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IACMR Officers(2025-2027)

Anne Tsui (徐淑英) , Arizona State University and Peking University
Founding President

ANNE S. TSUI, Founding President of IACMR, currently Special Advisor of the Association, is Motorola Professor Emerita of International Management at Arizona State University, and concurrently Visiting Distinguished Professor at Peking University and Fudan University, China. Previously, she was faculty at Duke University, U California, Irvine, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame. She is the 67th President and Fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM), 14th Editor the Academy of Management Journal, Founding President of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Management and Organization Review. She is also an elected fellow of the Academy of International Business and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2021. She won best paper awards from AMJ, ASQ, and JOM, received the Center for Creative Leadership Applied Leadership Research Award, the University of Minnesota Outstanding (Alumnus) Achievement Award, the AOM Distinguished Service Contribution Award, and the IACMR Lifetime Contribution Award. In recent years, she has devoted her professional work to advancing both the rigor and the relevance of international and Chinese management research. She is the co-founder of the Responsible Research in Business and Management network (www.RRBM.network). Dr. Tsui received her BA in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, Duluth; MA in Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; PhD in Management from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an Honorary Doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland..


Runtian Jing (井润田), Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Past President

Runtian Jing is a professor of organizational management in the Antai College of Economics and Management of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the deputy director of the organization and strategy division of Chinese Academy of Management. He received his Ph.D. from the Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1997, and taught at the School of Management and Economics of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China before his present appointment. He was granted the “Outstanding Young Scholar Award” by the Chinese Academy of Management in 2013, and the “Yangtze River Scholarship Distinguished Professor” by the Ministry of Education of China in 2020. Dr. Jing’s research interests include organizational change, leadership behavior, cross-cultural management, etc. His recent studies on Chinese indigenous view of organizational momentum were granted the 2016 Best Paper Award of “Chinese Theory of Management” by IACMR, and were included in the 2017 Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management Conference. He has worked on several funded research projects. Among them, five were supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (including a key research project) and one was supported by the Program of the Ministry of Education for New Century Excellent Talents of China.


Wei Shen (沈伟)  , Arizona State University
President

Wei Shen is a Dean’s Council Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Texas A&M University. He is a core faculty member in both W. P. Carey’s full-time MBA program and the joint DBA program with the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance. He served as the Faculty Director of W. P. Carey’s China EMBA Program from 2014 to 2016 and Associate Dean for China Programs from 2016 to 2019. His research focuses on strategic decision-makers and their impacts on organizations. He has published many empirical studies about top executives and corporate directors in the top-tier management journals, such as the Administrative Science QuarterlyAcademy of Management Journal, and Strategic Management Journal. He has also published several theoretical articles in the Academy of Management Review that explore the evolution of the CEO-board relationship, managerial discretion, and the impact of leader departure on subordinates’ organizational attachment. He has reviewed for many scholarly journals and conferences, and has served on the editorial board of the Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management ReviewJournal of Management and GovernanceManagement and Organization Review, and Strategic Management Journal. He also served as an editor and an author of the Empirical Methods in Organization and Management Research (4rd Edition) and Organizational Management, both of which are published by the Peking University Press in 2023.


Xu Huang(黄旭), Hong Kong Baptist University
Vice President,2027 Program Chair

Professor Xu Huang received his PhD from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), MA from Lancaster University (UK), and Honors Diploma from Lingnan University (Hong Kong). Currently, he is Chair Professor of Management Associate and Dean of the School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also the Director of the DBA program and the Director of Center for Human Resource Strategy and Development. He is Consulting Editor of the Management and Organization Review, and a member of editorial board for Academy of Management Journal and Human Relations. Professor Huang is now serving as an Independent Director of the board of Giodano International Limited.

Professor Xu Huang’s research interests include leadership, power, proactive and abnormal work behaviors, employee well-being, cross-cultural psychology, and management issues in China. He has published more than 80 papers in international journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Management and Organization Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology, Human Relations, Leadership Quarterly, and so forth.


Lerong He (何乐融) The College at Brockport, State University of New York Treasurer/Executive Secretary

Lerong He is a Professor of Management and Interim Associate Dean of the School of Business &  Management at State University of New York at Brockport. She is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fuzhou University, China. Dr. He received her PhD in Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She obtained her M.A. degree in Industrial Relation and Human Resource Management from University of Minnesota, and her B.S. degree in Business Administration from Peking University. Dr. He’s main research interests are corporate governance, strategic leadership, and business ethics. Her recent research focus is to study these topics in the emerging market context particularly China. Dr. He’s research has been published in Asia Pacific Journal of ManagementCorporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Business VenturingJournal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Corporate Finance, Management and Organization Review, etc. Her research has won several conference best paper awards and has been highlighted in Barron’s and Bloomberg News Asia. Dr. He currently serves as the co-editor of Management Research Review. She also serves on the editorial board of Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Corporate Governance: An International Review and as an ad hoc peer reviewer for dozens of management, finance, and accounting journals. Dr. He was the 2014 Taiwan Fellowship recipient. She obtained the Fujian 100 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Grant in 2015. She also won the 2020 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship.


