Prof. Dr. Anna Aleksandra Lupina-Wegener Professorin für Internationales Management und Organisatorisches Verhalten

Work at ZHAW

Position

Head of the Center for Culture and Creativity in the International Business; Prof. Anna Lupina-Wegener leads the C3IB, bringing extensive expertise in how organizational identities evolve during international mergers and change processes. As co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Change Management, she employs mixed research methodologies to uncover human dynamics and leadership. A guest professor at European and Chinese universities, her research published in journals like Management International Review and Business Horizons provides crucial insights for leaders navigating complex international organizational changes in today's interconnected business landscape.

Focus

• Organizational change and leadership
• Cross-border M&As
• Cross-cultural management/ communication (focused on emerging markets)
• Enterpreneurship from a cross-cultural perspective
• OB/ new world of work/ AI
• Sustainable human resources management
• Organizational identity in international management

Teaching

• Cross-cultural management/ communication
• Human Resource Management/ Organizational Behaviour
• Leadership, including New world of work, AI
• Doing business in CEE
• Qualitative research methods
• Leadership, Ethics and Intercultural Competence

Experience

• Professor for Cross-Cultural Management and Organizational Behaviour
  HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
  02 / 2012 - 08 / 2022
• Senior lecturer in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
  University of Geneva, Switzerland
  09 / 2011 - 02 / 2012
• Lecturer in intercultural communication
  Geneva School of Business Administration (HES-SO HEG), Switzerland
  02 / 2011 - 06 / 2011
• Post-doctoral assistant
  University of Geneva (HEC), Switzerland
  03 / 2005 - 07 / 2010
• Teaching and research assistant
  University of Geneva (HEC), Switzerland
  09 / 2004 - 03 / 2005

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Organisational identity in international management: investigating cross-border M&As and internationalisation processes from an emerging markets perspective) / Management Science
  Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France
  09 / 2023 - 12 / 2024
• Post-Doctorate / Cross-cultural management/ OB
  University of Geneva, Switzerland
  03 / 2005 - 07 / 2010
• Doctorate / Management
  Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
  09 / 2000 - 03 / 2005
• Doctoral visiting scholar; Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship / Cross-cultural management/ OB
  University of Geneva, Switzerland
  09 / 2003 - 08 / 2004
• Master of Science / Management and Marketing
  Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
  09 / 1996 - 09 / 2000
• exchange semester / Business Administration
  HEC, Montreal
  01 / 2000 - 05 / 2000

Continuing Education

• Certificate; ZHAW
  Executive leadership
  07 / 2024
• CAS in Higher Education Pedagogy
  HES-SO
  11 / 2021

Network

Membership of networks

• COST Action, China in Europe Research Network (CHERN)
• ZHAW Digital Futures Lab

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3273-3909

Awards

Honorary Ambassador of SGH
Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), awarded by Rector, Prof. Piotr Wachowiak
06 / 2024

Social media

Change community network

Media presence

• RTS - Émission tribu - Le télétravail. Interview live
• Télétravail: privilégier la bienveillance plutôt que le contrôle, interview in Revue Hémisphères

Projects

• Redefining Cross-Cultural Leadership / Project leader / laufend
• AI Index Machine Learning Algorithms / Project leader / abgeschlossen

