2013-2018  Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Antai College of Economic & Management (2013-2018)

2015-2016  Joint Pd.D. Student, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business (Sponsored by China Scholarship Council)

2010-2013  M.A, Central South University, School of Business (2010-2013)

2006-2010  B.A., Central South University, School of Mathematic and Statistics (2006-2010)

2020 – Present: Associate Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE) , College of Business 

2018-2020  Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE) , College of Business  

2020-2023  National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 72002120)

2019-2025  Employee Proactivity Research Grant (College of Business, SUFE) (No.2019110119)

Journal publications

Wu, J., Tangirala, S., van Knippenberg, D., & Shu, R*. (2024). Only time will tell: How teams centralize their voice around competent members over time to perform better. Journal of Organizational Behavior. (*corresponding author)

Ma, X., Shu, R.*, Zhong, G. (2021). How customer-oriented companies breed HR flexibility and improved performance: Evidence from business-to-customer companies in China. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resource, 59(2), 330-353. (*corresponding author)

Hussain, I., Shu, R.*, Tangirala, S. Ekkirala, S. (2019). The voice bystander effect: How diffusion of responsibility inhibits employee voice. Academy of Management Journal, 62(3), 828-849.(*corresponding author)

Liang, J., Shu, R., Farh, C. (2019). Differential implications of team promotive and prohibitive voice on innovation performance in R&D project teams: A dialectic perspective. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 40(1), 91-104. 

Shu, R., Ren, S., Zheng, Y. (2018). Building networks into discovery: The link between entrepreneur network capability and entrepreneurial opportunity discovery. Journal of Business Research, 85(5), 197-208.

Ren, S., Shu, R.*, Bao, Y., & Chen, X. (2016). Linking network ties to entrepreneurial opportunity discovery and exploitation: the role of affective and cognitive trust. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 12 (2), 465-485. (*corresponding author)

Shu, R., Liang, J. (2015). Unpacking the motivational process of ethical leadership: A self-concept perspective. Chinese Journal of Management (In Chinese) (管理学报), 12(7), 1012-1020. 

Ren, S., Shu, R. (2014). Entrepreneurs’ network capabilities and entrepreneurial opportunity: the effect of network position and network range. Nankai Business Review (In Chinese) (南开管理评论), 17(1), 123-133. 

Book Chapters

Liang, J. & Shu, R., (2023). Employee voice behavior in organization. In Z., Zhang, R., Jing, W. Shen (Eds.), Organizational management: A perspective of Chinese enterprises in the age of digital intelligence: 177-196. Peking University Press (In-Chinese).

Conference 

Shu, R., Zhang, L., Zhang, L., Li, A., & Chai, J. (2024) Silence from the middle: Examining the curvilinear relationship between employee status and voice within teams. Accepted by the 84th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), Chicago, IL, USA

-- Selected as a finalist for an OB Division Award

Shu, R., & Wu, J. (2023). How to gain endorsement: Voice framing tactics and feedback-seeking from peers (symposium: speaking up to be heard: influence processes in employee voice). Accepted by the 83rd Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), Boston, MA, USA

Spriha Y., Tangirala, S., Shu, R, & Srinivas, E. (2023). The craft of voicing to the powerful: How employees who have made upward social class transitions gain endorsement for their voice. Accepted by the 83rd Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), Boston, MA, USA

-- Selected as a finalist for an OB Division Award

Zhang, L., & Shu, R. (2023). Leader job insecurity and its impact on subordinates’ career outcomes. Present at the 9th Conference of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Hong Kong, China

Zhou, C., Li, J., & Shu, R. (2022). The benefits and detriments of leader narcissism: A meta-analysis based on agentic-communal framework. Accepted by the 2022 Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), Seattle, USA

Wu, J, Tangirala, S., Van Knippenberg, D., Shu, R., Guo, Y. (2020). Only time will tell: How teams centralize their voice around competent members over time to perform better. Accepted by the 2020 Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), Vancouver, Canada

Liu, F., Liang, J., Shu, R. (2020). Voice form, frame valence, and leader voice endorsement. Accepted by the 8th Conference of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Xi’An, China

Shu, R., Liang, J. (2018). How should I speak up in facilitating voice? Examining a dual-path model. Present at the 7th Conference of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Wuhan, China

Liang, J.,Shu, R. (2017). Employee voice and team innovation: Examining the role of team Voice intensity in R&D teams. Presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, USA

Hussain, I., Shu, R., Tangirala, S. Ekkirala, S. (2017). The voice bystander effect: How diffusion of responsibility inhibits employee voice. Presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of [4]Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, USA

Shu, R., Ren, S., Zheng, Y. (2017). Building networks into discovery: The link between entrepreneur network capability and entrepreneurial opportunity discovery. Presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, USA

Shu, R., Wang, X.. Zhao., S. (2017). Catch one and forget others: Effects of achievement value and task performance on unethical pro-organizational behavior. Presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, USA

Liang, J., Shu, R., (2014). Unpacking the motivational process of ethical leadership: A self-concept perspective. Presented at the 5th Conference of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Beijing, China

Organizational Behavior Seminar (PhD)

Social Network Analysis (PhD)

Principles of Management/Management (Undergraduate)

Leadership Development and Organizational Behavior (MBA)