Room 311, Art Building 5,  North Campus, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, 310015.

Cell:(86)135-8825-6144     

AcademicEmployment

VisitingScholar, College of Business,Bowling Green State University, USA               August-Sep,2019 

Collaborated with Dr.SherryE. Sullivan on research projects focused on self-initiated expatriates.

Faculty, Zhejiang University City College, China                                                       Sept2018-Present   

Directing  undergraduate students studying organizational behavior, business communications, and employment relations.   

Visiting Scholar, College of Business, Bowling Green State University, USA           April-June,2018      

Collaborated with Dr.SherryE. Sullivan on research projects focused on (a) self-initiated expatriates and (b) careers.    

Postdoctoral Researcher, Zhejiang University, China                                                       2016-2018

Projects included (a) an empirical study of confirmation biases among expatriates and (b) guiding a telecommunications company through organizational change using the Balanced Score Card approach and organizational development methods.  

Faculty,ZhejiangUniversityofTechnology,China                                                               2011-2012       

Directed 65 Masters of Business Studies students focusing on developing their oral and written communication skills as well as their reading comprehension, with 80% success rate.

Education

ZhejiangUniversity,China     July,2016                                                       

Ph.D., Enterprise Management, Specializing in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management  

Dissertation: 

The Cross-Cultural Career Development Process of Self-initiated Expatriates’ with Global Work Experiences Supervisor: Professor Wang Zhongming   

Mysore University, India        July, 2010

MBA, Specializing in Marketing 

Thesis: Customer Satisfaction at the Suzuki Company          

 Bundelkhand University, India      July, 2007

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology  

 Publications

Jinxiu Sun. & Jannesari, M. (2021-Accepted). Entitlement Shapes Students’ Entrepreneurial Goal Intention. Social Behavior and Personality. The DOI number for this article will be 10.2224/sbp.10489

Jannesari, M. & Sullivan, S.E. (2021). How Relationship Quality, Autonomous Work Motivation and Socialization Experience Influence the Adjustment of Self-Initiated Expatriates in China, Cross-Cultural & Strategy Management.

Jannesari, M. & Sullivan, S.E. (2021). Leaving on a Jet Plane? The Effect of Challenge-Hindrance Stressors, Emotional Resilience, and Cultural Novelty on Self-Initiated Expatriates’ Decision to Exit China, Personnel Review.

Jannesari, M. T., Wang, Z., Zheng, J., Xie, W., Lai, Q., & Wu, L. (2021). The Role of Extraversion and Openness on Host Country Nationals’ Task Performance and Contextual Performance at Work. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 14, 169.

Yao, H. & Jannesari, M. (2020). Impact of sense of status on international entrepreneurial intention of Chinese undergraduates. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 2020, Volume 48, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.9408

Jannesari, M. & Sullivan, S.E. (2020). Time to Say Goodbye? Factors Affecting Self-Initiated Expatriates’ Decision to Remain in China. In Academy of Management Proceedings,

Jannesari, M. & Sullivan, S.E. (2019). Career adaptability and the success of self-initiated expatriates in China. Career Development International. DOI 10.1108/CDI-02-2019-0038

Jannesari, M. & Sullivan, S.E. (2019). Self-Initiated Expatriates' Career Success. In Academy of Management Proceedings, doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2019.292

Jannesari, M., Wang, Z., McCall, J. & Zheng, B. (2017) Psychological Availability between Self-Initiated Expatriates and Host Country Nationals during Their Adjustment: The Moderating Role of Supportive Supervisor Relations. Frontiers in Psychology, 8: 2049. 

Jannesari, M., Wang, Z., Brown, P., & McCall, J. (2016). Knowledge Transfer between Expatriate and Host Country Nationals: The Role of Self-Construal. Social Behavior and Personality: 44(3), 369-382.

Jannesari, M. (2015). The Influence of Self-Construal on Cross-Cultural Knowledge Transfer. In Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015(1), 11332, NY: AOM.

Presentations

Jannesari, M. & Sullivan, S.E. (2020). How does the Quality of Work Relationships Impact the Adjustment of Self-Initiated Expatriates in China? 2020 EURAM Conference in Dublin (Ireland).

Jannesari, M. & Sullivan, S.E. (2019, August). Teaching about Culture: Organizational and Country, Academy of Management Meetings, Boston, MA.

Jannesari, M. (2019) Using Expatriates’ Assignments to Develop Global Leaders. Presentation to upper level undergraduate students in Leading for Success Course, College of Business, Bowling Green State University, USA.

