Wencang Zhou

Biography

Dr. Zhou's primary research interests reside in organizational behavior perspective of entrepreneurship, leadership, cross cultural management as well as meta-analysis. His current research is focused on the study of individual differences of entrepreneurs in terms of both demographic difference and deep level differences. He has been teaching courses at both undergraduate and MBA level. Prior to getting his Ph.D. in Management from the City University of New York, he worked in banking industry for seven years.

Education

• B.S., Peking University
• M.A., Fudan University
• Ph.D., Baruch College, City University of New York

Publications

• Newspaper Article: W. Zhou, X. Shi (1998). A hurricane of electronic business at the end of this century. China Business & Trade
• Journal Article: W. Zhou, X. Shi (1998). The development of E-commerce. Enterprise Reform and Management
• Book: W. Zhou, Y. Wang (2000). Cases of Innovative Marketing. Henan Peoples Publishing House
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (1999). How to be a successful quick follower?. China Township Enterprises
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (1999). The wheel model of retail trade development. Jiangsu Commercial Forum
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (1999). A quick follower's marketing strategy in R&D. Marketing Herald
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (1999). Comparative research on a retail development model in the West. Foreign Economies and Management
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (1999). The company’s core competence and diversified strategy. Shanghai Economic Review
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (1999). An analysis of the wheel model concerning retail trade development. Foreign Economies and Management
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (1999). Sustainable development of a company: A resources based view. Techno-economics & Management Research
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (1998). The commercial revolution at the end of century: e-commerce. Policy and Management
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (2006). Knowledge Management in China Banks. International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management
• Conference Proceedings: W. Zhou, N. Gardberg, R. Heck (2009). Entrepreneurial Intentions, Work‐Family Conflict and Entrepreneurial Success. Annual Conference of Academy of International Business (AIB) Northeast
• Technical Report: A. Kraut, L. Lawter, W. Zhou (2008). A follow-up evaluation of the Dale Carnegie training with Baruch College undergraduates.
• Conference Proceedings: W. Zhou, H. Rothstien, X. Shi (2008). The Effects of Members’ Cognitive Ability and Emotional Intelligence on Team Outcomes: A Meta-Analytic Review. Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (2013). Is Informational Diversity Really Informational?: An Investigation of What and When in Entrepreneurial Teams. Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness
• Journal Article: W. Zhou, X. Shi (2011). Culture in groups and teams: A review of three decades of research. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management
• Journal Article: Z. Aytug, H. Rothstein, W. Zhou, M. Kern (2012). Revealed or concealed? Transparency of procedures, decisions, and judgment calls in meta-analyses. . Organizational Research Methods
• Conference Proceedings: W. Zhou (2013). Shared Leadership in Teams: An Empirical Study of Dispositional Antecedents. Proceedings of the Seventy-Third Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
• Conference Proceedings: W. Zhou (2014). Team Composition of New Venture Founding Teams: Does Personality Matter?. Eastern Academy of Management Annual Conference 2014 Proceedings
• Conference Proceedings: W. Zhou (2014). Who share and who use the unshared information? A moderated mediation model of group information elaboration. Eastern Academy of Management Annual Conference 2014 Proceedings
• Journal Article: W. Zhou, E. Rosini (2015). Entrepreneurial Team Diversity and Performance: Toward an Integrated Model. Entrepreneurship Research Journal
• Other: W. Zhou, D. Vredenburgh, E. Rogoff (2014). Informational diversity and entrepreneurial team performance: Moderating effect of shared leadership. The New Jersey Policy Research Organization Foundation & Seton Hall University
• Journal Article: W. Zhou, H. Hu, M. Zey (2015). Team Composition of New Venture Founding Teams: Does Personality Matter?. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
• Journal Article: W. Zhou, D. Vredenburgh, . Rogoff (2015). Informational diversity and entrepreneurial team performance: Moderating effect of shared leadership. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
• Journal Article: Y. Zhang, J. Hsu, R. Xing, W. Zhou (2015). Conflict of Interest: What It Is, Its Causes and Consequences. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations
