Biography

Dr. Kaixian Mao is an Associate Professor of Management in the School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University of China. He earned his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include stakeholder management and corporate social responsibility, firm ethics, firm innovation, and human resource management issues in international business. He teaches courses including Introduction to Management, Strategic Management, International Human Resource Management, and Performance Management.

Selected Publications

Yue, L. Q., Zheng, J., & Mao, K. Forthcoming. Firms’ Rhetorical Nationalism: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence from a Computational Analysis of Chinese Public Firms.  Management and Organization Review.

Mao, K. & Gong, Y. (equally contributed). In press. The Contingent Effect of Private Entrepreneur Foreign Study Experience on Firm Innovation.  Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

Li, J.T, Mao, K. & Lu, P. In press. Doing Good, Feeling Good? Corporate Social Responsibility and CEOs’ self-perceived status.  Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

Sullivan, B.N., Mao, K., & Wang. H. (2023). Constrained by Localized Attention Focus: The Negative Effect of Firm-specific Knowledge on Exploratory Firm Innovation.  Management and Organization Review, 19,  1104-1126.

Li, J.P., Zhang, L. L., & Mao, K. (2023). A Dynamic Perspective on Job Knowledge Characteristics During the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Management and Organization Review, 19,  1127-1151.

Mao, K., Lu, H., & Sullivan, B.N. (all three authors equally contributed). (2023). The Paradox of Political Legitimacy: The Political Inclusion and Firm Strategies of Entrepreneurs.  Asian Business & Management , 22, 1712-1742.

Meng, Y., Mao, K., & Li. C. (2020). Validation of a Short-form Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Instrument in China.  Frontiers in Psychology , 10: 3031.

Liu, B., Qi, L., & Mao, K. (2020). Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child? A study on Employee Workplace Deviant Behavior.  Nankai Business Review International , 11(1): 1-22.