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Shang Jiang

Senior Lecturer

Nottingham Business School

Staff Group(s)
Department of Economics

Role

Dr Shang Jiang is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. His research focuses on business sustainability and corporate greenwashing, with recent publications in Business Strategy and the Environment and Energy Economics (both AJG 3). His current projects examine the relationship between macroprudential policy and ESG outcomes, as well as challenges in ESG compliance.

Dr Jiang contributes to the wider research environment as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Economic Issues (AJG 1*, ABDC B) and as an ethics reviewer on the Research Ethics Committee for the Schools of Business, Law, and Social Sciences.

In doctoral education, he has served as Director of Study, co-supervisor, and Independent Assessor for PhD candidates, and has acted as both internal and external examiner, as well as Independent Chair for viva examinations.

He is currently the Module Leader for Contemporary Economic Perspectives (final year) and Survey Research and Analysis (second year). He also serves as Academic Course Tutor for the Economics course and previously held the role of Assistant Course Leader.

Career overview

Dr. Shang Jiang obtained his BA in Accounting and Financial Management in 2010, followed by an MSc in International Financial and Political Relations from Loughborough University in 2011. He completed his PhD in Macroeconomics at the University of Gloucestershire in 2017. Before joining NTU in 2019, he worked as a Module Leader in Economics and Business at Kaplan International College London and as a data researcher in a financial intelligence company.

Research areas

Dr Jiang’s research examines how institutional and regulatory factors shape corporate sustainability strategies, with a particular focus on greenwashing, ESG regulation, and environmental innovation. He is currently leading and contributing to projects on macroprudential policy and greenwashing, energy transition impacts on corporate green innovation, and ESG compliance challenges. His work employs empirical methods, with broader interests in corporate environmental behaviour, ESG performance metrics, and organisational responses to regulatory change.

Dr Jiang welcomes expressions of interest from prospective PhD students across a broad range of topics related to corporate sustainability, environmental and financial regulation, institutional economics, and other applied methods for empirical economic research.

External activity

Journal reviewer, Journal of Business Ethics (AJG3)

Keynote speaker/Consultant, MOSMOP Symposium: Practical Solutions for SMEs to Solve Challenges and Achieve Sustainable Growth (September 2025)

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Chen, Y., Jiang, S., Lim, K. Y., & Morris, D. (2025). Corporate “Greening” and Innovation: A Reinterpretation Based on Historical Immortals. Business Strategy and the Environment, 34(2), 2320–2340. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4105
  • Dogah, K. E., Jiang, S., Kuscevic, C. M. M., & Lim, K. Y. (2025). Environmental policy and distance to firms: An analysis of publicly listed firms in China. Energy Economics, 144, 108330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108330

Research Grants

  • Seedcorn Project (Principal Investigator): Does Energy Transition Lead to More Greenwashing or Green Innovation among Oil and Gas Contractors? (£2,422.50, 2025 – present)
  • SPUR-SoTL Project (Co-Investigator): Assess Staff Attitudes to Employability Teaching and Learning (£1,800, 2023–2024)

Conference Presentations

  • Macroprudential Regulations and Greenwashing: A Novel Endogenous Growth Theory and Empirical Evidence, The 4th International Workshop on the Chinese Development Model – Made in China 2025: Innovation and Sustainable Development (2025) (Awarded Best Paper)
  • Turning the Glass Cliff into an Institutional Reconfiguration Opportunity in China: A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Top Corporate Women Leadership Appointments on Local New Civil Servant Recruitment, The 4th International Workshop on the Chinese Development Model – Made in China 2025: Innovation and Sustainable Development (2025)
  • Macroprudential Regulations and Greenwashing: A Novel Endogenous Growth Theory and Empirical Evidence, Inaugural Annual Global Banking and Finance Association (GLOBAFA) Conference (2025)
  • The influence of emission trading scheme and waste-recycling facility proximity on firm's environmental investments in China: is too much meat spoiling the soup?, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (2023)
  • Finding the determinants of China’s local fiscal capacity, 10th Conference on Asia and Pacific Economies (2023)

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