Editorial Team
Smriti Anand
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Smriti Anand is Associate Professor of Management at the Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business, Chicago. Her research interests include leadership, diversity, and non-traditional work arrangements (i-deals) with particular focus on multi-level and cross-cultural frameworks. Smriti is a SIOP scholar whose research has been published in leading journals of management such as The Academy of Management Journal, The Journal of Applied Psychology, and Human Relations. Smriti holds a PhD in Business Administration and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Ranchi University (India). She has over 10 years of high-tech industry experience in diverse areas such as electrical and software engineering, product development, and marketing at firms such as Information Resources, Inc. and Motorola, Inc.
Penny Dick
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Penny Dick is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Sheffield University Management School. Penny’s work can be broadly categorized as critical management and she is particularly interested in understanding the relationship between individuals and their social and institutional environments.
Much of her work takes its inspiration from Michel Foucault and is thus focused on the role of power, embedded in taken-for-granted ideas and practices, in maintaining or challenging a status quo that advantages some groups relative to others. She has published in such journals as Human Relations, Organization Studies and Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Andrew D Brown
Co-Editor
Andrew D Brown is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, UK. He has previously held faculty positions at the universities of Manchester, Nottingham, Cambridge and Warwick. Andrew’s research interests centre on issues of identity, especially as they relate to sensemaking, narrative, and power.
Zhijun Chen
Co-Editor
Dr Zhijun Chen is a Professor at the College of Business of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Zhijun previously held a faculty position at the University of Western Australia. Zhijun’s interests center on employee proactive behavior, coworker influence, and different forms of leadership behaviors.
Rafael Alcadipani
Associate Editor
Rafael Alcadipani is a professor of Organization Studies at FGV-EAESP (Brazil) and a fellow of the Brazilian Scientific Council (CNPq). He was awarded his Ph.D. from the Manchester Business School. His research is inductive and problem-centered which has led him to analyze issues of power, resistance, and identity in and around organizations.
Rafael is specialized in extreme-context ethnography and has written pieces about research practice. He also researches management knowledge production in the global south. His work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management Studies, Organization, Organization Research Methods.
Jeremy Aroles
Associate Editor
Jeremy Aroles is an Associate Professor in Organization Studies in the School for Business and Society at the University of York (UK). His current research interests include new work modalities (digital nomadism and hybrid work arrangements), the disruptive role of technologies (such as AI) on work practices, the role of memory on organizational practices and decisions and the management of cultural organizations.
His research has been published in leading journals such as Organization Science, Organization Studies, MISQ, Journal of Management Studies and the European Journal of Information Systems. He held academic positions at Durham University and at the University of Manchester where he obtained his PhD in 2016. He is Editor at Work, Employment and Society and Associate Editor at Organization.
Mayowa Babalola
Associate Editor
Mayowa Babalola (PhD, KU Leuven) holds the prestigious Stan Perron Chair in Business Ethics at the University of Western Australia (UWA) Business School. His research interests revolve around leadership, ethics, and the dynamics of work and family relationships.
Mayowa’s research has appeared in journals such as Human Relations, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Human Resource Management (US), Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Saša Batistič
Associate Editor
Saša Batistič is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Resource Studies, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Adopting a relational perspective, he focuses on the interplay between organizational context and individual behavior.
Key research interests include relational human resource management, social networks, work relationships, organizational socialization, and knowledge hiding. He also specializes in advanced research methods, including social network analysis, multilevel analysis, and bibliometrics.
His work has been published in distinguished academic journals, including Human Relations, The Leadership Quarterly, Human Resource Management Review, British Journal of Management, International Journal of Project Management, Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Knowledge Management, among others.
Mina Beigi
Associate Editor
Mina Beigi is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the University of Southampton Business School. She has earned a PhD in Human Resource Development from Texas A&M University, USA (2015) and a PhD in Human Resource Management from Allameh Tababtabaei University, Iran (2008).
