Brief Biographies of the IACMR officers

Officers of the term 2008-2010

Officers for the term 2002 to 2004

Officers for the term 2004 to 2006

Officers for the term 2006 to 2008

These individuals who will be diligently serving our society in 2008 to 2010 in office required a large measure of dedication and energy. Thanks from us all.

Founding President - Anne S Tsui

Anne S. Tsui is Motorola Professor of International Management at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Professor of Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Peking University.  She was the 14th Editor of the Academy of Management Journal and is a Fellow of the Academy of Management. Her research has received a number of awards including the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution Award, the Best Paper in the Academy of Management Journal Award, and the Scholarly Achievement Award from the Human Resource Division of the Academy of Management.  Her book Demographic Differences in Organizations: Current Research and Future Direction (1999) with Barbara Gutek was a finalist for the 2000 Terry Book Award, Academy of Management.  Dr. Tsui is 87th (among 778) most cited researcher in business and economics (Jan 1993 to Jan 2003) and 21st of the top 100 most cited scholars in management (1981-2001). 

 

Past President - Xiao-Ping Chen

 

Xiao-Ping Chen, (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is Professor of Management at University of Washington since 1999.  Prior to UW, she was on the faculty of Indiana University and of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is a Representative-at-Large in the OB Division of the Academy of Management. She has published her research in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Making.  Her interest in IACMR is to advance management research on firms operating in the Chinese context.

President - Shuming Zhao 

Shuming Zhao, Ph.D. in management, Professor and Dean of the School of Business, Nanjing University, P.R. China.

Professor Zhao is an internationally-known scholar in human resource management and multinational business management.  He has published more than 20 books and over 170 academic papers and articles.

Professor Zhao successfully organized and held four international symposia on multinational business management on 1992, 1996, 1999, and 2002 respectively.  He has received awards from the States Council, the Ministry of Education, Jiangsu Provincial Government and Nanjing University.  In 2003 his book Research on Human Resource Management was awarded for China 13th best book (2003) and first prize by Jiangsu Provincial Government (2003).  He was named as the best administrator and professor of the year by Nanjing University in 2003.

Professor Zhao was selected as one of the five scholars in Management from the whole nation for China’s Trans-century Excellent Young Scholars Fund by the State Education Commission of the PRC in 1996.  He was selected by Eighth ministries of China as one of the best scholars of "National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Tousand Talent Project" in 1997.  He was also named as the first-level scholar for the "333 Trans-century Academic and Technological Chairperson Project" by Jiangsu Provincial Government in 1998 and 2002 respectively.

 

Senior Vice-President - Jia Lin Xie

Jia Lin Xie is Magna Professor in Management at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada. Her areas of expertise are job design, job stress, cross-cultural organizational behavior, and knowledge management. Her cross-cultural research focuses on the comparisons between Chinese and North Americans on job-related attitudes and behavior. Her research work has appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Advances in International Comparative Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Harvard Business Review (China Edition), Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Born and raised in China, Jia Lin Xie held a faculty position at Renmin University in the 1980s, and at the Faculty of Business of City University of Hong Kong between 1999 and 2001. She has a passion for Chinese management research and internationalization of management knowledge, and has devoted tremendous effort in assisting the knowledge exchange between China and the West.

 

Senior Vice-President - Jing Zhou

Jing Zhou (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of Management and Director of the Behavioral Research Laboratory at the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University.  Prior to joining Rice, she was Associate Professor and Mays Endowed Fellow in the Management Department at the Mays Business School of Texas A&M University.  Her current research interests focus on employee creativity and innovation.  Her work has been published in top scholarly journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Creativity Research Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Management, and Personnel Psychology.  She currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology and Journal of Management.  She has taught at the undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and Ph.D. levels.  She has served on many committees at professional associations, and was the Chair of the Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Track of Academy of International Business (2002), and an Associate Program Chair for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2002).  She has received several research and teaching awards for her excellence in research and teaching.

She believes that IACMR provides a wonderful platform for nurturing creative idea production and cross-fertilization among international scholars interested in management research in China, and is committed to contributing to this process.

 

Vice President and Program Chair for 2010 Conference -  Chao Chen

Chao C. Chen (PhD, the State University of New York at Buffalo) is Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He had his undergraduate education in English language and literature in the People’s Republic of China. He was a British Council Scholar studying economics, industrial history, and comparative goverment in the Universities of Manchester and Warwick in England for two years. He received his Master in linguistics and PhD in organization behavior and HR management from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He served as the department chair of Management and Global Business at Rutgers. He was a visiting associate professor at Stern Business School at NYU for two years, and is affliated with the International PhD Program at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. His research interests include rewards and compensation, organizational justice, leadership, networking, and cross-cultural management. He has published in leading management journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organization Science. He has recently coedited a book to be published by Cambridge University Press on Leadership and Management in China: Philosophies, Theories, and Practices. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Asia Pacific Management Journal, and IACMR’s journal of Management and Organization Review. He has taught at undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and PhD levels courses including organizational behavior, managing diversity, cross-cultural management, negotiation, and organization and culture.

Executive Secretary/Treasurer - Xin Yao

 

Xin (Eva) Yao (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Assistant Professor of Management at the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University in Wichita,  Kansas (USA) since 2005. Her current research interests lie at the crossroad of organizational behavior and entrepreneurship. She conducts research on the topics of role identity, emotional labor, entrepreneur passion, and founder-CEO succession. She has published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) and co-authored chapters on emotion sharing and job embeddedness/turnover.
 
Program Co-Chair and Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for 2010 Conference - Xiongwen Lu

Professor Xiongwen Lu is Dean of School of Management at Fudan University. He is also Honourable Professor of Faculty of Economics & Business at The University of Hong Kong and BI Norwegian School of Management.

