Editorial Team

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elina Meliou is a Professor of Work and Organisation Studies at Brunel University London. Her work explores how individuals experience and negotiate social structures, particularly in contexts marked by uncertainty and precarity, and the implications for inclusive organizations.

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).

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.

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.

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.