Youmin Xi

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · executive president

This book serves as a companion piece to "What Management Could Be and Do: The Life Story of A Practitioner of Idealism", weaving together the authentic narratives of Professor Xi Youmin, a renowned management scholar and founder of HeXie Management Theory, along with his multi-generational disciples. It presents a vivid portrayal of a mentorship j...

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A leader’s traits evolve over time and are expressed differently under different situations. Based on Xu et al.’ (Leadersh Q 25(6):1095–1119, 2014) research, this study focuses on the dynamic view on the leader trait theory in the Chinese context to explore the distinctive characteristics. There are three patterns (homological, converse, and compos...

本文发表在《世界教育信息》期刊，该期刊由中华人民共和国教育部主管，教育部教育管理信息中心主办，教育部国际合作与交流司（港澳台办公室）指导（国际标准刊号ISSN1672-3937，国内统一刊号CN11-4123/G4,国内邮发代号82-128，国外邮发代号M2044），是教育部所属面向国内外公开发行的国家级综合性期刊。 文章摘要： 在瞬息万变的数智时代，学生应该学什么、怎么学和得到什么样的支持？教师应该怎么教和设计什么样的课程？大学应该如何通过转型更多地支持学生的健康成长？文章回顾和总结了西交利物浦大学的和谐教育与管理双重实验，提出未来教育应是以学生健康成长为目标的兴趣驱动的终身学习，教育的核心任务是心智营造，学习将贯穿于学生的学习、成长、为人全过程，涵盖继承性学习、反思性认知、探索性整合、兴...

Despite the high expectation of virtual learning environments (VLEs) to accelerate meaningful educational innovations for more interactive learning and teaching, resistance to changes exists, and innovations are fading over time. How to promote widespread and steady adoption of VLE enabled innovations remains an open question. This study uses mixed...

Broad societal disruptions (i.e., the industrial revolution, digitalisation, and globalisation) have created a need for an increasingly adaptive higher education system in recent decades. However, the response to these disruptions by universities has generally been slow. Most recently, online learning environments have had to be leveraged by univer...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the complete process and underlying mechanism that social enterprises obtain legitimacy during interactions with stakeholders from theoretical integration of institutional theory and organization ecology perspective. Design/methodology/approach Based on theoretical classification, this paper selects six typical C...

Complexity theory argues for bounded instability to allow organizations to run operations at a regular speed while also allowing them to explore innovations at a faster speed in support of digital transformation. HeXie management theory uses a mix of systems engineering and holism to argue for a theme around which empowered employees can explore an...

Living in the Present of the Future: In Memory of James G. March (1928–2018) - Youmin Xi, Peng Liu, Xiaojun Zhang

This study investigates the influence of social structures on the meaning and value of resources. Although understanding resources from a sociological perspective is equally important for the competitive advantage of organizations, prior studies on what a resource is and how a resource becomes valuable have been conducted within an economic perspec...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the categories of leader traits, their generation and their relationships in leaders’ socialization. Design/methodology/approach The authors take the case study method, which is the most suitable method to answer research questions on why and how to fulfill the study purpose on the basis of the cas...

For nearly 30 years, Youmin Xi, Professor of Management at Xi’an Jiaotong University, who serves concurrently as the executive president of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, has been trying to find a way to best integrate the management practices and management research in the East and West...

This study identified job complexity as a moderator that influences the relationship between perceived leader regulatory-focused modeling and followers' creativity. Using a sample of 340 employees and their supervisors from five Chinese companies, the authors found that (1) perceived leader role modeling (promotion-focused/prevention-focused) is re...

This paper investigates the impact of leader feedback on followers’ knowledge-sharing behavior through a regulatory focus theory perspective. Data were collected through an experiment with 129 college students. Results showed that compared with leader’s prevention feedback style and negative feedback valence, promotion style and positive feedback v...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the indigenous concept of suzhi at individual and organizational levels, and identify its dimensions for human resource management (HRM) research and practice in China. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a comprehensive review of suzhi literature, Chinese cultural and historical literatur...

