Jina Mao

Chair and Associate Professor of Management and Business  

Email: jmao@skidmore.edu
Phone: 518-580-5104
Office: Palamountain 244

Education:

• Ph.D. in business administration, May 2012, Boston University, School of Management, Department of Organizational Behavior.
• M.S. in computer science, June 1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• B.S. in computer science, May 1997 (with honors), University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Minor in Business Administration

Courses:

• MB 107 Business and Organization Management
• MB 224 Foundations of Organizational Behavior
• MB 311 Working in America: Evolution and Crisis
• SSP 100 Human Dilemmas

Research interests:

• Identity, relationships, and culture in evolving world of work and occupations
• Social class and inequality in work and careers
• Qualitative research methodology

Publications:

• Mao, J. & Y. Xue (2022) Salvaging adulthood at youth work: Dignity, social disrespect, and the micro-politics of recognition in a polarized world. Organization, 29(6): 1056-1080.
• Mao, J. & Y. Shen (2020) Identity as career capital: Enhancing employability in the creative industries and beyond. Career Development International, 25(2): 186-203.
• Mao, J. & E. Feldman (2019) Class matters: Interviewing across social class boundaries. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 22(2): 125-137.
• Mao, J. (2018) Reflexivity in active participant observation: An ethnographic study of fast food work. SAGE Research Methods Cases. dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526428264
• Mao, J. (2017) Adults doing youth work: Identity work and situated rhetorics of adulthood among fast food workers. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2017, No. 1. BEST DISSERTATION PAPER AWARD (MOC Division
• Mao, J. & Y. Shen (2015) Cultural identity change in expatriates: A social network perspective. Human Relations, 68(10): 1533-1556.
• Hall, D. T., Mao, J. (2015) Exploring authenticity in careers. In Baugh, G. & S. Sullivan (Eds.) Research in Careers, Volume 2. Information Age Publishing.
• Howard-Grenville, J., Golden-Biddle, K, Irwin, J., Mao, J. (2011) Liminality as cultural process for cultural change. Organization Science, 22(2): 522-539.
• Golden-Biddle, K., Mao, J. (2011) What makes a change process positive? In Cameron, K. & Spreitzer, G. (Eds.) Handbook of positive organizational scholarship. Oxford University Press.