Xu, Ning

I am an Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior at the Stockholm School of Economics. I received my PhD in Organizational Behavior from the State University of New York (USA), MS in Biomedical Science from Purdue University (USA), and BS in Biological Science from Sichuan University (China). Before joining SSE, I have worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Washington University’s Olin Business School. 

My research has been published at The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Small Group Research. My current research interests include social networks, leadership, moral emotions and creativity. I conduct my research by collecting survey data, using experimental methods, and performing meta-analysis, and aim to answer these broad questions: 

1) How does social relationship between formal and informal leaders impact team dynamics?

2) How to increase employee creativity?

3) What are the implications of leaders' emotion expression on their effectiveness?

When I am not working, I enjoy spending time with my family.