Recently, upon the approval of the National Planning Leading Group for Philosophy and Social Sciences, the list of approved projects for the 2017 Annual Programs, Youth Programs and Western China Programs of the National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC) has been released following procedures including application acceptance, preliminary communication review, panel review and online public announcement. Two projects from the School of Management have secured approval.

The project Research on Activity - Based Cost Measurement and Cost - Benefit Evaluation of Green Buildings from the Perspective of Sustainable Development chaired by Professor Chen Lin was approved as a General Program; the project Research on the Impact of Organizational Legitimacy on the Corporate Image of Chinese Enterprises "Going Global" chaired by Associate Professor Chang Yu was approved as a Western China Program.