Wei Shen
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Phone: 480-965-1422
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Fax: 4809658314
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BA 318 PO Box 874006 Tempe, AZ 85287-4006
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Mail code: 4006Campus: Tempe
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Wei Shen is a Dean’s Council Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He previously served as the Associate Dean for W. P. Carey China Programs and Faculty Director of the China Executive MBA Program.
His research focuses on CEOs, boards of directors, and their impacts on organizations. He has published extensively on these topics, including many articles in top-tier management journals, such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal.
He has won several awards and recognitions, including the inaugural Robert J. Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award from the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, Research Committee Service Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management, and the Mays Outstanding Ph.D. Alumni Award from Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He is currently the President Elect of the International Association for Chinese Management Research.
- Ph.D. in Business Administration, Texas A&M University
- B.S. in Psychology, Peking University
- Strategic Leadership
- Corporate Governance
- Organizational Search
- Research Methodology
- Wang, D., Zhu, Q., Avolio, B. J., Shen, W., & Waldman, D. A. 2023. Do employees’ views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal. Strategic Management Journal, 44(5): 1328-1354. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3465
- Chen, X-P. & Shen, W. 2023. Empirical Methods in Organization and Management Research (4th Edition). Beijing, China: Peking University Press.
- Zhang, Z., Jing, R., & Shen, W. 2023. Organizational Management: A Perspective of Chinese Enterprises in the Age of Digital Intelligence. Beijing, China: Peking University Press.
- Shen, W., Ponomareva, Y., & Uman, T. 2022. Can you catch two birds with one stone in CEO-board relationship? The impacts of nominating committee composition on board monitoring and resource provision. Long Range Planning, 55(3): 102127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2021.102127
- Xie, X., Shen, W., & Zajac, E. 2021. When is a governmental mandate not a mandate? Predicting organizational compliance under semi-coercive conditions. Journal of Management, 47(8): 2169-2197. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206320948579
- Jiang, H., Xia, J., Devers, C. & Shen, W. 2021. Who will board a sinking ship? A firm-director interdependence perspective of mutual selection between declining firms and director candidates. Academy of Management Journal, 64(3): 901-925. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2018.0452
- Zhu, Q., Hu, S., & Shen, W. 2020. Why do some insider CEOs make more strategic changes than others? The impact of prior board experience on new CEO insiderness. Strategic Management Journal, 41(10): 1933-1951. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3183
- Åberg, C., & Shen, W. 2020. Can board leadership contribute to board dynamic managerial capabilities: An empirical exploration among Norwegian firms. Journal of Management and Governance, 24(1): 169-197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10997-019-09460-6
- Knippen, J., Shen, W., & Zhu, Q. 2019. Limited progress? The effect of external pressure for board gender diversity on the increase of female directors. Strategic Management Journal, 40(7): 1123-1150. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3014
- Ponomareva, Y., Shen, W., & Umans, T. 2019. Organizational discretion, board control, and shareholder wealth: A contingency perspective. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 27(4): 248-260. https://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12274
- Chen, X-P. & Shen, W. 2018. Empirical Methods in Organization and Management Research (3rd Edition). Beijing, China: Peking University Press.
- Zhu, D. H., & Shen, W. 2016. Why do some outside successions fare better than others? The role of outside CEOs’ prior experience with board diversity. Strategic Management Journal, 37: 2695-2708. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2471
- Shapiro, D. L., Hom, P. W., Shen, W., & Agarwal, R. 2016. How do leader-departures affect subordinates’ organizational attachment? A 360-degree relational perspective. Academy of Management Review, 41(3): 479-502. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0233
- Shen, W., Zhou, Q., & Lau, C. M. 2016. Empirical research on corporate governance in China: A review and new directions for the future. Management and Organization Review, 12(1): 41-73. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2015.11
- Zhu, D. H., Shen, W., & Hillman, A. 2014. Recategorization: New directors who are demographically different from incumbents and their subsequent positions on boards. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(2): 240-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839214530951
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 799 | Dissertation |
MGT 792 | Research |
DBA 723 | Seminar:Research in Action III |
DBA 705 | Global Corporate Strategy |
DBA 715 | Current Trends Europe Module |
WPC 480 | Capstone Course |
MGT 591 | Seminar |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 799 | Dissertation |
MGT 792 | Research |
DBA 705 | Global Corporate Strategy |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 792 | Research |
MGT 792 | Research |
MGT 591 | Seminar |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 799 | Dissertation |
MGT 792 | Research |
WPC 480 | Capstone Course |
DBA 705 | Global Corporate Strategy |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 792 | Research |
DBA 705 | Global Corporate Strategy |
DBA 708 | Corporate FIN and Governance |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 792 | Research |
MGT 792 | Research |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 799 | Dissertation |
MGT 792 | Research |
WPC 480 | Capstone Course |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 792 | Research |
DBA 705 | Global Corporate Strategy |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 792 | Research |
MGT 792 | Research |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 799 | Dissertation |
MGT 792 | Research |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 799 | Dissertation |
MGT 792 | Research |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ACC 595 | Continuing Registration |
MGT 792 | Research |
MGT 792 | Research |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 799 | Dissertation |
MGT 792 | Research |
MGT 589 | Strategic Management |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 799 | Dissertation |
MGT 792 | Research |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ACC 595 | Continuing Registration |
MGT 792 | Research |
MGT 792 | Research |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MGT 799 | Dissertation |
MGT 792 | Research |
DBA 705 | Global Corporate Strategy |