Stephen Zhang

Stephen Zhang

Adelaide Business School

Faculty of the Professions

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

In the University of Adelaide, Stephen studies entrepreneurs' and top management's psychology, biases, mental health and etc. He is also starting to study the impact of AI and other innovations on human work and life. He has published several articles in top journals per lists of Financial Times, ABDC, and ERA.

Stephen received his Bachelor Degree at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. Prior to his academic career, Stephen has founded ventures and worked in several industries including engineering, management consultancy, market research, and innovation management.

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Stephen is the founding director of the Mental Health of Vulnerable Workers Initiative -dedicated to identifying mentally vulnerable workers under Covid-19. Check out some ongoing work on Covid-19 via google scholar:

 

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  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2020 Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation University of Adelaide
    2016 - 2020 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Innovation University of Sydney
    2010 - 2017 Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Catholic University of Chile
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  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2021 Zhang, X., Gao, R., Odeh, N., & Leatherbee, M. (2021). A micro-foundational model of real options reasoning: the roles of individual search propensity and perceived uncertainty. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 15(1), 98-120.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1
    2021 Lateef, T., Chen, J., Tahir, M., Lateef, T. A., Chen, B. Z., Li, J., & Zhang, S. X. (2021). Typhoon eye effect versus ripple effect: the role of family size on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. Globalization and Health, 17(1), 8 pages.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC1
    2021 Zhang, S. X., Foo, M. D., & Vassolo, R. S. (2021). The ramifications of effectuation on biases in entrepreneurship – Evidence from a mixed-method approach. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 15, e00238.
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    2021 Zhang, S. X., Chen, J., Afshar Jahanshahi, A., Alvarez-Risco, A., Dai, H., Li, J., & Patty-Tito, R. M. (2021). Succumbing to the COVID-19 Pandemic—Healthcare Workers Not Satisfied and Intend to Leave Their Jobs. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 10 pages.
    DOI Scopus10 WoS11 Europe PMC7
    2021 Zhang, S. X., Wang, Y., Jahanshahi, A. A., Li, J., & Schmitt, V. G. H. (2021). Early evidence and predictors of mental distress of adults one month in the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 142, 7 pages.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS4 Europe PMC4
    2021 Looi, K. H., Zhang, S., Li, N., & Li, J. (2021). Demographic and Hygienic Factors as Predictors of Face Mask Wearing During Covid-19 Pandemic in Malaysia.
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    2021 Zhang, S., Marioli, F. A., & Gao, R. (2021). A Second Wave? What Do People Mean By COVID Waves? – A Working Definition of Epidemic Waves.
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    2021 Zhang, S. X., Chen, J., Jahanshahi, A. A., Alvarez-Risco, A., Dai, H., Li, J., & Patty-Tito, R. M. (2021). Succumbing to the COVID-19 Pandemic-Healthcare Workers Not Satisfied and Intend to Leave Their Jobs (Jan, 10.1007/s11469-020-00418-6, 2021). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION, 1 page.
    DOI Europe PMC1
    2021 Yan, J., Kim, S., Zhang, S. X., Foo, M. D., Alvarez-Risco, A., Del-Aguila-Arcentales, S., & Yáñez, J. A. (2021). Hospitality workers’ COVID-19 risk perception and depression: A contingent model based on transactional theory of stress model. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 95, 11 pages.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS1
    2021 Chen, R., Zhang, S., Xu, W., Yin, A., Dong, R. K., Chen, B., . . . Wan, X. (2021). A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Mental Illness Symptoms in Spain in the COVID-19 Crisis.
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    2021 Sun, S., Zhang, S. X., Jahanshahi, A. A., & Jahanshahi, M. (2021). Drilling under the COVID-19 pandemic: A diary study of professional football players' mental health and workout perforance. Stress and Health, 16 pages.
    DOI Scopus1
    2021 Gong, H., Zhang, S. X., Nawaser, K., Afshar Jahanshahi, A., Xu, X., Li, J., & Bagheri, A. (2021). The Mental Health of Healthcare Staff Working During the COVID-19 Crisis: Their Working Hours as a Boundary Condition.. Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 14, 1073-1081.
