Ming Piao
Assistant Professor
Department of Management
Email: ming.piao@business.utah.edu
Degrees:
2007 Ph.D. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
2001 Master Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Teaching Areas:
Advanced Strategic Mgt
Introduction to research in strategic management
Research Statements:
Ming Piao conducts research on organizational innovation and renewal. Specifically, she is interested in how organizations become more or less innovative. In her primary research, she investigated how firms become more capable of exploration through exploitation. By proposing that exploitation can complement exploration, she re-examined three key research questions: 1) when will exploitation facilitate exploration? 2) how to balance exploitation and exploration? and 3) what are the performance implications of exploitation and exploration? In several other research projects, she examined how firms become more innovative through external learning, knowledge transfer, organizational culture, organizational design, leadership, and job design.
Recent Awards:
2005 Finalist, INFORMS Best Dissertation Competition - Organization Science
2005 Finalist, SMS Best Conference Paper Prize - Strategic Management Society
2005 The Carolyn Dexter Award Nominee - Academy of Management
2004 Booz Allen Hamilton Doctoral Student Fellowship - Strategic Management Society
Journal Articles
- "Family-friendly Employment Practices: Importance and Effects in India, Kenya, and China" Advances in International Management. vol. 21 (2008)
Co-Author(s): Peng Wang, John Lawler, Kan Shi, Fred Walumbwa
Co-Editor(s): Lawler & Hundley