Mina’s research focuses on work-nonwork interface, understudied careers, and career success. Her work has been published in Human Relations, Journal of Vocational Behavior, International Journal of Management Reviews, Applied Psychology: International Review, and The International Journal of Human Resource Management, among others. Mina has served as the Associate Editor of Human Resource Development Review (2017-2020) and has been elected as the Newsletter Editor for the Careers Division, Academy of Management (2018-2020).
Chia-Yen (Chad) Chiu
Associate Editor
Chia-Yen (Chad) Chiu is an Associate Professor in Leadership and the Head of Management Discipline at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia. He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. His research focuses on how line managers—the critical bridge between organizational strategy and employees’ daily experiences—can become more productive and resilient. His research has been published in leading journals in management and organisational studies, including Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. He is also a current editorial member of Personnel Psychology.
Guowei Jian
Associate Editor
Guowei Jian is a professor of communication at Cleveland State University (USA). He received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His current research examines the communicative processes in doing leadership, managing organizational and institutional change, and organizing risk. His work has appeared in scholarly publications such as Communication Theory, Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Human Relations, Organization, Management Communication Quarterly, Discourse and Communication, and The Handbook of Business Discourse among others. He has served as an Associate Editor at Management Communication Quarterly for four years.
Juliette Koning
Associate Editor
Juliette Koning is Professor of Business in Society at the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University (the Netherlands), where she is also Head of the Organisation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department.
Juliette has a background in social anthropology (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) from which she investigates the role and meaning of religion, ethnicity, kinship, identity, ethics, relationality, gender, and generations for organizational leadership, business conduct, small business development and entrepreneurship. Recent research focuses on the privatization and organization of security. Some of her research is conducted in Indonesia and South Africa. Her research has been published in Organization Studies, Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Learning, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development and various other outlets.
Dejun “Tony” Kong
Associate Editor
Dejun “Tony” Kong (Ph.D. in Business Administration, Washington University in St. Louis) is Full Professor and Ph.D. Director of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. His research has focused on: (a) fostering individuals’ positive experiences, (b) fostering an exceptional organizational system (e.g., leadership, HR practices), and (c) fostering a high-trust society. Additionally, Tony is Chair of the Social Responsibility and Sustainability at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business and has been serving as an associate editor of the Journal of Management and Journal of Organizational Behavior. In 2024, he was elected as a leader (on a five-year leadership track) of the Academy of Management’s Conflict Management Division (currently, Program Chair).
Helena Liu
Associate Editor
Helena Liu is a Senior Lecturer at UTS Business School in Sydney, Australia. She was awarded her PhD in 2012 from the University of Sydney. She joined the Human Relations Editorial Board in 2017 and became an Associate Editor in November 2018.
Helena’s research has appeared in journals such as Human Relations; Organization; Management Learning; Journal of Business Ethics; Gender, Work and Organization and Leadership.
Elina Meliou
Associate Editor
Elina Meliou is Professor of Leadership at University of Southampton. Her work explores how individuals experience and negotiate social structures, particularly in contexts marked by uncertainty and precarity, and the implications for inclusive organizations. Elina’s research has been published in Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies Organization Studies, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Gender, Work and Organization and Work, Employment and Society, among others. She is one of the editors of “Diversity and Precarious Work during Socioeconomic Upheaval”, published by Cambridge University Press (2024). Elina has served as an Associate Editor for Gender, Work and Organization (2020-2024). Her research has been funded by UK and EU funding bodies.
Chidiebere Ogbonnaya
Associate Editor
Chidiebere Ogbonnaya (better known as Chidi) is a Professor of Human Resource Management at King’s Business School. His research interests include job quality, employment relations, workplace values, responsible leadership, psychological well-being, and employee engagement.
Ajnesh Prasad
Associate Editor
Ajnesh Prasad is Professor and holds the Canada Research Chair in Critical Management Studies. His research interests broadly focus on gender and diversity issues in organizations, interpretive methods, and social inequality. He has held tenured academic appointments at universities in Australia, Canada, and Mexico. His past and ongoing research has been funded, as principal or sole investigator, by grants from the British Academy, CONACYT (Mexico), and SSHRC (Canada).
