Dr. Zhen Cong | Sustainable Development | Best Researcher Award
Dalian University of Technology | China
Dr. Zhen Cong is an emerging scholar whose research bridges innovation management, system dynamics, and sustainable development. His academic contributions focus on enterprise innovation ecosystems, global value chain dynamics, and low-carbon economic transitions. His recent work, The Impact of Global Value Chain Embeddedness on Decarbonization in Sunset Industries, published in the International Journal of Production Economics, highlights his growing influence in sustainability and industrial transformation research. Dr. Zhen Cong has authored and co-authored several high-impact papers recognized by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), addressing topics such as startup innovation, knowledge transfer, and institutional dynamics in multinational firms. His ongoing projects and working papers further extend into environmental management, moral disengagement in corporate ethics, supply network resilience under external shocks, and multi-objective low-carbon supply chain optimization. Leveraging advanced methodologies including system dynamics modeling, text mining, and multivariate analysis
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Featured Publications
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Cong, Z. Problemistic search and new product innovation performance of startups: Evidence from the Apple App Store application platform
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Cong, Z. The impact of internal and external differentiation strategies under problemistic search on new product performance of startups: Evidence from the Apple App Store application platform
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Cong, Z. System dynamics study on the tacit knowledge sharing between employees and customers of knowledge service enterprise
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Cong, Z. System dynamics analysis of enhancing enterprise innovation ability based on the perspective of knowledge acquisition
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Cong, Z. The system dynamics research of the effect of institutional gap on reverse knowledge transfer of multinational company: The logic of legitimacy and efficiency.