Prof. Bilian Ni Sullivan

PhD, Stanford University

Areas of Expertise：

Strategic Management, Decision Making

Details：

Relevant Teaching Experience with Universities:

Strategic Management, HKUST Undergraduate;

International Management, HKUST Undergraduate;

Strategic Management in China, HKUST Undergraduate, HKUST MBA;

Ph.D seminar, Organizational Theory and Strategic Management;

Doing Business in Asia/China, NYU MBA, HKUST MIMT-CEMS;

Executive MBA: Managerial Decision-making and Leadership; Social Issues in China;

 

Industry Experience:

Project Manager: Research and Development Department, Information Resources Inc. (IRI), Chicago, IL. 1996-1997.

Research Associate and Research Project Manager: NCI Research, an affiliate of Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.1994 - 1996.

Statistical Consultant: Statistical analysis and data management for health care projects in Nursing School, University of Illinois at Chicago. 1995.

 

Professional Experience:

Global Representative

OMT Division, Academy of Management (August 2015 ---)

Senior Editor

Management and Organization (September 2013 -- )

Editorial Board Member

Editorial board of Organization Science (January 2009 – 2016)

Editorial board of International Journal of Strategic Change Management (August 2008 – )

 

Research and Publications:

Selected Papers published in referred journals

1. Sullivan, B.N. and Stewart, D. 2015 (In press). Do connections always help? Network brokerage’s negative impact on the emergence of status. Research in Sociology of Organizations.
2. Sullivan, B.N., Tang, Y and Marquis, C. 2014. Persistently learning: How small-world network imprints affect subsequent firm learning. Strategic Organization, 12: 180-199.
3. Sullivan, Bilian N. and Yi Tang. 2013. Which signal to rely on? The impact of the quality of board interlocks and inventive capabilities on R&D alliance formation under uncertainty. Strategic Organization, 11: 364-388.
4. Sullivan, Bilian N. 2010. Competition and Beyond: Problems and Attention Allocation in the Organizational Rulemaking Process. Organization Science 21: 432-450
5. Haunschild, P. and Sullivan, B.N. 2002. "Learning from complexity: Effects of accident / incident heterogeneity on airline learning" Administrative Science Quarterly, 47: 609-643.

Book chapters and conference proceedings

1. Sullivan, B.N. and Stewart, D. G. 2010. Divergence in Status Evaluation: Theoretical Implications for a Social Construction View of Status Building In Status, Organization and Management ed. Pearce, J., Cambridge University Press.
2. Augier, M., March, J. G. and Sullivan, B.N. (alphabetically ordered). 2008. Notes on the Evolution of a Research Community: Organization Studies in Anglophone North America,1945-2000. In Explorations in Organizations by James G. March.
3. Sullivan, B. N. and Tang, Yi. 2008. Conformity for Legitimacy: A Perspective from the Learning Model of Firm Risk-taking. Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Meetings, Anaheim.

Papers published in, or accepted by, refereed conferences

1. Sullivan, B.N., and Gong, Tianyu, Organizational Search as the Conduit and CEOs as the Catalyst: the Impact of Government Policies on Firm Innovation. To be Presented at  Academy of Management Meetings, Anaheim, 2016.
2. Sullivan, B.N. and Yang, Xinyi, Can Mindful Firms be Innovative? The Differentiated Role of Mindfulness on Firm Innovation. To be Presented at  Academy of Management Meetings, Anaheim, 2016.
3. Gong, Tianyu and Sullivan, B.N., Can Government Help Organizations Innovate? The Effect of Government Policy on Innovation. Presented at Academy of Management Meetings, Vancouver, 2015.