Summary

Xin Qin (qinxin@sysu.edu.cn) is an associate professor in the Sun Yat-sen Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, and also is a Fulbright visiting scholar in Harvard Business School. He received his PhD in organizational management from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. His research focuses on leadership, ethics, and interdisciplinary research. He has published papers in Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, and so on.

Research Areas

Leadership, Ethics,Interdisciplinary Research

Educational Background

Professional Experiences

Publications

(^† denotes equal contributors; ^* denotes corresponding author)

1. Qin, X., Huang, M., Johnson, R. E., Hu, Q., & Ju, D. (2018). The short-lived benefits of abusive supervisory behavior for actors: An investigation of recovery and work engagement. Academy of Management Journal, 61, 1951-1975.
2. Li, W., Krause, R.^*, Qin, X.^*, Zhu, H., Zhang, J., Xu, Y., & Lin, S. (2018). Under the microscope: An experimental look at board transparency and director monitoring behavior. Strategic Management Journal, 39, 1216-1236.
3. Qin, X., Ren, R., Zhang, Z., & Johnson, R. E. (2015). Fairness heuristics and substitutability effects: Inferring the fairness of outcomes, procedures, and interpersonal treatment when employees lack clear information. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100, 749-766.
4. Qin, X.^*, Ren, R., Zhang, Z., & Johnson, R. E. (2018). Considering self-interests and symbolism together: How instrumental and value-expressive motives interact to influence supervisors’ justice behavior. Personnel Psychology, 71, 225-253.
5. Au, E.^*, Qin, X.^*, & Zhang, Z.^* (2017). Beyond personal control: When and how executives’ beliefs in negotiable fate foster entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 143, 69-84.
6. Qin, X., Huang, M., Hu, Q., Schminke, M., & Ju, D. (2018). Ethical leadership, but toward whom? How moral identity congruence shapes the ethical treatment of employees. Human Relations, 71, 1120-1149.
7. Qin, X.^†, Hom, P.^†, & Xu, M.^† (2019). I am a peasant or a worker? Explore why and when migrant workers quit from an identity strain perspective. Human Relations, 72, 801-833.
8. Zheng, X.^†, Qin, X.^†*, Liu, X.^†, & Liao, H.^† (online). Will creative employees always make trouble? Investigating the roles of moral identity and moral disengagement. Journal of Business Ethics.
9. Xu, M.^†, Qin, X.^†*, Dust, S. B.^†, & Direnzo, M. S.^† (online). Supervisor-subordinate proactive personality congruence and psychological safety: A signaling theory approach to employee voice behavior. Leadership Quarterly.
10. Ju, D.^†, Xu, M.^†, Qin, X.^†, & Spector, P. E.^† (online). A multilevel study of abusive supervision, norms and personal control on counterproductive work behavior: A theory of planned behavior approach. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.
11. Qin, X., Liao, H., Zheng, X., & Liu, X. (2019). Stock market exposure and anxiety in a turbulent market: Evidence from China. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 328.
12. Qin, X.^†, Ma, J.^†, Ye, W., & Zhu, H. (2018). Experimental research in the field of strategy and entrepreneurship: Status quo, methods, and implications. Under review at Quarterly Journal of Management (《管理学季刊》), 2, 131-160.
13. Qin, X., Direnzo, M. S., Xu, M., & Duan, Y. (2014). When do emotionally exhausted employees speak up? Exploring the potential curvilinear relationship between emotional exhaustion and voice. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 35, 1018-1041.
14. Li, X., Qin, X., Jiang, K., Zhang, S., & Gao, F. (2015). Human capital-enhancing HR practices and firm performance: The joint moderating effects of regional human capital level and product innovation strategy. Management and Organization Review, 11, 237-261.
15. Qin, X., Hom, P., Xu, M., & Ju, D. (2014). Applying the Job Demands-Resources model to migrant workers: Exploring how and when geographic distance increases quit propensity. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 87, 303-328.
16. Ju, D.^†, Qin, X.^†, Xu, M.^†, & Direnzo, M. S. (2016). Boundary conditions of the emotional exhaustion - unsafe behavior link: The dark side of group norms and personal control. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 33, 113-140.
17. Zhou, Y., Hu, Q., Yao, J., & Qin, X.^* (2016). The determinants of family business owners’ intrafamily succession intention: An interplay between business owners and institutional environment. Chinese Management Studies, 10, 710-725.
18. Hu, Q., Yang, S., & Qin, X.^*, Wang, S. (2016). Will informal status promote voice behavior? Based on status characteristics theory. Quarterly Journal of Management (《管理学季刊》), 3, 60-80.
19. Zhang, Z., Qin, X., Zhang, S. (2013). Does “dual system” of employment improve firm productivity? Evidences from 12314 companies across 30 provinces in China. Management World (《管理世界》), 5, 41-52.
20. Chen, Z., Qin, X., & Vogel, D. (2012). Cooperation is a panacea? The effect of cooperative response to task conflict on team performance. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 29, 163-178.
21. Qin, X., Gao, Z., Ma, X., & Mao, L. (2012). The existence, quality, focus, and antecedents of corporate vision and mission: Evidence from the Top 500 Chinese Enterprises. In M. Marinov & S. Marinova (Eds.), Impacts of emerging economies and firms on international business (pp. 76-106). Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
22. Qin, X., Zhang, C., Ma, L., Xu, M., & Deng, S. (2011). From countryside to city: The model of rural migrant workers’ citizenization. Management World (《管理世界》), 10, 48-57.
23. Qin, X., Niu, C., Huang, Z., & Xu, M. (2011). The familiarity of Influenza A (H1N1), perception of vaccine safety, vaccination behavior and their influential mechanism. Acta Psychologica Sinica (《心理学报》), 43, 684-695.
24. Qin, X.^*, & Jiang, Y. (2011). The impact of natural disaster on absenteeism, job satisfaction, and job performance of survival employees: An empirical study of the survivors in Wenchuan Earthquake. Frontiers of Business Research in China, 5, 219-242.
25. Qin, X., & Ju, D. (2011). Can a broken mirror be made whole again? The effects of promise-broken and promise-kept on psychological contract and trust in TMT. China Management Studies (《中大管理研究》), 6, 1-25.