Cuili Qian(钱翠丽),University of Texas at Dallas
Rep-at-large: Americas

Dr. Cuili Qian is a Professor of Organizations, Strategy, and International Management at University of Texas at Dallas. Her research interests include stakeholder management and corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, MNC control and staffing issues in international business. She has published in management journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of Management. She currently serves as the Senior Editor of the Journal of Management and Deputy Editor for the Management and Organization Review. She also serves on editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Journal of International Business Studies.


Guoli Chen(陈国立), INSEAD
Rep-at-large: Asia Pacific

Guoli Chen is a Professor of Strategy, Mubadala Chair in Corporate Governance and Strategy at INSEAD. He teaches Competitive Strategy, Blue Ocean Strategy, Corporate Strategy, China Strategy and Corporate Governance to MBA, EMBA PhD and Executive participants.

Prof. Chen received his Ph.D. in strategic management from the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the influence of top executives, boards of directors, and human capital on strategic choices and organizational outcomes. His work has been published in top academic journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and among others. His articles and opinions also appear in newspapers and magazines, such as Barron’s, Bloomberg, Business Times, CFO, Channel News Asia, China Daily, Financial Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review (online), South China Morning Post, Washington Post etc. 

Prof. Chen served as various leadership positions at Corporate Strategy, Strategic Leadership and Governance Interest Groups of SMS, Research and Executive committee member for the AOM’s STR division. He also served as a senior editor of Organization Science, Management and Organization Review, and contributing editor of Strategy Science. His recent book “Seeing the Unseen: Behind Chinese Tech Giants’ Global Venturing” studies how Chinese internet firms innovate and grow, their strategic mindsets, and challenges faced in overseas markets.


Wei He (贺伟), Nanjing University
Rep-at-large: Chinese Mainland

Yuntao Dong is an associate professor in the Department of Organization and Strategy at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Maryland, College Park.  Before joining Peking University, she has worked as assistant professor at University of Connecticut, School of Business. Yuntao’s research focuses on leadership and leader empowerment, creativity, and employee emotion and resilience, in both traditional organizations and during the digital transformation via a multilevel lens. Yuntao’s work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Management and Organization Management and is regarded as ESI highly cited paper. Yuntao has won McBride Best Paper Award, Most Innovative Student Paper Award of AOM OB Division, MOR Best Senior Editor Award, and the First Innovative Teaching Contest of Beijing Universities. She has taught undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on organizational behavior, management and organization theory, theory and practice of innovation, human resource management, and research methodology.


Chenjian zhang(张陈健), University of Bath
Rep-at-large: Europe

Dr. Chenjian Zhang (Ph.D. University of Bremen) is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Management, University of Bath, UK. His research interests include social networks, entrepreneurship and innovation, emerging market strategies, and institutional theory. His papers have been published in academic journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Management and Organization Review, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. His articles have won the Best International Paper Award and the Best Paper Award from the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) division of the Academy of Management (AoM). He is currently a Senior Editor for Management and Organization Review (MOR) and serves on the editorial board of Strategic Organization. He received the Best Senior Editor Award from Management and Organization Review from 2022-2025. He is currently serving as research committee member for OMT and ENT division of AoM. He is deeply passionate about advancing management research in the Chinese context and supporting fellow researchers and PhD students.

Eric (Yanfei) Zhao, University of Oxford
Rep-at-large: Europe

Eric Zhao is the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Strategy at the Saïd Business School and St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. Before joining Oxford, he was a visiting professor at Stanford University and the Samuel and Pauline Professor of Entrepreneurship at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. His current research addresses topics like optimal distinctiveness, AI and firm strategy, and institutions and entrepreneurship. Eric’s work has been published in leading management, entrepreneurship and international business journals and is widely cited. He has received top early career awards from both the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society. His book Optimal Distinctiveness: A New Agenda for the Study of Competitive Positioning of Organizations and Markets is published by Cambridge University Press.


Huaxi Gao (高华西), Peking University
Ph.D. Student Representative for the Chinese Mainland

Huaxi Gao is a Ph.D. candidate in Strategy at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. She was an exchange student at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting student at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. She received her master’s degree from Beijing Normal University. Her research interests include digital economics, platform ecosystems, and machine learning. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at top management conferences.


Jason Moy (梅俊浩), University of Washington
Ph.D. Student Representative for Overseas

Jason Moy is a PhD student studying Organizational Behavior at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington in Seattle. Prior to joining Foster, he earned an MSc in Human Resources and Organizations (emphasis in Organizational Behavior) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of California San Diego. Jason’s research interests focus on exploring how societal and cultural norms affect people’s behavior at work, team processes and dynamics in multicultural and multinational work teams, and how multicultural experiences affect individuals’ psychology and work outcomes. Some of his current works are investigating the norms of gratitude expression in China and how cultural norms differ across Chinese provinces. Another stream of his work explores the downstream effects of resource scarcity.


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