Paper by Prof. Chen Chunhua’s Team to Be Published in APJM

Nov 19-2021   

Prof. Chen Chunhua, Dean of BiMBA Business School, and her team have seen their paper, Workplace Diversity in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Review of Literature and Directions for Future Research, accepted by Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

The co-authors include Prof. Chen, research assistants Zhu Li and Liu Chao, as well as collaborators Chen Xingwen, Liu Jun, and Huo Dongxia. Their findings display the evolution of diversity literature and uncover future research directions to spur follow-up diversity studies.

The research uses co-citation and co-occurrence analyses to trace how the landscape of diversity evolved from January 1993 to August 2021, using the scientific visualization tool CiteSpace. Base on a dataset of 636 diversity-related publications in the Asia-Pacific region collected from the Web of Science database, the researchers conduct a bibliometric review to map the landscape, with the focus on identifying landmark researchers, articles, and journals, and the intellectual structure of, and changes in, diversity-related research themes.

In addition, a narrative review was adopted to summarize the frequently studied diversity themes, to capture the developing trends of diversity research, and to build an integrated model of workplace diversity in the Asia-Pacific context.

Prof Chen and her team is dedicated to the exploration of the synergetic and symbiotic theory in organizational contexts. Diversity research in the Asia Pacific, they propose, can be furthered by examining the region’s specific contextual elements (e.g., power, diversity-related religions, cultural values) and paying special attention to minority groups (the elderly, the handicapped, and ethnic minorities, among others).