Greenhouse gas reduction and energy saving are becoming two important issues in both industrialized and developing countries, and policymakers are developing means to reduce total domestic energy use. We evaluate and compare the direct and the indirect energy use both in the People's Republic of China (China) and the United States of America (US) b...

With regard to the challenge of social contradictions and the plan to construct HeXie society, this paper analyzed reasons of the contradictions and proposed three mechanisms to realize HeXie society from the perspective of social governance. We argued that soft legal system, incomplete market, and weakened network mechanisms are main factors that...

In this research, the authors tested a mediated moderation model for creativity. Using a sample of 340 employees and their supervisors from 5 Chinese companies, the authors found that (1) followers' work regulatory focus mediated the relation between leader role modeling and creativity, (2) job complexity moderated the relation between leader role...

This paper introduces regulatory focus theory to the research field of leader's influence on follower's creativity, and theoretically proposes and empirically verifies a conceptual framework about the effect mechanism of leaders' feedback on followers' creativity. Based on a sample of 129 students and by using an experiment method, this paper deepl...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the topic of the Chinese business model and provide a brief introduction to the papers in this special issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the importance of studying business model in the Chinese market and summarises the eight papers in this issue. Findings The papers in this spec...

Rural entrepreneurs are of extreme importance in China's progress toward a more market‐oriented economy as the vast majority of Chinese live in rural areas. From an institutional perspective and based on content analysis of 91 publicly published stories about rural Chinese entrepreneurs broadcast by China Central Television, this paper addresses se...

Building on theories of differentiated leadership and knowledge sharing, this study investigated the influence of dual-level transformational leadership on three group climates, leader–member exchange (LMX), and knowledge sharing. Using data from 275 employees of 71 work groups in five companies, we found that group-focused leadership and individua...

Infrastructure has become an important topic in a variety of areas of the policy debate, including energy saving and climate change. In this paper, we use an energy input-output model to evaluate the amounts of China's embodied energy use in infrastructure investment from 1992 to 2007. We also use the structure decomposition model to analyze the fa...

In previous studies on coordinating exploration-exploitation activities, much attention has been paid on network structures while the roles played by actors' strategic behavior have been largely ignored. In this paper, the authors extend March's simulation model on parallel problem solving by adding structurally equivalent imitation. In this way, o...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address several challenges faced by organizational management in the contemporary context, and how managers can better reply to management challenges by integrating oriental and occidental philosophy and wisdom. Design/methodology/approach – The paper first describes the characteristics of the contemporary...

The loss of trust within and between organizations has become serious worldwide, especially in China. In this study, we seek to explain why as well as how leaders at two different levels (i.e., the top management and the supervisory levels) affect employees’ trust in leadership at the two levels distinctively, especially in the context of China as...

In this article we seek to explore the contextual antecedents of organizational trust. In light of the complex links between organizational contexts and organizational behaviours, we focus on the effects of the three most critical contextual antecedents, i.e., leadership role, structural rule, and cultural norm at the organizational level, on organ...

In previous studies on coordinating exploration-exploitation activities, much attention has been paid on network structures while the roles played by actors’ strategic behavior have been largely ignored. In this paper, the authors extend March’s simulation model on parallel problem solving by adding structurally equivalent imitation. In this way, o...

This study presents a dual strategic intent perspective, elucidating that international venturing by emerging economy private firms is prompted by exploiting firm-specific advantages, as well as circumventing market imperfection residuals embedded in home country economic transformation. Our analysis of 1,355 Chinese private enterprises shows that...

Purpose This paper is a follow‐up to the authors' first introductive article on the emerging He‐Xie management theory (HXMT), aiming to help readers better understand the concept of He‐Xie as well as the value of HXMT through several selected cases. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the value of HXMT in helping achieve the objectives of an...

abstractThis study identifies the societal institutional framework as the cause for the tie distribution issue – the sizes of ego-networks of social actors are unevenly distributed across social categories of these social actors. The analysis of 250 Chinese firms showed that managers employed by state-owned enterprises possess more governmental tie...