• Journal Article: Y. Zhang, E. Hamilton, W. Zhou, X. Liu (2016). Financial Myths Reexamined from Real Stock Price History. International Journal of Data Analysis and Information Systems
• Journal Article: W. Zhou (2016). When does shared leadership matter in entrepreneurial teams: The role of Personality Composition. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
• Journal Article: W. Zhou, H. Hu, X. Shi (2015). Does Organizational Learning Lead to Higher Firm Performance? An Investigation of Chinese Listing Companies. The Learning Organization
• Conference Proceedings: Y. Jung, W. Zhou, T. Wu, Y. Zhang (2025). Cultural Differences behind Motivation and Decision-Making. Eastern Academy of Management Proceedings
• Journal Article: Y. Li, S. Wu, W. Zhou (2024). The effect of syntax simplicity on crowdfunding performance. Venture Capital
• Journal Article: Y. Jung, W. Zhou, T. Wu (). Cultural difference behind motivation and decision-making. Thunderbird International Business Review
• Journal Article: Y. Zhao, X. Yang, D. Xin, W. Zhou, S. Zhang, L. Wang (2023). Intergenerational power gap and R&D investment: Evidence from China. Journal of Innovation and Knowledge
• Journal Article: S. Lin, S. Liu, W. Zhou (2023). Editorial: How entrepreneurs' identity influences their wellbeing in entrepreneurial process?. Frontiers in Psychology
• Journal Article: Y. Limbu, R. Gautam, W. Zhou (2022). Predicting Vaccination Intention against COVID-19 Using Theory of Planned Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Vaccines
• Journal Article: X. Yang, W. Hou, W. Zhou (). Homogamy or Heterogamy: The Effects Of CEO Marriage on Family Firm Performance. Academy of Management Journal
• Journal Article: X. Yang, W. Hou, W. Zhou (). How Spousal Capital Influences Family Firm Performance: An Empirical Analysis. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
• Journal Article: H. Ji, W. Zhou (2021). The Curvilinear Relationship Between Collective Team Identification and New Venture Performance: The Moderating Effect of Environmental Uncertainty. Entrepreneurship Research Journal
• Conference Proceedings: X. Yang, W. Hou, W. Zhou (2021). Homogamy or Heterogamy: The Effects Of CEO Marriage on Family Firm Performance. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings 2021
• Conference Proceedings: X. Yang, W. Hou, W. Zhou (2021). How Spousal Capital Influences Family Firm Performance: An Empirical Analysis.. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
• Journal Article: W. Zhou, Z. Zhu, D. Vredenburgh (2020). Emotional Intelligence, Psychological Safety, and Team Decision Making. Team Performance Management
• Journal Article: J. Xu, X. Yang, D. Xin, W. Zhou, X. Zhu (2019). Firm Location and Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
• Journal Article: H. Hu, Y. Lian, W. Zhou (2019). Do Local Protestant Values Affect Corporate Cash Holdings?. Journal of Business Ethics
• Journal Article: W. Zhou, X. Yang, Y. Li, Y. Zhang (2019). Pattern versus level: a new look at the personality-entrepreneurship relationship. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research
• Journal Article: W. Zhou, X. Yang, Y. Li, Y. Zhang (2019). Pattern versus Level: a New Look at the Personality-Entrepreneurship Relationship. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
• Journal Article: W. Zhou, Y. Zhang, Y. Shen (2017). How shared leadership and team personality composition interact to improve entrepreneurial team performance: Evidence from China. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
• Book Chapter: W. Zhou, D. Vredenburgh (2017). Dispositional Antecedents of Shared Leadership Emergent States on Entrepreneurial Teams. Edward Elgar Publishing
• Journal Article: Y. Shen, W. Zhou (2016). The enlightenment of "tax inversion" in America on the anti-international tax avoidance in China . Journal of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics

Honors & Awards

• Graduate Research Assistantship, Baruch College, CUNY, 2007-2011, The City University of New York (August 2007)
• Doctoral Student Research Grant, Graduate Center at CUNY, 2011-2012, The City University of New York ( 2011)
• 5th Annual USASBE Doctoral Consortium Scholarship, The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship ( 2012)
• CUNY Writing Fellowship, Graduate Center at CUNY, 2011-2012, The City University of New York ( 2011)
• Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Annual Meeting (August 2013)
• Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Award, Montclair State University (June 2015)
• Innovation in Teaching Award, Feliciano School of Business, Montclair State University (May 2018)
• NCA Experiential Learning in Communication Division Top Paper Award, National Communication Association (November 2024)
• Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management (July 2021)