Dr. Cuili Qian
- Professor of Organizations, Strategy and International Management
- Ashbel Smith Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas supports the Ashbel Smith Professorship. Dr. Ashbel Smith was the first president of the UT System Board of Regents. He had a long and distinguished career in medicine, education and public service. During his term on the Board of Regents, Smith was dedicated to recruiting the best faculty members available and to developing a curriculum befitting a “university of the first class.” Smith became known as both the “father of Texas medicine” and the “father of The University of Texas.”
“I am incredibly grateful that I have met various people in my life and academic journey – teachers, friends and colleagues – who have been extremely supportive and encouraging from the beginning of my career until now. I hope I can contribute to our Jindal School community by producing more impactful research and nurturing future leaders.”
Although Dr. Cuili Qian initially pursued studies in sociology, it was her strong desire and motivation to make a real-life impact on business and society that led her to pursue management research.
As a scholar in international business, Qian specializes in corporate governance and strategic leadership, corporate social responsibility and stakeholder management, political strategy in transitional economies, and multinational companies’ control and staffing.
Her work has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal and the Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
Qian joined the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas in 2017 after beginning her academic career at City University of Hong Kong in 2010. She teaches courses in international business and macro-organizational empirical investigation.
Before graduating with a PhD in strategic management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Qian earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology at Renmin University of China and a Master of Arts in cultural anthropology and development sociology at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Qian has served on several journal editorial boards, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Management and Organization Review.
She is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.