    DOI Scopus1
    2021 Chen, J., Zhang, S. X., Wang, Y., Afshar Jahanshahi, A., Mokhtari Dinani, M., Nazarian Madavani, A., & Nawaser, K. (2021). The Relationship Between Age and Mental Health Among Adults in Iran During the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 36(8), 9285-9299.
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    2021 Zhang, S. X., Huang, H., Li, J., Antonelli-Ponti, M., de Paiva, S. F., & da Silva, J. A. (2021). Predictors of depression and anxiety symptoms in brazil during covid-19. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(13), 7026.
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    2021 Zhang, S., Miller, S., Xu, W., Yin, A., Chen, B., Delios, A., . . . Chen, J. (2021). Meta-Analytic Evidence of Depression and Anxiety in Eastern Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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    2021 Zhang, S., Looi, K. H., Li, N., Wan, X., & Li, J. (2021). Individual-Level Heterogeneity in Mask-wearing During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia.
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    2020 Zhang, S. X., Wang, Y., Jahanshahi, A. A., Li, J., & Schmitt, V. G. H. (2020). Early Evidence and Predictors of Mental Distress of Adults One Month in the COVID-19 Epidemic in Brazil.
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    2020 Thornquist, S. C., Langer, K., Zhang, S. X., Rogulja, D., & Crickmore, M. A. (2020). CaMKII Measures the Passage of Time to Coordinate Behavior and Motivational State. NEURON, 105(2), 334-345.
    DOI WoS5 Europe PMC5
    2020 Dai, H., Zhang, S. X., Looi, K. H., Su, R., & Li, J. (2020). Perception of Health Conditions and Test Availability as Predictors of Adults' Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey Study of Adults in Malaysia.. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 17(15), 10 pages.
    DOI Scopus10 WoS7 Europe PMC8
    2020 Jahanshahi, A. A., Dinani, M. M., Madavani, A. N., Li, J., & Zhang, S. X. (2020). The distress of Iranian adults during the Covid-19 pandemic - More distressed than the Chinese and with different predictors.. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 87, 124-125.
    DOI Scopus57 WoS50 Europe PMC45
    2020 Zhang, S., Afshar Jahanshahi, A., Nawaser, K., Yousefi, A., Li, J., & Sun, S. (2020). At the height of the storm: Healthcare staff’s health conditions and job satisfaction and their associated predictors during the epidemic peak of COVID-19. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 87, 144-146.
    DOI Scopus66 WoS62 Europe PMC48
    2020 Chen, X., Zhang, S., Jahanshahi, A. A., Alvarez-Risco, A., Dai, H., Li, J., & Ibarra, V. G. (2020). Belief in Conspiracy Theory about COVID-19 Predicts Mental Health and Well-being: A Study of Healthcare Staff in Ecuador.
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    2020 Zhang, S., Chen, J., Jahanshahi, A. A., Alvarez-Risco, A., Dai, H., Li, J., & Patty-Tito, R. M. (2020). Succumbing to the COVID-19 Pandemic – Healthcare Workers not Satisfied and Intend to Leave Their Jobs.
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    2020 Zhang, S., Sun, S., Afshar Jahanshahi, A., Alvarez-Risco, A., Ibarra, V., Li, J., & Patty-Tito, R. (2020). Developing and testing a measure of COVID-19 organizational support of healthcare workers - results from Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia. Psychiatry research, 291, 1-4.
    DOI Scopus16 WoS13 Europe PMC9
    2020 Dai, H., Zhang, S., Looi, K. H., Su, R., & Li, J. (2020). Health Condition and Test Availability as Predictors of Adults’ Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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    2020 Zhang, S., Graf-Vlachy, L., Su, R., Li, J., & Looi, K. H. (2020). Who do not wash their hands during the Covid-19 pandemic? Social media use as a potential predictor.
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    2020 Chen, J., Zhang, S., Wang, Y., Jahanshahi, A. A., Dinani, M. M., Madavani, A. N., & Nawaser, K. (2020). The curvilinear relationship between the age of adults and their mental health in Iran after its peak of COVID-19 cases.
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    2020 Reyes, T., Vassolo, R. S., Kausel, E. E., Torres, D. P., & Zhang, S. (2020). Does overconfidence pay off when things go well? CEO overconfidence, firm performance, and the business cycle. Strategic Organization, 31 pages.
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    2020 Zhang, S. X., & Van Burg, E. (2020). Advancing entrepreneurship as a design science: developing additional design principles for effectuation. Small Business Economics, 55(3), 607-626.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS5
    2020 Yáñez, J. A., Afshar Jahanshahi, A., Alvarez-Risco, A., Li, J., & Zhang, X. (2020). Anxiety, Distress, and Turnover Intention of Healthcare Workers in Peru by Their Distance to the Epicenter during the COVID-19 Crisis.. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 103(4), 1614-1620.
