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.
Mark Learmonth
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Mark Learmonth is Professor of Organization Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Prior to this appointment he worked at the Universities of Durham, Nottingham and York but spent the first 17 years of his career in administrative posts within the British National Health Service.
Much of Mark’s research is motivated by an interest in the personal consequences of work. At the moment he is particularly interested in the impact of media representations on managers’ identities; the shifting nature of the language used to represent work and organization; and multi-method ethnographies – particularly within institutions at the forefront of social change.
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.
Mina Beigi
Associate Editor
Mina Beigi is an Associate 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 at the Adelaide Business School, the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research interests include positive leadership traits (e.g., leader humility), team leadership (e.g., shared leadership), and leaders’ wellbeing. Chad’s research has appeared in journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Leadership Quarterly. Chad holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. He is also a current editorial board member of Journal of Management and Journal of Organizational Behavior.
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.
Tae-Yeol Kim
Associate Editor
Tae-Yeol Kim (PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is Philips Chair in Management and a Professor of Management in the Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). He is currently serving as Department Chair.
Tae-Yeol’s current research interests include leadership, positive organizational scholarship, creativity, proactivity, and person–environment fit. His research has appeared in journals such as Human Relations, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. He has served on the editorial boards of Human Relations, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Management and Organizational Review.
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.
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.
Chidiebere Ogbonnaya
Associate Editor
Chidiebere Ogbonnaya (better known as Chidi) is a Professor of Human Resource Management at Kent 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.
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.
Melanie Simms
Associate Editor
Melanie Simms is Professor of Work and Employment at the University of Glasgow, UK. She writes and researches around issues of worker voice, skills, young workers’ transitions into the labour market and the future of work. She was Editor-in-Chief of Work, Employment and Society until 2017
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 an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the School of Business and Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 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, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management (US), among others, and in practitioner outlets including the Harvard Business Review, European Business Review, and the World Financial Review.
Olga Tregaskis
Associate Editor
Olga Tregaskis is Professor at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK. She began her career from a disciplinary background in applied psychology, moving later into the multidisciplinary arena of international employment studies.
Hao Zhao
Associate Editor
Hao Zhao is Professor of Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). His research interests include entrepreneurship, leadership, innovation, artificial intelligence, and personnel recruitment and selection.
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.
