This is an Eventful Era: An Event-Oriented Approach to Indigenous Management Research In China

There is a growing acknowledgement of the importance of events in triggering organizational and individual changes (e.g., Morgeson, Mitchell, & Liu, 2015;Song, Foo, & Uy, 2008; Sun, Mellahi, Wright, & Xu, 2015). The five panelists will provide insights into event research with a focus on indigenous management research in China. We have different expertise in studying events and will talk about different perspectives on events, macro, micro, quantitative, and qualitative. We aim to generate a comprehensive and informative elaboration about how to investigate events and develop promising manuscripts covering a variety of Chinese organizational and individual phenomena and using diverse research methodologies. The panelists have rich experiences in conducting event-related research in a large number of Chinese settings and publishing in top Chinese and English journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Management World (Chinese), and Nankai Management Review (Chinese). As such, we have a number of useful ideas and suggestions to share with the PDW participants.