Staff Profile
Dr Zheng Stefanie Chai
Lecturer in Business Management
Qualifications:
PhD (The University of Edinburgh)
MSc (Bayes Business School)
BSc (Lancaster University)
FHEA
The primary impetus across my doctoral research efforts is social innovations that aim to create community impact. I focused specifically on governance structure, strategic management, and crisis management.
Current collaborative research projects include studies of internal governance of civil society organizations (the emergence of community-based public space), external governance of civil society organizations (how civil society organizations responded to the first Covid-19 lockdown in Edinburgh), and societal level of governance (adapted Ostrom’s design principles of polycentric governance in the context of urban commons). Papers from this research agenda have been published at the European Group for Organizational Studies.
- School – London
Teaching
My teaching experiences include being a teaching assistant at The University of Edinburgh during my PhD and a lecturer in Business Management at York St John University London Campus MBA team. I taught social innovation, social enterprise areas and broad business disciplines at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Research
I specialise in qualitative research methods and system thinking, and interested in research topics including:
- Organization Studies
- Social innovation
- Social Enterprise
- Governance of civil society organizations
