Boyi is the Jiangsu Chair Professor in Management, School of Business Administration, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics; Before joining NUFE, Boyi has been working on the management faculty of the London School of Economics and the University of Exeter for ten years. He is doing research in the intersectional fields of creative economy, digital innovation and sustainability. His work focuses on the relational approach to social and organizational change, with a particular interest on the creative businesses of developing contexts. He teaches strategic management, the theoretical foundations of information systems, innovation and creativity, innovation in developing countries, and research design and methodologies etc. He supervises master and doctoral students on these subjects. Boyi is currently serving on the council board of Global China Academy (GCA), the organizing committee of Global China Dialogues (GCD), the academic board of the International Society of Creative Management (ISCM).

Research Interests

·  Intelligent systems and organizational change

·  Managing creativity

·  Sustainability and the future of management

Current research projects:

·  Algorithmic management practices (AMP)

·  Cultural development in the world of post-Globalization: exploring the link between culture and sustainability

·  Theorizing Creative capital and creative leadership (and empirical studies of the Sino-British collaborations on Creative Economy, the Belt & Road Initiative as a Cultural Development agenda)

Selected publications:

·  Theorizing Creative Capital in China: A Multi-Level Framework, In The Routledge Companion to Arts Management, Byrnes W, Brkić A (eds), London: Routledge (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/ books/e/9781351030861) , 2019

·  Relational and Institutional Embeddedness of Web-enabled Entrepreneurial Networks: Case Studies of Netpreneurs in China, Information Systems Journal, doi: 10.1111/isj.12013 , 2013

·  System Failure for Good Reasons? Understanding Aid Information Management Systems (AIMS) with The Agency of Indonesian State in a Changing Field of Global Aid, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Volume 504, Springer (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_27) , 2017

·  Theorizing Ecosystem Leadership: The Paradox of Social Embeddedness, European Academy of Management (ERUAM) 2018, SIG Strategic Management, Reykjavík. 2018

Selected public lectures:

·  Speaker and reviewer, Book Review: China and the Shared Human Future: Exploring Common Values and Goals (by Martin Albrow), Global China Dialogue VII, British Academy, London UK, 2021

·  Panelist and discussant, Belt and Road and Tension Reduction Between Countries and Cultures, 6th Global China Dialogue, British Academy, London, UK, 2019

·  Theorizing Ecosystem Leadership: The Paradox of Social Embeddedness, research seminar series, the Institute of Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK, 2018

·  visiting professorial fellow, Theorizing Ecosystem Leadership: The Paradox of Social Embeddedness, research lecture series, the School of Social Science (Institute of Economics), Tsinghua University, Beijing , 2018

·  visiting professorial fellow, On Pragmatist Aesthetics: System Thinking In Dialogue with Chinese Traditions of Liberalism, Arts Management and Cultural Industries Summer School, Peking University, Beijing, 2017

·  keynote speaker, How to Leverage the Advantages of Social Embeddedness in Digital Age?, Annual Conference of Xianyu Virtual Community Leaders, Hangzhou Headquarter, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China, 2017

·  PhD final report seminar, Hybrid Sociality - Theorizing Embeddedness in the Internet Age, Seminar Series, London School of Economics of Political Science, ISIG, 2014

·  Invited lecture, Grassroots Innovation and Chinese Rural Entrepreneurship, “ICT and Development Crash Course” by The Student Initiative, University College London, 2011