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

+41 58 934 67 41
annaaleksandra.lupina-wegener@zhaw.ch

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

Media presence

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Wojtczuk‐Turek, A. et al. (2026) 'Putting sustainable human resource management and workplace eudaimonic well-being into cross-cultural context', European Management Journal. doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2026.03.008.
Lupina-Wegener, A., Van Dick, R. and Haslam, A. (2026) 'From identity threat to identity gain : the role of identity leadership in helping employees negotiate organizational change', Journal of Change Management, 26(1), pp. 60–72. doi: 10.1080/14697017.2026.2623636.
Wilson‐Lemoine, J. E. et al. (2026) 'Beyond prototypicality : identity leadership is about shaping and embedding a sense of social identity, not just representing it', Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 56(3), pp. 251–270. doi: 10.1111/jasp.70049.
Gjerald, O. et al. (2025) 'Changing change : from heroic leadership to collective agency', Journal of Change Management, 25(3), pp. 169–178. doi: 10.1080/14697017.2025.2539965.
Bibic, K. et al. (2025) 'The value of leaders we trust and leaders who make us stronger : exploring the distinct contributions of different components of identity leadership to group member outcomes', Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 29(2), pp. 302–322. doi: 10.1177/13684302251341818.
Turek, D. et al. (2025) 'Does the relationship between sustainable human resource management and organizational identification vary by culture? Evidence from 35 countries based on GLOBE framework', Central European Management Journal, 33(4), pp. 667–696. doi: 10.1108/cemj-04-2024-0121.
Lupina-Wegener, A. et al. (2025) 'Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Curated Collection: Celebrating 25 Years of Journal of Change Management: Reframing Leadership and Organizational Practice (JCM)', Journal of Change Management, 25(2), pp. 77–84. doi: 10.1080/14697017.2025.2468392.
Monzani, L. et al. (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. doi: 10.1111/pops.12952.
Hartwell, C. A. and Lupina-Wegener, A. (2024) 'Intergroup biases in assessing political risk : the role of national identity', AIB Insights, 24(4). doi: 10.46697/001c.123394.
Wojtczuk‐Turek, A. et al. (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. doi: 10.1002/csr.2815.
Shan, J. et al. (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. doi: 10.1002/jts5.115.
Liang, S. et al. (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. doi: 10.1080/14697017.2021.1951812.
Liang, S. et al. (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. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12785.
van Dick, R. et al. (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), p. 12081. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182212081.
Lupina-Wegener, A. A. et al. (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. doi: 10.1108/JOCM-08-2019-0260.
Prystupa-Rządca, K., Lupina-Wegener, A. and Johannot, C. (2019) 'Lessons learned from Swiss born globals entering Brazil', Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 12(1), pp. 125–143. doi: 10.1108/JEEE-12-2018-0139.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Weil, M., Lupina-Wegener, A. and Syrigos, E. (2026) 'Transforming higher education : driving innovation in higher education through digital transformation?', in Blume, D. and Volk, B. (eds) Hochschullehre im digitalen Zeitalter : Theorie und Praxis zukunftsfähiger Lern- und Lehrprozesse. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 89–99. doi: 10.14361/9783839405413-006.
Lupina-Wegener, A. et al. (2023) 'Liability of emergingness of emerging market banks internationalizing to advanced economies', in Duarte, P. A. B., Leandro, F. J. B. S., and Martínez Galán, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 201–221. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-6700-9_13.
Liang, S. et al. (2023) 'Social identity processes in Sino-Western mergers and acquisitions', in Oreg, S., Michel, A., and By, R. T. (eds) The psychology of organizational change. Cambridge University Press, pp. 170–182. doi: 10.1017/9781009086721.011.
Lupina-Wegener, A., van Dick, R. and Liang, S. (2023) 'Identification change in Chinese acquisitions in Europe : the social identity approach', in Oreg, S., Michel, A., and By, R. T. (eds) The psychology of organizational change. Cambridge University Press, pp. 148–169. doi: 10.1017/9781009086721.010.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Yang Meier, D. and Lupina-Wegener, A. (2026) 'Trust and psychological safety in temporary and multicultural scientific teams', in 42nd EGOS Colloquium, online, 9-11 July 2026.
Lupina-Wegener, A., Karamustafa-Köse, G. and Yang Meier, D. (2023) 'Redefining the role of research teams in studying leadership', in 49th Conference of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), Lisbon, Portugal, 15-17 December 2023.

