Xiao-Ping Chen receives Scholarly Impact Award from leading academic publisher

Xiao-Ping Chen, a professor of management at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has received the 2019 Scholarly Impact Award from SAGE Publishing.

SAGE is a leading international publisher of more than 1,000 academic journals and 800-plus new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas.

The Scholarly Impact Award recognizes Chen’s 2013 Journal of Management paper “Affective Trust in Chinese Leaders: Linking Paternalistic Leadership to Employee Performance,” co-authored by Marion Eberly, Ting-Ju Chiang, Jiing-Lih Farh and Bor-Shiuan Cheng.

Two decades of leadership

Chen is the Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair in Business Administration and associate dean for faculty and academic affairs at Foster. She is former chair of the school’s Department of Management and Organization, which recently was ranked the #2 most productive management faculty in North America in terms of publication in the discipline’s eight most-influential journals over the past five years.

Chen recently completed a term as editor-in-chief of the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and continues to edit the Chinese/English bilingual magazine Management Insights. She is a past president of the International Association for Chinese Management Research.

Since joining the Foster faculty in 1999, Chen has received numerous accolades for teaching, research and leadership, including the Dean’s Leadership Award, the Andrew Smith Faculty Development Award, the Outstanding University of Washington Woman Award, the Dean’s International Research Award, the Charles E. Summer Outstanding Teacher Award and the Outstanding PhD Mentor Award.

Summa cum laude

In the past four years, Chen has been elected a fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

She received a Best Paper of Chinese Theory of Management by Peking University Press and Management & Organization Review in 2018, and the Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award from the International Association for Chinese Management Research in 2016.

Chen’s research explores inter-cultural communication, entrepreneurial passion, leadership and creativity, and Chinese guanxi.

She is a co-creator of a Myers-Briggs-like assessment of personal communication style with the potential to enhance the effectiveness of any working team or individual working amid an unfamiliar culture.

Her book, Leadership of Chinese Enterprises, explores what it takes to be a successful homegrown entrepreneur in the People’s Republic of China via close examination of 13 private businesses that have flourished despite government resistance.

Other recent publications by Chen include these findings:

In addition to her prolific scholarship in English, Chen is the author of eight Chinese books: Managing Across Cultures; Empirical Methods in Organization and Management Research; Solving Social Dilemmas: Psychological Mechanisms of Cooperation Induction; The Art of Balancing Work and Life; In Pursuit of Happiness; Simplifying Renqin; Still Seeing Mountains; and Follow Your Heart.

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