Yanjie Bian is Head and Professor in the Division of Social Science and Director of the Survey Research Center at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  He received his BA in philosophy and MA in law from Nankai University in 1984 and his PhD in sociology from State University of New York at Albany in 1989.  Subsequently he was a postdoctoral research associate at Duke University (1990-91) and assistant and associate professor at the University of Minnesota (1991-2001).  He was a Chinese Studies Fellow at UCLA (2001), is an honorable professor in a number of universities in China, and has given lectures and research seminars at top universities and research academies around the world.  He was elected President of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association in 2002 and 2003, and was recently elected to the Sociological Research Association, USA, in 2003.  He has served on the editorial boards of American Journal of Sociology (1999-2002), American Sociological Review (2002-2004), Social Forces (2004-2006), Management and Organization (2003-2005), and Social Transformations in Chinese Societies (2005-2007).  

Professor Bian’s areas of interest are social stratification and mobility, social networks, economic sociology, and East Asia (with a focus on Chinese societies).  Thus far he has conducted his research in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.  He is the author of Work and Inequality in Urban China (Albany, NY: SUNY Press 1994), a co-editor of Survey Research in Practice: Chinese Experience and Analysis (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press forthcoming in 2004, with Lulu Li and He Cai), Survey Research in Chinese Societies (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press 2001, with Edward Tu and Alvin So), and Market Transition and Social Stratification: American Sociologists’ Analyses of China (Beijing: Joint Publishing House 2002, with Hanlong Lu and Liping Sun), and the author of more than 50 scholarly articles and book chapters (English and Chinese).  His articles have appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Demography, International Sociology, China Quarterly, and Social Sciences in China (in Chinese).

Professor Bian’s research projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation (USA), the Henry Luce Foundation (USA), and the Research Grants Council (Hong Kong).  He is currently studying social capital of Chinese firms and the social mobility processes of working individuals in China’s transitional economy.  Since 2003 he has led a group of researchers to conduct a long-term project “General Social Survey of China” and currently is involved in a joint project of East Asian Social Surveys with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese sociologists.

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Max Boisot is Professor of Strategic Management at the Univesitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona, Associate Fellow at Templeton College at the University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow at the Sol Snider Center for Entrepreneurial Research, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He holds a BA and Diploma in Architecture from Cambridge University, an MSc in Management from M.I.T. as well as a doctorate in technology transfer from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medecine, London University. From 1984 to 1989 he was dean and director of the China-EC Management Program, the first MBA programme to be run in the People’s Republic of China. The program has today evolved into the China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. Since 1994 he has set up the Euro-Arab Management School in Granada, Spain, for the EU Commission. Max Boisot has carried out consultancy and training assignments for a number of multinational firms – Shell, BP Exploration, A.T.Kearney, Courtaulds PLC, GEC-Alsthom, Thomson CFS, UBS, are the most recent ones – in the field of international management, technology strategy, and knowledge management. His current research, being conducted at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, consists of building an agent-based simulation model that can be applied in the field of knowledge management.

In addition to his China experience, Max Boisot has taught in Japan, the US, Hong Kong, the Middle East, Russia and France.

Max Boisot has published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, and other major academic Journals. His latest book, Knowledge Assets: securing competitive advantage in the information economy (OUP, 1998) won the Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 2000.

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Xiao-Ping Chen (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is associate professor in the Department of Management and Organization at University of Washington.  She has served as faculties at Indiana University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  Her current research interests include cross-cultural management, group dynamics, individual and group decision-making, conflict management, leadership, organizational citizenship behavior and employee turnover.  Her research has been published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  She teaches MBA, EMBA and Ph.D. courses such as Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Groups and Teams, and Managing Across Cultures.  Xiao-Ping is a recipient of the Dean’s International Research Award, Charles Summer Teaching Award, and Outstanding Ph.D. Mentor Award. 

Xiao-Ping Chen is currently the vice president of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) and the program chair for its inaugural conference in 2004.  Within the Academy of Management, she is serving as a representative-at-large of the 2001-2004 Executive Committee of the Organizational Behavior Division.

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Dr. Tailan Chi is an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Business. Prior to joining the University of Kansas in 2003, he taught for thirteen years at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.E. degree from the University of International Business & Economics, Beijing, China, his M.B.A. degree from University of San Francisco, and his M.A. degree in economics and Ph.D. degree in business administration from the University of Washington.

Dr. Chi’s research focuses on choice of foreign market entry modes, organizational structures of multinational corporations, and market valuation of a firm’s intangible assets. He examines these phenomena from the perspectives of the new institutional economics, resource-based view and option theory, and uses both mathematical modeling and large-sample statistical methods in his work. He has published in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Management, Managerial and Decision Economics, Decision Sciences, IIE Transactions, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He received the Business Advisory Council’s Award for research excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Business Administration in 1997, and his doctoral dissertation was recognized as one of four finalists for the Richard Farmer Dissertation Award of the Academy of International Business in 1992.  

