Ph.D candidate of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management of
Fudan university
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School of Management Fudan University (FDSM)
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How to Promote Effectiveness of Dual Leadership: Perspectives from Power Distribution
with Shengming Liu, Wei Hu, Zhang Yue, and Gengzi Peng Academy of Management Proceedings (2022)
In a dual leadership condition, two leaders share formal power in team decision-making. How to distribute the power between dual leaders in the decision-making process determines team effectiveness. Our research proposes a new perspective to solve the tension between the unity of command and the shared command in a dual leadership condition. We advance and distinguish between decision-participation power and decision-making power. Furthermore, we posit that the decision-participation power gap has a negative effect on team performance through decision-making comprehensiveness whereas the decision-making power gap has a positive effect on team performance through the decision-making speed. A multi-time and multi-source data of 127 dual leader pairs provide support for our hypotheses. Our research discusses the theoretical and practical implications for dual leadership and power distribution.
A Redundant Pattern or a Social Lubricant? Smiley Emoji Usage in Virtual Request Communication
with Xuhong Li and Zhiying Shi The 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2024)
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Comparing impacts of CEO’s empowering versus directive leadership on firm innovation performance
with Shengming Liu, Yue Zhang, and Jih-Yu Mao The Joint 13th AAOM and 2024 TAOM Conference (2024)
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with Shengming Liu Xuhong Li and Zhiying Shi Under review at Information Systems Research (2024)
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with Zaijia Liu Siyu Yu Xuhong Li and Adam Galinsky Under review at Organization Science (2024)
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Is an informal leader always popular? The curvilinear relationships between informal leadership, threat to peers, and helping from peers
with Shengming Liu, Ning Li, Hui Wang and Zhen Wang
Asia Pacific Journal of Management. (Corresponding author)
The positive effect of informal leadership has been well established, whereas our understanding of its potential negative effect in interpersonal interaction is still limited. This study explores the influence of individual informal leadership on helping received from peers from an interpersonal interaction perspective. Drawing upon social comparison theory, we posit that a focal employee’s moderate level of informal leadership in a team can pose a threat to peers, which inhibits the helping behavior from peers to the focal employee. To test our hypothesis, we conducted an experiment in Study 1 and a field survey in Study 2. The results revealed that individual informal leadership had a curvilinear relationship with helping behavior from peers via threat to peers. Furthermore, the focal employee’s political skill mitigated this curvilinear effect. Theoretical and future research implications are discussed.