Seminar (Dept. of General Management)

Title: Intentionality and Meaning in Institutionalization Processes

Speaker: Yuan Li (Saint Mary's College of California)

Time: 14:00pm, Apr 3rd (Wednesday), 2024

Venue: Room712, Mingde Business Building

Language: Chinese/English

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Yuan Li is an associate professor at Saint Mary's College of California. She obtained her PhD in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Before coming back to California, she was an assistant professor of Strategy and Organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Quebec, Canada. Yuan's research concerns the cultural and symbolic processes of organizational and institutional change. She studies how leaders and change agents use tropes, arguments, and symbols to make meaning and influence reality. Her work has explored the diffusion of managerial innovations such as the Total Quality Management, the role of the government, elites, and entrepreneurs in China's economic transformation, and theoretical models of institutionalization. Recently, Yuan began to explore topics of grand societal challenges, including stigmatization and workplace inequality. She is also interested in integrating ideas of Western and Eastern philosophies to produce practical knowledge. Her research has been published in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Management Inquiry, among others. She serves on the Editorial Board of Organization Studies.