Seminar – Endorsement of creative ideas

Jing Zhou, Mary Gibbs Professor of Management, Jones Graduate School of Business

Speaker bio

Jing Zhou is Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management, Organisational Behaviour Area Coordinator, Director for Asian Management Research & Education, Director of PhD Program, and Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs at the Jones Graduate School of Business of Rice University. She has been elected to Fellow of Academy of Management, Fellow of American Psychological Association, Fellow of Association for Psychological Sciences, and Fellow of Society for I-O Psychology.

Her research interests are leading innovation; contextual and personal factors that facilitate or inhibit creativity and innovation; creativity receiving; consequences of creativity; cross-cultural differences in antecedents and consequences of creativity; and creativity in entrepreneurship. Using the interactional perspective as an overarching lens, her research uses motivational, affective, and cognitive theories for an understanding of individual and team creativity in organisations. Her systematic program of research has addressed central questions such as how organisational and contextual factors interact with personal factors to enhance or restrict individual and team creativity.

Her research has been published in top journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology. Books she co-edited are Handbook of Organizational Creativity (with Chris Shalley), The Oxford Handbook of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship (with Chris Shalley and Mike Hitt), and Handbook of research on creativity and innovation (with Bess Rouse, 2021). Professor Zhou has received research awards for her excellence in research. Her work has received a large number of citations (eg, over 32,147 per Google Scholar), and has received Journal of Management’s Best Paper Award twice (2009, 2019), indicating that her systematic research program is impactful.

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