Publications

• Wojtczuk‐Turek, Agnieszka; Turek, Dariusz; Edgar, Fiona; Klein, Howard J.; Bosak, Janine; Okay‐Somerville, Belgin; Fu, Na; Raeder, Sabine; Jurek, Paweł; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Dvorakova, Zuzana; Gutiérrez‐Crocco, Francisca; Kekkonen, Aleksandra; Leiva, Pedro I.; Mynaříková, Lenka; Sánchez‐Apellániz, Mercedes; Shafique, Imran; Al‐Romeedy, Bassam Samir; Wee, Serena; Dunlop, Patrick; Stinglhamber, Florence; Caesens, Gaëtane; Caldana, Adriana; Sticca, Marina Greghi; Vasilev, Valentin; Lauzier, Martin; Desjardins, Guillaume; Zhang, Gangfeng; Tan, Le; Galvez‐Sierra, Lady Brigitte; Rentería Pérez, Erico; Goić, Srećko; Tadić, Ivana; Charvátová, Dagmar; Botek, Marek; Jensen, Dorthe Høj; Rojas, Dayamy Lima; Pazmay Ramos, Segundo Gonzalo; Masso, Piret; Järlström, Maria; Gillet, Nicolas; Huyghebaert‐Zouaghi, Tiphaine; Robakidze, Maia; Martskvishvili, Khatuna; Dorrough, Angela R.; Jekel, Marc; Häffner, Carolin; Sevincer, A. Timur; Kekesi, Elias Kodjo; Agyemang, Collins Badu; Apospori, Eleni; Jose, Jerin; Salendu, Alice; Etikariena, Arum; Susianto, Harry; Sjabadhyni, Bertina; Malayeri, Shera; Seydi, Masoumeh; Kinahan, Mary; Lisak, Alon; Mariani, Marco Giovanni; Salvati, Marco; Moscatelli, Silvia; Crapolicchio, Eleonora; Manzi, Claudia; Shimazu, Akihito; Ikeda, Hiroshi; Žukauskienė, Rita; Kaniušonytė, Goda; Catania, Gottfried; Lauri, Mary Anne; Madero Gómez, Sergio Manuel; Fernando, Denise; Veth, Klaske; Dhakal, Sandesh; Podgorodnichenko, Nataliya; Lawal, Abiodun; Duhović Hafstad, Marius; Reategui, Ana; Morales Tristán, Oswaldo; Edralin, Divina M.; Schmitz, Susana; Neto, Joana; Neto, Félix; Popov, Boris; Đorđević, Jasna Milošević; Mihić, Vladimir; Kalistova, Anna; Piterová, Ivana; Mayer, Claude‐Hélène; Molina, María José Charlo; Ranasinghe, Ruwan; Nakchedi‐Ooft, Tesora; Sobhie, Rosita; Matteo, Mösli; Chavanovanich, Jennifer; Petchthip, Narumol; Karabati, Serdar; Akbaş, Gülçin; Turkoglu, Beril; Shkoda, Tetiana; Savych, Oleksandr; Mosanya, Magdalena; de León, Pablo Pérez; Labarthe‐Carrara, Javier; Phelps, Ceri; Sullivan, Katie; Hutchings, Paul; Danilewicz, Dariusz; Łabędzki, Rafał; Karamustafa‐Köse, Güldem,

  2024.

  Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction – unlocking the power of organizational identification : a cross-cultural perspective from 54 countries.

  Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management.

  31(5), pp. 4910-4932.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2815

• Monzani, Lucas; Bibic, Kira; Haslam, S. Alexander; Kerschreiter, Rudolf; Jérémy E., Wilson Lemoine; Steffens, Niklas K.; Akfirat, Serap Arslan; Christine Joy A., Ballada; Bazarov, Tahir; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.; Avanzi, Lorenzo; Bunjak, Aldijana; Černe, Matej; Edelmann, Charlotte M.; Epitropaki, Olga; Fransen, Katrien; García-Ael, Cristina; Giessner, Steffen; Gleibs, Ilka; Godlewska-Werner, Dorota; Kark, Ronit; Laguia Gonzalez, Ana; Lam, Hodar; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Markovits, Yannis; Maskor, Mazlan; Molero Alonso, Fernando Jorge; Moriano Leon, Juan Antonio; Neves, Pedro; Pauknerová, Daniela; Retowski, Sylwiusz; Roland-Lévy, Christine; Samekin, Adil; Sekiguchi, Tomoki; Story, Joana; Stouten, Jeroen; Sultanova, Lilia; Tatachari, Srinivasan; van Bunderen, Lisanne; Van Dijk, Dina; Wong, Sut I.; van Dick, Rolf,

  2024.

  Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior : the mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality.

  Political Psychology.

