Xiaohua Yang

Professor Xiaohua Yang is a professor of international business and the founding director of the Center for Business Studies and Innovation in Asia-Pacific at the University of San Francisco School of Management. She specializes in the internationalization of firms, MNE corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, international R&D alliances, and foreign market expansion strategies. Widely published in international journals, she has served as senior editor of the Journal of Asia Business Studies and guest editor for leading outlets such as Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Multinational Business Review, and Thunderbird International Business Review.

Her research on the globalization of businesses has led to interviews with major media, including CBS, San Francisco Business Times, Daily Economic News, Wenzhou Daily, Sing Tao Daily, and Armenia National TV. She frequently speaks at academic and practitioner conferences and holds a PhD in international business/strategic management, an MS/MBA, and a BA.

• Internationalization of firms
• MNE corporate social responsibility 
• Global sustainable development
• Global R&D strategic alliances
• Foreign market expansion strategies

• Internationalization of firms
• MNE corporate social responsibility
• Global sustainable development
• Global R&D strategic alliances
• foreign market expansion strategies
• Immigrant entrepreneurship

• Professor of International Business, tenured (2015-Present)
• Member of Policy Board, USFFA (2023-2025)
• Founding Director, USF Center for Business Studies and Innovation in Asia-Pacific (2014-2023)

• PhD, International Business/Strategic Management, School of Business, University of Kansas
• MS, College of Business Administration, Iowa State University
• BA, Shanghai University of International Studies

• University of San Francisco, School of Management, USA Professor of International Business (2014 – Present)
• Associate Professor of International Business (2009 – 2014)
• Director, China Business Studies Initiative (2013 – Present)
• Queensland University of Technology, School of Management, Senior Lecturer (International Business) (2004 – 2009)
• National Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Management, Taiwan Visiting Associate Professor (2006)
• Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Queensland University of Technology, Business School of Business (2005-2009)
• Assistant Professor,  Bond University Business School (1998-2004)
• Assistant Professor, University of Redland, Whitehead College (1995-1998)

• Recipient, Outstanding Research Award (as a full professor), University of San Francisco School of Management, 2016

• Recipient, Outstanding Research Award, University of San Francisco School of Management, 2013

• Recipient, Outstanding Service Award, University of San Francisco School of Management, 2010

• Recipient, Outstanding Contribution Award, International Association for Chinese Management Research, 2010 Best Paper Awards

• Finalist, 2017 Best Paper Award at the 10th China Goes Global Conference for “Relational Competence vs. Local Isomorphism: Strategic Choice of EMNEs in Advanced Economies” Recipient of 2017 (co-authored with Wang, L. & Zhang, H.)

• Recipient of 2015 Emerald LiteratiNetwork Outstanding Paper in International Journal of Emerging Markets and the best paper conference award at the 8th China GoesGlobal Conference for “A Review of Institutional Influences on the Rise of Made-in-China Multinationals” (Co-authored with Stoltenberg, C.D.)

• Recipient of 2012 Best Paper Award at the 6th Harvard conference on China Goes Global, October 8-10, 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA for “Revisit the Institutional Influences on the rise of Made-in-China Multinationals” (co-author with Stoltenberg, C.D.)

• Finalist, 2006 Best Paper Award at the International Association for Chinese Management Research 2nd Annual Conference, Nanjing, PRC June 15-18 for “Antecedents of International Expansion in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises.”

• Recipient of 2002 Distinguished Paper Award at the Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference, February 27 - March 1, in Chicago, Illinois, for “Impact of China’s Revised FDI Laws and WTO Entry on FDI in China: Implications for Chinese Policy Makers” (co-authored with Wang, G. and Moore, G.)

Full list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.

• Wang, L., Xie, Z., Zhang, H., Yang, X., & Tan, J. (2023). Corporate compliance capability of EMNEs: a prerequisite for overcoming the liability of emergingness in advanced economies. International Journal of Emerging Markets, 18(10), 3486-3505
• Lewis, D. J., Yang, X., Moise, D., & Roddy, S. J. (2021). Dynamic synergies between China’s belt and road initiative and the UN’s sustainable development goals. Journal of International Business Policy, 4(1), 58.
• Doh, J., Husted, B. W., & Yang, X. (2016). “Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Developing Country Multinationals.” Business Ethics Quarterly, 26(3), 301–315.
• Yang, X., & Rivers, C. (2009). Antecedents of CSR practices in MNCs’ subsidiaries: A stakeholder and institutional perspective. Journal of business ethics, 86(Suppl 2), 155-169.