The Twenty-sixth Session of Academic Forum of Excellence 2023 of the Business School for the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Establishment of the Business School and the MBA Education Center Successfully Organized

On the noon of November 29, 2023, the Business School held the Twenty-sixth Session of Academic Forum of Excellence the lecture series of the Business School for the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Establishment of the Business School and the MBA Education Center in Conference Room 615 of the Main Teaching Building of the Xueyuan South Road Campus of Central University of Finance and Economics. This lecture invited Assistant Professor Liu Zixu from the Business School, Central University of Finance and Economics as a guest speaker. Nearly twenty persons, including faculty, doctoral students, master students, and undergraduates, participated in this event.

The meeting was chaired by Professor Mu Shandong, Assistant Professor of the Department of Supply Chain and Operations Management at the Business School. Before the lecture officially began, Mr. Mu introduced Teacher Liu Zixu's resume in detail. Mr. Liu Zizhen is an assistant professor at the Business School, Central University of Finance and Economics. He graduated from the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University. His research areas include sustainable development and green innovation of enterprises, digital innovation of enterprises, and innovation and entrepreneurship management. His research findings have been published in journals such as Journal of Business Research, Journal of Technology Transfer, IEEE: Transactions on Engineering Management, Technovation, China Industrial Economics, China Soft Science, Science Research Management, and Science of Science and Management of S&T.

The topic of Professor Liu Zixu's lecture was “How can photovoltaic enterprises achieve 'contrarian R&D' in the decline of subsidies?” How can photovoltaic enterprises achieve 'contrarian R&D' in the decline of subsidies took the "531 New Deal" in the photovoltaic industry as the scenario, and used the PSM-DID method to find that the overall level of R&D investment of enterprises has increased after the subsidy was reduced. Based on the perspective of organizational ecology, the synergistic influence mechanism of six factors from the two dimensions of "environmental pressure and organizational adaptation” was discussed through the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method, and the three types of configuration patterns were identified for the upstream and middle enterprises in the photovoltaic industry to increase R&D investment against the trend after the subsidy decline. This study analyzes the impact of policy environment on enterprise innovation from the perspective of "subsidy decline". Moreover, the interaction mechanism between "environmental logic" and "organizational logic" in the framework of organizational ecology is discussed.

After the sharing, the participating teachers and students actively discussed topics such as theoretical derivation, robustness of conclusions, and research methods in response to the theme of Mr. Liu's lecture, further promoting the in-depth exchange in academic research.

The “Academic Forum of Excellence” is an academic exchange platform established by the Business School to fulfill its mission of "contributing new knowledge to management.” It focuses on cutting-edge theoretical issues and organizational development challenges in the discipline of business administration and Chinese enterprise management practices. By aggregating cutting-edge thoughts and innovative viewpoints from both domestic and international sources, it seeks to explore Chinese solutions for the social and economic development of China.