Dr. Chi currently serves on the editorial boards of Advances in International Management, Management & Organization Review, and Journal of International Business & Economics. He has reviewed for Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Omega—The International Journal of Management Science, Journal of Management Studies, China Economic Review, the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, and the Academy of International Business Annual Meetings. He is a member of the Academy of International Business, Academy of Management, American Economic Association, INFORMS, and Strategic Management Society.  

Dr. Chi has taught a large variety of international business courses at the undergraduate, MBA and doctoral levels. His main teaching interests at the MBA and undergraduate levels include the global regime of international business, international business strategies, and doing business in China.  

Dr. Chi worked as a business negotiator for a major Chinese trading company before coming to the United States. He has advised companies in the U.S. on doing business in China and Pacific Asia.

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Professor Dess’ primary research interests are in strategic management, entrepreneurship, and knowledge management.  He has published numerous articles in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Administrative Science Quarterly.  Much of his work has also appeared in leading practitioner journals such as Organizational Dynamics, Academy of Management Executive, Business Horizons, and Long Range Planning.  He presently serves on several editorial boards including Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Business Venturing, and he was recently asked to serve as International Strategic Management Editor for the Journal of World Business. In 2000, he was inducted as one of 33 charter members of the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame.  

He has also coauthored several books, including Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages (2004, 2nd edition, Irwin McGraw-Hill) as well as two books targeted at the practitioner market:  Beyond Productivity (1999, AMACOM: New York) and Mission Critical (1997, Irwin Business: Burr Ridge, IL).

Prior to joining the University of Texas at Dallas in 2002, he spent six years as the Gatton Endowed Chair at the University of Kentucky.  Before that he served on the faculties at the University of Texas at Arlington, Florida State University, and the University of South Carolina.  He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Portugal at the University of Oporto in 1994 and a Visiting Professor at the Tuck School (Dartmouth College) where he taught two sections of the capstone strategic management course in 2001).  

Greg received his Bachelor of Industrial and Systems degree from Georgia Tech (1971), his M.B. A. from Georgia State University (1976) and his Ph. D. from the University of Washington (1980).

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Jiing-Lih (Larry) Farh is professor in the Department of Management of Organizations at the School of Business and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained Ph.D. in business administration from Indiana University at Bloomington.  He currently serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief for Journal of International Business Studies, Consulting Editor for Management and Organization Review, and on the editorial boards of Human Relations and Asian Pacific Journal of Management.   Previously he has also served on the review boards of Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and Leadership Quarterly.  He has authored or co-authored over 
40 articles in the international journals of management such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of International Business 
Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational 
Behavior, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.  His current research interests focus on guanxi and managerial networking, paternalistic leadership, organizational justice, organizational citizenship behavior, and values and business ethics in Chinese organizations.

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Professor Law is an active researcher in the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.  His area of expertise is Human Resource Management, Research Methodology and Management in Chinese Context.  He has published more than two-dozen articles in leading research journals.  His major research areas are personnel selection, human resource research methods, organizational citizenship behaviors, compensation management, and HRM and OB issues of Chinese Management.  Professor Law has served in the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal which is the leading academic journal in business research in the U.S. for three consecutive terms since 1996.  He is the Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal starting July 2004.  He is also the Consulting Editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, which is a leading management journal in Europe.

Professor Law is very active among Hong Kong human resource management practitioners.  He is the education committee member of the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management as well as the research committee member of the Employers’ Federation of Hong Kong.  He is the external examiner of the graduate diploma program of the Hong Kong Productivity Council since 1996.  He had served in the task force of equal pay of the Hong Kong Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  He is also a committee member of the Sixth Form Business Studies Subject Committee of the Hong Kong Examination Authority since 1996. Before joining the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Professor Law has been a faculty in the Australian Graduate School of Management which is the leading business graduate school in Australia.

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Claudia Bird Schoonhoven is Professor of Organization and Strategy at the Graduate School of Management (GSM), University of California Irvine.  She earned degrees at Stanford University (Ph.D., M.A.), the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana (B.A.), and Dartmouth College (M.A.).  Professor Schoonhoven joined the UCI faculty fall of 1998, coming from the Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, where she served as Professor of Business Administration, 1993-1998.  She also taught at Stanford University (1976-1977) and San Jose State University (1977-1993), and was a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1984 -1985 and 1991-1992.  

Professor Schoonhoven teaches in the MBA and Ph.D. programs of the Graduate School of Management.  She has taught organizational behavior (MBA level), organizational design and strategy (MBA’s), organizational change (MBA’s), new venture management (MBAs), entrepreneurship: business planning for new ventures (MBA’s), and the PhD seminar in Organizational Behavior.

