Yih-Teen Lee


Yih-Teen Lee is an American academic who is a professor of leadership and management. He joined IESE Business School in 2006 and is the academic director of the Coaching Unit and a professor in the Department of People Management in Organisations..

Academic and professional career

Yih-Teen Lee holds a PhD in Management from HEC University of Lausanne in Switzerland, as well as bachelor's and master's degrees from National Taiwan University. Prior to joining IESE, Lee held academic appointments at institutions including HEC Lausanne and ESSCA School of Management.
Lee’s research examines leadership, identity, and relational processes in organizational and global contexts. A recurring focus of his work is cultural bridging, person–environment fit, and dynamic balancing, examining how leaders integrate multiple cultural and identity frameworks to enable collaboration and collective leadership. His research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Academy of Management Discoveries, the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, and Human Resource Management. He is also the co-author of several essays and has contributed to collective works on leadership and multiculturalism.
He serves on the editorial boards of academic journals in the social sciences such as the Journal of Management, the Journal of World Business, and Advances in Global Leadership. He has also served as editor the book series Diversité culturelle et dynamiques des organisations, published by Éditions L'Harmattan in Paris.
In his teaching and research at IESE Business School, Lee has drawn on the Sagrada Família in Barcelona as a context for examining leadership, vision, symbolism, and collective work over extended periods of time. He has contributed to executive education activities that use the Sagrada Família as an interpretive and experiential setting for leadership learning.

Main Publications

Books

  • LEE, Y.-T., RAES, A.. A research agenda for positive leadership and dynamic balancing. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • HANSEN, C. D., LEE, Y.-T.. The cultural context of human resource development. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.
  • LEE, Y.-T., CALVEZ, V., GUÉNETTE, A.-M.. La compétence culturelle. s'équiper pour les délis du management international. Paris: Harmattan.

Journal Articles (refereed)

  • MOHAN, G., PAUNOVA, M., LEE, Y.-T.. From heterogeneity to inequality. The impact of nationality diversity on leadership in multinational teams. Journal of World Business, 59, Article 101535. doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101535.
  • LEE, Y.-T., GYAMFI, N. Y. A.. Cultural contingencies of resources. Conceptualizing domestic employees in the context of globalization. Academy of Management Review, 48, 165-168. doi:10.5465/amr.2021.0339.
  • AKKAN, E., LEE, Y.-T., REICHE, S.. How and when do prior international experiences lead to global work?. A career motivation perspective. Human Resource Management, 61, 117-132. doi:doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22083.
  • LEE, Y. T., MASUDA, A. D., FU, X., & REICHE, B. S.. Navigating between home, host, and global: Consequences of multicultural team members’ identity configurations. Academy of Management Discoveries, 4, 180-201.
  • LEE, Y. T., & ANTONAKIS, J.. When preference is not satisfied but the individual is: How power distance moderates person–job fit. Journal of Management, 40, 641-675.