Greenhouse gas reduction and energy consumption are becoming two important issues in both industrialized and developing countries, and policy makers are developing means to reduce total domestic energy use. We evaluate and compare the direct and the indirect energy consumption both in the People’s Republic of China (China) and the United States of...

Greater use of renewable energy is being aggressively promoted to combat climate change by the Chinese government and by other governments. Agricultural straw is the kind of renewable energy source that would become a pollution source if it is not well utilized. We select the Shiliquan straw-based electricity generation project in Shandong Province...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the indigenous He-Xie management theory (HXMT) through the lens of a holistic perspective from Chinese philosophical wisdom. Design/methodology/approach – The paper revisited the challenges faced by orthodox management theories, proposing management scholars should borrow Eastern philosophical int...

Growing international trade has not only positively affected the People’s Republic of China’s (China’s) economic development, but also expanded the exportation of energy embodied in goods during their production. This energy flow out will pose risks to China’s rational utilization of natural resources as well as environmental protection. In this pa...

a b s t r a c t This research aims to shed light on the interaction mechanism of cost risks for biomass material supply in power generation, especially for biomass-coal dual-fuel systems. Firstly, a game model is established to analyze interactions among factors including unit procurement cost, unit transportation cost, basic price and coal price f...

This paper tests the impact of guanxi on behaviors among firms in a Chinese marketing channel. Guanxi is operationalized in this paper as emotional closeness and interactive state. We find that the emotional closeness between channel-boundary personnel of firms has a positive impact on their exercise of noncoercive power, a negative impact on their...

In previous studies on coordinating exploration-exploitation activities, much attention has been paid on network structures while the roles played by actors' strategic behavior have been largely ignored. In this paper, the authors extend March's simulation model on parallel problem solving by adding structurally equivalent imitation. In this way, o...

This paper examines the effects of a firm's interorganizational network characteristics and a CEO's interpersonal network ties on a firm's strategic adaptive capability in a transition economy. Using a unique survey dataset of 250 Chinese firms, the paper focuses on the compositional diversity of a firm's interorganizational network and the structu...

This paper discusses chain of command networks that are most likely to exhibit the scale-free (SF) property in organizational networks, explaining why organizational networks do not show SF distributions. We propose an evolving hierarchical tree network model without explicit preferential attachment. The model simulates several kinds of chain of co...

Households consume a large amount of indirect energy through the consumption of goods and services. This fact makes the quantitative analysis of indirect household energy consumption the foundation of energy policy design. This paper improves the compilation method of energy input–output tables, and establishes a sequence of energy input–output tab...

Resource tax reform is imperative in western China. However, research concerning effects of the adjustment of the resource tax rate in western China is far from adequate. In this paper, an energy Input-Occupancy-Output table in 2004 for western China has been established by using improved energy input-output table compilation method, and the effect...

We suggest that the structural replacement thesis, which proposes that managers in Chinese nonstate-owned enterprises (NSOEs) possess more government ties than managers in Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs), is theoretically incomplete because it considers only the motivation of managers of NSOEs. The extensiveness of social ties is influenced...

As an encouraging innovation and breakthrough of management model, knowledge management is required by the management practice of hydropower development enterprises. However, there are still several limitations and insufficiencies in current practice on this issue. Aiming at remedying the shortages and weakness, we develop a knowledge management mo...

This paper is aimed as a contribution to the process of upgrading old industrial clusters towards a new status of innovative clusters. The concept of `lock-in' is followed as it applies to a specific resource-based industrial cluster, to assess the value of this concept in the degradation of such clusters in a Chinese context. After identifying fac...

The western region is an important strategic base of energy in China. The average per capita possession of fossil energy in the west is twice that in China. On the basis of the analysis of the mechanism how industrial structure adjustment affects energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP), the energy input-output table of western C...

In recent years, China's economy has been growing rapidly and caused a dramatic increase to energy demand. To investigate the dynamic relationship between economic growth and China energy, a cointegration analysis and an error-correction model are used in this study to examine the long-term equilibrium relationship between gross domestic product (G...

