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.
Education
Ph.D. in Business Administration, Texas A&M University
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
