Public Webinar by Prof. Mark Bolino– “The Complexity of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: An Ongoing Effort to Understand the Dark Side of the “Good Soldier” Syndrome”

MM will hold a Public Webinar on the topic “The Complexity of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: An Ongoing Effort to Understand the Dark Side of the “Good Soldier” Syndrome” on 11 June 2021. Abstract: Recent research acknowledges that prosocial behavior and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) can have both “bright” and “dark” sides. In this presentation, I will describe how I became interested in this topic and the opportunities and challenges of investigating the negative aspects of an ostensibly positive behavior. I will provide a brief overview of some of the key research my coauthors and I have conducted in this area over the years, including the role of impression management motives, the personal costs of citizenship, citizenship fatigue, and citizenship and moral licensing. I will also present the findings of my latest research with colleagues regarding the citizenship communication strategies that employees use with their partners and how these strategies influence individual initiative OCB, work-family conflict, and partner satisfaction.   More Details

Public Webinar by Prof. Aric Rindfleisch– “The Emergence and Effect of Customer Orientation in Digital Sharing Platforms”

MM will hold a Public Webinar on the topic “The Emergence and Effect of Customer Orientation in Digital Sharing Platforms” on 10 June 2021. Abstract: The concept of customer orientation has served as a key foundation for marketing thought and practice for over three decades. This concept assumes that market transactions largely occur between firms and customers. However, the advent of the digital revolution has enabled new types of exchange within peer-sharing platforms that do not fit neatly within this model. Thus, the relevance of customer orientation for these new digital platforms is uncertain. Our research investigates this issue by conducting a multi-method examination of the emergence and effect of customer orientation among contributors to digital sharing platforms. Our first study employs depth interviews among 15 contributors who share digital product creations in an online platform, while our second study combines a survey among 189 contributors along with archival data of the performance of their offerings. The results suggest that the nature of customer orientation and the manner in which it emerges are considerably different in digital sharing platforms compared to traditional market transactions. In particular, our research reveals that customer orientation can emerge organically without conventional customers or firms and that it is positively related to market performance.   More Details

Public Webinar by Prof. Kumar Subodha– “Emerging Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies Related Issues in Operations Management, Information Systems, Marketing, and Other Related Domains”

MM held a Public Webinar on the topic "Emerging Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies Related Issues in Operations Management, Information Systems, Marketing, and Other Related Domains" on 7 May 2021. Abstract: This presentation will focus on emerging business analytics and disruptive technologies related issues across different business school domains. The goal is to present the details of some ongoing research in different domains and discuss new research ideas. The presentation will cover many topics such as Blockchain, Social Media Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Omnichannel Retailing, Digital Advertising, IT Management, Supply Chain Analytics, and Sustainability and Humanitarian Operations.   More Details

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Research Seminar by Prof. Gerard P Hodgkinson

Date: 11 Nov 2019 (MON) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Prof. Gerard P Hodgkinson, PhD (Sheffield), DSc (Warwick), is Professor of Strategic Management and Behavioural Science at Alliance Manchester Business School and Vice Dean for Research (Faculty of Humanities) at the University of Manchester, UK. The (co-) author of three books and more than 100 articles and book chapters, his scholarly work focuses primarily on the psychological foundations of strategic management, especially cognitive processes in strategic adaptation and the development and evaluation of techniques for mapping strategic knowledge. His most recent work has been concerned with the application of advances in the social neurosciences to the analysis of cognitive processes in strategic decision making (including the nature and role of emotion and intuition) and the evaluation of techniques for overcoming cognitive bias and inertia in such decision making. Registered with the (UK) Health and Caring Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Occupational Psychologist, over the past twenty five years Gerard has carried out numerous consultancy assignments with public and private sector organizations. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the British Academy of Management, the British Psychological Society, and the Royal Society of Arts, among other bodies. Over an eight year period (1999-2006) he was the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management and for 12 years (2005-2016) he co-edited the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and Strategic Management Journal. An earlier version of his 2011 article with his Manchester-based colleague Dr. Mark Healey, on the psychological foundations of strategic adaptation (dynamic capabilities), which was published in the Strategic Management Journal, won the Business Policy and Strategy Division's Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Chicago, IL).

Research Seminar by Prof. Xiao-Ping Chen

Date: 12 Nov 2019 (TUE) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Professor Xiao-ping Chen is currently Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. She is an elected Fellow in Academy of Management (AoM), American Psychological Association (APA), and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Professor Chen has served as Editor-in-Chief for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2010-2016) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Management Insights, a bilingual (Chinese and English) magazine for business educators and practitioners. She received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Chen’s research interests include cooperation and competition in social dilemmas, teamwork and leadership, entrepreneur passion, Chinese guanxi, and cross-cultural communication and management. Professor Chen has published more than 30 research papers in top-tier journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Management Science, and Journal of International Business Studies. She was a faculty previously at Indiana University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She was also a distinguished visiting professor at University of Cambridge, Fudan University, Peking University, Kobe University, Indian School of Business, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Nanyang Technological University, and China Europe International Business School. Professor Chen is highly involved in Chinese management research and business community. She served as President for International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR). She has organized numerous research methods workshops, professional development workshops, and panel discussions for IACMR. She has published one English book entitled Leadership of Chinese Private Enterprises: Insights and Interviews, and ten Chinese books so far, among which the Empirical Methods in Organization and Management Research book has been the best seller in China since 2008. As the editor of Management Insights, she has conducted in-depth interviews with distinguished CEOs and founders of Chinese companies such as Liu Chuanzhi of Lenovo, Jack Ma of Alibaba, Pony Ma of Tencent, Wang Shi of Vanke, Ma Weihua of China Merchant Bank, Michael Yu of New Oriental Group, Richard Liu of JD.Com and so on. Professor Chen is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards, including Scholarly Impact Award by Journal of Management (2019), Best Paper of Chinese Management Research by Peking University Press (2018), Dean’s Leadership Award (2017), Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award by IACMR (2016), Andrew Smith Faculty Development Award, Outstanding University of Washington Woman Award, Outstanding Ph.D. Mentor Award, Dean’s International Research Award, and Charles E. Summer Teaching Award.

Research Seminar by Prof. Yanjun Guan

Date: 13 Sep 2019 (FRI) Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Prof. Yanjun Guan is currently a Professor in Management at Durham University Business School, UK. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009. Before he joined Durham University, he used to work for University of Surrey, Renmin University of China and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His key research areas are career management and cross-cultural management. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF = 3.4). His work appears in Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Psychological Science, Nature Climate Change (IF = 21.2), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology, and so on.