# Organizational Behavior
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CHEN, Tingting
KIM, Tae-Yeol
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
LIANG, Yongyi
[What Really Sparks Employee Creativity?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/01/what-really-sparks-employee-creativity)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Human Resource Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/human-resource-management)
[Motivation Incentives](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/motivation-incentives)
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
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
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[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
[Power, Crisis, and AI in Creativity and Beyond](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/03/power-crisis-and-ai-creativity-and-beyond)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Risk Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/risk-management)
[Employee Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/employee-behavior)
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 –
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[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]
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[CHAO, Melody](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/chao-melody)
[The Fair AI?: Reactions to AI-made organizational decisions](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/02/fair-ai-reactions-ai-made-organizational-decisions)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Decision Making](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/decision-making)
[Artificial Intelligence](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/artificial-intelligence)
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
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[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]
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DESANTOLA, Alicia
GULATI, Ranjay
[ZHELYAZKOV, Pavel](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/zhelyazkov-pavel)
[How Young Ventures Grow and Professionalize](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/09/how-young-ventures-grow-and-professionalize)
[Entrepreneurship](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/entrepreneurship)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[New Ventures](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/new-ventures)
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
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[ [Innovation and Entrepreneurship](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/innovation-and-entrepreneurship "Innovation and Entrepreneurship") ]
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JEONG, Inseong
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
ZHONG, Bijuan
[How Mindset and Goal Orientation Influence Creativity in a Crisis](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/07/how-mindset-and-goal-orientation-influence-creativity-crisis)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Employee Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/employee-behavior)
[Human Resource Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/human-resource-management)
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
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
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LI, Yixuan
SHAO, Yiduo
WANG, Mo
FANG, Yanran
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
LI, Chang
[How an Inclusive Organizational Climate Promotes Knowledge Management and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/05/how-inclusive-organizational-climate-promotes-knowledge-management-and)
[Organizational Studies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-studies)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Management Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/management-performance)
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
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
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FAN, Xiaoshuai
[CHEN, Ying-Ju](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/chen-ying-ju)
TANG, Christopher
[To Bribe or Not to Bribe? Government Contracts in Developing Countries](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/02/bribe-or-not-bribe-government-contracts-developing-countries)
[Collusion](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/collusion)
[Manufacturers](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/manufacturers)
[Operations Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/operations-management)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
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
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HO, Emily H.
[HAGMANN, David](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/hagmann-david)
LOEWENSTEIN, George
[Is Ignorance Really Bliss? The Perils of Information Avoidance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/08/ignorance-really-bliss-perils-information-avoidance)
[Decision Making](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/decision-making)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Motivation Incentives](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/motivation-incentives)
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
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LI, Yixuan
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
BURMEISTER, Anne
WANG, Mo
ALTERMAN, Valeria
ALONSO, Alexander
ROBINSON, Samuel
[Age Diversity in the Workplace: Building on Organizational Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/06/age-diversity-workplace-building-organizational-performance)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Intellectual Property](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/intellectual-property)
[Operations Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/operations-management)
[Social Capital](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/social-capital)
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
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
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LUO, Xiaowei Rose
[WANG, Danqing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/wang-danqing)
ZHANG, Jianjun
[CSR Reportings under Institutional Conflict](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/07/csr-reportings-under-institutional-conflict)
[Corporate Social Responsibility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-social-responsibility)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[China](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/china)
[Information Disclosure](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/information-disclosure)
[Policy and Regulation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/policy-and-regulation)
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
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[ [Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/global-trade-supply-chains-and-business-sustainability "Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability") ]
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