Advisory Board

		Dr Leon LAM Senior Vice President of Asia and Vice President of Asia Pacific Strategy, Merit Medical leonwy.lam@polyu.edu.hk  Industry: Medtech
		Dr Robert PARK Managing Director, State Street Bank & Trust j-robert.park@polyu.edu.hk Industry: Bank & finance
		Mr Chris ANTONELLI Managing Director & Co-head of Asia, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors cantonelli@schonfeld.com  Industry: Bank & finance
		Ms Lancy CHUI Senior Vice President, Manpower Greater China lancy.chui@manpowergrc.hk Industry: Workforce solution
		Mr Terrance LEUNG Founder and Executive coach, INRI terrance.leung@inriexecoach.com Industry: Executive corporate and leadership
		Mr Marco LIU Partner and Head of Business Security, Deloitte China & Asia Pacific marcoliu@deloitte.com.hk Industry: Consulting
		Mr Paul LOO COO, Lalamove paul.loo@lalamove.com Industry: Delivery & courier service provider
		Ms Jessie WANG Director of YiHai Property and YiHai Education jessie@yihaiproperty.com Industry: Property and Education

A* and A Research Publications

• Park, H. M., Judge, T. A., Lee, H. W., Chung, S., & Zhan, Y. (forthcoming). CWhen conscientiousness differentially pays off: The role of incongruence between conscientiousness and black stereotypes in pay inequality. Personnel Psychology.
• Wang, F., Liu, W., Ling, C. D., Fan, P., & Chen, Y. (forthcoming). Combating team hopelessness: How and why leader interpersonal emotion management matters. Personnel Psychology.
• Doyle, S. P., Chung, S., Lount, R. B., Swaab, R. I., & Rathjens, J. (forthcoming). Hierarchical Team Structures Limit Joint Gain in Interteam Negotiations: The Role of Information Elaboration and Value Claiming Behavior. Academy of Management Journal.
• Bianchi, E. C., Martin, C. C., & Li, R. (2023). Does Job Satisfaction Rise and Fall with the Economy? Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Experimental Evidence That Job Satisfaction Increases during Recessions. Academy of Management Journal, 66(2), 688-709.
• Cudennec, A. H. J., & Durand, R. (2023). Valuing Spanners: Why Category Nesting and Expertise Matter. Academy of Management Journal, 66(1), 335-365.
• Tai, K., Lin, K. J., Lam, C., & Liu, W. (2023). Biting the Hand That Feeds: A Status-Based Model of When and Why Receiving Help Motivates Social Undermining. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108(1), 27-52.
• Chung, S., Zhan, Y., Noe, R. A., & Jiang, K. (2022). Is it Time to Update and Expand Training Motivation Theory? A Meta-analytic Review of Training Motivation Research in the 21st Century. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(7), 1150–1179.
• Shin, S., Lee, J., & Bansal, P. (2022). From a Shareholder to Stakeholder Orientation: Evidence from the Analyses of CEO Dismissal in Large U.S. Firms. Strategic Management Journal, 43(7), 1233-1257.
• Wang, Q., & Zheng, Y. (2022). Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents. Research Policy, 51(4), 104485.
• Xie, X. Y., Ling, C. D., Liu, W., & Wei, J. (2022). Inter-team coordination, information elaboration, and performance in teams: The moderating effect of knowledge integration capability. Journal of Business Research, 149, 149-160.
• Liu, N., Tang, S. Y., Lo, C. W. H., & Zhan, X. (2022). Enforcement officials' coping strategies in a changing regulatory environment. Public Administration, 100(2), 408-426.
• Tang, P. M., Ilies, R., Aw, S. S., Lin, K. J., Lee, R., & Trombini, C. (2021). How and when service beneficiaries’ gratitude enriches employees’ daily lives. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(6), 987-1008.
• Swaab, R. I., Lount, R. B., Jr., Chung, S., & Brett, J. (2021). Setting the Stage for Negotiations: How Superordinate Goal Dialogues Promote Joint Gain in Negotiation between Teams. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 167, 157-169.
• Li, W.-D., Li, S., Feng, J., Wang, M., Zhang, H., Frese, M., & Wu, C. H. (2021). Can becoming a leader change your personality? An investigation with two longitudinal studies from a role-based perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(6), 882-901.
• Sun, J., Li, W.-D., Li, Y., Liden, R., Li, S., & Zhang, X. (2021). Unintended consequences of being proactive? Linking proactive personality to coworker envy, helping, and undermining, and the moderating role of prosocial motivation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(2), 250-267.
• Ou, Y., Ng, W.X., Guo, C., Yao, J., & Lim, S. (2021). Experienced incivility in the workplace: A meta analytical review of its construct validity and nomological network. Journal of Applied Psychology.
• Leong, J. L. T., Chen, S. X., Fung, H. H. L., Bond, M. H., Siu, N. Y. F., & Zhu, J. Y. (2020). Is Gratitude Always Beneficial to Interpersonal Relationships? The Interplay of Grateful Disposition, Grateful Mood, and Grateful Expression Among Married Couples. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 46 (1), 64-78.
• Bai, F., Ho, G., & Liu, W. (2020). Do status incentives undermine morality-based status attainment? Investigating the mediating role of perceived authenticity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 158, 126-138.
