Articles in Refereed Journals

1.    Fu, N., Keegan, A., & McCartney, S.* (2023) ‘The duality of HR analysts' storytelling: Showcasing and curbing’, Human Resource Management Journal, 33(2): 261-286. DOI: 10.1111/1748-8583.12466 (ABS4*) equal authorship

Media coverage: Trinity Business School News, Wealth Tribute , Workplace Insight, Companies Digest, COBS Insights

2.    Li, M., Fu, N., Harney, B. & Chadwick, C. (2023) ‘Untangling Human Resource Management and Employee Wellbeing Relationships: Differentiating Job Resource HR Practices from Challenge Demand HR Practices’, Human Resource Management Journal, (ABS4*)

3. Fu, N., Flood, P., Rousseau, D., Morris, T. & Johnstone, M. (2023) ‘When are clients helpful? Capitalising on client involvement in professional service delivery’, PLoS ONE 18(2): e0280738. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280738 (IF: 3.75)

4.    Zhao, X.*, Fu, N., & Freeney, Y. (2023) ‘Leader-follower (in)congruence in transformational leadership and team performance’, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, (ABS1), accepted.

5.    Zhao, X.*, Liang, X. & Fu, N. (2023) ‘Whose Customer Orientation? Exploring the Relationships between Leaders, Team Customer Orientation Climate, and Customer Satisfaction’, Journal of Service Theory and Practice, (ABS1), accepted.

6.    Kilroy, S.†, Fu, N. †, Bosak, J., Hayes, R. & Schaufeli, W. (2022). Reducing day-level emotional exhaustion: The complementary role of high involvement work practices work practices and engaging leadership. Human Resource Management Journal, (ABS4*) †joint-first authorship, https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12482

7.    Yao, Z.*, Luo, J., Fu, N., Zhang, X., & Wan, Q. (2022) ‘Rational counterattack: The impact of workplace bullying on unethical pro-organizational and pro-family behaviors’, Journal of Business Ethics. (ABS3, FT50) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-021-04918-w

8.    Robbins, P., & Fu., N. (2022) ‘Blind faith or hard evidence? Exploring the indirect performance impact of design thinking practices’, R&D Management, (ABS3)

Media coverage: R&D Today

9.    McCartney, S.*, & Fu, N. (2022) ‘Promise versus reality: Ongoing debates in people analytics’, Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 9(2): 281-311. (ABS2)

10. McCartney, S.*, & Fu, N.  (2022) ‘Linking HR analytics to organizational performance: Why, how, and when’, Management Decisions, 60(13): 25-47 (ABS2)

Media coverage: COBS Insights

11. Fu, N., Flood, P., Rousseau, D., & Morris, T. (2021) ‘Resolving the individual helping and objective job performance dilemma: The moderating effect of team reflexivity’, Journal of Business Research, 129: 236-243. (ABS3)

12. Mathias, M.*, Fu, N., & Oliveira, O. (2021) ‘Structuring a training-Oriented High Performance Work System: A systematic review on frontline employees in the service sector’, Human Resource Development Review, 20(4): 399-435. (ABS2, Lead article)

13. Fu, N., Flood, P.C., Rousseau, D., & Morris, T. (2020) ‘Line managers as paradox navigators in HRM implementation: Balancing consistency and individual responsiveness’, Journal of Management, 46(2): 203 – 233. (ABS4*, FT50, Lead article)

Media coverage: Business and Management Ink; Provost Review 2018; Global Voice

14. Conway, E., Monks, K., Fu, N., Alfes, K., & Bailey, K. (2020) ‘Reimagining alienation within a relational framework: evidence from the public sector in Ireland and the UK’, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(21): 2673-2694 (ABS3)

15. Zhao, X., Fu, N., Taylor, S., & Flood, P. (2020) ‘The dynamic process of customer psychological contracts in a service context’, International Journal of Market Research, 62(6): 707-724 (ABS2). https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1470785319867637

16. Zhao, X., Fu, N., Freeney, Y. & Flood, P. (2020) ‘Revisiting the effect of emotional labor: A multi-level investigation in front-line service teams’, Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 1-10. (ABS1, IF = 2.067)

17. Alfes, K., Shantz, A., Bailey, C., Conway, E., Monks, K., & Fu, N. (2019) ‘Perceived human resource system strength and employee reactions toward change: Revisiting HR's remit as change agent’, Human Resource Management, 58(3): 239-252 (ABS4, FT50)

18. Fu, N., Bosak, J., Flood, P. & Ma, Q. (2019) ‘Chinese and Irish professional service firms compared: Linking HPWS, organizational coordination, and firm performance’, Journal of Business Research, 95: 266-276. (ABS3)

19. Keating, S., Fu, N., & Crowley-Henry, M. (2019) ‘Developing a strong HRM system: The role of line managers’, Annals of Social Sciences & Management studies (Open Access), 2(5): 1 – 14.