  45(6), pp. 979-1011.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12952

• van Dick, Rolf; Cordes, Berrit L.; Lemoine, Jérémy E.; Steffens, Niklas K.; Haslam, S. Alexander; Akfirat, Serap Arslan; Ballada, Christine Joy A.; Bazarov, Tahir; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.; Avanzi, Lorenzo; Bodla, Ali Ahmad; Bunjak, Aldijana; Černe, Matej; Dumont, Kitty B.; Edelmann, Charlotte M.; Epitropaki, Olga; Fransen, Katrien; García-Ael, Cristina; Giessner, Steffen; Gleibs, Ilka H.; Godlewska-Werner, Dorota; González, Roberto; Kark, Ronit; Laguia Gonzalez, Ana; Lam, Hodar; Lipponen, Jukka; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Markovits, Yannis; Maskor, Mazlan; Molero, Fernando; Monzani, Lucas; Moriano Leon, Juan A.; Neves, Pedro; Orosz, Gábor; Pandey, Diwakar; Retowski, Sylwiusz; Roland-Lévy, Christine; Samekin, Adil; Schuh, Sebastian; Sekiguchi, Tomoki; Song, Lynda Jiwen; Story, Joana; Stouten, Jeroen; Sultanova, Lilia; Tatachari, Srinivasan; Valdenegro, Daniel; van Bunderen, Lisanne; Van Dijk, Dina; Wong, Sut I.; Youssef, Farida; Zhang, Xin-An; Kerschreiter, Rudolf,

  2021.

  Identity leadership, employee burnout, and the mediating role of team identification : evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development project.

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

  18(22), pp. 12081.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212081

• Shan, Juan; Konishi, Mario; Pullin, Patricia; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,

  2021.

  Effects of cultural intelligence on multicultural team effectiveness : the chain mediation role of common ingroup identity and communication quality.

  Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology.

  5(4), pp. 519-529.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.115

• Liang, Shuang; Ullrich, Johannes; Dick, Rolf; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,

  2021.

  The intergroup sensitivity effect in mergers and acquisitions : testing the role of merger motives.

  Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

  51(8), pp. 769-778.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12785

• Liang, Shuang; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Ullrich, Johannes; van Dick, Rolf,

  2021.

  ‘Change is our continuity’ : Chinese managers’ construction of post-merger identification after an acquisition in Europe.

  Journal of Change Management.

  22(1), pp. 59-78.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2021.1951812

• Lupina-Wegener, Anna Aleksandra; Liang, Shuang; van Dick, Rolf; Ullrich, Johannes,

  2020.

  Multiple organizational identities and change in ambivalence : the case of a Chinese acquisition in Europe.

  Journal of Organizational Change Management.

  33(7), pp. 1253-1275.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-08-2019-0260

• Prystupa-Rządca, Kaja; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Johannot, Claudia,

  2019.

  Lessons learned from Swiss born globals entering Brazil.

  Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies.

  12(1), pp. 125-143.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JEEE-12-2018-0139

• Lupina-Wegener, Anna; McDonald, Frank; Shan, Juan; Zhang, Gangfeng; Karamustafa-Köse, Güldem,

  2023.

  Liability of emergingness of emerging market banks internationalizing to advanced economies.

  In:

  Duarte, Paulo Afonso B.; Leandro, Francisco José B. S.; Martínez Galán, Enrique, eds.,

  The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics.

  Singapore:

  Palgrave Macmillan.

  pp. 201-221.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6700-9_13

• Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Karamustafa-Köse, Güldem; Yang Meier, Dong,

  2023.

  Redefining the role of research teams in studying leadership[poster].

  In:

  49th Conference of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), Lisbon, Portugal, 15-17 December 2023.

• By, Rune Todnem; Lupina-Wegener, Anna Aleksandra; Gjerald, Olga,

  2024.

  Home of the MAD.

  Journal of Change Management.

  24(1), pp. 1-4.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2024.2310318

• Karamustafa-Köse, Güldem; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,

  2022.

  Tipps für erfogreiche Geschäfte in der MOE-Region.

  Swiss Export Journal.

  2022(1), pp. 10.

