Michael Zhang

Michael W. Zhang is a Reader in International Strategy at Nottingham Trent University. He majored in mechanical engineering and graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Upon graduation he joined Tianjin-Daihatsu Motors Group and went to Japan for a technological transfer programme. The Japanese management system inspired him to study his master’s degree in a UK-Japan exchange programme based at the University of Essex. Following the successful completion of the master programme he continued his academic pursuit with a scholarship from the University of Sheffield to conduct a comparative study between China and Japan. Immediately after the doctoral research, Michael was awarded a prestigious United Nations University Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on a project at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UNU in Tokyo, Japan. Thereafter he continued his research interest in business and management and took up research and teaching positions in Manchester and Nottingham. He has since published more than seventy research outputs in the fields of strategic management, international strategy, technological change, and entrepreneurial innovation, and more recently sustainability transitions. He edited two books, one on international strategic alliances with Routledge in 2018, and a recent volume on sustainability transitions with Routledge, published in December 2023. Michael is an experienced presenter and speaker at various venues, both academic and industry, in Asia, Europe and North America. He was invited as a Keynote Speaker at Scotland Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference in 2023 and 2024.