Selected Publications
(with links to papers and related materials)
Song, H. & Jiang, W. Y. (2026). Constructing agency under persistent precarity: Shame, anger, and compassion in the self-narratives of Thai sex workers. Forthcoming, Academy of Management Journal.
Jiang, W. Y., Zhao-Ding, A., & Qi, S. (2025). Breaking free or locking in: How socially disadvantaged individuals achieve or reject an aspired identity in an entrepreneurial context. Academy of Management Journal. 68(1): 162-190.
Dokko, G. & Jiang, W. Y. (2024). From boundaryless to boundary-crossing: Toward a friction-based model of career transitions. Research in Organizational Behavior.
Jiang, W. Y. & Wrzesniewski, A. (2023). Perceiving fixed or flexible meaning: Toward a model of meaning fixedness and navigating occupational destabilization. Administrative Science Quarterly. 68(4), 1008-1055.
Jiang, W. Y. & Wrzesniewski, A. (2022). Misaligned meaning: Couples’ work orientation incongruence and their work outcomes. Organization Science. 33(2), 495-871.
Cho, Y. & Jiang, W. Y. (2022). How work orientation impacts objective career outcomes via managerial (mis)perceptions. Academy of Management Journal. 65(4), 1353-1382.
Jiang, W. Y. (2021). Sustaining meaningful work in a crisis: Adopting and conveying a situational purpose. Administrative Science Quarterly. 66(3), 806-853.