You-Ta Chuang teaches courses related strategy and innovation. His current research focuses on understanding (1) knowledge transfer (failure experience) within organizations; (2) multipoint contact and innovation; (3) and sexual minority issues in the workplace.
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Degrees
PhD, Rotman/University of Toronto
M.B.A., Baruch College/City University of New York
B.Sc., Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Professional Leadership
Division Chair, Organization Management Theory Division, ASAC, 2011 Program Chair, Organization Management Theory Division, ASAC, 2010 Academic Reviewer, Organization Management Theory Division, ASAC, 2009
Research Interests
Organizational learning, Competition, Social movements
Current Research Projects
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Act up: From managing LGBTQ2S+ identity to changing workplace discrimination
Summary:
This project brings together a group of established and emerging scholars, a LGBTQ2S+ advocacy organization leader in Canada, and two leading LGBTQ2S+ advocacy organizations in China (LGBT Rights Advocacy China and Diversity & Inclusion Consulting). The overall goal of this partnership is to develop strategies that LGBTQ2S+ employees can use to cope with and fight against workplace discrimination. A partnership between academics and non-academic partners in Canada and China is of critical and valuable. Having non-academic partners not only provides us the most relevant knowledge and the lived workplace discrimination experiences LGBTQ2S+ employees have but also helps to formulate effective, practical strategies that LGBTQ2S+ employees can use to cope with and fight against discrimination. Examining workplace discrimination against sexual minorities in both countries can offer richer and deeper understanding of this important and urgent issue, discover nuances between two countries, and develop “universal” strategies that help to reduce workplace discrimination. Most importantly, this partnership provides valuable opportunities for exchange of knowledge and experience between academics and non-academic partners to better understanding LGBTQ2S+ employees’ experiences in Canada and China.
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Role:
Principal Investigator
Collaborator:
Jing Wang, Chris Zhang, Jules Richardson
Everyone Accounts: A revisit of LGBTQ2+ Employees Workplace Behavior of Disrupting Workplace Heterosexism and Advocating Equal Treatment in China
Summary:
To understand the motives, processes, and behaviors LGBTQ2+ employees exert toward disrupting
workplace heterosexism and advocating equal treatment in China
Description:
The role of LGBTQ2+ people plays in terms of leading systemic change in addressing gender equality in the public, and private spheres have been identified by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as an important future global challenge area (“Future Challenge Areas: 2018-21,” 2019), as the society is shifting towards inclusion and substantial diversity in positions of power. Such a challenge indicates that research should focus on the change agent role LGBTQ2+ employees play in leading equality change. In addition, understanding LGBTQ2+ employees’ change agent role is especially important in China, where there is no legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or identity. The proposed research will provide an improved understanding of how LGBTQ2+ employees engage in activities to disrupt workplace heterosexism and advocate equal treatment in China.
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Role:
Co-Applicant
Start Date:
End Date:
Collaborator:
Chris Zhang
Collaborator Institution:
Wilfrid Laurier University
Collaborator Role:
Principal Investigator
Funders:
SSHRC
You-Ta Chuang teaches courses related strategy and innovation. His current research focuses on understanding (1) knowledge transfer (failure experience) within organizations; (2) multipoint contact and innovation; (3) and sexual minority issues in the workplace.
Degrees
PhD, Rotman/University of Toronto
M.B.A., Baruch College/City University of New York
B.Sc., Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Professional Leadership
Division Chair, Organization Management Theory Division, ASAC, 2011 Program Chair, Organization Management Theory Division, ASAC, 2010 Academic Reviewer, Organization Management Theory Division, ASAC, 2009
Research Interests
Organizational learning, Competition, Social movements
Current Research Projects
ychuang
Act up: From managing LGBTQ2S+ identity to changing workplace discrimination
Summary:
This project brings together a group of established and emerging scholars, a LGBTQ2S+ advocacy organization leader in Canada, and two leading LGBTQ2S+ advocacy organizations in China (LGBT Rights Advocacy China and Diversity & Inclusion Consulting). The overall goal of this partnership is to develop strategies that LGBTQ2S+ employees can use to cope with and fight against workplace discrimination. A partnership between academics and non-academic partners in Canada and China is of critical and valuable. Having non-academic partners not only provides us the most relevant knowledge and the lived workplace discrimination experiences LGBTQ2S+ employees have but also helps to formulate effective, practical strategies that LGBTQ2S+ employees can use to cope with and fight against discrimination. Examining workplace discrimination against sexual minorities in both countries can offer richer and deeper understanding of this important and urgent issue, discover nuances between two countries, and develop “universal” strategies that help to reduce workplace discrimination. Most importantly, this partnership provides valuable opportunities for exchange of knowledge and experience between academics and non-academic partners to better understanding LGBTQ2S+ employees’ experiences in Canada and China.
