Julie Yen
Assistant Professor, Management & Organizations
Julie Yen is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Her research focuses on social impact and worker well-being in organizations, investigating how people and organizations navigate tensions, tradeoffs, and power dynamics as they pursue social objectives. Professor Yen’s research draws on qualitative, inductive field research methods, such as in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation. Her work appears in Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Theory.
Professor Yen holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. She previously worked in the nonprofit and financial services sectors. She currently teaches The Dynamics of Leading Organizations in the undergraduate program at Questrom.
Publications
Battilana, J., Beckman, C., Yen, J. (2025). “On Democratic Organizing and Organization Theory”, Administrative Science Quarterly, 70 (2), 297-327
Aguirre, E., Yen, J., Battilana, J. (2025). “An Organizational Theory of Corporate Law”, The Journal of corporation law, 50 (3), 567-616
Ramarajan, L., Yen, J. (2024). “Defining Who You Are by Whom You Serve? Strategies for Prosocial–Professional Identity Integration with Clients”, Administrative Science Quarterly, 69 (2), 515-567
Battilana, J., Yen, J., Ferreras, I., Ramarajan, L. (2022). “Democratizing Work: Redistributing power in organizations for a democratic and sustainable future”, Organization Theory, 3 (1)
Yen, J., Battilana, J., Aguirre, E. (2022). Sustainability for people and the planet: placing workers at the center of sustainability research.”Handbook on the Business of Sustainability The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth”, Edward Elgar Publishing 189-214