David Jiang
Associate Professor of Management
Department: Management and Entrepreneurship
Email: djiang@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-5914
Professional Expertise
Brief Biography
David Jiang is an associate professor of management and entrepreneurship in the Love School of Business at Elon University. He previously taught undergraduate and MBA classes as an assistant professor of entrepreneurship in Georgia Southern University's Parker College of Business. Before entering academia, he worked as a freelance artist and in several capacities for his family’s business. David’s research and teaching interests draw from his work experience, applying psychological and sociological approaches to understand unique entrepreneurship and family business phenomena. His research has been presented at several conferences and published in outlets such as Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Family Business Review, Journal of Small Business Management, and Organizational Dynamics, among others. Additionally, he has won several awards for his research, teaching, and service. David also serves on the editorial boards of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Family Business Review. In his free time, David enjoys spending time with his family. He also enjoys not taking himself too seriously, watching Bob’s Burgers, and, occasionally, following his childhood dreams (such as becoming the next Power Ranger, Bob Ross or Pokémon Master).
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Education
PhD in Business Administration (Major: Organizations and Strategy; Emphasis: Entrepreneurship)
University of Tennessee
MBA (Concentration: General Management)
Appalachian State University
BSBA (Major: Management; Concentration: Entrepreneurship)
Appalachian State University
Courses Taught
Elon University:
BUS 4970: Strategic Management
ENT 2500: Creativity & the Doer/Maker Mindset
ENT 3400: Entrepreneurial Finance
ENT 4600: Bringing the Venture to Life
ENT 4701: Lifestyle & Legacy Entrepreneurship
MGT 3230: Principles of Management & Organizational Behavior
MBA 6700: Individual & Corporate Social Responsibility
Georgia WebMBA Program:
WMBA 6110: MBA Business Strategy
Georgia Southern University:
MGNT 3234: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
BUS 4131: Strategic Management
BUS 7530: MBA Global Business Strategy
University of Tennessee:
MGT 402: International Business Strategy
Publications
Sproul, C.R., Jiang, D.S., Marvel, M.R., & Carnes, A.C. (Forthcoming) Selling to “the man”: How dependence on the government for sales affects new venture performance and survival. Journal of Small Business Management.
Simarasl, N., Jiang, D.S., Pandey, S., & Navis, C.C. (In Press) Constrained but not contained: How entrepreneurs navigate bias and mobilize resources in different institutional contexts. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
Jiang, D.S. & Hayward, S.D. (2022) Socioemotional power play: How family firm successors use upward influence to gain control. Organizational Dynamics, 51(1), 1-10.
Simarasl, N.*, Jiang, D.S.*, Kellermanns, F.W., & Debicki, B. (2020) Unmasking the social ghost in the machine: How the need to belong and family business potency affect family firm performance. Family Business Review, 33(4), 351-371. *Authors contributed equally, listed in reverse alphabetical order.
Jiang, D.S., Kellermanns, F.W., Munyon, T.P. & Morris, M.L. (2018) More than meets the eye: A review and future directions for the social psychology of socioemotional wealth. Family Business Review, 31(1), 125-157.
Jiang, D.S. (2018) A research applied precis on the social psychology of socioemotional wealth. Family Firm Institute, 1-8. Available as a supplementary material on Sage Publishing’s Family Business Review website.
Jiang, D.S., Hayward, S.D., & Morris, M.L. (2017) Raising entrepreneurs: Can parenting style amplify entrepreneurial intentions and behaviors? International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 16(1), 13-33.
Jiang, D.S., & Munyon, T.M. (2017). More than a feeling: The promise of experimental approaches for building affective and cognitive microfoundations of family firm behavior. In F.W. Kellermanns & F. Hoy (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Family Business, Routledge, 385-400.
Jiang, D.S., White, T.D., & Morris, M.L. (2016). Turning family pains into gains: Incorporating Family Science into Family Business and Social Entrepreneurship scholarship. Invited commentary in National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Report, 61(4), 4-6.
Hayward, S. D. & Jiang, D. S. (2016). Lunatics at the fringe: Teaching expository documentaries with Beer Wars. International Journal of Management Education, 14(3), 388-410.
Professional Activities
Editorial Board Member:
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, since 2019
Family Business Review, since 2019
Ad-Hoc Reviewer:
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2015 - 2019
Family Business Review, 2018 - 2019
Journal of Business Research, since 2017
Journal of Business Venturing, since 2017
Journal of Management Studies, since 2018
Journal of Family Business Strategy, since 2013
Organizational Dynamics, since 2019
Awards
2025 Excellent Reviewer Award
Family Business Review
2025 Daniel T. Holt Best Paper Award
Theories of the Family Enterprise Conference
2023 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Elon University's Love School of Business
2022 - 2023 Trapani Family Faculty Fellow
Elon University's Love School of Business
2021 Excellent Reviewer Award
Family Business Review
2020 Outstanding MBA Faculty of the Year Teaching Award
Georgia WebMBA Program
2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Family Business Review
2019 Best Unpublished Research Paper Award
Family Firm Institute
2017 Best Reviewer Award
Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division
2017 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
Family Firm Institute
2016 Best Family Business Paper Award
Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division
2016 Chancellor’s Citation Award for Extraordinary Graduate Student Teaching
University of Tennessee
2015 ACEI Entrepreneurship Research Proposal Competition Winner (2nd Place)
Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2015 Stahl & Bounds Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher Award Finalist (1 of 2)
University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business