. and Pearce, R. 2012. The Growth and Strategic Orientation of Multinationals’ R&D in China. In Robert Pearce (ed.) China and the Multinationals: International Business and the Entry of China into the Global Economy. Edward Elgar, London. 

Zhang, F. 2012. Capability Development of Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries in China During Their Early Evolution. In Robert Pearce (ed.) China and the Multinationals: International Business and the Entry of China into the Global Economy. Edward Elgar, London. 

Recent Conference Presentations 

Zhang, F. (panelist) 2023.  Summary of the History of International Business Project, Phase II. Academy of International Business 2023 Annual Conference, Warsaw, Poland. July 6-9, 2023. 

Zhang, F. 2023. Ambidexterity and the Distribution of Organizational Learning Activities: A Conceptual Framework. Academy of International Business 2023 Annual Conference, Warsaw, Poland. July 6-9, 2023. 

Zhang, F. 2022. Globalization or Regionalization of Technological Knowledge Learning in Multinational Corporations. Academy of International Business 2022 Annual Conference, Miami, USA. July 6-9, 2022. 

Zhang, F. 2022. Multidimensional Exploration and the Knowledge Advantage of Multinational Corporations. Academy of International Business (UK & Ireland Chapter) / 8th Reading IB Conference, The University of Reading, Reading, UK. April 9-10, 2022. 

Zhang, F., and Gill, M. (PSU Abington undergraduate student). 2021. Regionalization or Globalization: The Intra-Firm Distribution of Organizational Learning Activities. Academy of International Business US-Northeast 2021 Conference, Sacred Heart University, Connecticut, USA, October 15-16, 2021. 

Zhang, F. 2020. Examiner Added Citations and the Validity of US Patent Data in Studying EMNC Knowledge Flow. 2020 Annual Conference of Academy of Management (AOM), August 7-11, 2020, Virtual. 

Zhang, F., Jiang, G., and Cantwell, J. 2019. The Technological Competence Creation of EMNCs: Key Mechanisms and Innovative Performance. 2019 Annual Conference of Academy of Management (AOM), August 9-13, 2019, Boston, US 

Zhang, F., and Jiang, G. 2019. Technological Competence Creation of EMNCs – The External and Internal Embeddedness of Overseas Subsidiaries. 2019 Annual Conference of Academy of International Business, June 24-27, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Zhang, F. and Jiang, G., and Cantwell, J. 2019. The Technological Competence Creation Patterns of EMNC Parent and Overseas Subsidiaries. 2019 Annual Conference of Academy of International Business, June 24-27, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Zhang, F., Jiang, G. and Xu, H. (PSU Abington undergraduate student). 2019. The Strategic Choices of Multidimensional Exploration and MNC Performance, International Conference of International Association of Applied Business Research, Jan 4-7, 2019, Key West, USA 

Zhang, F., Jiang, G. and Wang, C. (PSU Abington undergraduate student). 2018. Technological Competence Creation of EMNCs and Performance: Empirical Justification of EMNC Theories, Asia-Pacific Conference on Social Sciences and Management, May 22-24, 2018, Shanghai, China