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. His current work includes studies on macroprudential policy and ESG outcomes, as well as gender and institutional transformation.
Dr Jiang contributes to the research environment through his role as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Economic Issues (AJG 1*, ABDC B) and as a research ethics reviewer on the Schools of Business, Law, and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee.
In doctoral education, he has served as Director of Study, second supervisor, and Independent Assessor for PhD candidates, as well as internal and external examiner, and 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 focuses on how institutional and regulatory contexts shape corporate sustainability practices. His work focuses on issues such as greenwashing, ESG regulation, and environmental innovation, with recent publications in Business Strategy and the Environment (AJG 3 ABDC A) and Energy Economics (AJG 3 ABDC A*). He is currently working on projects examining macroprudential policy and greenwashing, the impact of the energy transition on green innovation and greenwashing, and the institutional impact of female leadership appointments on public sector recruitment. His work applies an empirical approach with a broader interest in ESG regulation and performance, corporate environmental behaviour, and organisational 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, ABDC A)
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?" (£2422.50, 2025 - present)
- SPUR-SoTL Project (Co-Investigator): "Assess Staff Attitudes to Employability Teaching and Learning" (£1800, 2023-2024)
Conference Presentations
- "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" at 2025 The 4th International Workshop on the Chinese Development Model Made in China 2025: Innovation and Sustainable Development
- "Macroprudential Regulations and Greenwashing: A Novel Endogenous Growth Theory and Empirical Evidence" at the 2025 Inaugural annual Global Banking and Finance Association (GLOBAFA) Conference
- “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?” at the 2023 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference
- “Finding the determinants of China’s local fiscal capacity” at 2023 the 10th Conference on Asia and Pacific Economies (2023)