Prof. Dr. habil. Anna Aleksandra Lupina-Wegener
Prof. Dr. habil. Anna Aleksandra Lupina-Wegener
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Center for Culture & Creativity in International Business (C3IB)
Theaterstrasse 17
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
- Professor of International and Organizational Behavior
- Head of the Center for Cross-Cultural Management; 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
- Co Editor in Chief
Journal of Change Management: Reframing Leadership and Organizational Practice
01 / 2024 - today - 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
Awards
Honorary Ambassador of SGH
Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), awarded by Rector, Prof. Piotr Wachowiak
06 / 2024
Social media
Media presence
- RTS - Émission tribu - Le télétravail. Interview live
- Télétravail: privilégier la bienveillance plutôt que le contrôle, interview in Revue Hémisphères
- SRF Interview: Living in France as a Swiss
- SRF: Living in France as a Swiss (2)
Projects
- SHAPE: Shelter-based Hubs for Adaptive Partnerships and Engagement / Project leader / ongoing
- AI Index Machine Learning Algorithms / Project leader / completed
- Redefining Cross-Cultural Leadership / Project leader / completed
Publications
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Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Van Dick, Rolf; Haslam, Alexander,
2026.
Journal of Change Management.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2026.2623636
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Wilson‐Lemoine, Jérémy E.; Swiatczak, Martyna D.; Steffens, Niklas K.; van Dick, Rolf; Kerschreiter, Rudolf; Akfirat, Serap Arslan; Avanzi, Lorenzo; Ballada, Christine Joy A.; Barghi, Bita; Bazarov, Tahir; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.; Bunjak, Aldijana; Černe, Matej; Dumont, Kitty; Edelmann, Charlotte M.; Epitropaki, Olga; Fransen, Katrien; García‐Ael, Cristina; Giessner, Steffen R.; Gleibs, Ilka H.; Godlewska‐Werner, Dorota; Kark, Ronit; Laguia Gonzalez, Ana; Lam, Hodar; Lipponen, Jukka; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Markovits, Yannis; Maskor, Mazlan; Molero Alonso, Fernando J.; Monzani, Lucas; Moriano Leon, Juan A.; Neves, Pedro; Orosz, Gábor; Pandey, Diwakar; Pauknerová, Daniela; Retowski, Sylwiusz; Roland‐Lévy, Christine; Samekin, Adil; Schuh, Sebastian C.; Sekiguchi, Tomoki; Song, Lynda Jiwen; Story, Joana; Stouten, Jeroen; Sultanova, Liliya; Tatachari, Srinivasan; Valdenegro, Daniel; van Bunderen, Lisanne; Van Dijk, Dina; Vörös, Viktor; Wong, Sut I.; Youssef, Farida; Zhang, Xin‐an; Haslam, S. Alexander,
2026.
Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70049
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Bibic, Kira; Frenzel, Svenja B.; Kerschreiter, Rudolf; Wilson-Lemoine, Jeremy; Steffens, Niklas; Haslam, S. Alexander; Monzani, Lucas; Akfirat, Serap Arslan; Ballada, Christine Joy A.; 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 H.; Godlewska-Werner, Dorota; Kark, Ronit; Laguia Gonzalez, Ana; Lam, Hodar; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Markovits, Yannis; Maskor, Mazlan; Molero Alonso, Fernando Jorge; Moriano Leon, Juan A.; Neves, Pedro; Pauknerová, Daniela; Retowski, Sylwiusz; Roland-Lévy, Christine; Samekin, Adil; Schuh, Sebastian; Sekiguchi, Tomoki; Song, Lynda Jiwen; Story, Joana; Stouten, Jeroen; Sultanova, Liliya; Tatachari, Srinivasan; van Bunderen, Lisanne; Van Dijk, Dina; Wong, Sut I; Zhang, Xin‘an; van Dick, Rolf,
2025.
