Dr. Wen Chen is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Human Resource Management at the School of Labor and Human Resources. Her research interests span organizational paradox, entrepreneurship, selection, and compensation. She is passionate about conducting theoretically significant and practically applicable research, with a special focus on empirical contexts related to creative industries, social enterprises, and firms noted for their innovation. She holds a Ph.D. in Strategy, International Business, and Entrepreneurship from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Selected Publications

Keller, J., *Chen, W. and Leung, K-y. 2018. How national culture influences individuals’ subjective experience with paradoxical tensions.  Cross Cultural & Strategic Management , 25(3): 443-467.  

Keller, J. & Chen, W. 2017. A road map of the paradoxical mind: expanding cognitive theories on organizational paradox. In Jarzabkowski, P., Langely, A., Lewis, M., Smith, W. & A. Langely, M. L., & W. Smith (Eds.)  Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox: Approaches to plurality, tensions, and contradictions.:  66-86. Oxford: Oxford.  

• First handbook of the field of organizational paradox since Quinn and Cameron, 1988.

• One of six foundational theoretical chapters.

Keller, J. & Chen, W. 2017. Culture, Paradoxical Frames, and Behavioral Strategy. In Das T.K. (Eds)  Culture and Behavioral Strategy .: 101-124. IAP: NC.  

Chintakananda, A., McIntyre, D. and Chen, W. (2015). Uncertainty in Strategy Research: three unresolved tensions.  Strategic Management Review , 9(1): 55-75.