• Bai, F., Ho, G., & Yan, J. (2020). Does virtue lead to status? Testing the moral virtue theory of status attainment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(3), 501-531.
• Li, S., & Lu, J. (2020). A Dual-Agency Model of Firm CSR in Response to Institutional Pressure: Evidence from Chinese Publicly Listed Firms. Academy of Management Journal, 63(6), 1-29.
• Xu, E.H., Huang, X., Ouyang, K., Liu, W., & Hu, S.Q. (2020). Tactics of speaking up: The roles of issue importance, perceived managerial openness, and managers' positive mood. Human Resource Management, 59(2), 255-269.
• Xu, E.H., Huang, X., Jia, R.W., Liu, W., Xu, J., Les, G., & Snape, E. (2020). The “Evil Pleasure”: Abusive Supervision and Third-Party Observers’ Malicious Reactions Toward Victims. Organization Science, 31(5), 1115-1137.
• Zhu, Q., Hu, S., & Shen, W. (2020). Why do some insider CEOs make more strategic changes than others? The impact of prior board experience on new CEO insiderness. Strategic Management Journal, 41(10), 1933-1951.
• Li, W.D., Li, S., Fay. D., & Frese, M. (2019). Reciprocal relationships between dispositional optimism and career outcomes: A five wave longitudinal investigation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(12):1471-1486.
• Lin, K. J., Savani, K., & Ilies, R. (2019). Doing good, feeling good? The roles of helping motivation and citizenship pressure. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(8), 1020-1035.
• Liao, Z.Y., Liu, W., Li, X., & Song, Z. (2019). Give and Take: An Episodic Perspective on Leader-Member Exchange. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(1), 34-51.
• Liu, W., Tangirala, S., Lee, C., & Parker, S. K. (2019). New directions for exploring the consequences of proactive behaviors: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 40(1), 1-4.
• Hartnell, C. A., Ou, Y., Kinicki, A. J., Choi, D., & Karam, E. P. (2019). A meta-analytic test of organizational culture's association with elements of an organization's system and its relative predictive validity on organizational outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(6), 832-850.
• Knippen, J.M., Shen, W., & Zhu, Q. (2019). Limited progress? The effect of external pressure for board gender diversity on the increase of female directors. Strategic Management Journal, 40(7), 1123-1150.
• Buchtel, E. E., Ng, L. C. Y., Norenzayan, A., Heine, S. J., Biesanz, J. C., Chen, S. X., Bond, M. H., Peng, Q., & Su, Y. (2018). A Sense of Obligation: Cultural Differences in the Experience of Obligation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(11), 1545-1566.
• Li, S. (2018). Increased non-family ownership in family-owned firms: How does it affect CEO turnover-performance sensitivity? Strategic Management Journal, 39(13), 3433-3457. 
• Liao, Z.Y., Yam, K.C.S., Johnson, R.E., Liu, W., & Song, Z.L. (2018). Cleansing My Abuse: A Reparative Response Model of Perpetrating Abusive Supervisor Behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(9), 1039-1056. 
• Huang, X., Xu, E.H., Huang, L., & Liu, W. (2018). Nonlinear consequences of promotive and prohibitive voice for managers’ responses: The roles of voice frequency and LMX. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(10), 1101-1120. 
• Ouyang, K., Xu, E.H., Huang, X., Liu, W., & Tang, Y.P. (2018). Reaching the limits of reciprocity in favor exchange: The effects of generous, stingy, and matched favor giving on social status. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(6), 614-630. 
• Ou, Y., Waldman, D. A., & Peterson, S. J. (2018). Do Humble CEOs Matter? An Examination of CEO Humility and Firm Outcomes. Journal of Management, 44(3), 1147-1173.
• Liu, N., Tang, S.Y., Zhan, X., & Lo, W.H. (2018). Political Commitment, Policy Ambiguity, and Corporate Environmental Practices. Policy Studies Journal, 46(1), 190-214. 
• Bai, F. (2017). Beyond Dominance and Competence: A Moral Virtue Theory of Status Attainment. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21(3), 203-227. 
• Love, E.G., Lim, J., & Bednar, M.K. (2017). The Face of the Firm: The Influence of CEOs on Corporate Reputation. Academy of Management Journal, 60(4), 1462-1481.
• Uy, M., Lin, J., & Ilies, R. (2017). Is it Better to Give or Receive? The Role of Help in Buffering the Depleting Effects of Surface Acting. Academy of Management Journal, 60(4), 1442-1461. 
• Lin, J., Ilies, R., Pluut, H., & Pan, S. Y. (2017). You are a helpful co-worker, but do you support your spouse? A resource-based work-family model of helping and support provision. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 138, 45-58.
• Liu, W., Song, Z., Li, X., & Liao, Z. (2017). Why and When Leaders’ Affective States Influence Employee Upward Voice. Academy of Management Journal, 60(1), 238-263.
• Zhang, H., Ou, Y., Tsui, A. S., & Wang, H. (2017). CEO humility, narcissism and firm innovation: A paradox perspective on CEO traits. Leadership Quarterly, 28(5), 585-604.
• Ou, Y., Seo, J. J., Choi, D., & Hom, P. W. (2017). When can humble top executives retain middle managers? the moderating role of top management team faultlines. Academy of Management Journal, 60(5), 1915-1931.
• NI, N., & Zhan, X. (2017). Embedded Government Control and Nonprofit Revenue Growth. Public Administration Review, 77(5), 730-742.

