This is a wide ranging call for papers addressing and extending Professor Kwok Leung's scholarship in cross-cultural research, psychology, and management (see below).
Questions about the special issue may be directed to any of the guest editors. Papers for the special issue should be submitted electronically through MOR's ScholarOne Manuscripts site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mor and identified as submission to the ‘Scholarship of Kwok Leung’ special issue. All submissions should follow the ‘MOR Author Guidelines’, available online at http://journals.cambridge.org/images/fileUpload/documents/MOR_ifc.pdf
The Special Issue will be published on the second anniversary of Professor Leung's passing (MOR 13.3).
Kwok Leung Scholarship Legacy
Kwok Leung made many significant theoretical and methodological contributions to cross-cultural research in psychology and management (Leung, Bhagat, Buchan, Erez, & Gibson, Reference Leung, Bhagat, Buchan, Erez and Gibson2005; Van de Vijver & Leung, Reference Van de Vijver and Leung1997). He is regarded as a thought leader in many areas of cross-cultural, social, and organizational psychology, including distributive justice (Leung & Park, Reference Leung and Park1986), conflict resolution and negotiation (Leung, Reference Leung1987), harmony maintenance (Leung, Koch, & Lu, Reference Leung, Koch and Lu2002), pan-cultural structures of human values and beliefs (Leung & Bond, Reference Leung and Bond2004), Chinese personality (Cheung, Leung, Fan, Song, Zhang, & Zhang, Reference Cheung, Leung, Fan, Song, Zhang and Zhang1996), and creativity (Morris & Leung, Reference Morris and Leung2010).
A central thread in his 30-year career is modeling how culture influences social and organizational behaviors. His earliest empirical contributions tested the model that differences in fairness judgments between individualist and collectivist countries are carried by individual differences in personal values on the dimension of idiocentrism-allocentrism (Leung & Bond, Reference Leung and Bond1984; Triandis, Leung, Villareal, & Clack, Reference Triandis, Leung, Villareal and Clack1985). Later work found that country differences in conflict resolution decisions were carried more by expectancies than valences (Bond, Leung, & Schwartz, 1987; Leung, Reference Leung1987), and by personal perceptions (Morris, Leung, & Iyengar, Reference Morris, Leung and Iyengar2004), prompting interest in schemas or implicit theories that underlie cultural patterns. To explore how cultural patterns are carried by social assumptions or norms, Kwok pioneered a model of the basic dimensions of social axioms (Leung & Bond, Reference Leung and Bond2004). His works on fairness judgment and harmony offered exemplary illustrations of how emic and etic research programs inform and stimulate each other (Leung, Brew, Zhang, & Zhang, Reference Leung, Brew, Zhang and Zhang2011; Morris, Leung, Ames, & Lickel, Reference Morris, Leung, Ames and Lickel1999). A culmination of this sustained inquiry came in a recent conceptual paper (Leung & Morris, in press) that integrated many of his insights by proposing the conditions, respectively, under which values, schemas, and norms operate: Values play a more important role in accounting for cultural differences in weak situations where fewer constraints are perceived; schemas play a more important role when situational cues increase their accessibility and relevance; and norms play a more important role when social evaluation is salient. This special issue of MOR is dedicated to current research that builds on, elaborates, and extends this stream of work. We welcome manuscripts from a broad range of research areas (e.g., conflict and harmony, negotiation, fairness judgment, leadership, cross-cultural management).
