Strategy Professor | Senior Editor at Organization Science
Recent TEDx talk by Chengwei:
How to be a smart contrarian
See also an HBR companion
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Chengwei Liu is a tenured associate professor of strategy and behavioural science at Imperial Collegee Business School. Trained as an economist in Taiwan, he received his PhD from Cambridge and held positions at Oxford, Wharton, NYU, MIT, INSEAD, ESMT Berlin and Warwick. Chengwei’s research is published in leading journals (e.g., Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Management Science), practitioner outlets (e.g., Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Financial Times), and interdisciplinary outlets (e.g., PNAS, Social Networks, Behavioral and Brain Sciences) and has received 8 awards/finalists from the Academy of Management, European Group of Organization Studies, and the Strategic Management Society. Thinkers50 name Chengwei a leading management thinker and Poets&Quants name Chengwei a Top 40 under 40 Business School Professor. He serves as a Senior Editor at Organization Science.
Chengwei Liu is a tenured associate professor of strategy and behavioural science at Imperial Collegee Business School. Trained as an economist in Taiwan, he received his PhD from Cambridge and held positions at Oxford, Wharton, NYU, MIT, INSEAD, ESMT Berlin and Warwick. Chengwei’s research is published in leading journals (e.g., Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Management Science), practitioner outlets (e.g., Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Financial Times), and interdisciplinary outlets (e.g., PNAS, Social Networks, Behavioral and Brain Sciences) and has received 8 awards/finalists from the Academy of Management, European Group of Organization Studies, and the Strategic Management Society. Thinkers50 name Chengwei a leading management thinker and Poets&Quants name Chengwei a Top 40 under 40 Business School Professor. He serves as a Senior Editor at Organization Science.
Chengwei is central to building the academic community of TOM—the Theoretical and Organizational Model Society—and has organized its annual conferences (2017-2022) and PhD Summer School at INSEAD (2018), online (2021), and Harvard (2023). See: https://sites.google.com/view/tomsociety/home
Chengwei is central to building the academic community of TOM—the Theoretical and Organizational Model Society—and has organized its annual conferences (2017-2022) and PhD Summer School at INSEAD (2018), online (2021), and Harvard (2023). See: https://sites.google.com/view/tomsociety/home
Please visit my page at the Imperial College London for the latest CV.
-Selective publications (for a full list of 20 publications and their PDFs):
Underdogs and One-hit Wonders: When is Overcoming Adversity Impressive? Management Science, 2022. [download]
The variance of variance. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2021. [download] [see also an HBR companion]
Why do firms fail to engage diversity? A behavioral strategy perspective. Organization Science, 2021. [download] [See also an HBR companion]
When reinforcing processes generate a outcome-quality dip. Organization Science (with Jerker Denrell), 2020. [download]
In search of behavioral opportunities from misattributions of luck", Academy of Management Review, 2019 (with Jerker Denrell and Christina Fang) [download]
When more selection is worse. Strategy Science, 2017 (with Jerker Denrell and Gael Le Mens). [download]
Good night, and good luck: Perspectives on luck in management scholarship. Academy of Management Annals, 2016 (with Mark de Rond). [download]
Chance explanations in the management sciences. Organization Science, 2015 (with Jerker Denrell and Christina Fang). [download]
Top performers are not the most impressive when extreme performance indicates unreliability. PNAS, 2012 (with Jerker Denrell). [download]
-Working papers
New perspectives on exploration and exploitation: When learning fast is superior to slow learning (with Michael Christensen, Jerker Denrell, and Thorbjorn Knudsen). Under revision at Organization Science.
In search of contrarian opportunities from the blind spot of majority rule (with Jose Arrieta). Under revision at Strategic of Management Journal.
Strong regression to the mean can lead to less-is-more effects in performance associations: Empirical evidence from entertainment, innovation, auto racing, and firm performance. Under review (with Jerker Denrell and Scott Ganz).
Background awareness of the behavioral effects of default nudges does not make them less effective (with Andrea Isoni, Christopher Olivola, and Daniel Read). Under review.
Chengwei's book "Luck: A key idea for business and society" has received favourable reviews from scholars at MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, Yale, Warwick, LBS, INSEAD, Michigan, Dartmouth, Wisconsin and so on, and is available on Amazon.
Chengwei's book "Luck: A key idea for business and society" has received favourable reviews from scholars at MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, Yale, Warwick, LBS, INSEAD, Michigan, Dartmouth, Wisconsin and so on, and is available on Amazon.
'This book is a "must read" for anyone interested in social systems that produce "winners and losers". It will change the way you think about what the term "luck" means'.
-- Anne Miner, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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