Zhixue Zhang

Zhi-Xue Zhang is a Boya Distinguished Professor at Peking University, the director of Center for Research in Behavioral Science, and the director of Management Innovation Interdisciplinary Research Platform at Guanghua School of Management, and the director of Institute of Social Science Survey Peking University. He got his Ph.D. degree in social psychology from University of Hong Kong. He was a research fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1997-2000, a visiting scholar at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in 2001-2002, a Freeman Fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006-2007, a visiting professor at Stockholm University in 2011-2013, and an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong in 2017-2019. In 2009, he was awarded the Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is currently the president of International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) (2021-2023).

Prof. Zhang’s research interests include Chinese leadership, team process, negotiation and conflict management, and cross-cultural management. He has published more than 100 research papers in local and international journals, including top-tier journals, such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Management World (in Chinese), and Acta Psychologica Sinica (in Chinese). He also published nearly 40 articles at journals for practitioners such as Harvard Business Review (English online version and Chinese version) and MIT Sloan Business Review. He has presented nearly 100 papers at international conferences.

Prof. Zhang is currently a consulting editor of Management and Organization Review, and serves on the editorial board at Negotiation and Conflict Management Research (2008- ) and Business and Management Journal (2018-) (in Chinese). He had been the associate editor of Asian Journal of Social Psychology (2015-2016) and on the editorial board of Acta Psychologica Sinca (in Chinese) (2006-2017).

Prof. Zhang has offered teachings for various programs at Peking University, and has offered executive teaching for both the executive program at Guanghua School of Management and for local and international companies such as AGC, EADS, GE, IBM, Volvo, and Tencent. He provided consulting service for companies including Huawei and Baidu.

Research Areas

• leadership and organizational culture
• conflict management
• negotiation process and outcomes
• team process
• cross-cultural management

Education Background

• 1998 University of Hong Kong Social Psychology
  
• 1991 Beijing Normal University Psychology
  
• 1988 Henan University Education
  

Career Experience

• 2008~present Professor of Organization and Strategic Management, Guanghua School of Management (tenure since 2008)
• 2001~2008 Associate Professor of Organization Management, Guanghua School of Management
• 2000~2001 Assistant Professor of Organization Management, Guanghua School of Management
• 1997~2000 Research Fellow, Department of Nursing and Health Science, Hongkong Polytechnic University
• 1991~1994 Teaching Assistant and lecturer, Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University

Book

Zhang, Z. X., & Zhang, J. (2014). Understanding Chinese firms from multiple perspectives. New York: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Publications in English

