Dr SHANG, Liang    商靚 博士
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies
Contact
ORCiD
0000-0002-8962-7226
Phone
(852) 2948 8936
Email
lshang@eduhk.hk
Address
10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Scopus ID
57192873935
Research Outputs

Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
SHANG Liang & Yanto CHANDRA (2023). Discrete Choice Experiments Using R: A How-To Guide for Social and Managerial Sciences. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4562-7

Journal Publications
Shang Liang (2024). From the emancipated to the emancipator: An integrative perspective on women social entrepreneurs’ emancipation experiences. Gender in Management https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-03-2023-0065
Chandra, Y., Shang, L., & Roy, M. (2022). Understanding healthcare social enterprises: A new public governance perspective. Journal of Social Policy, 51(4), 834-855. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279421000222

Projects

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Transforming Public Administration

Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): SHANG, Liang

 
Social Enterprise Intermediaries as Paradigm-Building Actors: towards Innovation or Isomorphism?
Intermediary organizations, including incubators, capacity-building organizations, and accelerators, have mushroomed as important institutional actor that supports the creation and development of social enterprises. Recognizing social enterprises as a responsive and innovative way to deliver public services, governments often use intermediaries to bridge the void between social enterprises and public funding, in the hope that this will create a supportive infrastructure for social enterprises. In this process, intermediaries act as ‘brokers’ who can make important resources accessible to social enterprises that are not as well connected. An emerging but limited body of literature has highlighted the supporting role of intermediaries in promoting social enterprises, for example, by providing training, coaching, and consultancy services to social enterprises and connecting them with other actors to drive collaborations. What has been overlooked is the role of intermediaries as paradigm-builders who can be very influential with their rich resources in building new institutional norms, values, and discourses around social enterprises, for example, by propagating their own definitions of social enterprises, determining what constitutes legitimate practices, and promoting preferred models of social enterprises through incubation and competitions. Such a field-shaping role of intermediaries may have significant implications for the institutional field of social enterprises, and by virtue, organizational practices and behaviours. To address the research gaps, this study draws on the neo-institutional theory and proposes two studies focusing on Hong Kong as the research site.
Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): SHANG, Liang

 
AI in Action: Leveraging ChatGPT to Reshape Social Entrepreneurship Education

Project Start Year: 2023, Principal Investigator(s): SHANG, Liang