Profile

Ali joined the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in 2013. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge where he focused on human resource management in entrepreneurial firms. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he studied management at the University of Oxford (MSc Management Research) and human resource management at the London School of Economics (MSc International Employment Relations and Human Resource Management). He also holds a BSc in Agricultural Economics (Minor in Economics) from National Taiwan University.

Ali's research explores a variety of topics, including social entrepreneurship and social innovation, organizational studies and ecosystem research on social enterprises, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, and human resource management.

Ali also has some experience in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. Prior to joining NTHU, he worked for the WI Harper Group (a venture capital firm) in San Francisco and Beijing. Currently, he is the founding member and a board director of the Sinyi Charity Foundation, and a board director of the Chinese Business Ethics Education Association. He has also previously served as an independent board director for The White Rabbit Entertainment (a leading stereoscopic R&D lab and 3D conversion studio), and an advisor to the WI Harper Group.

Research Interests

• Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
• Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
• Business Ecosystem
• Human Resource Management
  
  

Selected Publication

Journal Articles

• Wang, D., Liu, Y., Hsieh, Y.C., Zhang, Z. (2022). Top-down and bottom-up: Examining reciprocal relationships between leader humility and team helping behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(7), 1240-1250 (SSCI, ABS:4).
• Hsieh, Y.C., Weng, J., Pham, N.T., Yi, L.H. (2022). What drives employees to participate in corporate social responsibility? A personal characteristics-CSR capacity-organizational reinforcing model of employees’ motivation for voluntary CSR activities. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 33(18), 3703-3735 (SSCI, ABS:3).
• Weng, J., Hsieh, Y.C., Muhammad, Z.A., Yi, L.H. (2020). The motivation for Muslim customers' participation in the sharing economy. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 155, 104554 (SCI Q1).
• Hsieh, Y.C., Molina, V.M.J., Weng, J. (2019). The road to entrepreneurship with impairments: A Challenges-Adaptive mechanisms-Results model for disabled entrepreneurs. International Small Business Journal, 37(8), 761-779 (SSCI, ABS:3).
• Wong, C.Y., Hsieh, Y.C., Wu, C.Y., Hu, M.C. (2019). Academic entrepreneurship for social innovation in Taiwan: The cases of the OurCityLove platform and the Forest app. Science, Technology and Society, 24(3), 446-464 (SSCI, ABS:2).
• Hsieh, H.C., Hsieh, Y.C., Vu, T.H.C. (2019). How social movements influence crowdfunding success. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 53, 308-320 (SSCI, ABS:2).
• Lee, Y.H., Hsieh, Y.C., Hsiao, C., Lin, C.H. (2018). From virtual worlds to reality: Moderating and mediating mechanisms between online and offline leadership. Information Technology and People, 31(2), 557-577 (SSCI, ABS:3).
• Hsieh, Y.C., Weng, J., Lin, T. (2018). How social enterprises manage their organizational identification: A theoretical framework of identity management approach through attraction, selection, and socialization. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 29(20), 2880-2904 (SSCI, ABS:3).
• Lu, C., Liu, H., Tao, J., Rong, K., Hsieh, Y.C. (2017). A key stakeholder-based financial subsidy stimulation for Chinese EV industrialization: A system dynamics simulation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 118, 1-14 (SSCI, ABS:3).

Journal Articles (Mandarin)

• Weng, J., Hsieh, Y.C. (2019). The blind spot of performance-related pay reform: An institutional logic perspective. Sun Yat-Sen Management Review, 27(1), 139-178 (Taiwan SSCI).
• Hsieh, Y.C., Chang, Y.C., Wang, J.H., Li, M.C. (2018). The orphan drug development of Myozyme®: The managerial practices of the China Synthetic Rubber Corporation. Sun Yat-Sen Management Review, 26(4), 719-744 (Taiwan SSCI).

Book Chapters

• Hsieh, Y.C., Lim, S.S., Weng, J. (2018). Managerial, HRM ideology for small high technology firms. In Check-Teck Foo (Ed.), Diversity of Managerial Ideology (pp.65-93), Springer, Singapore.
• Huang, W., Weng, J., Hsieh, Y.C. (2016). The hybrid channel of employees' voice in China in a changing context of employment relations. In Amanda Pyman, Paul J. Gollan, Adrian Wilkinson, Cathy Xu, Senia Kalfa (Eds.), Employee Voice in Emerging Economies (Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Volume 23, pp.19-43), Emerald Group Publishing Limited (ABS:1).

Teaching Cases

• Hsieh, Y.C., Weng, J., Hou. C.K. (2023). Focus on public welfare or starting a new business? Harvard Business Review (Taiwan), 197, 38-43.
• Hsieh, Y.C., Weng, J., Yi. L.H. (2021). To pursue profit or purpose? A dilemma of social enterprise. Harvard Business Review (Taiwan), 178, 42-47.
• Lin, C., Liu, S.C., Wang, Y.H., Hsieh, Y.C. (2020). Manager Ren’s Dilemma: Should he recruit according to information from Facebook? Chengchi Business Case Center, 08-DE-02.
  
  

Teaching

• Management (Undergraduate, offered in English)
• Project Management (Postgraduate, offered in English)
• Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (Postgraduate, offered in English)
• Research Methods and Data Analysis (Postgraduate, offered in English)
• Corporate Social Responsibility (MBA)