Biography

Professor Xiao-Ping Chen is Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair and Professor of Management in the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. She served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Chair of the Department of Management and Organization at Foster. She is an elected Fellow in Academy of Management (AOM), American Psychological Association (APA), and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). She served as Editor-in-Chief for Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, and as Editor-in-Chief for Management and Organization Review and the Founding Editor and current Executive Editor for Management Insights, a bilingual (Chinese and English) magazine for business educators and practitioners.

Selected Publications

• Chen, X.-P., & Cole, B. M. (2022). Achieving mutual understanding without saying a word: The conceptualization of Moqi and a nomological network. Management and Organization Review, 19(1), 3-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2022.9.
• Chen, X.-P., & Ren, H. (2023). Indirect cronyism and its underlying exchange logic: How managers’ particularism orientation and the third party’s hierarchical power strengthen its existence. Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, 175, Article 104234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104234.
• Chiang, J. T.-J., Chen, X.-P., Liu, H., Akutsu, S., & Wang, Z. (2021). We have emotions but can’t show them! Authoritarian leadership, emotion suppression climate, and team performance. Human Relations, 74(7), 1082-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720908649.
• Feng, Z., Keng‐Highberger, F. T., Yam, K. C., Chen, X., & Li, H. (2022). Wolves in sheep's clothing: how and when machiavellian leaders demonstrate strategic abuse. Journal of Business Ethics, 184(1), 255-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05132-y.
• Keng‐Highberger, F., Feng, Z., Yam, K. C., Chen, X.‐P., & Li, H. (2024). Middle power plays: How and when mach middle managers use downward abuse and upward guanxi to gain and maintain power. Journal of Organizational Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2794.
• Yao, L., Chen, X.-P., & Wei, H. (2022). How do authoritarian and benevolent leadership affect employee work–family conflict? An emotional regulation perspective. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 40(2), 1525-1553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-022-09824-x.