Faculty Profiles

Chen, Xiaoping
Visiting Thought Leader, CEIBS;
Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair Professor, University of Washington
Dr. Xiaoping Chen is Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. She holds a B.S. from Zhejiang University, M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Chen is an elected Fellow at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She has served as Editor-in-Chief for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2010-2016) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Management Insights, a bilingual (Chinese and English) magazine for business educators and practitioners. Professor Chen’s research interests include cooperation and competition in social dilemmas, teamwork and leadership, entrepreneur passion, Chinese guanxi, and cross-cultural communication and management. She has published eight Chinese books so far, among which the Empirical Methods in Organization and Management Research has been the best seller in China since 2008. She has published more than 30 research papers in top-tier journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Management Science, and Journal of International Business Studies.
Dr. Chen is highly involved in Chinese management research and business community. She served as the second President of International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR). She has won numerous teaching and research awards, such as the Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award (2016) by IACMR, Andrew Smith Faculty Development Award, Outstanding University of Washington Woman Award, Outstanding Ph.D. Mentor Award, Dean’s International Research Award, and Charles E. Summer Teaching Award.