CURRICULUM VITAE Zhiang "John" LIN Professor Organizations

“Strategic Alliance Formation and Firm Performance: An Organizational DecisionMaking Perspective”, Principal Investigator, Summer Research Grant, Jindal School ofManagement, University of Texas at Dallas, June – August 2002.“The Impact of E-mail Usage on the Distribution of Power within Organizations,” Coinvestigator,Competitive Earmarked Research Grant 1996-98 (Grant #HKUST584/96H), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, July 1996 - June 1998.“Designing Organizations for High Performance under Critical Situations,” PrincipalInvestigator, Research Travel Grant 1996-97 (Grant # RTG96/97.BM03), Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology, August 1996 – July 1997.“A Structural Analysis of Organizational Decision Making Performance: WithApplications to Selected Nuclear Power Plants,” Principal Investigator, CompetitiveEarmarked Research Grant 1995-97 (Grant # HKUST533/95H), Research GrantsCouncil of Hong Kong, August 1995 – July 1997.“A Structural Analysis of Highly Critical Organizations,” Principal Investigator,Research Travel Grant 1995-96 (Grant # RTG95/96.BM22), Hong Kong University ofScience and Technology, August 1995 – July 1996.“A Resource-Based View of International Cooperative Ventures: Theoretical andEmpirical Analysis of Key Factors in the Successful Formation of Sino-AmericanFirms,” Co-investigator, China Program Development Grant 1994-95 (Grant #CPDG94/95.BM01), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, August, 1994– July 1996.“Organizational Decision Making and Performance,” Principal Investigator, DirectAllocation Grant 1994-95 (Grant # DAG94/95.BM63), Hong Kong University ofScience and Technology, August 1994 – July 1995.TEACHINGMain Teaching InterestsStrategic Management;Social Networks of Organizations;Organizational Decision Making;Organizational Design and Theory;Organizational Modeling.Classroom Teaching- 14 -