Dr Linda WANG

Associate Coordinator of Research Advancement
Associate Professor
Department of Management

Academic & Professional Qualifications

PhD (Michigan State University)
MPhil (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
BBA (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Biography

Dr. Linda Wang is an Associate Professor of Management at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD from Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business in the US. Dr. Wang’s research addresses a broad range of questions on a set of important management issues, with special emphasis given to leadership, work relationships and teams, along with corporate governance and innovation, sometimes in Asia research sites. Her work has been published in leading management journals, such as Personnel Psychology , Academy of Management Discoveries, Multinational Business Review, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. Her recent team descriptive index TDI paper won the runner-up 2015 Best Paper Award of Academy of Management Discoveries. She has also won the Best Paper Award from both the Management History (MH) and the Research Methods(RM) divisions of the Academy of Management at past Academy of Management Annual Meetings. Besides research, she has devoted much also to the teaching side of her work. Over the past decades years in teaching at the university level, including MBA and MSc, she has built a good track record of strong teaching ratings in a range of courses taught in both Hong Kong and overseas.

Intellectual Contributions (Publications, Conferences, Books, Book Chapters, etc.)

  • Cheung, G. W., Cooper-Thomas, H. D., Lau, R. S., & Wang, L. C. 2024. Reporting reliability, convergent and discriminant validity with structural equation modeling: A review and best-practice recommendations. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 41(2), 745-783.
  • Xu, H., Wayne, S. J., Wang, L. C., & Pan, J. 2024. LMX differentiation as a double‐edged sword: a social hierarchy perspective for understanding the beneficial and detrimental effects of LMX differentiation on team performance. Personnel Psychology, 77(2), 713-745.
  • Luo, J. H., Li, X., Wang, L. C., & Liu, Y. 2021. Owner type, pyramidal structure and R&D Investment in China’s family firms. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 38(3), 1085-1111.
  • Lin, W-T. & Wang, L. C. 2021. Family firms, R&D, and internationalization: The stewardship and socio-emotional wealth perspectives. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 38(1), 91-119.
  • Ahlstrom, D. & Wang, L. C. 2021. Temporal strategies and firms’ speedy responses to COVID-19. Journal of Management Studies, 58(2), 592-596.
  • Cheung, W. G., Cooper-Thomas, D. H, Lau. R., & Wang, L. C. 2021. Testing Moderation in Business and Psychological Studies with Latent Moderated Structural Equations. Journal of Business and Psychology, 36(6), 1009-1033.
  • Lin, W.-T., Chen, Y.-Y., Ahlstrom, D., & Wang, L. C. 2021.Does international expansion constrain growth? Business groups, internationalization, institutional distance, and the Penrose effect. Multinational Business Review,29(1), 70-95.
  • Lee, S. M., Koopman, J., Hollenbeck, J. R., Wang, L. C., & Lanaj, K. 2020. Construct validation standards and the Team Descriptive Index. Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(4), 698-701.
  • Wang, L. C., & Hollenbeck, J. R. 2019. LMX in team‐based contexts: TMX, authority differentiation, and skill differentiation as boundary conditions for leader reciprocation. Personnel Psychology, 72 (2), 271-290.
  • Liu, Y., Chen, Y-J., & Wang, L. C. 2017. Family business, innovation and organizational slack in Taiwan, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 34(1), 193-213.
  • Lee, S. M., Koopman, J., Hollenbeck, J. R., Wang, L. C., & Lanaj, K. 2015. The team descriptive index TDI: Operationalizing the multidimensional scaling approach to team description. Academy of Management Discoveries,1(1), 88-113.
  • Liu, Y., Wang, L.C., Zhao, L. & Ahlstrom, D. 2013. Board turnover in Taiwan’s public firms: An empirical study. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 30(4), 1059-1086.
  • Ahlstrom, D. & Wang, L. C. 2009. Groupthink and France’s defeat in the 1940 campaign. Journal of Management History, 15(2), 159-177.