Anne S. Tsui

Anne S. Tsui is a professor of International management, who holds the positions of Motorola Professor Emerita of International Management at Arizona State University, distinguished adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame, and distinguished visiting professor at Peking University and Fudan University, China. and is a co-founder of the international scholarly group Responsible Research in Business and Management. was born near Shanghai, China. She attended primary and secondary school in Hong Kong.

Tsui came to the United States in 1970 to attend university. From the University of Minnesota, Duluth she received a BA in psychology with a minor in business administration in 1973. She then went to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she earned her MA in industrial relations in 1975.

Tsui was the 14th Editor of the Academy of Management Journal from 1996 to 1999. She founded the Management and Organization Review for Chinese management research, becoming editor-in-chief as of 2003. Her presidential address focused “On compassionate scholarship: Why should we care?”.

Tsui is a co-founder with Jerry Davis of Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM). In 2017 an initial group of 28 international scholars published the position paper "A vision for responsible research in business and management: Striving for useful and credible knowledge", revised in 2020. The organization was formed in response to the “credibility crisis” in the social sciences and the “relevance crisis” in business and management studies.

Research Tsui has studied business in both America and China and encourages scholars to collaborate internationally and to study leadership as it is practiced in China.

"Being different: Relational demography and organizational attachment" was published in the Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) in 1992. In 1993, it was awarded the Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. In 1998, it received the ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution, given to the paper in the preceding five years that had the greatest influence on theory and research.

"Alternative approaches to employee-organization relationships: Does investment in employees pay off?" appeared in the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) in 1997. In 1998 it was awarded both the AMJ best paper award The paper was described as “an extremely ambitious study on a fundamental and important topic" and "an exemplar of high-risk, high payoff research." won a 2012 Journal of Management Scholarly Impact best paper award.

Awards 2021, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2021, Woman of the Year Award, Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB) 2016, IACMR Lifetime Contribution Award, International Association for Chinese Management Research 2016, Fellow. Academy of International Business 2015, Distinguished Service Contribution Award, Academy of Management 2008, Walter F. Ulmer, Jr. Applied Research Leadership Award, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC 1997, Fellow, Academy of Management

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