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Liao, Ching T
Business Management
PhD: IESE Business School
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Biography
Ching T. Liao is an Assistant Professor on Tenure Track in the Department of Business Management at CUNEF Universidad. She holds a Ph.D. from IESE Business School and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Before joining CUNEF Universidad, she was an assistant professor at NEOMA Business School in France. She is a review editor at Technovation and has been a visiting scholar at Copenhagen Business School, Grenoble School of Management, and Deusto Business School. Her research on innovation and technology management has been published in peer-reviewed journals (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8922-1683). She actively contributes to international academic communities as a presenter, reviewer, discussant, and chair. Previously, she worked at Deloitte in auditing and M&A advisory.
Education
Ph.D. in Management, IESE Business School, 2018
Master of Research in Management, IESE Business School (2013), MSc in International Trade, Finance and Development, Universidad Pompeu Fabra (2010) and MSc in Operational Research, London School of Economics and Political Science (2007).
BA in Business Administration, National Taiwan University, 2001.
Research Interests
Innovation strategy; technology management; capability development; informal entrepreneurship.
Professional Career
Assistant Manager, Financial Advisory Services, Deloitte & Touche, 2007-2009
Intern, British Telecommunications plc, April-June 2007
Assistant Manager, Auditing Department, Deloitte & Touche, 2002-2006
Most relevant publications
Castro-López, Adrián; Entrialgo, Montserrat; Liao, Ching. T., Santos-Vijande, María Leticia: "Toward circular economy through innovation: The role of entrepreneurial orientation and human resource management", International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 21, 36, 2025.
Liao, Ching T., Bagherzadeh, Mehdi; Markovic, Stefan; Damnjanovic, Vesna: "Open innovation where it really matters: The U-shaped relationship between relative open innovation and innovation performance in developing countries", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71, 15540-15554, 2024.
Assefa, Dawit Z; Liao, Ching T; Misganaw, Bisrat A: "Unpacking the negative impact of initial informality on innovation: The mediating roles of investments in R&D and employee training", Technovation, 114, Art. 102455, 2022.
Liao, Ching T: "Skill improvement by product imitation", Small Business Economics, 58(3), 1567-1577, 2022.
Liao, Ching T: "Laggards imitate, leaders innovate: The heterogeneous productivity effect of imitation versus innovation", Industrial and Corporate Change, 29(2), 375-394, 2020.
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