Chengwei Liu

Chengwei Liu (Ph.D., Cambridge) is Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioural Science and Director of Executive MBA (London Shard) at Warwick Business School. His work is published in leading academic journals (such as Academy of Management Review, PNAS, Organization Science) and featured in media worldwide (such as New York Times, Financial Times, BBC, Der Spiegel). Chengwei taught at Warwick, Cambridge, Oxford, National University of Singapore, Peking University, Boston University and has won 20+ excellent teaching awards since 2012. He now leads executive education modules on Nudging Organizational Changes and Creating Strategic Advantage. He publishes and serves on the editorial boards of Organization Science and Strategy Science. Thinkers50 name Chengwei a leading management thinker and Poets&Quants name Chengwei a Top 40 under 40 MBA Professor.

Publications

Journal Articles

• Denrell, J., Fang, C. and Liu, C. (2019) "In search of behavioral opportunities from misattributions of luck", Academy of Management Review
• Liu, C. and Denrell, J. (2018) "Performance persistence through the lens of chance models ", Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2018, 1, 10736
• Liu, C., Vlaev, I., Fang, C., Denrell, J. and Chater, N. (2017) "Strategizing with biases : engineering choice contexts for better decisions using the Mindspace approach", California Management Review, 59, 3, 135-161
• Denrell, J., Liu, C. and Le Mens, G. (2017) "When more selection is worse ", Strategy Science, 2, 1, 39-63
• Chengwei Liu (2017) "Strategizing with others' misperceptions of luck in extreme performances", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017, 1
• Kovács, B. and Liu, C. (2016) "Audience structure and status multiplicity", Social Networks, 44, 1, 36-49
• Liu, C. and Rond, M. d. (2016) "Good night, and good luck : perspectives on luck in management scholarship", The Academy of Management Annals, 10, 1, 409-451
• Liu, C., Olivola, C. Y. and Kovács, B. (2016) "Co-authorship trends in the field of management : facts and perceptions", Academy of Management Learning and Education, 16, 4, 509-530
• Maslach, D., Liu, C., Madsen, P. and Desai, V. (2015) "The robust beauty of "Little Ideas" : the past and future of a behavioral theory of the firm", Journal of Management Inquiry, 24, 3, 318-320
• Liu, C., Eubanks, D. L. and Chater, N. (2015) "The weakness of strong ties : sampling bias, social ties, and nepotism in family business succession", The Leadership Quarterly, 26, 3, 419-435
• Liu, C., Maslach, D., Desai, V. and Madsen, P. (2015) "The first 50 years and the next 50 years of A Behavioral Theory of the Firm : an interview with James G. March", Journal of Management Inquiry, 24, 2, 149-155
• Denrell, J., Fang, C. and Liu, C. (2015) "Perspective—Chance explanations in the management sciences", Organization Science, 26, 3, 923-940
• Desai, V., Liu, C., Madsen, P. M., Maslach, D., Carroll, J. S., Farjoun, M., Roberts, K. H., Starbuck, W. H. and Tamuz, M. (2015) "Oversight or oversight? Lessons learnt about managing and governing organizations facing disaster", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015, 1, 16617-16617
• Moat, H. S., Preis, T., Olivola, C. Y., Liu, C. and Chater, N. (2014) "Using big data to predict collective behavior in the real world", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 37, Number 01, 92-93
• Denrell, J. and Liu, C. (2012) "Top performers are not the most impressive when extreme performance indicates unreliability", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol.109, No.24, 9331-9336

Journal Item

• Chengwei Liu (2016) "The stars of management are either lucky or gamblers", Harvard Business Manager, 7

Book Items

• Fang, C. and Liu, C. (2018) "Behavioral strategy : an alternative account of superior profitability", Advances in Strategic Management, 39, 209-219, Emerald Publishing Limited, Chengwei Liu (2017) "Three tips of turning biases into opportunities", 119-120, Bloomsbury London,