My research revolves around the impact of strategic leaders (senior managers and board directors) on corporate strategies (portfolio restructuring), corporate social (ir)responsibility, and corporate sustainability. In recent years, I also study how cognitive factors and human capital attributes influence top managers' decision-making related to their firm's change initiatives and stakeholder management practices..

My publications have appeared in various outlets, including the Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Business Research, among others.

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Publications

• Chiu, S., Hoskisson, R.E., Kong, D., Li, A., & Shao, P. 2023. Predicting primary and secondary Stakeholder Engagement: A CEO motivation-Means Contingency Model. Journal of Business Research. (ABDC Ranking: A ; Impact Factor: 10.97)​
• Cristofaro, M., Bao, Y.J., Chiu, S., Hernández-Lara, A.B., & Perez-Calero, L. 2022. Affect and cognition in upper echelons’ strategic decision making: Empirical and theoretical studies for advancing corporate governance. Frontiers in Psychology.
• *Kong, D., *Chiu, S., & Christopoulos, G. 2022. Face of morality: Powerful CEOs' facial characteristics and moral foundations. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. (*equal authorship).
• Miller, C., Chiu, S., Wesley, C., Vera, D., & Avery, D. 2022. Cognitive diversity at the strategic apex: Assessing evidence on the value of different perspectives and ideas among senior leaders. Academy of Management Annals, 16: 806-852. (ABDC Ranking: A* ; 5-year Impact Factor: 27.3)
• Chiu, S., Pathak, S. & Sabz, A. 2022. The impact of advisor status on corporate divestitures and market reactions. Journal of Business Research, 144: 107-121. (ABDC Ranking: A ; Impact Factor: 10.97)
• Chiu, S. & Sabz, A. 2022. Can corporate divestiture activities lead to better corporate social performance? Journal of Business Ethics, 179: 849-866. (Financial Times 50; ABDC Ranking: A ; 5-year Impact Factor: 8.09)
• Chiu S., Pathak, S., Hoskisson, R.E, & Johnson, R. A. 2022. Managerial commitment to the status quo and corporate divestiture: Can power motivate openness to change? The Leadership Quarterly, 33(3): 101459. (ABDC Ranking: A* ; 5-year impact factor: 12.4)
• Li, A., Chiu, S., Kong, D., Cropanzano, R., & Ho, CW. 2021. How CEOs Respond to Mortality Salience during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Integrating Terror Management Theory with Regulatory Focus Theory. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(8):1188-1201. (Financial Times 50; ABDC Ranking: A* ; 5-year impact factor: 13.72)
• Walls, J., Salaiz, A., & Chiu, S. 2021. Wanted: Heroic leaders to drive the transition to 'business beyond usual.' Strategic Organization, 19(3): 494-512. (ABDC Ranking: A ; 5-year impact factor: 5.77)
• Salaiz, A., Chiu, S., & Walls, J. L. 2021. Sustainability agency at the top of the organization: Microfoundations research on corporate sustainability, in Teerikangas, S., Onkila, T., Koistinen, K., & Makela, M. Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency. London: Edward Elgar.
• Pathak, S. & Chiu, S. (equal authorship) 2020. Firm-advisor ties and financial performance in the context of corporate divestiture. Journal of Business Research, 121: 315-328. (ABDC Ranking: A ; Impact factor: 10.97)
• Chiu, S. & Walls, J. 2019. Leadership change and corporate social performance: The context of financial distress makes all the difference. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(5): 1-13. (ABDC Ranking: A* ; 5-year impact factor: 12.4)
• Chiu, S. & Sharfman, M. 2018. Corporate social irresponsibility and executive succession: An empirical examination. Journal of Business Ethics, 149(3): 707-723. (Financial Times 50; ABDC Ranking: A ; 5-year Impact Factor: 8.09)​
• Chiu, S., Johnson, R.A., Hoskisson, R., & Pathak, S. 2016. The impact of CEO succession and successor origin on the scale and scope of divestiture. The Leadership Quarterly, 27(4): 617-633. (ABDC Ranking: A* ; 5-year impact factor: 12.4)

          ** Best Paper Award Runner-up

• Chiu, S. & Sharfman, M. P. 2011. Legitimacy, visibility, and the antecedents of corporate social performance: An investigation of instrumental perspective. Journal of Management, 37 (6): 1558-1585. (Financial Times 50 ; ABDC Ranking: A* ; 5-year Impact Factor: 18.02)

          ** Best Paper Award by International Association for Business and Society (IABS).

• Johnson, R. A., Schnatterly, K., Johnson, S. & Chiu, S. 2010. Institutional investors and institutional environments: A comparative analysis. Journal of Management Studies, 47(2) 1590-1613. (Financial Times 50 ; ABDC Ranking: A* ; 5-year Impact Factor: 11.61)​
• Chiu, S., Fan, W., & Chong, Y. 2013. Entrepreneurship in China's private sector: Guangxi's Elite Optical. Harvard Business Review Case. (#NTU038-PDF-ENG)

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