Juana Du is a professor in the School of Business. She draws on cultural experience from working in Beijing, Hong Kong, Germany, the United States and Canada to frame the way she studies culture, interactions and organizations. Her research interests encompass intercultural interactions and cultural intelligence, cross-cultural adaptation of international students, global virtual teams and hybrid workplace, knowledge transfer and management, knowledge boundaries and community.
Her research looked into experiences in transition, e.g., sojourners such as expatriates and international students, both at an individual and group level. Particularly, she examined the engagement, motivation, learning and identification. Inspired by the power of research to reframe our understandings and assumptions of behaviours in collective settings, she studied communication, interactions and creativity in a variety of contexts, e.g., multilingual NGOs, multinational corporations, as well as multicultural communities.
Her recent work investigates how organizations navigate changing boundaries with the advancement of emerging digital technologies - such as physical, structural, psychological, and cultural boundaries - to facilitate knowledge transfer and sharing within dynamic knowledge communities.
Experience
Du has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of intercultural communication, organizational culture and behaviour, international business and strategies, research methods, and supervised graduate student projects and PhD dissertations. She has previously overseen the Master of Arts in Intercultural and International Communication Program and taught courses on topics related to communication, culture and society.
She has acted as a research consultant for multinational and multicultural organizations, and provided strategic advice on employee communication, talent management and development, multicultural teams, hybrid workplace, and innovation. Du was a post-doctorate researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (the U.S.), and a visiting scholar at Techinische Universitat Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany), Ohio University (the U.S.), University of York (UK) and University of Washington (the U.S.).
She has presented at many international academic conferences, and published nearly 40 book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. She received the Annual Best Paper Award of The Journal of Comparative International Management (2024) and the Best Student Paper Award of the International Communication Association (ICA, 2009).
She served as a reviewer and sectional editor for numerous peer-reviewed journals. She has been on the organizing committee of leading international academic conferences, including her role as Caucus Chair for the Academy of Management (AOM 2020, 2023), Track Chair for the Academy of International Business - Northeast chapter (AIB-NE, 2021-2025), and member of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access (IDEA) committee of International Communication Association (ICA) (2024-2026).
Education
2013
M.S. Human Resource Management
New York University
2012
PhD Intercultural and organizational communication
Hong Kong Baptist University
2006
M.A. Global Communication
Peking University
2004
B.A.Chinese language and literature
Peking University
Research
Research interest
The impact of cultural perceptions and assumptions on human beings’ connection, interaction, adaptation, and learning.
Experiences in transition, e.g.,sojourners groups, including expatriates and international students.
Communication, culture, and innovation in multilingual organizations, multinational corporations, and multicultural communities.