Dr. Ya Ru Chen

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Ya-Ru Chen's research focuses on cross-cultural differences and similarities in employees' behaviors and attitudes. He compares the ways in which employees from different cultures react to performance feedback, relate to their own groups, and negotiate with business counterparts. His recent work examines how employees obtain, maintain, and experience status and power in culturally diverse environments. He explores how power and status concerns affect leadership effectiveness and influence business interactions across cultures. Chen has published extensively in leading psychology and management journals, including the Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organization Science. Before joining the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, he was faculty at the Stern School of Business at New York University and Rutgers Business School. Chen has extensive experience in senior executive education in China. His work has received the Paper Award from the Organization Behavior Division of the Academy of Management in 2002 and the Micro Paper Award from the International Association of Chinese Management Research in China in 2008 and 2021. Chen serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, and Administrative Science Quarterly. In addition to his academic accomplishments, he is the academic dean for China Initiatives at Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business and is the architect and driver of the Cornell-Tsinghua Finance MBA program and the Cornell-Peking MMH/MBA program.

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