• Ma, L., Zhai, X., Zhong, W., & Zhang, Z. X. (2019). Deploying human capital for innovation: A study of multi-country manufacturing firms. International Journal of Production Economics, 208, 241-253.
• Qin, X., Ren, R., Zhang, Z. X., & Johnson, R. E. (2018). Considering self-interests and symbolism together: How instrumental and value-expressive motives interact to influence supervisors’ justice behavior. Personnel Psychology, 71, 225-253.
• Au, E. W. M., Qin, X., & Zhang, Z. X. (2017). Beyond personal control: When and how executives' beliefs in negotiable fate foster entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 143, 69-84.
• Dong, Y., Bartol, K.M., Zhang, Z. X., & Li, C. (2017). Enhancing employee creativity via individual skill development and team knowledge sharing: Influences of dual-focused transformational leadership. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38(3), 439-458.
• Ma, L., Brett, J., Wang, H., & Zhang, Z. X. (2017). Negotiating with Chinese outbound foreign direct investors. MIT Sloan Management Review, 59(1), 89-90.
• Yao, J., Zhang, Z. X., Brett, J., & Murnighan, K. (2017). Understanding the trust deficit in China: Mapping positive experience and trust in strangers. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 143, 85-97.
• Yao, J., Zhang, Z. X., & Brett, J. (2017). Understanding trust development in negotiations: An interdependent approach. Journal of Organization Behavior, 38(5), 712-729.
• Zhang, Z. X., & Wei, X. (2017). Superficial harmony and conflict avoidance resulting from negative anticipation in the workplace. Management and Organization Review, 13(4), 795-820.
• Zhang, Z. X., Wei, X., Chao, M. M., & Zheng, Y. (2017). When do conflicts feel right for prevention-focused individuals? The debiasing effect of low need for closure. Management and Organization Review, 13(2), 375-397.
• Aslani, S., Ramirez-Marin, J., Brett, J., Yao, J., Semnani-Azad, Z., Zhang, Z. X., Tinsley, C., Weingart, L., & Adair, W. (2016). Dignity, face and honor cultures: A study of negotiation strategy and outcomes in three cultures. Accepted at Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37 (8), 1178-1201.
• Fu, J. H. Y., Zhang, Z. X., Li, F., & Leung, P. (2016). Opening the mind: Effect of culture mixing on acceptance of organizational change. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47 (10), 1361–1372.
• Ma, L., Chen, A., & Zhang, Z. X. (2016). Task success based on contingency fit of managerial culture and embeddedness. Journal of International Business Studies, 47, 191-209.
• Wei, X., Zhang, Z. X., & Chen, X. P. (2015). I will speak up if my voice is socially desirable: A moderated mediating process of promotive versus prohibitive voice. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100 (5), 1641–1652.
• Arvey, R., Dhanaraj, C., Javidan, M., & Zhang, Z. X. (2015). Are there unique leadership models in Asia? Exploring uncharted territory. Leadership Quarterly, 26 (1), 1-6.
• Qin, X., Ren, R., Zhang, Z. X., & Johnson, R. E (2015). Fairness heuristics and substitutability effects: Inferring the fairness of outcomes, procedures, and interpersonal treatment when employees lack clear information. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100 (3), 749-766.
• Wei, X., Ma, L., Zhang, Z. X., Showail, S. J., Jiao, J., & Wang, X. (2015). Understanding psychological contract breach due to labor costs reduction: Contingent upon employee sex and managerial control. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 88 (4), 679-701.
• Zhang, Z. X., Chen, Z. X., Chen, Y.R., & Ang, S. (2014). Business leadership in the Chinese context: Trends, findings and implications. Management and Organization Review, 10 (2), 199-221.
• Woo, S. E., Chernyshenko, O., Longley, A., Zhang, Z.X., Chiu, C., & Stark, S. E. (2014). Openness to experience: Its lower-level structure, measurement, and cross-cultural equivalence. Journal of Personality Assessment, 96(1), 29-45.
• Yuan, C., Bazarova, N., Fulk, J., & Zhang, Z. X. (2013). Recognition of expertise and perceived influence in intercultural group collaboration: A study of mixed American and Chinese intercultural groups. Journal of Communication, 63, 476-497.
• Liu, L. A., Friedman, R., Barry, B., Gelfand, M., & Zhang, Z. X. (2012). The dynamics of consensus building in intracultural and intercultural negotiations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 57 (2), 269-304.
• Hempel, P. S., Zhang, Z. X., & Han, Y. (2012). Team empowerment and the organizational context: Decentralization and the contrasting effects of formalization. Journal of Management, 38 (2): 475-501.
• Au, E. W. M., Chiu, C.-y., Zhang, Z.-X., Mallorie, L. A., Chaturvedi, A., Viswanathan, M., & Savani, K (2012). Negotiable fate: Social ecological foundation and psychological functions. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43(6), 931-942.
• Leung, A. K.-y., Kim, Y.-H., Zhang, Z.-X., Tam, K.-P., & Chiu, C.-y. (2012). Cultural construction of success and epistemic motives moderate American-Chinese differences in reward allocation biases. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43(1), 46-52.
• Au, E. W. M., Chiu, C.-y., Chaturvedi, A., Mallorie, L. A., Viswanathan, M., Zhang, Z.-X., & Savani, K (2011). Maintaining faith in agency under immutable constraints: Cognitive consequences of believing in negotiable fate. International Journal of Psychology, 46(6), 463-474.
• Leung, K., Brew, F. P., Zhang, Z. X., & Zhang, Y. (2011). Harmony and conflict: A cross-cultural investigation in China and Australia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(5), 795-816.
• Chao, M. M., Zhang, Z. X., & Chiu, C. y. (2010). Adherence to perceived norms across cultural boundaries: The role of need for cognitive closure and ingroup identification. Group Process and Intergroup Relations, 13, 69-89.
• Yang, J., Zhang, Z. X., & Tsui, A. S. (2010). Middle manager leadership and frontline employee performance: Bypass, cascading, and moderating effects. Journal of Management Studies, 47, 654-678
• Zhou, J., Shin, S. J., Brass, D. J., Choi, J., & Zhang, Z. (2009). Social networks, personal values, and creativity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 1544-1552.
• Hempel, P. S., Zhang, Z. X., & Tjosvold, D. (2009). Conflict management between and within teams for trusting relationships and performance in China. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 30, 41-65.
• Chao, M. M., Zhang, Z. X., & Chiu, C. y. (2008). Personal and collective culpability judgment: A functional analysis of East Asian-North American differences. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 39, 730-744.
• Zhang, Z. X., Hempel, P. S., Han, Y., & Tjsvold, D. (2007). Transactive memory system links work team characteristics to performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1722-1730.
• Zhang, Z. X., & Han, Y. L. (2007). The effects of reciprocation wariness on negotiation process and outcome. Group Decision and Negotiation, 16, 507－525.
• Tsui, A., Zhang, Z. X., Wang, H., Xin, K. R., & Wu, J. B. (2006). Unpacking the relationship between CEO leadership behavior and organizational culture. Leadership Quarterly, 17, 113-137.
• Mok, E., Lai, C., & Zhang, Z. X. (2004). Coping with chronic renal failure in Hong Kong. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 41, 205-213.
• Ho, D. Y. F., Chen, S. F. F., & Zhang, Z. X. (2001). Metarelational analysis: An answer to “What is Asian about Asian social psychology?” Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies, 2, 7-26.
• Zhang, Z. X., Luk, W., Arthur, D., & Wong, T. (2001). Nursing competencies: Personal characteristics contributing to effective nursing performance. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 33, 468-474.
• Zhang, Z. X. (2001). The effect of frequency of social interaction and relationship closeness on reward allocation. Journal of Psychology, 135,154-164.
• Lai, A. C., Zhang, Z. X., & Wang, W. Z. (2000). Maternal child-rearing practices in Hong Kong and Beijing Chinese families: A comparative study. International Journal of Psychology，35，60-66.
• Zhang, Z., & Yang, C. F. (1998). Beyond distributive justice: The reasonableness norm in Chinese reward allocation. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 1, 253-269.