In this article, based on the data of the energy statistics from 1980 to 2004, we analyze the relationship between the primary energy structures, technique, management, and the energy use per unit of GDP based on the path analysis approach and present the degree of the direct, indirect, and the overall influences of the primary energy structures on...

Taking retailers and their suppliers as the unit of analysis, this study investigated the impact of interpersonal guanxi on exercise of power in a Chinese marketing channel. By analyzing the data of 225 cases collected from the supplier side, the study found that interpersonal guanxi is composed of instrumental part and emotional part, and the emot...

Conflict is a pivotal variable influencing team decision performance. This article reviewed literature on intragroup conflict and studied how different types of conflicts affect perceived team decision quality and satisfaction. We conducted a survey on 156 managers and found that the task-relationship conflict dimensions are also valid in the Chine...

In this paper, we analyzed the relationship between turnover of top management and performance of listed companies after takeover. We made a hypothesis that after equity change of listed corporations, the turnover of top management improved the performance of these corporations. We chose the sample of listed corporations in Shenzhen and Shanghai se...

The end-user computing satisfaction (EUCS) instrument developed by Doll and Torkzadeh is commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of information systems. This instrument had been validated in different types of information systems before. It is a good tradition and practice to validate the EUCS instrument again before it is used for an invalidat...

This study examines the effects of transformational and transactional leadership on team member's performance in virtual teams. Trust in leader acts as an important mediator of the effects of transformational leadership on performance. Fifty-three, four-person teams participated in a laboratory study. Results showed the direct and indirect effects...

This study evaluates 74 Chinese corporate websites by examining their contents and functions to understand the business objectives. It found that business objectives of these websites mainly focused on publicity, and very little on online sales. Firms in banking and construction industries develop the highest quality websites, while firms in public...

The establishment and formation of eunomic and healthy social order is one of the most important objectives of establishing and implementing the scientific development view and constructing harmonious socialist society. On the basis of systematically reviewing relevant theory and practice about social order and its construction, this paper thorough...

This article identifies organizational dynamic capabilities with adaptability and adopts the concept of fitness landscape by Wright and the NK model of population genetics by Kauffman. The article also applies the cellular automata (CA) model to the construction of organization structure and interaction scope within organization members. In this wo...

Based on a HeXie Management perspective, theoretical hypotheses are advanced which argue that for harmony configuration, there are significantly many simultaneous changes among the variables of environment (E), organization (O), leadership (L) and strategy (S). Tested by the data from 149 Chinese firms, the academic research supports the hypotheses...

This paper aims to bidirectional interacting between knowledge absorber and disseminator for knowledge in the process of knowledge transfer. The concept of disseminative capacity is proposed in light of the concept of absorptive capacity, to analyze the differences of disseminative capacity among members in network organization. The method of simul...

When an organization pursues the goals specific to its environment, networks are constructed to gain various resources from other collaborators. However, most individual studies on inter-organizational network have taken a simplified view of relationships among member organizations by focusing on a static and single level linkage. This paper propos...

Artificial neural network has been put into abundant applications in social science research recently. In this study, we investigate the topological structures of organization network, which can possibly account for the different performances of intra-organizational knowledge transfer. We construct two types of networks including hierarchy and scal...

Previous studies suggested the interaction between knowledge transfer and structural characteristics and 4 behavior pattern of network organization. In these research works, however, the process of knowledge transfer is explored from the micro-level. Little, concerning the macro-level dynamics behavior pattern of network organization and the links...

In a transition economy, how does business group affiliation make a difference in firm performance? Under the broad label of institutional voids, what specific voids can business groups fill? This paper addresses these questions by drawing on insights from property rights theory and an institutional perspective. We argue that ownership voids, as a...

Case-based reasoning (CBR) is an important reasoning technique of expert system. In this paper, the authors introduce CBR to intelligent early-warning support system, which could warn quantitatively for enterprise financial crisis and could warn qualitatively by expert’s knowledge and experience. Furthermore, genetic algorithm is applied to case-ba...

