Prof. Juelin Yin, Sun Yat-sen University

Dr Yin is a full professor of management at the School of Business at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Before she joined Sun Yat-sen University, she worked as an assistant professor in the University of International Business and Economics and an associate professor in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She holds a PhD from Nankai University, did her postdoctoral research in Harvard Business School, was a visiting research fellow in the Ivey Business School of Western University, an honorary professor in the University of Liverpool, UK and currently serves as a visiting professor of management at the School of Management at University of Bath, UK and an external research fellow in the Kiel University, Germany. She is also a fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the UK. She currently serves as an associate editor of the international journal Business Ethics: the Environment and Responsibility and is an editorial member of Business and Society, Management and Organization Review and Quarterly Journal of Management. She has published four teaching cases on CSR in China in the Harvard Business Publishing database.

Dr Yin has published over 30 articles in journals such as Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Ethics, Long Range Planning and Business & Society and is currently interested in CSR in the globalization context, sustainability implications of the sharing economy, and social innovation and entrepreneurship, especially through an institutional theory perspective. Dr Yin also has rich research and consulting experience through working for companies and organizations such as Syntao (a leading CSR consultancy in China), AccountAbility (UK) and the Centre of International Business Ethics in the past years. She has also advised the local Chinese governments on the responsible competitiveness of local industrial clusters and businesses. She used to serve as a member of the American Chamber Shanghai Business Council for Sustainability and Responsibility, and now is an expert in the CSR Think Tank affiliated with Southern Weekend, dedicated to actively contributing to the public-private collaboration on sustainability and CSR.