Faculty Profile

2008



 

Ph.D., Management (Organizational Behavior)
Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York
 

1998
 

B.Sc., First Class Honors, Computer and Information Services
National University of Singapore

2024 - Now

Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

2014 - 2023

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

2008 - 2014

• Lim, J.H., Chua, R.Y.J. (forthcoming). Through the Lens of Clarity: Perceived Organizational Tightness Boosts Creativity for Men, But Not for Women. Organization Science.

• Chua, R.Y.J., *Zhao, N., *Han, M., (2024) Cultural Tightness in Organizations: Investigating the Impact of Formal and Informal Cultural Tightness on Employee Creativity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 184, 1-14.

• *Jin, M., & Chua, RY.J. (2024) Which Idea to Pursue? Gender Differences in Novelty Avoidance During Creative Idea Selection. Organization Science, 45(6), 2223-2248.

• Qin, X.; Chua, R.Y.J; Ling, T.; Chen, C. & Li W. (2023). Gender bias in cultural tightness across the 50 U.S. states, its correlates and links to gender inequality in leadership and innovation. PNAS-Nexus, Vol 2 Issue 8, pg 238. 

• Chua, R. Y.J, Lim, J.H., & Wiruchnipawan, F. (2022) Unlocking the Creativity Potential of Dialectical Thinking: Field Investigations of the Comparative Effects of Transformational and Transactional Leadership Styles. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 56(2), 258-273.

• Chua, R. Y.J. & Jin, M. (2020). Across the great divides: Gender dynamics influence how intercultural conflict helps or hurts creative collaboration. Academy of Management Journal, 63(3): 903-934. 

• Chua, R. Y.J., Huang, K., & Jin, M. (2019). Mapping cultural tightness and its links to innovation, urbanization, and happiness across 31 provinces in China. PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. View Details

• Chua, R.Y.J. & Ng, K.Y. (2017). Not Just How Much You Know: Interactional Effect of Cultural Knowledge and Metacognition on Creativity in a Global Context. Management and Organization Review, 13(2): 281-300.

• Chua R.Y.J. (2015). Innovating at cultural crossroads:  How multicultural social networks promote ideas flow and creativity. Journal of Management.

• Chua R.Y.J., Roth, Y., & Lemoine, J. (2015). The impact of culture on creativity: How cultural tightness and cultural distance affect global innovation crowdsourcing work. Administrative Science Quarterly, 60, 189-227.  View Details

• Chua R.Y.J. (2013). The costs of ambient cultural disharmony: Indirect intercultural conflicts in social environment undermine creativity. Academy of Management Journal  ,   56(6), 1545-1577. View Details

• Chua R.Y.J. (2012). Building effective business relationships in China. MIT Sloan Management Review, 53(4). View Details

• Chua, R.Y.J., Morris, M.W., & *Mor, S. (2012). Collaborating across cultures: Cultural metacognition and affect-based trust in creative collaboration. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 118, 116-131. View Details

• Cheng, C., Chua, R.Y.J., Morris, M.W., & Lee, L. (2012). Finding the right mix: How the composition of self-managing multicultural teams' cultural value orientation influences performance over time. Journal of Organizational Behavior,  33, 389-411. View Details
  [First two authors contributed equally]

• Jiang, C., Chua, R.Y.J., Kotabe, M., & Murray, J. (2011). Effects of cultural ethnicity, firm size, and firm age on senior executives’ trust in their overseas business partners: Evidence from China. Journal of International Business Studies, 42(9), 1150-1173. View Details
  [Equal authorship among all authors]

• Chua, R. Y.J. & Iyengar, S. (2011). Perceiving freedom givers: Effects of granting decision latitude on personality and leadership perceptions. The Leadership Quarterly, 22, 863-880. View Details

• Chua, R. Y.J., Morris, M.W. & Ingram, P. (2010). Embeddedness and new idea discussion in professional networks: The mediating role of affect-based trust. Journal of Creative Behavior, 44(2), 85-104. View Details

• Chua, R.Y.J., Morris, M.W., & Ingram, P. (2009). Guanxi versus networking: Distinctive configurations of affect- and cognition-based trust in the networks of Chinese and American managers. Journal of International Business Studies, 40(3), 480-508. View Details

• Chua, R.Y.J., Ingram, P., & Morris, M.W. (2008). From the head and the heart: Locating cognition- and affect-based trust in managers’ professional networks. Academy of Management Journal, 51(3), 436-452. View Details

• Chua, R.Y.J., & Iyengar, S. (2008). Creativity as a matter of choice: Prior experience and task instruction as boundary conditions for the positive effect of choice on creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 42(3), 164-180. View Details
  • Condensed version reprinted as “Creativity as a matter of choice: The positive effect of choice on creativity” in Rotman Magazine (2011).

• Chua, R.Y.J., & Iyengar, S. (2006). Empowerment through choice?: A critical analysis of the effects of choice in organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior. Staw, B. (Ed), 27, 41-79. View Details

• Ng, K.Y., & Chua, R.Y.J. (2006). Do I contribute more when I trust more?: Differential effects of cognition- and affect-based trust. Management and Organization Review, 2(1), 43-66. View Details

• CHEN Ting Hsi (thchen.2019@phdgm.smu.edu.sg), PhD in Business (General Management)

• CHENG Hui Min (hmcheng.2021@dba.smu.edu.sg), Doctor of Business Administration

• Luchman Susan KAUR (ls.kaur.2024@dba.smu.edu.sg), Doctor of Business Administration