Book Chapters in English

• Zhang, Z. X., & Zhong, W. (2016). Barriers to organizational creativity in Chinese companies. In Arie Y. Lewin, A. Y., Kenney, M., & Murmann, J. P. (Eds.), China’s innovation challenge: Overcoming the middle income trap (pp. 339-367). Cambridge University Press.
• Zhang, Z. X. (2014). The growth path of entrepreneurs. In Zhang, Z. X., & Zhang, J. (Eds.), Understanding Chinese firms from multiple perspectives (pp. 81-118). New York: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
• Zhang, Z. X., Zhang, Y., & Wang, M. (2011). Harmony, illusionary relationship cost, and conflict resolution in Chinese contexts. In Leung, K., Chiu, C., & Hong, Y. (Eds.), Cultural processes: A social psychological perspective (pp.188-209). New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Qiu, J., Zhang, Z. X., & Liu, L. A. (2011). Cultural processes in teams: The development of team mental models in heterogeneous work teams. In Leung, K., Chiu, C., & Hong, Y. (Eds.), Cultural processes: A social psychological perspective (pp.172-187). New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Zhang, Z. X., Chen, C. C., Liu, L. A., & Liu, X. F. (2008). Chinese traditions and Western theories: influence on business leaders in China. In C. C. Chen & Y. T. Lee (Eds.), Leadership management in China: Philosophies, theories, and practices (pp.239-271). London: Cambridge University Press.
• Zhang, Z. X. (2006). Chinese conceptions of justice and reward allocation. In Kim, U., K. S. Yang, & K. K. Hwang (Eds.), Indigenous and cultural psychology: Understanding people in context (pp.403-420). New York: Springer.
• Xin, K. R., Tsui, A., Wang, H., Zhang, Z. X., & Chen, W. Z. (2002). Corporate culture in Chinese state-owned enterprises: An inductive analysis of dimensions and influence. In A. S. Tsui & C. M. Lau (Eds.) Management of enterprises in People’s Republic of China (pp.414-443). MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.