YU Maxine

PhD, Organizational Behavior & Strategy, Management & Entrepreneurship

Maxine (Yinmiao) Yu is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at NEOMA Business School. Maxine is interested in social evaluations of organizations in the context of negative events such as organizational misconduct. Her research explores the factors that contribute to variations in market actors' reactions to similar negative events and examines the implications of these discrepancies. Her work has been presented at major conferences in the management field including the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, and the European Group for Organizational Studies Annual International Colloquium.

Maxine teaches courses in Corporate Social Responsibility at NEOMA Business School. Besides her Ph.D. in Management from Imperial College London (U.K.), she holds an MSc in Business (Marketing) from the University of Warwick, an MS in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern University, and an MRes in Business from Imperial College Business School.

MISHINA, Y., M. YU, S. MIKOLON, "Behavioural Signals" in The Oxford Handbook of Organisational Social Evaluations., Rupert Younger, Anastasiya Zavyalova Eds, Oxford University Press, pp. 335-350, 2026
MISHINA, Y., M. YU, D. DAVID GOMULYA, "Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda? The Impact of Predictive, Prescriptive, and Prospective Expectations on Stakeholder Reactions", Academy of Management Journal, April 2026, vol. 69, no. 2
YU, M., A. PIAZZA, A. ZAVYALOVA, "When Punishment Deters Future Misconduct: Evidence from Doping in Cycling Teams" in Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation Conference, 2024, Oxford, United Kingdom

MISHINA, Y., M. YU, D. DAVID GOMULYA, "Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda? The Impact of Predictive, Prescriptive, and Prospective Expectations on Stakeholder Reactions", Academy of Management Journal, April 2026, vol. 69, no. 2

MISHINA, Y., M. YU, S. MIKOLON, "Behavioural Signals" in The Oxford Handbook of Organisational Social Evaluations., Rupert Younger, Anastasiya Zavyalova Eds, Oxford University Press, pp. 335-350, 2026

MISHINA, Y., M. YU, D. M. GOMULYA, "What A Surprise! Whether And How Evaluator Disagreement Dampens Expectancy Violations", Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2023, no. 1, 2023, London, United Kingdom
MISHINA, Y., M. YU, D. DAVID GOMULYA, "What a Surprise! Whether and How Inconsistent Cues Dampen Expectancy Violations" in Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2023, Boston, United States
YU, M., "Damaged Goods in the Labor Market? How Performance Feedback Influences Employment of Wrongdoers", Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2022, no. 1, 2022
YU, M., C. SILVESTRI, L. DONG, Y. MISHINA, "Safety in Numbers? How Reputation and Salience of Misconduct Change Group Size Effect on Punishment", Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2021, no. 1, pp. 14686, 2021, Online
YU, M., "Damaged Goods in the Labor Market? How Social and Historical Aspirations Influence Organizational Decisions to Employ Actors with Misconduct Records" in 37th EGOS Colloquium, 2021, Amsterdam (Online), Netherlands
YU, M., "The Birth of Repeat Offenders: Historical Cases’ Legacies on Evaluations of Organizational Misconduct." in 36th EGOS Colloquium, 2020, Hamburg(Online), Germany

YU, M., A. PIAZZA, A. ZAVYALOVA, "When Punishment Deters Future Misconduct: Evidence from Doping in Cycling Teams" in Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation Conference, 2024, Oxford, United Kingdom
YU, M., L. DONG, M. PFARRER, "On the Precipice: Navigating the Emergence and Management of Critical Mass of Negative Perceptions" in Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2024, Istanbul, Turkey
YU, M., "Damaged Goods in the Labor Market? How Performance Feedback Influences Employment of Wrongdoers" in Oxford Annual Reputation Symposium, 2022, Oxford, United Kingdom
YU, M., "The Birth of Repeat Offenders: Historical Cases’ Legacies on Stakeholders’ Evaluations of Organizational Misconduct" in SMS 41st Annual Conference, 2021, Toronto(Online), Canada
YU, M., "Safety in Numbers? How Reputation and Others’ Misconduct Change the Effect of Group Size on Punishment" in SMS 40th Annual Conference, 2020, London (Online), United Kingdom