Dr SHANG Liang Echo

Dr. SHANG Liang is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. She obtained her Ph.D. in Public Policy from the City University of Hong Kong in 2020 and was awarded Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship for Postgraduate Research Students in 2019. Prior to joining the Education University, she worked as a Research Assistant Professor at Lingnan University and as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. With a primary research interest centered around the intersection of ethics and entrepreneurship, she focuses on examining the roles, practices, and mechanisms of business ventures with a strong overarching social purpose in contributing to social and environmental sustainability. Beyond this focus, she also has a keen interest in exploring emerging methods in social sciences, such as discrete choice experiments and artificial intelligence.

Research Interests 
Social entrepreneurship 
Social innovation 
Hybrid organizations

Teaching Interests 
Social entrepreneurship  
Innovations in non-profit organizations 
New horizons in entrepreneurship