Professor Lu began his academic career at Fudan University in 1991. He had been Assistant Dean, Chair of Department of Marketing, Associate Dean, Executive Associate Dean, and was appointed in September 2006 as his current position of Dean.

Professor Lu’s research focused primarily on Chinese immature market, service marketing, internet marketing and enterprise re-organisation etc. He has contributed more than 40 papers, published several books, including “Democratic Management”, “Retaking Economic Center Stage: Transformation and Integration of Yangtze Delta Economy” (co-author), “Service in Marketing (Second Edition)” (co-author) and “Corporate Strategic Management” (co-author).

He has served as Consultant to many leading companies including Bell-Alcatel, MasterCard Worldwide, Emerson Electric, L’Oreal, Coca-Cola, China UnionPay, and etc, providing counsel on business strategy, marketing, enterprise re-organisation etc.

He is also the Standing Director of the Chinese Marketing Association and a member of the Tenth Committee of All-China Youth Federation.

Professor Lu graduated from School of Management, Fudan University, and has a doctorate in Economics. He was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, USA, as well as a Visiting Scholar at Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA and Fisher College of Business, the Ohio State University, USA.

Representative-at-Large for The Americas - Yan Zhang

Dr. Yan Zhang (Anthea) is an associate professor of Strategy at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. Dr. Zhang's areas of specialization include CEO succession, corporate governance, global strategic alliances, and multinational companies’ operations in emerging markets. Her research has been published in top-tier journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Management. Currently, she serves on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal. Dr. Zhang is a member of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and the Academy of International Business. She is a founding member of the International Association on Chinese Management Research. She has taught Global Strategic Management, and International Strategic Alliances in the MBA, the MBA for Executives, and the MBA for Professionals programs of the Jones School. She received a B.A. and a M.A. in Economics from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; a Master of Philosophy degree in International Business from City University of Hong Kong; and a Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Southern California.

Prof. Zhang's homepage,
http://www.jonesgsm.rice.edu/Faculty/YanZhang/

Representative-at-Large for Europe - Carl Fey

Dr. Carl F. Fey is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Business at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) in Sweden. He is also part of SSE’s new China Economic Research Center. Dr. Fey has also served as a visiting professor at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, China. Dr. Fey’s research focuses on international aspects of organizational culture, strategic human resource management, leadership, foreign market entry, and knowledge transfer. Most of Dr. Fey’s research focuses on how one needs to adapt management theory and practice for success in the transforming economies of China and Russia. Dr. Fey has published over 30 articles in various journals including the Journal of International Business Studies and Organization Science.

Dr. Fey’s teaching is in the areas of international management, organizational behavior, and strategy currently primarily at the executive level (both company-specific training programs and EMBA programs). Dr. Fey has also worked as a consultant for many leading foreign and local firms in China and Russia including TNK-BP (Russia’s largest foreign investment deal), and Siemens (one of the largest investors in China). Dr. Fey regularly travels to China for research, teaching, and consulting and in his free time is a lover of outdoor adventure.

Carl.Fey@hhs.se, Tel. (46-8)-736-9450.

Representative-at-Large for Asia Pacific - Xiaohua Yang

Dr Xiaohua Yang is a senior lecturer in the faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. She holds a doctorate in International Business/Strategic Management from the University of Kansas, USA. Dr Yang’s scholarship has centered on firms’ competitive strategies intersected with international institutional environments. She has published and presented numerous papers in international journals, books and conferences in the area of international strategic alliances, internationalization of firms, expatriate management, international firms’ practices on corporate social responsibility, and foreign market entry strategies. She is the organizer and a co-editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Management Special Issue Conference on Varieties of Asian Capitalism: Indigenization and Internationalization.

She has taught and lectured in four continents: North America, Asia, Australia and Europe. She has held a faculty position at Hangzhou Dianzi University, has been an honorary professor at Sichuan University, and a visiting professor at National Sun Yat-Sen University. For nearly 10 years, she directed and taught in overseas programs in a number of countries, including China, UK, and Singapore.

Dr Yang has been a board member of several organizations, including Brisbane Anglican Church’s St Paul School’s Council, Gold Coast City Council’s International Relations Advisory Board, and Brisbane City Hall Kindercraft Management Committee. She has organized many practitioner oriented workshops and forums for the business communities.

Dr Yang believes that IACMR is in a unique position to serve as a bridge linking Chinese management scholars with those from other parts of the world. She has a passion for creating a forum where Chinese scholars can join the global scholarly community and participate in global scholarly conversations so that they can contribute to the body of global management knowledge as well as the management research in the Chinese context.

Representative-at-Large for the Chinese Mainland - Baiyin Yang

Baiyin Yang, (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is professor of human resource development and organizational behavior at Tsinghua University. Prior to Tsinghua, he was on the faculty of Auburn University, the University of Idaho, and the University of Minnesota. His research interests include adult and organizational learning, program planning and evaluation, power and influence tactics, cross-cultural management, theory-building methodology, and quantitative research methods. His paper on holistic theory of knowledge and learning has been recognized as an outstanding article by the journal of Human Resource Development Review, and he won the best research paper award four times by the Academy of Human Resource Development. He is presently serving as the associate editor of Human Resource Development Quarterly. He is also associate editor for China and the Far East of Human Resource Development International and consulting editor of Adult Education Quarterly. His interest in IACMR is to foster cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural and cross-boundary studies so as to advance our understanding of management in China. He has a passion for Chinese management research and has committed to discover and theorize Chinese indigenous management concepts and theories.