Ting Ren-Peking University HSBC Business School(PHBS)

Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Director of Enterprises Development Institute

Ting Ren

Ph.D. in Human Resources and Industrial Relations, University of Minnesota

Research Interests:Organizational Design, Ownership and Corporate Governance, Human Resources and Labor Studies, Behavioral Economics

0755-2603 2289

renting@phbs.pku.edu.cn

Office: Rm. 738, PHBS Building

Biography

Research Fields:
Organizational Design, Ownership and Corporate Governance, Human Resources and Labor Studies, Behavioral Economics

Education:
PhD, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
MPP, University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
BA, Peking University, School of Economics

Honors and Awards:
AILR/LERA Best Papers, the 74th Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, Virtual, June 2022 (“Quantifying resilience of labor market to the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from large-scale online recruitment behavior,” with Xinguo Yu, Hengxu Song and Yanbo Xue).
Highly Commended Paper in the 2020 Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence (with Yuchao Zhang and Xuanye Li, Chinese Management Studies).
AILR/LERA Best Papers, the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, Virtual, June 2020 (with Xinguo Yu, Chen Xie, Yanbo Xue and Meng Chang).
The 2019 Outstanding Article in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (with Avner Ben-Ner and Darla J. Hamann)AILR/LERA Best Papers, the 68th Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, Minneapolis, May 2016 (with Hongyan Yang and Shiyao Liu).
AILR/LERA Best Papers, the 65th Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, St. Louis, June 2013 (with Avner Ben-Ner).
Finalist for the Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Division Best Article Award for 2011 (with Avner Ben-Ner and Darla Flint Paulson).
Award for Excellence in Teaching, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, 2010, 2016.

Academic Community Appointment:
Representative, Executive Board, Asia Academy of Management, 2018.

Research Teaching

Publications:

“COVID-19 and labour market resilience: Evidence from large-scale recruitment behaviour,” with Xinguo Yu, Hengxu Song and Yanbo Xue, Regional Studies, 58 (1): 45-60, 2024. (SSCI)

“Intergenerational dynamics of digital transformation in family firms,” with Xin Liu and Jinqiong Ding, Technology in Society, 74, 102261, 2023. (SSCI)

“The impact of commercial medical insurance participation on household debt,” with Cancheng Hong and Di He, Sustainability, 15 (2), 1526, 2023. (SCIE/SSCI)

“Heterogeneity and decomposition analysis of manufacturing carbon dioxide emissions in China’s post-industrial innovative megacity Shenzhen,” with Shiming Liao, Dong Wang and Xuemin Liu, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (23), 15529, 2022. (SCIE/SSCI)

“Employee ownership and firm R&D investment: Evidence from China,” with Youzhi Xiao, Daniel Pinto and Hongyan Yang, Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 5 (2): 81-111, 2022.

“Political connections, internet use, and firm innovation,” with Xinguo Yu, Xuanye Li and Peng Lv, Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 7, 100211, 2022.

“Female corporate leadership and firm growth strategy: A global perspective,” with Lagle Laidoja, Xuanye Li and Wenyuan Liu, Sustainability, 14 (9), 5578, 2022. (SSCI)

“Spatial-temporal effects of urban housing prices on job location choice of college graduates: Evidence from urban China,” with Xiongbin Lin, Jingjing Zhong and Gaowen Zhu, Cities, 126, 103690, 2022. (SSCI)

“Heterogeneous and synergistic effects of environmental regulations: Theoretical and empirical research on the collaborative governance of China’s haze pollution,” with Xuemin Liu, Jiaoju Ge, Shiming Liao and Lijun Pang, Journal of Cleaner Production, 350, 131473, 2022. (SCIE)

“Internet use and pro-environmental behavior: Evidence from China,” with Youzhi Xiao and Xuemin Liu, PLoS ONE, 17 (1), e0262644, 2022. (SCI)

“Institutional differences in individual wellbeing in China,” with Youzhi Xiao and Xuemin Liu, Sustainability, 14 (2), 721, 2022. (SSCI)

“Formal and informal institutions: The independent and joint impacts on firm innovation,” with Cuifen Weng, Xuanye Li and Hongyan Yang, Management and Organization Review, 17 (5): 918-967, 2021. (SSCI)

“Teachers in the top management team and corporate social responsibility,” with Wenyuan Liu and Weishan Tang, Sustainability, 13 (24), 13795, 2021. (SSCI)

“State ownership, firm innovation and the moderating role of private-sector competition: The case of China,” with Hongyan Yang and H. Kevin Steensma, Competitiveness Review, 31 (4): 729-746, 2021.

“Uncertainty and tourism consumption preferences: Evidence from the representative Chinese city of Shenzhen,” with Xuemin Liu and Jiaoju Ge, Sustainability, 13 (8), 4103, 2021. (SSCI)

“Family ties and employment behavior: The role of financial intermediaries,” with Wenyuan Liu, Review of Development Economics, 25 (1): 48-75, 2021. (SSCI)

“Housing price, talent movement, and innovation output: Evidence from Chinese cities,” with Xiongbin Lin, Hao Wu and Youzhi Xiao, Review of Development Economics, 25 (1): 76-103, 2021. (SSCI)

“Resignation of officials as independent directors and firm performance,” with Youzhi Xiao, Xinguo Yu, Hongyan Yang and Jianmei Ge, Frontiers of Business Research in China, 14, Article Number 23, 2020.