Project Type:
Funded
Role:
Principal Investigator
Collaborator:
Jing Wang, Chris Zhang, Jules Richardson
Everyone Accounts: A revisit of LGBTQ2+ Employees Workplace Behavior of Disrupting Workplace Heterosexism and Advocating Equal Treatment in China
Summary:
To understand the motives, processes, and behaviors LGBTQ2+ employees exert toward disrupting
workplace heterosexism and advocating equal treatment in China
Description:
The role of LGBTQ2+ people plays in terms of leading systemic change in addressing gender equality in the public, and private spheres have been identified by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as an important future global challenge area (“Future Challenge Areas: 2018-21,” 2019), as the society is shifting towards inclusion and substantial diversity in positions of power. Such a challenge indicates that research should focus on the change agent role LGBTQ2+ employees play in leading equality change. In addition, understanding LGBTQ2+ employees’ change agent role is especially important in China, where there is no legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or identity. The proposed research will provide an improved understanding of how LGBTQ2+ employees engage in activities to disrupt workplace heterosexism and advocate equal treatment in China.
Project Type:
Funded
Role:
Co-Applicant
Start Date:
End Date:
Collaborator:
Chris Zhang
Collaborator Institution:
Wilfrid Laurier University
Collaborator Role:
Principal Investigator
Funders:
SSHRC
All Publications
Book Chapters
Chuang, Y.T., 2007. Developing business strategy. In Karakowsky, L. (Ed) .
The Challenges of Business: Managing in the Canadian and Global Context, pp. 169-206. Captus Press.
2007
Li, S.X., and Chuang, Y.T. 2001. Racing for market share: Hypercompetition and the performance of multiunit-multi-market firms. In J.A.C. Baum & H.R. Greve (Eds.),
Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 18: 331-357. Stamford, CT: JAI Press.
2001
Journal Articles
Dahlin, K.D., Chuang, Y.T., and Roulet, T.J. 2018. Opportunity, motivation, and ability to learn from failure and errors: Review, synthesis, and ways to move forward. Academy of Management Annals, 12: 252-277.
2018
Chuang, Y.T., Dahlin, K., Thomson, K., Lai, Y.C., and Yang, C.C., 2018. Multimarket contact, strategic alliances, and firm performance. Journal of Management, 44: 1551-1572.
2018
Chuang, Y.T., Church, R. and Hu, C., 2018. Effects of movements and opportunity on the adoption of same-sex partner health benefits by corporations. Journal of Management, 44: 2766-2800
2018
Chuang, Y.T., and Thomson, K. 2017. Maneuvering multimarket competition: Effects of multimarket contact and strategic alliances on performance of single-market firms, Strategic Organization, 15: 390-409.
2017
Zaheer, S, Ginsburg, L., Chuang, YT, and Grace, S. L. 2015. Patient safety climate (PSC) perceptions of front-line staff in acute care hospitals: Examining the role of ease of reporting, unit norms of openness, and participative leadership. Health Care Management Review, 40: 13-23.
2015
Mallidou, A.A., Cummings, G.G., Ginsburg, L.R., Chuang, Y.T., Kang, S, Northon, P.G., and Esabrooks, C.A. 2011. Staff, space, time as dimensions of organizational slack: A psychometric assessment, Health Care Management Review, 36: 252-264.
2011
Chuang, Y.T., Church, R., and Ophir, R., 2011. Taking sides: The interactive influences of institutional mechanisms on the adoption of same-sex partner health benefits by Fortune 500 corporations, 1990-2003.
Organization Science, 22: 190-209
2011
Ginsburg, L., Chuang, Y.T., Berta, W.B., Norton, P.G., Ng, P., Tregunno, D., and Richardson, J., 2010. The relationship between organizational leadership for safety and learning from patient safety events.
Health Services Research, 45: 607-632.
2010
Ginsburg, L., Chuang, Y.T., et al., 2009. Categorizing errors and adverse events for learning: The provider perspective.
Healthcare Quarterly, 12, 154-160.
2009
Ginsburg, L. Chuang, Y.T. et al., 2009. Development of a measure of learning from patient safety events.
Health Services Research, 44: 2123-2147.
2009
Chuang, Y.T., Ginsburg, L., and Berta, W. B. 2007. Learning from preventable adverse events in healthcare organizations: A multi-level model of learning and propositions.
Health Care Management Review, 32(4): 330-340.
2007
Baum, J.A.C., Rowley, T.J., Shipilov, A.V., and Chuang, Y.T. 2005. Dancing with strangers: Aspiration performance and the search for underwriting syndicate partners.
