Lerong He

Ph.D. in Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2005

M.A. in Human Resources and Industrial Relations, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 2000

B.S. in Business Administration, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, 1997

State University of New York at Geneseo, School of Business, Dean and Professor of Management, 2023-Present

State University of New York at Brockport, 2008-2023

• Associate Dean and Professor of Management, School of Business and Management, 2019-2023
• Department Chair and Associate Professor of Management, Department of Business Administration, 2013-2019
• Assistant Professor of Management, 2008-2013

Niagara University, Assistant Professor of Management, 2006-2008

West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of Business, 2005-2006

• Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (India), Affiliated Professor and Doctoral Student Supervisor, 2023-present
• Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics (China), Affiliated Professor and Doctoral Student Supervisor, 2024-2027
• Fuzhou University (China), Distinguished Affiliated Professor and Doctoral Student Supervisor, 2015-2023
• University of Rochester, AIN Center for Entrepreneurship, Visiting Scholar, 2017
• National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan), Visiting Associate Professor, 2014

Jiang, X. He, L., and Zhou, X. 2026. Executive Inequity Aversion and Corporate Innovation: A Behavioral Agency Theory Perspective, International Review of Economics & Finance, 106: 104931 (ABDC: A).

He, H., Chen, Y., Guo, R., He, L. and Wan, H. 2025. Cost of Vagueness: Stockholders’ Responses to Firms’ ESG Information. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-24. (ABDC: A)

He, L. and Shaw, T. 2025. Business Group Affiliation and Firm Responses to Corporate Governance Reform in India: Effects of Structural and Situated Attention. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 33(4): 900-921. (ABDC: A)

Duggal, N., He, L. and Shaw, T. 2025. Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility Spending, Family Control, and Cost of Debt. British Accounting Review, 101356. (ABDC: A*)

Chen, D., Liu, K., He, L. 2024. Central Bank Communication and Macro Information in Analyst Forecasts: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms. Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting , 35(2): 501-533. (ABDC: B)

Chen, S. He, L. Yang, G. 2024. Corporate Contribution to Poverty Alleviation: An Integrated Framework of Willingness and Ability. Asian Business & Management, 23(4): 570-596. (ABDC: C)

He, L. Jiang, X. and Fang, L. 2023. Tax Policy Reform and Corporate Innovation in China. Finance Research Letters, 55: 103891. (ABDC: A)

He, L., Huang, L. and Fang, L. 2022. Institutional Conditions, Economic Policy Uncertainty and Foreign Institutional Investment in China. Emerging Markets Review, 50: 100823. (ABDC: A)

Lin, C. and He, L., Yang, G. 2021. Targeted Monetary Policy and Financing Constraints of Chinese Small Businesses. Small Business Economics, 57: 2107-2124. (ABDC: A)

He, L., Huang, L. and Yang, G. 2021. Invest in Innovation or Not? How Managerial Cognition and Attention Allocation Shape Corporate Responses to Performance Shortfall. Management & Organization Review, 17: 815-850. (ABDC: A)

Shaw, T., He, L., and Cordeiro, J. 2021. Delayed and Decoupled: Family Business Compliance with Board Independence Requirements. British Journal of Management, 32(4): 1141-1163. (ABDC: A)

Co-Editor, Management Research Review, 2016-present

Editorial Review Board Member:

• Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2014-present
• Journal of Management & Governance 2020-present
• Corporate Governance: An International Review 2018-2025

Executive Secretary & Treasurer, International Association for Chinese Management Research, 2017-present

The 55th Decision Science Institute Annual Conference Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award, “Social Media Disclosure and Stock Price Synchronicity”, 2024

SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activities, 2020

Best Reviewer of the Year, Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2017

Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award, He, L. and Wan, H. “IPO Lockups, Founder Power, and Executive Compensation”,International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2013