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
29(2), pp. 302-322.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302251341818
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Turek, Dariusz; Wojtczuk-Turek, Agnieszka; Edgar, Fiona; Podgorodnichenko, Nataliya; Okay-Somerville, Belgin; Fu, Na; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Klein, Howard J.; Akbas, Gulcin; Al-Romeedy, Bassam Samir; Apospori, Eleni; Bosak, Janine; Caldana, Adriana; Crapolicchio, Eleonora; Chavanovanich, Jennifer; Desjardins, Guillaume; Dorrough, Angela; Dunlop, Patrick; Edralin, Divina; Etikariena, Arum; Fernando, Denise; Galvez Sierra, Lady Brigitte; Gillet, Nicolas; Madero-Gómez, Sergio; Gutiérrez-Crocco, Francisca; Haeffner, Carolin; Hutchings, Paul; Huyghebaert-Zouaghi, Tiphaine; Ikeda, Hiroshi; Järlström, Maria; Jekel, Marc; Jensen, Dorthe Høj; Jose, Jerin; Karabatı, Serdar; Kinahan, Mary; Lauzier, Martin; Lawal, Abiodun; Lisak, Alon; Leiva, Pedro; Malayeri, Shera; Manzi, Claudia; Mariani, Marco Giovanni; Martskvishvili, Khatuna; Mayer, Claude-Hélène; Mikołajczyk, Katarzyna; Molina, María José Charlo; Moscatelli, Silvia; Mösli, Matteo; Neto, Felix; Neto, Joana; Rentería-Pérez, Erico; Petchthip, Narumol; Phelps, Ceri; Pazmay-Ramos, Segundo Gonzalo; Robakidze, Maia; Rojas, Dayamy Lima; Salendu, Alice; Salvati, Marco; Sánchez-Apellániz, Mercedes; Schmitz, Susana; Sevincer, Timur; Seydi, Masoumeh; Shimazu, Akihito; Sjabadhyni, Bertina; Sullivan, Katie; Sticca, Marina Greghi; Susianto, Harry; Tan, Le; Turkoglu, Beril; Veth, Klaske; Wee, Serena; Zhang, Gangfeng,
2025.
Central European Management Journal.
33(4), pp. 667-696.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/cemj-04-2024-0121
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Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Gjerald, Olga; Crevani, Lucia; Kuipers, Ben; Vardaman, James; Murphy, Joanne,
2025.
Journal of Change Management.
25(2), pp. 77-84.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2025.2468392
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Gjerald, Olga; Kars-Unluoglu, Selen; Zabicka-Wlodarczyk, Magdalena; Lupina-Wegener, Anna Aleksandra,
2025.
Changing change : from heroic leadership to collective agency.
Journal of Change Management.
25(3), pp. 169-178.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2025.2539965
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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.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management.
31(5), pp. 4910-4932.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2815
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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 Psychology.
45(6), pp. 979-1011.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12952
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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.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
18(22), pp. 12081.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212081
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Liang, Shuang; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Ullrich, Johannes; van Dick, Rolf,
2021.
Journal of Change Management.
22(1), pp. 59-78.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2021.1951812
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Shan, Juan; Konishi, Mario; Pullin, Patricia; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,
2021.
Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology.
5(4), pp. 519-529.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.115
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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
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Lupina-Wegener, Anna Aleksandra; Liang, Shuang; van Dick, Rolf; Ullrich, Johannes,
2020.
Journal of Organizational Change Management.
33(7), pp. 1253-1275.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-08-2019-0260
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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
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Weil, Markus; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Syrigos, Evangelos,
2026.
In:
Blume, Dana; Volk, Benno, eds.,
Hochschullehre im digitalen Zeitalter : Theorie und Praxis zukunftsfähiger Lern- und Lehrprozesse.
Bielefeld:
transcript.
pp. 89-99.
Medien- und Gestaltungsästhetik ; 21.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35162
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Lupina-Wegener, Anna; van Dick, Rolf; Liang, Shuang,
2023.
Identification change in Chinese acquisitions in Europe : the social identity approach.
In:
Oreg, Shaul; Michel, Alexandra; By, Rune Todnem, eds.,
The psychology of organizational change.
Cambridge University Press.
pp. 148-169.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086721.010
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Liang, Shuang; van Dick, Rolf; Ullrich, Johannes; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,
2023.
Social identity processes in Sino-Western mergers and acquisitions.
In:
Oreg, Shaul; Michel, Alexandra; By, Rune Todnem, eds.,
The psychology of organizational change.
Cambridge University Press.
pp. 170-182.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086721.011
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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
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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.
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Gjerald, Olga; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Crevani, Lucia; Kuipers, Ben; Kars-Unluoglu, Selen; Murphy, Joanne; Meglio, Olimpia; Meier, Ninna; Vardaman, James; Zabicka-Wlodarczyk, Magdalena,
2026.
Reframing leadership and organizational change : 25 years of inquiry at JCM.
Journal of Change Management.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2026.2627006
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By, Rune Todnem; Lupina-Wegener, Anna Aleksandra; Gjerald, Olga,
2024.
Journal of Change Management.
24(1), pp. 1-4.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2024.2310318
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Shuang, Liang; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Ullrich, Johannes; van Dick, Rolf,
2020.
In:
20th EURAM Annual Conference, online, 4-6 December 2020.
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Nestea, Paula; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,
2020.
Ne pas oublier la «carte en papier».
Educateur.
2020(7).
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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
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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
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Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Ullrich, Johannes; van Dick, Rolf,
2019.
In:
Proceedings of the EURAM 2019 Conference.
19th EURAM Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 June 2019.
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Shuang, Liang; Lupina-Wegener, Anna; Ullrich, Johannes; van Dick, Rolf,
2019.
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.
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Konishi, Mario; Shan, Juan; Pullin, Patricia; Lupina-Wegener, Anna,
2018.
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.
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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.
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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.