“Managing foreign high-end talent at Huawei,” with David W. Hall, in Wenxian Zhang, Ilan Alon and Christoph Lattemann (Eds.), Huawei goes global Volume I: Made in China for the world, pp. 309-326, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

“Firm ownership and corporate social responsibility in China: From a multiple stakeholder perspective,” with Yan Feng, Youzhi Xiao, Hongyan Yang and Wenli Liu, in Onyeka K. Osuji, Franklin N. Ngwu and Dima Jamali (Eds.), CSR in Developing and Emerging Markets: Institutions, Actors and Sustainable Development, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

"Psychological contract and employee attitudes: The impact of firm ownership and employment type," with Yuchao Zhang and Xuanye Li. Chinese Management Studies, 13 (1): 26-50, 2019.. (SSCI)

“Quantifying economic effects of transportation investment considering spatiotemporal heterogeneity in China: A spatial panel data model perspective,” with Xiongbin Lin, Ian MacLachlan and Feiyang Sun, The Annals of Regional Science, 63 (3): 437-459, 2019. (SSCI)

“Working capital management and firm performance in China,” with Nan Liu, Hongyan Yang, Youzhi Xiao and Yijun Hu, Asian Review of Accounting, 27 (4): 546-562, 2019.

“Employee ownership heterogeneity and firm performance in China,” with Youzhi Xiao, Hongyan Yang and Shiyao Liu, Human Resource Management, 58 (6): 621-639, 2019. (SSCI)

“Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?” with Xinguo Yu and Weiwei Yang, PLoS ONE, 14 (10): e0223353, 2019. (SCI)

“Training, skill-upgrading and settlement intention of migrants: Evidence from China,” with Qing Wang and Ti Liu, Urban Studies, 56 (13): 2779-2801, 2019.（SSCI）

“Does ownership matter in the selection of service providers? Evidence from nursing home consumer surveys,” with Avner Ben-Ner and Darla J. Hamann,Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47 (6): 1271-1295, 2018.(SSCI)

“The impact of pay-for-performance perception and pay level satisfaction on employee work attitudes and extra-role behaviors: An investigation of moderating effects,” with Ruolian Fang and Zhen Yang. Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management, 8 (2): 94-113, 2017.

"Ownership and M&A performance in a transitional economy: The case of the Chinese real estate industry," with Hongyan Yang and Jing Ru, Management and Organization Review, 11 (4): 715-737, 2015. (SSCI)

"Foreign direct investment, institutional environment, and the establishment of private economy in China," with Hongyan Yang and Massimiliano Sassone, in Douglas Cumming, Michael Firth, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee (Eds.), Developments in Chinese Entrepreneurship: Key Issues and Challenges, pp. 107-132, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

"Fund ownership, investment preference, and performance: The venture capital industry in China," with Shasha Wu and Hongyan Yang, in Douglas Cumming, Michael Firth, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee (Eds.), Developments in Chinese Entrepreneurship: Key Issues and Challenges, pp. 153-197, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

"Employee value congruence and job attitudes: The role of occupational status," with Darla J. Hamann, Personnel Review, 44 (4): 550-566, 2015. (SSCI)

"Comparing workplace organization design based on form of ownership: Nonprofit, for-profit and local government," with Avner Ben-Ner, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 44 (2): 340-359, 2015. (SSCI)

"Do nonprofits treat their employees differently? Incentive pay and health benefits," with Xinxiang Chen and David Knoke, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 24 (3): 285-306, 2014. (SSCI)

"Wage inequality and performance in nonprofit and for-profit organizations," with Darla J. Hamann, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 24 (2): 207-228, 2013. (SSCI)

"Sectoral differences in value congruence and job attitudes: The case of nursing home employees," Journal of Business Ethics, 112 (2): 213-224, 2013. (SSCI)

"Ownership and quality in markets with asymmetric information: Evidence from nursing homes," with Avner Ben-Ner and Pinar Karaca-Mandic, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 12 (1), Topics, Article 42, 2012. (SSCI)

"A sectoral comparison of wage levels and wage inequality in human services industries," with Avner Ben-Ner and Darla Flint Paulson, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 40 (4): 608-633, 2011. (SSCI; Lead Article)

"Female participation in TMT and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese private enterprises," with Zheng Wang, Nankai Business Review International, 2 (2): 140-157, 2011.

"Lavish returns on cheap talk: Two-way communication in trust games," with Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman, Journal of Socio-Economics, 40 (1): 1-13, 2011. (Lead Article)

"Effects of different stakeholder groups' strategic control on organizational effectiveness and well-being of customers and employees: An empirical investigation," with Avner Ben-Ner, in Lorenzo Sacconi, Margaret Blair, R. Edward Freeman and Alessandro Vercelli (Eds.), Corporate social responsibility and corporate governance: The contribution of economic theory and related disciplines, pp. 381-409, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

"A comparative study of allocation of decision-making among stakeholder groups: The case of personal care industries," with Avner Ben-Ner, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 81 (4): 611-630, 2010.

"Value congruence as a source of intrinsic motivation," Kyklos, 63 (1): 94-109, 2010. (SSCI)

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