
Ping ZhengCanterbury Christ Church University · Canterbury Christ Church University Business School (CCCU)
Ping Zheng
MBA, Ph.D. SFHEA
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Introduction
Dr Ping Zheng is currently working at Christ Church Business School, Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU). Ping is doing research in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in Social Theory, Qualitative Social Research and Human-computer Interaction. Their current project is 'Creative Science Foundation (CSf)'.
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Drawing upon a contingency approach, this research based on case studies offers an understanding of the conditions for contrasting growth strategies in emerging business ventures in China. It offers an insight into the interactive effect of organisational processes that are likely to shape their strategic outcomes. Ownership as a key contingency fa...
Most discussions of the development of market socialism in China adopt an “institutional approach” in which socioeconomic and political organizations are described as a complex set of arrangements determined by the policies and role of the Communist Party. Such institutions are often seen to be little more than passive forces responding to the impe...
Based on longitudinal case study research between 2005 and 2010, this book explores the distinctive characteristics of emerging forms of economic enterprise under market socialism in China. Adopting a holistic view, it explores how rapid environmental and institutional changes in economic reforms are impacting upon their practice, and assesses the...
Use of established fiction provides a connection to society at large, tapping into the creative abilities of great authors and filmmakers, which can offer a valuable source of creative ideas. This paper explores how science fiction and fantasy, particularly in the form of films, is being used to stimulate creativity and produce innovation outputs i...
This chapter uses the perspective of change agencies to analyse how agents (such as governments, international companies, entrepreneurs and individuals) innovate, interact, assimilate, consume and ultimately determine the direction of future technologies. These are the key components to the formation of technological singularity, i.e. an artificial...
GEIC 2024 final call for papers - join us at Canterbury Christ Church University on 15th - 16th July 2024.
Managerial and Decision Economics UK Series Second Special Issue - "Managing Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development". Welcome to submit papers: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991468/homepage/call-for-papers/si-2024-000074
Modern cities are intrinsically multidisciplinary and multicultural places. Inspired by that view, this chapter has invited a cross-disciplinary international team of domain experts to present their differing views (in their distinctive styles) on the current state and future evolution of smart cities. In presenting their views, the experts have ad...
This book presents the proceedings of the 1st EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education (TIE 2017), which took place at Canterbury Christ Church University on September 11-12, 2017. The central theme of the conference is creativity and innovation, especially in relation to technology, business, education...
In this article we introduce a novel entrepreneurial model, the “Faculty Cooperative”, an eco-system for creating and managing academic entrepreneurial initiatives. The goal of this model is to promote academic entrepreneurism, by providing a guiding concept and tools that overcome the lack of alignment between individual academic attributes and fa...
The book offers insightful views of Chinese management and entrepreurial growth of different types of economic enterprise under market socialism.
This paper describes a rapid-prototyping system, based around a set of modularised electronics, Buzz-Boards, which enable developers to quickly create a wide variety of products ranging from intelligent environments, through robots to smart-phones peripherals to be built and deployed. In this paper we introduce readers to Buzz-Board technology, ill...
How firms grow is still a mystery and a definitive explanation remains elusive. This is especially the case for emerging economies, where the development of research into business growth has been notably slow whilst emerging business ventures are developing at hyper speed. Since most empirical studies have focused on the quantitative differences in...
This paper advances the hypothesis that a business can be regarded as a collection of interacting rule based processes, that are analogous to a set of rule based coordinating pervasive computing agents that make up intelligent environments. In this paper we explore this hypothesis and, in particular, investigate the application of directed graph th...
By drawing on the 'contingency approach' to explain organisational and managerial issues surrounding emerging Chinese entrepreneurial ventures, the research seeks to distinguish how the theoretical principles for unde rstanding how a challenging business environment can influence management practice and e ntrepreneurial behaviour. A case study appr...
In this paper we introduce a novel entrepreneurial model for funding and managing future intelligent educational environments and other academic business enterprise; the Faculty-Cooperative. The goal of this model is to create a business mechanism where academics are both the owners and customers of the IPR they generate, thereby providing synergy...