Alex Ning Li

Alex Ning Li is an Assistant Professor in the Organizations, Strategy and International Management department at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas, where he conducts research on organizational behavior with emphasis on team resilience, group dynamics, and leadership processes.

His educational background includes:

• PhD from the University of Maryland (2017)

Dr. Li's research program is structured around three core pillars:

• Resilience and Adaptation: Investigating how teams and organizations recover and grow after disruptive changes through mechanisms like employee voice and task reconfiguration.
• Group Dynamics: Examining how social factors such as equity, equality, and passion types coalesce to shape collective functionality and innovation.
• Leadership Processes: Analyzing how leader attributes and behaviors—including LMX quality and trust—unfold to influence individual and team performance outcomes.

His publication record (2013-2024) reveals a clear scholarly trajectory from foundational work on trust and leader-member exchange to contemporary investigations of team passion and discontinuous change adaptation, consistently appearing in premier outlets like the Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Applied Psychology. This evolution underscores his focus on practical resilience mechanisms in volatile organizational contexts.

Dr. Li currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Psychology (2020-present), reflecting his standing in the field, and has extended his impact through practitioner-oriented publications in the MIT Sloan Management Review.