Other publications

Gjerald, O. et al. (2026) 'Reframing leadership and organizational change : 25 years of inquiry at JCM', Journal of Change Management, 26(1), pp. 1–7. doi: 10.1080/14697017.2026.2627006.
By, R. T., Lupina-Wegener, A. A. and Gjerald, O. (2024) 'Home of the MAD', Journal of Change Management, 24(1), pp. 1–4. doi: 10.1080/14697017.2024.2310318.
Karamustafa-Köse, G. and Lupina-Wegener, A. (2022) 'Tipps für erfogreiche Geschäfte in der MOE-Region', Swiss Export Journal, 2022(1), p. 10. Available at: https://e-journal.swiss-export.com/archive/epaper-e-journal-01-2022/#0.
Karamustafa, G. and Lupina-Wegener, A. (2021) 'The identity work during legitimation : the case of new ventures' internationalization into China', in 21st EURAM Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada (online), 16-18 June 2021.
Karamustafa, G. and Lupina-Wegener, A. (2021) 'Interkulturelle Managementkompetenzen in KMU', Swiss Export Journal, 61(3), p. 12. Available at: https://e-journal.swiss-export.com/archive/epaper-e-journal-03-2021/#12.
Lupina-Wegener, A. (2021) 'Acquisitions suisses en Chine : la réussite grâce à un leadership adapté', Ruizhong, 2021(1), pp. 44–45. Available at: https://www.schweiz-china.ch/pdf/ruizhong/2021/2021-01_Ruizhong.pdf.
Radunović, M., Karamustafa, G. and Lupina-Wegener, A. (2021) Bridging the gaps on the road to success : the case of CRBC in the Western Balkans. CHERN. Available at: 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/.
Lupina-Wegener, A., Clark, E. and Karamustafa, G. (2021) 'Les trois leviers pour instaurer une culture de l'innovation au travail', HR Today. Available at: https://www.hrtoday.ch/fr/article/les-trois-leviers-pour-instaurer-une-culture-de-l-innovation-au-travail.
Nestea, P. and Lupina-Wegener, A. (2020) 'Ne pas oublier la «carte en papier»', Educateur, 2020(7).
Karamustafa, G. and Lupina-Wegener, A. (2020) 'New ventures in China : the identity work in gaining insidership and its outcomes', in British Academy of Management Conference in the Cloud Proceedings. British Academy of Management. Available at: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/1520/submission/51.
Shuang, L. et al. (2020) ''Change is our continuity' : Chinese managers' construction of post-merger identification after an acquisition in Europe', in 20th EURAM Annual Conference, online, 4-6 December 2020.
Lupina-Wegener, A., Ullrich, J. and van Dick, R. (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', in Proceedings of the EURAM 2019 Conference.
Shuang, L. et al. (2019) 'Trying before walking down the aisle : Chinese managers' construction of post-merger identification after an acquisition in Europe', in Proceedings of BAM 2019. British Academy of Management.
Lupina-Wegener, A., Pullin, P. and Shan, J. (2019) 'L'art de la communication : et son apprentissage au sein des équipes sino-helvétiques', Ruizhong, 2019(2), pp. 26–27. Available at: https://www.schweiz-china.ch/pdf/ruizhong/2019/2019-02_Ruizhong.pdf.
Konishi, M. et al. (2018) 'The role of common in-group identity and cultural intelligence in multicultural team effectiveness : a conceptual model', in Proceedings of BAM 2018. British Academy of Management.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Lupina-Wegener, A. and Karamustafa, G. (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, A., Ullrich, J. and van Dick, R. (2021) 'The role of identity leadership in European acquisitions in China', in 21st EURAM Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada (online), 16-18 June 2021.