Organizational Behavior
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CHEN, Tingting
KIM, Tae-Yeol
LIANG, Yongyi
What Really Sparks Employee Creativity?
Creative self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation for creativity can encourage employees to innovate, but their complex relationship has long puzzled researchers. Thanks to HKUST’s Yaping Gong and colleagues, we now know more about how these factors influence each other to generate creativity. Their findings will help organizations motivate and support ... Read More
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Power, Crisis, and AI in Creativity and Beyond
Employee creativity is the source of new products, services, or processes and crucial to a firm’s survival and success. Social factors play an important role in creativity. The first social factor is power. Power is ubiquitous in and an essential feature of organizations. Through a series of four field studies, we found that power is a double-edged sword – ... Read More
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The Fair AI?: Reactions to AI-made organizational decisions
Would people react positively or negatively if organizational decisions were made by AI instead of by traditional decision agents (i.e., human managers)? Whereas high-profile stories covered in news media suggest that the use of AI in organizational decision-making was viewed as unfair and received negatively, recent surveys showed that using AI in decision ... Read More
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DESANTOLA, Alicia
GULATI, Ranjay
How Young Ventures Grow and Professionalize
For fledgling ventures, part of the growth process is to develop key systems, both external (such as marketing and sales) and internal (such as accounting and human resources). To date, most researchers have assumed that these systems develop uniformly as ventures scale and complete developmental milestones. According to HKUST’s Pavel I. Zhelyazkov and ... Read More
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JEONG, Inseong
ZHONG, Bijuan
How Mindset and Goal Orientation Influence Creativity in a Crisis
Employee creativity is vital for organizational success, so sustaining it during a crisis—such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic—is essential. In a study with important implications for how organizations should react to crises to maintain employee creativity, HKUST researcher Yaping Gong and two colleagues show that an employee’s mindset and goal orientation ... Read More
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LI, Yixuan
SHAO, Yiduo
WANG, Mo
FANG, Yanran
LI, Chang
How an Inclusive Organizational Climate Promotes Knowledge Management and Innovation
A more diverse workforce can provide an organization with a broader talent base and a wider range of knowledge and perspectives. Recent trends of increasing globalization, migration, and aging have enhanced workplace diversity in terms of age, gender, and region of origin to an unprecedented degree. Thus, argue HKUST researcher Yaping Gong and colleagues, it ... Read More
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FAN, Xiaoshuai
TANG, Christopher
To Bribe or Not to Bribe? Government Contracts in Developing Countries
Bribery and corruption arising from procurement are rampant in developing countries. According to the World Bank, bribery is involved in US$1.5 trillion worth of government contracts for goods and services. Organizations worldwide are joining hands to tackle this endemic and growing problem. Filling an important knowledge gap, HKUST’s Ying-Ju Chen and co ... Read More
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HO, Emily H.
LOEWENSTEIN, George
Is Ignorance Really Bliss? The Perils of Information Avoidance
In the modern world, information is readily available to inform decisions both great—on health, finance, or politics, for example—and small. However, decision-makers are not always eager to take advantage of the information at their fingertips, especially if they fear that it will be painful. Such willful ignorance can have dire consequences for individuals ... Read More
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LI, Yixuan
BURMEISTER, Anne
WANG, Mo
ALTERMAN, Valeria
ALONSO, Alexander
ROBINSON, Samuel
Age Diversity in the Workplace: Building on Organizational Performance
Despite the world’s aging population, there is limited understanding of the relationship between age diversity and organizational performance. As a result, researchers are increasingly interested in the impact of age composition within the workplace. In a timely study, Yaping Gong of HKUST and colleagues set out to explore the impact of age on corporate ... Read More
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LUO, Xiaowei Rose
ZHANG, Jianjun
CSR Reportings under Institutional Conflict
Corporate Social Responsibility
The authors in this study develop a theoretical framework in which the disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities is viewed as an organizational response to institutional complexity which exists between the demands of the central government and provincial governments in China. The study aims at revealing how firms with institutional ... Read More
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