    DOI Scopus24 WoS19 Europe PMC14
    2020 Xu, X., Zhang, S., Jahanshahi, A. A., Li, J., Bagheri, A., & Nawaser, K. (2020). The Mental Health of Healthcare Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic: It Depends on How Much They Work and Their Age.
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    2020 Wang, W., Liang, Q., Mahto, R. V., Deng, W., & Zhang, S. X. (2020). Entrepreneurial entry: The role of social media. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 161, 120337.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS2
    2020 Zhang, S. X., Graf-Vlachy, L., Looi, K. H., Su, R., & Li, J. (2020). Social media use as a predictor of handwashing during a pandemic: Evidence from Covid-19 in Malaysia.. Epidemiology and infection, 148, 1-5.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1
    2020 Zhang, S., Sun, S., Jahanshahi, A. A., Alvarez-Risco, A., Ibarra, V. G., Li, J., & Patty-Tito, R. M. (2020). Developing and testing a measure of COVID-19 Organizational Support of Healthcare Workers – Results from Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
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    2020 Zhang, S. X., Wang, Y., Rauch, A., & Wei, F. (2020). Unprecedented disruption of lives and work: Health, distress and life satisfaction of working adults in China one month into the COVID-19 outbreak. Psychiatry Research, 288, 6 pages.
    DOI Scopus212 WoS200 Europe PMC123
    2020 Zhang, S. X., Huang, H., & Wei, F. (2020). Geographical distance to the epicenter of Covid-19 predicts the burnout of the working population: Ripple effect or typhoon eye effect?. Psychiatry Res, 288, 112998.
    DOI Scopus28 WoS27 Europe PMC17
    2020 Chen, X., Zhang, X., Jahanshahi, A. A., Alvarez-Risco, A., Dai, H., Li, J., & Ibarra, V. G. (2020). Belief in Conspiracy Theory about COVID-19 Predicts Mental Health and Well-being: A Study of Healthcare Staff in Ecuador.. JMIR Public Health Surveill, 6(3), 7 pages.
    DOI Scopus21 WoS19 Europe PMC10
    2020 Tang, P. M., Zhang, S. X., Li, C. H., & Wei, F. (2020). Geographical identification of the vulnerable groups during COVID-19 crisis: Psychological typhoon eye theory and its boundary conditions.. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 74(10), 562-563.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC8
    2020 Graf-Vlachy, L., Sun, S., & Zhang, S. X. (2020). Predictors of managers’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11(1), 1834195.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS3 Europe PMC3
    2020 Lateef, T., Chen, J., Tahir, M., Lateef, T. A., Chen, B., Li, J., & Zhang, S. (2020). Typhoon Eye Effect Vs. Ripple Effect: The Role of Family Size on the Mental Health Under the Covid-19 Pandemic in Pakistan.
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    2020 Lateef, T., Chen, J., Tahir, M., Lateef, T. A., Chen, B., Li, J., & Zhang, S. (2020). Typhoon Eye Effect vs. Ripple Effect: The Role of Family Size on the Mental Health under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Pakistan.
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    2020 Zhang, S. X., Sun, S., Afshar Jahanshahi, A., Wang, Y., Nazarian Madavani, A., Li, J., & Mokhtari Dinani, M. (2020). Beyond Predicting the Number of Infections: Predicting Who is Likely to Be COVID Negative or Positive. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 13, 2811-2818.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC2
    2020 Zhang, S. X., Liu, J., Afshar Jahanshahi, A., Nawaser, K., Yousefi, A., Li, J., & Sun, S. (2020). Corrigendum to "At the height of the storm: Healthcare staff's health conditions and job satisfaction and their associated predictors during the epidemic peak of COVID-19" [Brain Behav. Immun. 87 (2020) 144-146].. Brain Behav Immun, 92, 245-246.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1
    2018 Schmitt, A., Rosing, K., Zhang, S., & Leatherbee, M. (2018). A dynamic model of entrepreneurial uncertainty and business opportunity identification: Exploration as a mediator and entrepreneurial self-efficacy as a moderator. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(6), 835-859.
    DOI Scopus23 WoS25
    2018 Zhang, S. X., Miner, L. E., Boutros, C. L., Rogulja, D., & Crickmore, M. A. (2018). Motivation, Perception, and Chance Converge to Make a Binary Decision. NEURON, 99(2), 376-388.
    DOI WoS20 Europe PMC14
    2017 Zhang, S. X., & Cueto, J. (2017). The Study of Bias in Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 41(3), 419-454.
    DOI Scopus66 WoS59
    2013 Jahanshahi, A. A., Zhang, S. X., & Brem, A. (2013). E-commerce for SMEs: Empirical insights from three countries. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 20(4), 849-865.
    DOI Scopus34
