Scientific Research

Research interests:

PPP

Urban governance

Smart city

Public service delivery

Co-production

Work Experience

1. Dec. 2019-present: Full professor of public administration, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology.

2. Dec. 2017- Dec. 2019: Associate professor of public administration, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology.

3. June 2012- Dec. 2017: Assistant professor of public administration, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology.

Key publications

1.Wang, H., Qi, H., & Ran, B. Public-private collaborations led by private-sector in combating crises: Evidence from China’s fighting against COVID-19. Administration & Society, 2022,54(1): 3-28. (SSCI, IF2.690)

2.Wang, H., & Ran, B. Network governance and collaborative governance: A thematic analysis on their similarities, differences, and entanglements. Public Management Review, 2021, accept.

3.Wang, H., Edelenbos, J., & Cheng, Z. Combining project and process management in PPP network: Relationship between management style and outcome. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2021, onlinefirst (SSCI, IF1.8).

4.Wang, H., Chen, B., & Koppenjan, J. A refined experimentalist governance approach to incremental policy change: The case of process-tracing China’s central government infrastructure PPP policies between 1988 and 2017. Journal of Chinese Governance, 2021, onlinefirst (SSCI, IF2.333)

5.Wang, H., Xiong, W., Yang, L., Zhu, D., & Cheng, Z. How does public-private collaboration reinvent? A comparative analysis of urban bicycle-sharing policy diffusion in China. Cities, 2020, 96:1-10. (SSCI, IF5.835)

6.Wang, H., Cheng, Z., & Zhu, D. Striving for global cities with governance approach in transitional China: Case study of Shanghai. Land Use Policy, 2020, 90:1-11. (SSCI, IF5.398)

7.Mu, R., & Wang, H. A systematic literature review of open innovation in the public sector: Comparing barriers and governance strategies of digital and non-digital open innovation. Public Management Review, 2020, onlinefirst. (SSCI, IF5.898)

8.Xiong, W., Chen, B., Wang, H., & Zhu, D. Public–private partnerships as a governance response to sustainable urbanization: lessons from China. Habitat International, 2020, 95:1-9. (SSCI, IF5.369)

9.Wang, H., Liu, Y., Xiong, W., & Zhu, D. Government support programs and private investments in PPP market. International Public Management Journal, 2019,22(3):499-523. (SSCI, IF3.083)

10.Wang, H., Liu, Y., Xiong, W., & Song, J. The moderating role of governance environment on the relationship between risk allocation and private investment in PPP markets: Evidence from developing countries. International Journal of Project Management, 2019, 37(1):117-130. (SSCI, IF7.172)

11.Wang, H., & Ma, L. Ownership, corruption, and revenue regimes for infrastructure partnerships: Evidence from China. Utilities Policy, 60:1-10. (SSCI, IF2.812)

12.Wang, H., Chen, B., Xiong, W., Yang, L., & Zhu, D. Multiple pathways to public-private partnerships for urban public service delivery. Urban Policy and Research, 37(4):474-488. (SSCI, IF2.448)

13.Wang, H., Xiong, W., Wu, G., & Zhu, D. Public private partnership in Public Administration discipline: A literature review. Public Management Review, 2018, 20(2):293-316. (SSCI, IF5.898) (ESI highly cited paper)

14.Wang, H., Chen, B., Xiong, W., & Wu, G. Commercial investment in public private partnerships-The impact of contract characteristics. Policy & Politics, 2018, 46(4):589-606.（SSCI, IF3.750）

15.Wang, H., Mu, R., & Liu, S. The effects of privatisation on the equity of public services: Evidence from China. Policy & Politics, 2018,46(3):427-443.（SSCI, IF3.750）