Here we studied the topological structures of organization networks, which can possibly account for the different performances of intraorganizational knowledge transfer. By applying the complexity theory, we construct two types of networks which are hierarchy and scale-free networks, and one-layer perceptron model was used to simulate the knowledge...

The dynamic behavior of discrete-time cellular neural networks(DTCNN), which is strict with zero threshold value, is mainly studied in asynchronous mode and in synchronous mode. In general, a k-attractor of DTCNN is not a convergent point. But in this paper, it is proved that k-attractor is a convergent point if the strict DTCNN satisfies some cond...

The discrete Hopfield neural network is a special kind of feedback neural networks. The stability of recurrent neural networks is not only known to be one of the mostly basic problems, but also known to be bases of the network various applications. The dynamic behavior of discrete Hopfield neural network is mainly studied in partial parallel mode b...

Recent research on small-world theory has been expanded upon organizations behavior. However, most individual studies have taken a simplified view of individuals and relationships among members by focusing on a single type of links mainly within dyadic relationships. In reality, members of organizations are interacting with each other and often con...

Discrete Hopfield neural networks with delay are extension of discrete Hopfield neural networks. The stability of the networks is known to be bases of successful applications of the networks. The stability of discrete Hopfield neural networks with delay is mainly investigated in serial mode. Several new sufficient conditions for the networks with d...

In this paper, we investigate some information properties of parameter estimation in spectral analysis of stationary time series based on a geometrical framework. Stationary ARMA models are studied as a submanifold in the expo-nential family and the so-called Whittle estimator is analyzed in association with the embedded curvatures. Asymptotic beha...

Many characteristics of Group Decision Making (GDM) are different from those of individual decision. The literature dealing with the stages of GDM is rather scant. This paper presents a view about the stages of group decision processes, characterizing GDM as a dynamic process. We discuss particularly the aggregation stage of preferences and reports...

The paper presents a discussion of the information organizing techniques in DSS. Proceeding with the information organizing and flowing analysis, the generic features of the decision support process are described, and some advices for future study are also raised.

One of the performance objectives of DSS is that a DSS should support all phases of the decision making process. After concluding the achievements of several research projects, a theoretical model named ″The Generation Model for DSS Supporting All phases of the Decision Making Process″ (Abbr. GMSPDM) is proposed, and the technical elements of the m...

Through the analysis of the relationship among responsibility, authority and profit (R, A and P), a set of standards has been proposed by which R, A and P can be rationablly distributed among economic subjects. Based on the quantification of R, A and P, the efficiency models for the arrangement of R. A and P are developed. Finally, with evidences f...

The Environmental Model for Decision Making (abbr.as EMD) is briefly presented. The design and implementation of the EMD-based controlling component of DSS is carefully discussed and analyzed. This component provides a mechanism for applying the EMD technique to the development of DSS, and also becomes the controlling subsystem in the decision supp...

The coritivity, h(G), of a connected graph G, is defined by h(G) = max{ω(G-S)-|S|S∈ C(G)}, where ω(G) denotes the number of components of a graph G, C(G) denotes the collection of cut-sets of G. In this paper, the notion of complementary coritivity is proposed, and the relations between coritivity and its complement are studied, for example, two bo...

Enterprise diagnosis has become prevailing in both theoretical research fields and enterprise management practice, but there are still several limitations and insufficiencies in current research and application on this issue. Aiming at remedying the shortages and weakness, we start our research based on data mining algorithms and conducted at strat...

The original publication is available at JAIST Press http://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/jaist-press/index.html IFSR 2005 : Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research : The New Roles of Systems Sciences For a Knowledge-based Society : Nov. 14-17, 2104, Kobe, Japan Symposium 4, Session 3 : Meta-synthesis...

The original publication is available at JAIST Press http://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/jaist-press/index.html IFSR 2005 : Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research : The New Roles of Systems Sciences For a Knowledge-based Society : Nov. 14-17, 2112, Kobe, Japan Symposium 4, Session 5 : Meta-synthesis...