Qianyi Zoe Zhang张千乙
PhD Candidate
Institute for Responsibility and Sustainability in Global Business (RSGB-I)
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Vienna, Austria
I am a PhD candidate at the Institute for Responsibility and Sustainability in Global Business at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. I joined WU in November 2025, and my supervisor is Günter K. Stahl.
I hold a double master's degree: an MSc in International Business from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Master in International Management (CEMS) from WU Vienna, both completed in 2025. Before that, I received my BSc in International Business from Lund University.
I have a broad interest in international business, global mobility and multiculturalism, and corporate sustainability and social responsibility. My work focuses in particular on how managers' prior experiences shape their firms' sustainability and responsibility performance.
- International Business
- Global Mobility
- Multiculturalism
- Cross-Cultural Management
- Diversity
- Social Cohesion
- Strategic Leadership
- Corporate Sustainability
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Geopolitics
- Working paper TMT Diversity and Social Cohesion
- Working paper Strategic Leaders' Prior International Experience and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance
- Winter 2026/27 Core Course 2: ESG Group Project – Quantitative ResearchWU Vienna
- 2025 – Present WU Vienna University of Economics and Business PhD, Institute for Responsibility and Sustainability in Global Business, since Nov 2025 Master in International Management (CEMS), 2025
- 2023 – 2025 Stockholm School of EconomicsMSc in International Business
- 2019 – 2022 Lund UniversityBSc in International Business