Ongoing Research Projects

Dr Feng BAI

1. Moral consequences of virtue signaling
2. Moral Pride and Hubris: Exploring the Intrapersonal Mechanisms underlying the Virtue Route to Status
3. Taking a person-centered and dynamic approach to status attainment: A latent profile analysis

Dr Seunghoo CHUNG

1. Discover changes to the group discussion model under online classes and the impact on individuals
2. Race and Occupational Privilege: Effects of Occupational Discrimination on Career and Life Outcomes

Dr Arnaud CUDENNEC

1. Firm Categorization and Evaluations in Markets

Dr Juyoung LEE

1. Is Random Really Random? Catastrophic Releases of Toxic Chemicals and their Corporate and Community Determinants

Dr Ren LI

1. The unintended consequences of the #MeToo movement on social network formations in the workplace

Dr Shuping LI

1. Blockholders’ Power Contestability, Extraction of Private Benefits, and Blockholder Exit

Dr Jaegoo LIM

1. The Impact of (A)typicality in a Leader’s Biographical Profile on Organizational Reputation

Dr Jia Katrina LIN

1. Good citizens or good citizens under pressure: An examination of newcomer helping behavior in reaction to veteran helping norms
2. Help quality: Scale development and an examination of its consequences

Prof. Wu LIU

1. Digital Transformation of Hong Kong Enterprises in the Greater Bay Area
2. Peer-to-peer Gratitude Expression and Work Network Evolvement: A Dynamic Social Network Perspective
3. Voice Behavior in Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: The Role of Informal Leaders and Status Hierarchy

Dr Amy Y. OU

1. CEO Humility and Corporate Social Irresponsibility

Dr Qinyu Ryan WANG

1. Gender Differences in Chinese Entrepreneurship: in an Economic Perspective
2. Love me, love my dog: The halo effect of cross-country patents on foreign knowledge

Dr Melody ZHANG

1. The unintended negative consequences of empowering leadership: An extended-self perspective
2. Will Haste Bring Success? The Curvilinear Relationship between Temporal Leadership and Team Creativity and the Mediating Role of Team Creative Process Engagement

Dr Qi ZHU

1. How does Confucianism Influence Green Innovation? the Moderating Effects of CEO Characteristics and Formal Institutions
2. The Influence of new CEOs’ Power on Firms’ Time Horizon