His research has appeared in, among other outlets, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Organization Studies, and Work, Employment and Society. He is Editor-in-Chief at Management Learning, Associate Editor at Gender, Work and Organization, and Artefacts Reviews Editor at Organization. He is the outgoing co-chair of the Critical Management Studies division at the Academy of Management. In 2012, he earned a PhD in organization studies from York University’s Schulich School of Business, Canada.
Simon Restubog
Associate Editor
Simon L. D. Restubog is a Professor of HR and Industrial/Organizational Psychology in the School of Labor and Employment Relations and Department of Psychology (courtesy appointment) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
His research focuses on the dark side of human behavior, employment relationships and future of work, and career development which have resulted in numerous publications in outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Organization Studies, Personnel Psychology, among others. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Business and Psychology. Additionally, he is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
Yasin Rofcanin
Associate Editor
Dr Rofcanin holds a BA in Management (Istanbul Bogazici University), MBA (Istanbul Bogazici University) and PhD in organisational behaviour & human resource management (Warwick Business School). Dr Rofcanin is a Professor of Organizational Psychology and Human Resources Management at University of Bath School of Management. He is also the Director of the Future of Work Research Centre in the School.
Dennis Schoeneborn
Associate Editor
Dennis Schoeneborn is a Professor of Organization, Communication, and CSR at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and a Visiting Professor of Organization and Management at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. His main research areas include organization theory, organizational communication, CSR/sustainability communication, digital media, and new forms of organizing.
His research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business & Society, Human Relations; Journal of Management Studies, Management Communication Quarterly, and Organization Studies, among others. He served as an Associate Editor at Business & Society for four years.
Ruodan Shao
Associate Editor
Ruodan Shao is a Professor of Organization Studies at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Ruodan’s research focuses on corporate social responsibility, cross-cultural management, business ethics and ethical decision-making, organizational justice, and customer mistreatment.
She received her PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of British Columbia. Before joining York, she held academic appointments in the Department of Management at the College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, and the Department of Business Administration at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba.
Her work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and the Journal of Management. She served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Vocational Behavior from 2022 to 2025.
Her teaching interests include organizational behavior and human resource management. She received the University of British Columbia Graduate Student Teaching Award and was nominated for the UBC Commerce Undergraduate Society Teaching Excellence Award in 2010.
Karan Sonpar
Associate Editor
Karan Sonpar is Professor of Management at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has previously held faculty positions at Instituto de Empresa (IE) Business School, Spain and University of Manitoba, Canada. His current research interests include cognition, leadership discretion in the face of competing demands from institutions and stakeholders, image and identity work, and managing talent.
Jakob Stollberger
Associate Editor
Jakob Stollberger is a Professor in Leadership and Organizational Behavior at Durham University. His research focuses on how leaders can promote or derail organizational innovation efforts, how work influences family dynamics, as well as how humans can best work together with artificial intelligence (AI) in the not-too-distant future of work.
His work appeared in journals such as Human Relations, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, among others, and in practitioner outlets including the Harvard Business Review, European Business Review, and the World Financial Review.
Ai Yu
Associate Editor
Dr Ai Yu is Associate Professor in Organisation Studies at the University of Southampton Business School. Her research advances Management and Organisation Studies from post-structuralist, critical, and feminist perspectives.
Ghazal Zulfiqar
Associate Editor
Ghazal M. Zulfiqar is Associate Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. She has a PhD in public policy from the University of Massachusetts Boston, an MSc. in Development Finance from the School of Oriental and African Studies, UK and an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan. Her focus is on the global political economy of labor and class, financialization, and transnational advocacy networks. Before joining academia, Ghazal worked in global project finance at Citigroup London and then as a rural organizer in Arkansas, USA. Her work has appeared in Academy of Management Learning and Education, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization, Economy & Society, Feminist Economics among others. She is currently co-chair elect of the Critical Management Studies division at the Academy of Management.
