Personal profile

Yuan Li, associate professor in Renmin University of China, RUC WUYUZHANG Young Scholar. She received her Ph.D in Management from University of Aberdeen in the UK in 2011. Her research interests include ethical leadership, the corporate social responsibility, business ethics and so forth.

Main Courses: “Philosophy of Management” “PPE Interdisciplinary dialogue”.

Academic work（in English）:

Traditional Chinese Thinking on HRM Practices: Heritage and Transformation in China ，Palgrave Macmillan，2013；

Yuan Li* and Robert Chia:The effect of traditional Chinese fuzzy thinking on HRM practices in China, Chinese Management Studies (SSCI). 2011, 5(4):431-449；

Yuan Li, Exploring the philosophical underpinnings of Western HRM. Frontiers of Philosophy in China ，2012，7(2):317-346；

Yuan Li.Developing Ethical Leadership in China: The Value of Confucian Virtue Ethics. Frontiers of Philosophy in China , 2020, 11(4):586-611.

Yuan Li, Robert Chia, Jonatan Gosling, Confucian Virtue Ethics and Ethical Leadership in Modern China, Journal of Business Ethics （SSCI）, 2023（182）：119-133；

Restoring Ethics to Meritocracy: The Contribution of Confucian Values to Business Leadership，in Mike Thompson and David Bevan. Wise Management in Organisational Complexity . Palgrave Macmillan，2013；

In Praise of Strategic Indirection: Towards a Non-Instrumental Understanding of Phronesis as Practical Wisdom，in Mike Thompson and David Bevan. Wise Management in Organisational Complexity. Palgrave Macmillan，2013；

the chapter of Zhuangzi, The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies , edited by Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Danial Hjorth, and Robin Holt, Oxford University Press，2014；

the chapter of Kongzi, The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies, edited by Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Danial Hjorth, and Robin Holt, Oxford University Press，2014；

Social Capital Networking in China and the Traditional Values of Guanxi, in The Political Economy of Wasta: Use and Abuse of Social Capital Networking , edited by Mohamed A.Ramady, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016；