Ya-Ru Chen
Professor Chen's research focuses on cross-cultural differences and similarities in employees' behaviors and attitudes. She has compared the ways in which employees in different cultures react to performance feedback, relate to their own groups and other groups, and negotiate with their business counterparts. Her recent work examines how employees obtain, maintain, and experience status and power in their different cultural environments, and in globally diverse settings. She also looks at how status concerns affect leadership effectiveness and influence business interactions across cultures.
Professor Chen has published extensively in leading psychology and management journals, including Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organization Science. Prior to joining the Johnson School, she was on the faculty at the Stern School of New York University and Rutgers Business School. Professor Chen also has extensive experience in senior executive education around the world.
Professor Chen earned her PhD in psychology from Columbia University. Her work received the Best Paper Award from the Organization Behavior Division of the Academy of Management in 2002 and the Best Micro Best Paper Award at the International Association of Chinese Management Research in 2008. She has been on the editorial board of Academy of Management Review, Management and Organization Review, and Organization Science. She is currently editing the special issue at Organization Science on "attaining, maintaining, and experiencing status in organizations and markets."
Selected Publications and Working Papers
Blader, S, & Chen, Y. (forthcoming). What influences how higher status people respond to lower status others? Effects of procedural fairness, outcome favorability, and concerns about status. Organizational Science.
Chen, Y., Leung, K., & Chen, C. (2009). Bringing national culture to the table: Making a difference through cross-cultural differences and perspectives. The Academy of Management Annals, 3, 217-249.
Chen, Y., Chen, X., & Portnoy, R. (2009). To whom do the positive norm and negative norm of reciprocity apply? Effects of inequitable offers, relationship, and relational-self orientation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 24-34.
Brewer, M.B., & Chen, Y. (2007) Where (and who) are collectives in collectivism: Toward conceptual clarification of individualism and collectivism. Psychological Review, 114, 133-151.
yaru.chen@johnson.cornell.edu
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