Current Research

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71502179 and 71872190)
• Guangdong Province Universities and Colleges Pearl River Scholar Funded Scheme
• “100 Top Talents Program” of Sun Yat-sen University

Teaching

• Organizational Behavior Seminar (graduates)
• Organizational Behavior (undergraduates)
• Human Resource Management (undergraduates)

Achievement

2019   First Prize of the Excellent Achievement Award of Philosophy and Social Science in Guangdong Province

2019   Outstanding Award in the Annual Performance Appraisal of Sun Yat-sen University (top 15%)

2018   Guangdong Province Universities and Colleges Pearl River Scholar Funded Scheme

2018   Ho’s Distinguished Research Award (top 2%)

2018   Outstanding Award in the Annual Performance Appraisal of Sun Yat-sen University (top 15%)

2017   First Prize of Excellent Human Resource Research Award in Guangdong Province

2017   Outstanding Award in the Annual Performance Appraisal of Sun Yat-sen University (top 15%)

2016   Ho’s Distinguished Research Award (top 5%)

2016   Ho’s Distinguished Teaching Award (top 5%)

2016   Outstanding Award in the Annual Performance Appraisal of Sun Yat-sen University (top 15%)

2015   Academy of Management (AOM) Best Paper Proceedings (Organizational Behavior Division)

2015   Emerald/IACMR Chinese Management Research Fund Award (Highly Commended Award)

2014   Outstanding Paper Award in Management Annual Meeting (MAM)

2014   Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate in Beijing

2014   “Top 10 Postgraduate” in Academic Research (1^st in social science) of Peking University

2014   Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate of Peking University

2014   First Prize of Li Ning Dissertation Grant in International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR)

2014   Excellent Dissertation of Peking University

2014   First Prize of Emerald Postgraduate Paper Showcase

2012   National Scholarship (Ph.D.)

2012   Fulbright Scholarship

2013   President Scholarship

2012   President Scholarship

2011   President Scholarship

2010   President Scholarship

2013   Innovation Award (academic research)

2012   Innovation Award (academic research)

2011   Innovation Award (academic research)

2010   Innovation Award (academic research)

2013   Dean’s Scientific Research Fund

2011   Outstanding Paper Award in Management Annual Meeting (MAM)

2008   National Scholarship (undergraduate)