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11 July 2023 MM CLI Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy by Prof. Peter G. Klein & Dr Jue Wang
18 April 2023 CLI: A Rhodes Scholar Presentation "Toward knowledge obsolescence amongst scaffold ‘master’ craftsmen: the challenge of standardisation and occupational legitimacy" by Prof. Ken Kamoche (Photos)
5 October 2022 CLI Knowledge Transfer Webinar "How to effectively plan your career with Design Thinking?" by Dr Vincent Leung, Dr Felix Yip, Ms Flora Chan Liann and Dr Aaron Chiang
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25 June 2022 CLI Knowledge Transfer Webinar "Permanent Innovator: A case of an Asia home-grown financial company developing a global business" by Mr Jung Ho Rhee from Mirae Asset Global Investments (Hong Kong) Limited
3 April 2022 CLI Knowledge Transfer Webinar "My journey of building and growing international companies" by Mr Paul Loo from Lalamove
3 March 2017 6th Symposium of the Centre for Leadership & Innovation
18 April 2014 CLI presented an article on Apple Daily about the importance of talent recruitments for research and innovation in Hong Kong
16 April 2014 CLI Summer Leadership Seminar Series 2014
16 April 2014 IfE-CLI Seminar: "Lead the Change: Five IT based Platforms for Innovation" by Prof. Yesha Sivan from Tel Aviv University
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21 Feb 2014 3rd Symposium of Centre for Leadership & Innovation: "Creativity and Innovation at Work: Nature, Nurture and Nurturing Nature"
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5 Dec 2013 CLI Research Seminar "Female Board Representation and Corporate M&A Activity" by Dr Guoli CHEN from INSEAD
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22 Feb 2013 CLI Research Symposium: New Frontier of Leadership The event attracted more than ninety academic and business participants to discuss the latest developments in leadership research
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14 Dec 2012 Call for Abstracts - CLI Research Symposium: "New Frontier of Leadership"
12 Nov 2012 CLI Research Seminar "Boundary Spanning vs Status: Competing Drivers of Institutional Deviance in the Japanese Syndicated Market" by Dr Jesper Edman from Hitotsubashi University
10 Dec 2012 CLI Research Seminar "Can Gender Stereotypes Erase a Female Advantage in Leadership?" by Prof. Joyce Bono from University of Florida
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5 Oct 2012 CLI is proud to announce that we are partnering with CLIC: Center for Leadership, Innovation & Change at the University of Maryland
23 July 2012 CLI Research Seminar "Homophily, Network Formation, and Performance among Knowledge Workers" by Dr Gokhan Ertug from Singapore Management University
18 Jun 2012 CLI Research Seminar "An Overview of What We Think We Know about Managing Innovation" by Prof. Andrew Van de Ven from University of Minnesota
1 Apr 2012 CLI is partnering with the Research Center for Corporate Innovation and Competitiveness (RCCIC) of Renmin University of China
5 Mar 2012 CLI Research Seminar "The Effects of Having Self-Set Learning and Performance Goals Simultaneously" by Prof. Edwin A. Locke from University of Maryland
2 Mar 2012 CLI Inaugural Conference Leading Change and Innovation, 2 March 2012 at Hotel ICON
20 Feb 2012 CLI Research Seminar "Factors facilitating or inhibiting the process of innovation from idea generation to idea implementation" by Prof. Miriam Erez from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
9 Feb 2012 Call for Paper Journal of Organizational Behavior special issue call for papers: Contextualizing creativity and innovation across cultures
9 Jan 2012 CLI Research Seminar "What I See, What I Do: Executive Hubris, Managerial Attention, and Firm Innovation" by Dr Yi Tang from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
17 Nov 2011 CLI is partnering with the Center for Global Leadership at The Paul Merage School of Business in the University of California Irvine
18-20 Oct 2011 Dr SONG Zhaoli from the NUS School of Business at the National University of Singapore visited CLI to discuss future collaboration with our co-directors and members
28 Jul 2011 Departmental Research Seminar "Taking Charge: Promoting Proactive Action in the Work Place" by Prof. Sharon Parker from The University of Western Australia
24 Jun 2011 CLI Research Seminar "Increasing Creative Performance through Integrating Multiple Identities" by Prof. Fiona Lee from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
18 Apr 2011 Dr Wing Lam from CLI talked about "change management" at the annual executive meeting of Lam Soon Group in Shenzhen
4 Apr 2011 Departmental Research Seminar "Is Creativity Universal or Culture Specific?" by Ms Rikki Nouri from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
4-11 Apr 2011 Ms Rikki Nouri from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology visited CLI to conduct a series of creativity experiments in PolyU
7 Mar 2011 Departmental Research Seminar "I-deals Employees Bargain for Themselves: Flexibility, Fairness, and HR Practice Innovation" by Prof. Denise Rousseau from the Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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15 Feb 2011 Call for Applications to the CLI Research Grant

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