Shuhua Sun
- Associate Professor
- Director of China Programs, Goldring Institute for International Business
- Peter W. and Paul A. Callais Professorship in Entrepreneurship
| Office Address | 652 |
|---|---|
| Phone | 504 314 7574 |
| ssun7@tulane.edu |
Biography
Dr. Shuhua Sun’s research explores how individuals and teams navigate social and technological environments to pursue career, creative, and performance goals. His primary interests include: (1) creativity and entrepreneurship, (2) self-regulation and metacognition, and (3) social dynamics in the workplace. His work has been published in leading journals such as Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Business Venturing, and has been featured in college textbooks. His recent research centers on people-centered strategies for deploying and implementing AI in the workplace.
Professor Sun has extensive international teaching experience across undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. At Tulane University, he teaches courses in Organizational Behavior and Managing People in Organizations. Prior to joining Tulane, he taught Advanced Quantitative Research Methods in Business, Business Innovation and Sustainable Development, and Organizational Learning and Development at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He also taught Management & Organization and Managing Change at the National University of Singapore Business School.
Courses
Research
- Sun, S., Li, Z. A., Foo, M.D., Zhou, J., & Lu, J. G. (in press). How and For Whom Using Generative AI Affects Creativity: A Field Experiment. Journal of Applied Psychology.
- Sun, S. (2024). A componential and functional framework for metacognition: Implications for research in personnel and human resources management. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management.
- Uy, M., Sun, S., Gielnik, M., Jacob, G., Lagdameo, L., Miclat Jr., A., & Osi, E. (2024). Unpacking the nonlinear effect of self-efficacy in entrepreneurship: Why and under which condition more is not better. Personnel Psychology, 77(1): 81-108.
- Sun, S. (2022). Is political skill always beneficial? Why and when politically skilled employees become targets of coworker social undermining. Organization Science, 33(3), 1142-1162.
- Yu, W., Li, Z. A., Foo, M.-D., & Sun, S. (2022). Perceived social undermining keeps entrepreneurs up at night and disengaged the next day: The mediating role of sleep quality and the buffering role of trait resilience. Journal of Business Venturing, 37(2), 106186.
- Burke, M. J., Smith-Crowe, K., Burke, M. I., Cohen, A., Doveh, E., & Sun, S. (2022). The Relative Importance and Interaction of Contextual and Methodological Predictors of Mean rWG for Work Climate. Journal of Business and Psychology, 37(5), 923-951.
- Sun, S., Burke, M., Chen, H., Tan, Y., Zhang, J., & Hou, L. (2022). Mitigating the psychologically detrimental effects of supervisor undermining: Joint effects of voice and political skill. Human Relations, 75(1), 87-112.
- Sun, S., Wang, N., Zhu, J., & Song, Z. (2020). Crafting job demands and employee creativity: A diary study. Human Resource Management, 59(6), 569-583.
- Sun, S. & Chen, H. (2017). Is political behavior a viable coping strategy to perceived organizational politics? Unveiling the underlying resource dynamics. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102 (10), 1471-1482.
- Uy, M. A., Sun, S., & Foo, M.-D. (2017). Affect spin, entrepreneurs' well-being, and venture goal progress: The moderating role of goal orientation. Journal of Business Venturing, 32(4), 443-460.
- Sun, S. & van Emmerik, IJ. H. (2015). Are proactive personalities always beneficial? Political skill as a moderator. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100 (3), 966-975.
- Sun. S., Vancouver, J., & Weinhardt, J. (2014). Goal choices and planning: Distinct expectancy and value effects in two goal processes. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 125 (2), 220-233.
- Sun, S., Song, Z., & Lim, V. K. (2013). Dynamics of the job search process: Developing and testing a mediated moderation model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(5), 771-784.
- Sun, S. & Frese, M. (2013). Multiple goal pursuit. In E. A. Locke and G. P. Latham (Eds, pp. 179-194), New developments in goal setting and task performance. New York: Routledge.
- Song, Z., Foo, M.-D., Uy, M. A., & Sun, S. (2011). Unraveling the daily stress crossover between unemployed individuals and their employed spouses. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(1), 151-168.
