March 20, 2025, the Business School held the second session of the 2025 Excellent Academic Forum of the Business School at the Conference Room 615 of the Main Teaching Building on the Xueyuan South Road Campus of the Central University of Finance and Economics. Professor Wang Tang, Associate Professor of Business School of University of South Florida, was invited as the keynote speaker, and the lecture was presided over by Professor Lin Song, Dean of Business School. More than 20 teachers, doctoral students, master students and undergraduates participated in this activity.
Professor Wang is an associate professor at the Nault Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of South Florida Business School, where he teaches research courses in business planning and other directions. His research focuses on technology entrepreneurship and innovation Management, including product development, academic entrepreneurship and senior team management. His research focuses on high-tech industries, such as computers, software, biotechnology, financial technology, etc. His research results have been published in top journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Management, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, etc., won the best paper award many times. The topic of this lecture is "How (Much) Does Country Matter to CSR? A Variance Decomposition Study ". This lecture mainly focuses on including the country level into the analysis of CSR differences, expands the research on the decomposition of CSR differences, and reveals the relative importance of country-specific factors in explaining CSR differences among companies. By introducing informal institutions (collectivist and individualistic values) as moderating variables, the relative importance of firm, industry, and country effects in CSR differences is adjusted, thus advancing a multi-level understanding of how informal cultural norms shape CSR differences. Finally, the study provides insight into the sources of differences between substantive and symbolic CSR in firms, suggesting that symbolic CSR differences are more driven by country factors, especially in collectivist Settings. The study uses 25,309 sample data (from 2003 to 2020) from 4,287 companies in 71 countries, 153 industries for theoretical verification, which has implications for understanding CSR strategies at home and abroad.
After the sharing, the teachers and students asked questions about research theories, data indicators and future research topics, and Professor Wang Tang warmly answered their questions and conducted in-depth discussions, which further promoted deeper academic exchanges between them.
The “Excellent Academic Forum” is an academic exchange platform established by the Business School to fulfill the mission of “contributing new management knowledge”, which focuses on cutting-edge theoretical issues and organizational development dilemmas in the discipline of business administration and the Chinese enterprise management practice, and brings together frontier ideas and innovative ideas in China and abroad, so as to explore Chinese solutions for China's social and economic development.