    2013 Zhang, S. X., Pramanik, N., & Buurman, J. (2013). Exploring an innovative design for sustainable urban water management and energy conservation. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 20(5), 442-454.
    DOI Scopus9 WoS9
    2012 Zhang, S. X., & Babovic, V. (2012). A real options approach to the design and architecture of water supply systems using innovative water technologies under uncertainty. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 14(1), 13-29.
    DOI Scopus52 WoS47
    2011 Zhang, S. X., & Babovic, V. (2011). An evolutionary real options framework for the design and management of projects and systems with complex real options and exercising conditions. Decision Support Systems, 51(1), 119-129.
    DOI Scopus40 WoS38
    2009 Buurman, J., Zhang, S., & Babovic, V. (2009). Reducing risk through real options in systems design: The case of architecting a maritime domain protection system. Risk Analysis, 29(3), 366-379.
    DOI Scopus36 WoS30 Europe PMC3
    — Tang, S., Nadkarni, S., WEI, L. -Q., & Zhang, S. X. (n.d.). Balancing the Yin and Yang: TMT Gender Diversity, Psychological Safety, and Firm Ambidextrous Strategic Orientation in Chinese High-Tech SMEs. Academy of Management Journal.
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    — Zhang, S. X., Sun, S., Jahanshahi, A. A., Wang, Y., Madavani, A. N., & Dinani, M. M. (n.d.). Beyond predicting the number of infections: predicting who is likely to be COVID negative or positive (Preprint).
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    — Chen, X., Zhang, S. X., Jahanshahi, A. A., Alvarez-Risco, A., Dai, H., Li, J., & Ibarra, V. G. (n.d.). Belief in a COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory as a Predictor of Mental Health and Well-Being of Health Care Workers in Ecuador: Cross-Sectional Survey Study (Preprint).
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    — Zhang, S. X., Chen, J., Jahanshahi, A. A., Alvarez-Risco, A., Dai, H., Li, J., & Patty-Tito, R. M. (n.d.). Succumbing to the COVID-19 Pandemic – Healthcare Workers not Satisfied and Intend to Leave Their Jobs (Preprint).
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    — Zhang, S., & Cueto, J. (n.d.). The study of bias in entrepreneurship.
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    — Zhang, S. X., Lateef, T., Chen, J., Tahir, M., Lateef, T. A., Chen, B., & Li, J. (n.d.). Typhoon Eye Effect Vs. Ripple Effect: the Role of Family Size on the Mental Health Under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Pakistan.
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    — Chin, M. K., Zhang, S. X., Afshar Jahanshahi, A., & Nadkarni, S. (n.d.). Unpacking Political Ideology: CEO Social and Economic Ideologies, Strategic Decision-making Processes, and Corporate Entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Journal.
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  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2015 Jahanshahi, A. A., & Zhang, S. X. (2015). Real options reasoning and innovative performance in the context of dynamic capabilities. In Adoption of Innovation: Balancing Internal and External Stakeholders in the Marketing of Innovation (pp. 181-196). Springer International Publishing.
    DOI Scopus3

  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2019 Zhang, S. X., Choudhury, A., & He, L. (2019). Responsible innovation: The development and validation of a scale. In 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2019: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2019 Vol. 2019 (pp. 12437). Academy of Management.
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    2018 Chin, M. K., Xu Zhang, S., Jahanshahi, A. A., & Nadkarni, S. (2018). The effect of two dimensions of CEO political ideology on corporate entrepreneurship. In 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2018 Vol. 2018 (pp. 12910). Academy of Management.
    DOI Scopus1
    2011 Chen, J. H., Zhang, S. X., & Lee, D. H. (2011). Examination of the effectiveness and robustness of the heuristics for bay-based quay crane scheduling problem in port container terminals. In IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (pp. 1284-1288). Singapore, SINGAPORE: IEEE.
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Stephen's research has also drawn wide interest, giving Stephen opportunities to raise more than US$1.5 million of grants in several countries. With the support of World Bank and Chilean Ministry of Economy, Stephen founded the Center for Entrepreneurial Strategy Under Uncertainty in Catholic University of Chile, which ranks #1 in South America.

Stephen teaches entrepreneurship with an action-based approach. This approach has generated many entrepreneurs with highly scalable businesses, and Stephen has been rated as the best professor for his entrepreneurship course in executive master programs.

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