  Available from: https://e-journal.swiss-export.com/archive/epaper-e-journal-01-2022/#0

• Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Clark, Elliott; Karamustafa, Güldem,

  2021.

  Les trois leviers pour instaurer une culture de l'innovation au travail.

  HR Today.

  Available from: https://www.hrtoday.ch/fr/article/les-trois-leviers-pour-instaurer-une-culture-de-l-innovation-au-travail

• Lupina-Wegener, Anna,

  2021.

  Acquisitions suisses en Chine : la réussite grâce à un leadership adapté.

  Ruizhong.

  2021(1), pp. 44-45.

  Available from: https://www.schweiz-china.ch/pdf/ruizhong/2021/2021-01_Ruizhong.pdf

• Radunović, Miljan; Karamustafa, Güldem; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,

  2021.

  Bridging the gaps on the road to success : the case of CRBC in the Western Balkans.

  CHERN.

  Available from: https://china-in-europe.net/bridging-the-gaps-on-the-road-to-success-the-case-of-crbc-in-the-western-balkans-by-miljan-radunovic-chern-stsm-grantee-guldem-karamustafa-anna-lupina-wegener-chern-stsm-hosts/

• Karamustafa, Güldem; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,

  2021.

  Interkulturelle Managementkompetenzen in KMU.

  Swiss Export Journal.

  61(3), pp. 12.

  Available from: https://e-journal.swiss-export.com/archive/epaper-e-journal-03-2021/#12

• Karamustafa, Güldem; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,

  2021.

  The identity work during legitimation : the case of new ventures’ internationalization into China[paper].

  In:

  21st EURAM Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada (online), 16-18 June 2021.

• Nestea, Paula; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,

  2020.

  Ne pas oublier la «carte en papier».

  Educateur.

  2020(7).

• Karamustafa, Güldem; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,

  2020.

  New ventures in China : the identity work in gaining insidership and its outcomes[paper].

  In:

  British Academy of Management Conference in the Cloud Proceedings.

  Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management (BAM), online, 2-4 September 2020.

  British Academy of Management.

  Available from: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/1520/submission/51

• Shuang, Liang; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Ullrich, Johannes; van Dick, Rolf,

  2020.

  ‘Change is our continuity’ : Chinese managers’ construction of post-merger identification after an acquisition in Europe[paper].

  In:

  20th EURAM Annual Conference, online, 4-6 December 2020.

• Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Pullin, Patricia; Shan, Juan,

  2019.

  L’art de la communication : et son apprentissage au sein des équipes sino-helvétiques.

  Ruizhong.

  2019(2), pp. 26-27.

  Available from: https://www.schweiz-china.ch/pdf/ruizhong/2019/2019-02_Ruizhong.pdf

• Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Ullrich, Johannes; van Dick, Rolf,

  2019.

  Multiple organizational identities in cross-border M&As : a longitudinal case study of a subsidiary’s mandate change after a European acquisition in China[paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the EURAM 2019 Conference.

  19th EURAM Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 June 2019.

• Shuang, Liang; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Ullrich, Johannes; van Dick, Rolf,

  2019.

  Trying before walking down the aisle : Chinese managers’ construction of post-merger identification after an acquisition in Europe[paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of BAM 2019.

  33rd Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management (BAM), Birmingham, United Kingdom, 3-5 September 2019.

  British Academy of Management.

• Konishi, Mario; Shan, Juan; Pullin, Patricia; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,

  2018.

  The role of common in-group identity and cultural intelligence in multicultural team effectiveness : a conceptual model[paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of BAM 2018.

  32nd Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management (BAM), Bristol, United Kingdom, 4-6 September 2018.

  British Academy of Management.

• Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Karamustafa, Güldem,

  2022.

  Designing the role of identification during unplanned change insights from a case study.

  In:

  Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management (BAM), Manchester, United Kingdom, 31 August - 2 September 2022.

• Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Ullrich, Johannes; van Dick, Rolf,

  2021.

  The role of identity leadership in European acquisitions in China.

  In:

  21st EURAM Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada (online), 16-18 June 2021.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

OB/ international management/ social identity psychology

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