Schoonhoven's research focuses on the evolutionary dynamics of technology-based firms, innovation, and entrepreneurship.  Her current research investigates the influence of strategic partnerships on new venture outcomes, the effects of entrepreneurship on the creation and evolution of industries and the role of technology development zones in China’s emerging high technology industries.  She is co-author of The Innovation Marathon: Lessons from High Technology Firms, (Basil Blackwell, 1990; Jossey-Bass, 1993) and The Entrepreneurship Dynamic in Industry Evolution (Stanford University Press, 2001).  Her research has been published in the Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ), the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), Organization Science (OS), Journal of Applied Behavioral Science (JABS), and other journals and books.

The most recent Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science, Schoonhoven was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Pan Pacific Association, to the Academy’s Board of Governors, Chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy, and President of the Western Academy of Management.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Commerce have funded her research in the past, and NSF is a current sponsor.

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Anne S. Tsui is Motorola Professor of International Management at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, and concurrently, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University and Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981, M.A. in Industrial Relations in 1975 and B.A. in Psychology in 1973 from the University of Minnesota.

She founded the Management Department at HKUST in 1994 and the Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research in 1998, dedicated to advancing research on management and organizational issues in the Chinese context. Before HKUST, she was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine (1988-1995) and the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University (1981-1988). She worked at the Control Data Corporation and the University of Minnesota Hospitals, in Human Resource Management, during the period of 1974 to 1981.

She was the 14th Editor of the Academy of Management Journal (1997-1999) and is a Fellow of the Academy of Management since 1997. She serves or has served on the editorial review boards of most premier management journals. She is the founding President of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (www.iacmr.org), and founding Editor of the journal Management and Organization Review, which is dedicated to publishing China related management and organization research.

Dr. Tsui has conducted research on a variety of topics, including managerial and leadership effectiveness, performance assessment, human resource department effectiveness, self-regulation, employee-organization relationship, and demographic diversity. Her current research programs include employment relationships and corporate culture and leadership in firms operating in the Chinese setting. Results of her research findings have appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, Industrial Relations, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Journal of Management, Human Relations and Work and Occupations.  The article, “Being different: Relational demography and organizational attachment” published in Administrative Science Quarterly, 1992, won the Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award in 1993 and five years later, the ASQ Scholarly Contribution Award in 1998. The article "Alternative approaches to employee-organization relationships: Does investment in employees pay off?" published in Academy of Management Journal, 1997, won the Best AMJ paper in 1998 and also the Scholarly Achievement Award, from the Human Resource Division, Academy of Management, 1998.  

Dr. Tsui is 87th (among 778) most cited researcher in business and economics ( tments of the Hong Kong Government; Allergan Asia, Ltd.; Fluor Daniel Corporation; TRW, Inc.; Hughes Aircraft; Leadership Education for Asian Pacific Professionals; Sharp Healthcare; Silicon Systems, Inc.; and United States Postal Service.

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David A. Whetten is the Jack Wheatley Professor of Organizational Leadership and Strategy and Director of the Faculty Center at Brigham Young University.  The Faculty Center provides faculty development support for the BYU faculty.   

Prior to joining the Marriott School of Management faculty in 1994 he was on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for 20 years, where he served as Associate Dean of the College of Commerce, Harry Gray Professor of Business Administration, and Director of the Office of Organizational Research. 

Professor Whetten received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University in Sociology and his Ph.D. from Cornell University (1974) in Organizational Behavior. 

He currently serves as the Editor of the Foundations for Organizational Science, an academic book series, and from 1988-90 he served as Editor of a professional journal, the Academy of Management Review.

He has published over 70 articles and books on the subjects of interorganizational relations, organizational effectiveness, organizational decline, organizational identity, theory development, and management education.  His management text, Developing Management Skills, is in its fifth edition, and has been adapted for the European and Australian markets.  This pioneering work in management skill education earned Professor Whetten and his coauthor Kim Cameron the David Bradford Distinguished Educator Award from the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society in 1992.

Professor Whetten has been very active in his professional association, the Academy of Management.  In 1991 he was elected an Academy of Management Fellow, in 1994 he received the Academy’s Distinguished Service Award, and in 1996 he was elected to a five-year term as a national officer in the Academy, which culminated in the position of president in the year 2000.

His current research interests include organizational identity and organizational theory.

Xueguang Zhou is Professor and Department Head of Management of Organizations at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).   Before joining HKUST, he served on the faculty at Cornell University and Duke University. He received his B.A. from Fudan University in P. R. China in 1982, and Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University in 1991. His main research interests are in the areas of organizations, economic sociology, and social stratification. His current research examines the evolution of redistribution under state socialism, interfirm contractual relationships, and reputation phenomena in the marketplace.

His articles have appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Social Science Research, Comparative Political Studies, among others.  He has also published and edited books on organizational rules, social stratification and state-society relationships in contemporary China.  He served or is serving on the editorial or advisory editorial boards, of American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, and among others.

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