Jannesari, M. Wang, Z., & McCall, J. (2018). Relationship Qualities between Self-Initiated Expatriate and Host Country Nationals during Their Performance: The Moderating Role of Socialization Experiences, International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne, Canada.

Jannesari, M., Wang, Z., & McCall, J. (2016). Career Propensity as a New Attitude: The Case of Self-Initiated Expatriates during Their Global Work Experiences, International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.

Jannesari, M. (2009). Controlling the Information Generated during a Research Project. Infosys Company’s Conference on the Management of Data, Mysore, India.   

Jannesari, M. (2018). Characteristics of Tie-Propensity Among Expatriate Managers, Bowling Green State University, College of Business’s Research Seminars, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA.   

Research and Papers in Progress

Jannesari, M. & Zolfagharian, M. (Under R&R Review at The International Journal of Manpower). Predictors of International Entrepreneurial Intention among Chinese students: Social Cognitive Theory.

Jannesari, M., Sullivan, S.E., & Baruch, Y. (Submitting to The Journal of Vocational Behavior). Predictors of Career Satisfaction among Young Adult During the School-to-work Transition.

Jannesari, M., Sullivan, S.E., & Baruch, Y. (Submitting to The Journal of Vocational Behavior). Employment Decisions and Career Success among                  Chinese Students.

 Jannesari, M., Selmer, J. (Under submission) Taking a Multifoci Approach to Study the Knowledge Sharing Between Self-Initiated Expatriates and                  Host Country Nationals

 Jannesari, M., Selmer, J. (Under submission) Predictors of work attitudes between self-initiated expatriates and host country employees

Jannesari, M., Morley, M. (Under submission) The Categorization of Self-Initiated Expatriate (SIEs) by Chinese Host Country Nationals (HCNs)                      during Performance with each other.

Jannesari, M., Morley, M. (Under submission) The Predictors of Acceptance of Cultural Differences among Self-initiated Expatriate (SIEs) and                       Chinese Host Country Employees (HCEs): A Multifoci Approach. Jannesari, M. (Data collection) Tie-Propensity as a Network Tie Tendency among Expatriates.

Professional Development

Participant in Virtual Careers in the Rough Research Workshop sponsored by the Academy of Management’s Careers Division, (2019).

 Participant in Virtual Careers in the Rough Research Workshop sponsored by the Academy of Management’s Careers Division, (2018).

 Participant in Paper Development Workshop sponsored by Academy of Management Discoveries Journal (2018), Guangzhou, China.

 Participant in Research Development Workshop sponsored by the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2017), Lanzhou, China.

Award, Research Fund, and Grant

Nominated for the Career Division’s Best Overall Paper and the Academy of Management’s

Carolyn Dexter Award for Best International Paper, (August, 2019) for the paper “Self-Initiated

Expatriates' Career Success.”  

Selected as the best researcher (2019) at the School of Business, in Zhejiang University City College

 National Science Fundation of Zhejiang Province, research grant (USA $7700) 

No: Q20G020024 (2019)

 Zhejiang University City College, research grant (USA $5000) No: 208000-581831 (2019)

Chinese Government Scholarship (USA $ 50,000) (2012- 2016).

 Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, travel grant (USA $ 2000) (2019).

 Professional Service

Chair of the International Conference On May 22-2021,

the International Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurship Practice Seminar hosted by the Business School of Zhejiang University City College was successfully held online.

Reviewer, Career Development International, 2020.

Reviewer, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2018.

Reviewer, Academy of Management Meetings, Career Division, 2019, 2020.

Reviewer, EURAM Annual Conference, 2020.         

Reviewer, Academy of Management Meetings, Human Resources Division, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

Reviewer, Academy of Management Meetings, International Management Division, 2015, 2016, and 2017. 

Skills

Programming: SPSS, AMOS, HLM, Mplus, Rstudio, SmartPLS.

Languages: Chinese, Persian, English.  

References

SherryE.Sullivan,Ph.D. 

O-I Professor of Management

College of Business, Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green, Ohio USA

Phone: (419) 372-2366

Email: ssulliv@bgsu.edu

 Baruch Yehuda, Ph.D.

Professor of Management

Southampton Business School

Southampton , UK

Phone: (023) 8059 2064 

Email: Y.Baruch@soton.ac.uk

 Mohammadali Zolfagharian, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Marketing

College of Business, Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green, Ohio USA

Phone: (419) 372-8321

Email: mzolfa@bgsu.edu