20. O’Brien, D., Sharkeyscott, P., Andersson, U., Ambos, T., & Fu, N. (2019) ‘The micro-foundations of subsidiary initiatives: How subsidiary-manager activities unlock entrepreneurship’, Global Strategy Journal, 9(1): 66-91. (ABS4)

21. Harney, B., Fu, N., & Freeney, Y. (2018) ‘Balancing tensions: Buffering the impact of organizational restructuring and downsizing on employee well-being’, Human Resource Management Journal,28(2): 235–254. (ABS4*)

22. Fu, N., Flood, P.C., Bosak, J., Rousseau, D., Morris, T., & O’Regan, P. (2017) ‘How high performance work systems operate in professional service firms: Examining the HPWS-resources-uses-performance linking mechanisms’. Human Resource Management, 56(2): 329–352. (ABS4, FT50)

Media coverage: Global Voice (pp15-17)

23. Kilty, C., Wiese, A., Bergin, C., Flood, P., Fu, N., Horgan, M., Higgins, A., Maher, B., O'Kane, G., Prihodova, L., Slattery, D., Stoyanov, S., & Bennett, D. (2017) ‘A national stakeholder consensus study of challenges and priorities for clinical learning environments in postgraduate medical education’, BMC Medical Education, 17: 1-9. (IF = 1.57) (Interdisciplinary research, open assess)

24. Wiese, A., Kilty, C., Bergin, C., Flood, C., Fu, N., Horgan, M., Higgins, A., Maher, B., O'Kane, G., Prihodova, L., Slattery, D., Bennett, D. (2017) ‘Protocol for a realist review of workplace learning in postgraduate medical education and training’, Systematic Reviews, 6: 1-6. (IF = 2.75) (Interdisciplinary research)

25. Conway, E., Fu, N., Monks, K., Alfes, K., & Truss, K. (2016). ‘Demands or resources? The relationship between HR practices, employee engagement, and emotional exhaustion within a hybrid model of employment relations’, Human Resource Management, 55(5): 901–917. (ABS4, FT50)

26. Conway, E., Monks, K., Fu, N., Katie, B., Kelly, G., & Hannon, E. (2016). ‘Enhancing knowledge exchange and combination through hr practices: Reflexivity as a translation process’, Human Resource Management Journal, 6(3): 304–320. (ABS4*)

27. Kirrane, M., Lennon, M., O’Connor, C., & Fu, N. (2016) ‘Linking perceived management support with employees’ readiness for change: the mediating role of psychological capital’, Journal of Change Management, 17(1): 47-66. (ABS1)

28. Fu, N., Ma, Q., Bosak, J., & Flood, P. (2016) ‘Exploring the impact of intellectual capital on organizational ambidexterity in Chinese and Irish Professional Service Firms’, Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 3(2): 94-114. (ABS2)

29. Fu, N., Ma, Q., Flood, P., Bosak, J., Liu, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2016) ‘When West meets East: Comparing the utilization of HPWS between Irish and Chinese PSFs’, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 54(1): 8-31. (ABS2; Lead Article)

30. Fu, N., Flood, P. & Morris, T. (2016) ‘Organizational ambidexterity strategy and firm performance: The moderating role of organizational capital’, Journal of Professions and Organization, 3: 1-16. (ABS2; Lead Article)

31. Fu, N. (2015). ‘The role of relational resources in the knowledge management capability and innovation of professional service firms’, Human Relations, 68(5): 731-764. (ABS4, FT50)

32. Fu, N., Flood, P.C., Bosak, J., O’Regan, P., & Morris, T. (2015). ‘High performance work systems and innovation in professional service firms’, Employee Relations: The International Journal, 37(2): 209-231. (ABS2)

33. Fu, N., Ma, Q., Bosak, J., & Flood, P. (2015). ‘Exploring the relationships between HPWS, organizational ambidexterity and firm performance in Chinese professional service firms’, Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management. 6(1): 52-70.

34. Fu, N., Flood, P.C., Bosak, J., Morris, T. & O’Regan, P. (2013) ‘Exploring the performance effect of high performance work system on service supply chain in professional service firms’, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. 18(3): 292-307. (ABS3, IF = 4.30)

35. Fu, N. (2013). ‘Exploring the impact of HPWS in professional service firms: A practices-resources-uses-performance approach’, Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 65(3): 240-257. (American Psychological Association Journal)

36. Feng, B, Jiang, Z-Z., Fan, Z-P., & Fu, N., (2010). ‘A method for member selection of cross-functional teams using the individual and collaborative performances’, European Journal of Operational Research. 203(3): 652-661. (ABS4)

37. Fan, Z-P., Feng, B., Jiang, Z-Z., & Fu, N. (2009). ‘A method for member selection of R&D teams using the individual and collaborative information’, Expert Systems with Applications, 36(4): 8313-8323. (ABS1)

38. Fan, Z-P., Feng, B., & Fu, N. (2007). ‘A method for team partner selection based on collaborative information’, Operations Research and Management Science (Chinese), 16(5): 58-62. (Highest Grade: A by Natural Science Foundation of China)