Administrative Science Quarterly, 50: 536-575.
2005
Chuang, Y.T., Church, R., and Zikic, J., 2004. Organizational culture, group diversity, and intra-group conflict.
Team Performance Management, 10: 26-34.
2004
Karakowsky, L., McBey, K., and Chuang, Y.T., 2004. Perceptions of performance: the impact of gender-based cues.
Journal of Managerial Psychology, 19: 506-525.
2004
Chuang, Y.T., and Baum, J.A.C., 2003. It's all in the name: Failure induced learning in multiunit chains.
Administrative Science Quarterly, 48, 33-59.
2003
Conference Papers
Ginsburg, L., Chuang, Y.T., Norton, P., Tregunno, D., Bert, W. B., Richardson, J., and Ng, P. Can we only learn from catastrophe? Paper presented in Patient Safety Research Conference 2007.
2007
Ginsburg, L., Chuang, Y.T., Norton, P., Tregunno, D., Bert, W. B., Richardson, J., and Ng, P. Matryoshka dolls? Learning from a small subset of patient safety events. Paper presented in Patient Safety Research Conference 2007.
2007
Chuang, Y.T. and Ng, P. Search of network partners’ capabilities: A longitudinal study of patenting activity of North American pharmaceutical firms. Paper accepted presentation in European Group of Organization Studies, 2007.
2007
Dahlin, K., and Chuang, Y.T. Closer or more apart? Organizational (dis)similarity in the U.S tennis racket industry and the Ontario hospital sector. Paper presented at Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics 2006.
2006
Chuang, Y. T., Geng, X., and Kerr, J. Strategy abandonment in the New York State banking industry, 1994-2003. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2006 International Schumpeter Society Conference.
2006
Chuang, Y. T., Geng, X., and Kerr, J. Will I stay or will I go? Strategy abandonment in the New York State banking industry, 1994-2003. Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2006.
2006
Ophir, R., Chuang, Y. T., and Church, R. Between state and practices: The effects of state legislation on the adoption of same-sex partner health benefits. Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2005.
2005
Chuang, Y. T., Church, R., and Ophir, R. Tug of war: The rise of same-sex partner health benefits in Fortune 500 corporations, 1990-2003. Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meetings 2005.
2005
Conference Proceedings
Church, R and Chuang, Y.T. 2009. In and out: Movements internal and external to organizations and adoption of same-sex partner benefits by corporations. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Organization Theory Division, Proceedings.
2009
Shen, J-C, Chuang, Y.T., Chen, C-J, and Hsiao, Y-C. 2008. Hegemony or pluralism? The role of the state in Taiwan’s FDI deregulation in China, 1996-2001. Academy of Management Annual Meetings Best Papers Proceedings CD-ROM.
2008
Chuang, Y.T., Ginsburg, L., and Berta, W., 2004. A multi-level approach to responsiveness to adverse events. Academy of Management Annual Meetings Best Papers Proceedings CD-ROM.
2004
Baum, J.A.C., Rowley, T.J., Shipilov, A.V., and Chuang, Y.T., 2004. Dancing with strangers: Aspiration performance and the search for underwriting syndicate partners. Academy of Management Annual Meetings Best Papers Proceedings CD-ROM.
2004
Singh, R, and Chuang, Y.T., 2003. Performance and competition: Dynamics of multimarket competition in the Canadian daily newspaper industry. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Strategy Division, Proceedings.
2003
Chuang, Y.T., and Baum, J.A.C. 2002. It’s all in the name: A learning from failure perspective on the adoption of common naming strategies by multiunit chains. Academy of Management Annual Meetings Best Papers Proceedings CD-ROM.
2002
Dahlin, K., and Chuang, Y.T., 2002. What happens over time? Do firms become more or less similar? Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Technology and Innovation Division Proceedings.
2002
Tzabbar, D., and Chuang, Y.T., 2001. TMT knowledge diversity and TMT innovation initiation. The 2001 International Conference of Interdisciplinary and Multifunctional Business Management Proceedings.
2001
Chuang, Y.T. Hennessy, D., Thomson, K., and Madriz, R., 2000. The rise and fall of organizational diversity. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Organization Theory Division, Proceedings, 21: 40-49.
2000
Chuang, Y.T., 1999. The effects of resource dependence and resource-based positions on the occurrence of horizontal mergers and acquisitions: The Canadian evidence. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Strategy Division, Proceedings, 20: 40-49.
1999
Upcoming Courses
| Term |
Course Number |
Section |
Title |
Type |
| Summer 2025 |
AP/ADMS4900 3.0 |
M |
Management Policy Part I |
LECT |
| Summer 2025 |
AP/ADMS4900 3.0 |
N |
Management Policy Part I |
LECT |
