Yue Hillon
Professor | Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC, UNITED STATES
Yue Hillon's research interests include strategy, socio-economic performance management and action research.
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Biography
Yue Cai Hillon, Professor of Management, enjoys teaching in the College of Business at Western Carolina University because her campus-wide colleagues share a commitment to preparing students to be engaged learners in their future professions and communities. Her upper-level courses are built around consulting projects with regional businesses and non-profit organizations for a shared learning experience that contributes to economic and community development. Students learn strategic decision-making as a skill-based process that gives them highly relevant experience for their careers. Yue also coaches student entrepreneurs to develop new business ventures, she mentors students in a WCU doctoral prep program, and she teaches summer international seminars in various countries. Beyond teaching and research, Yue is actively engaged in community development projects, serving on non-profit boards and assisting organizations with strategic planning and management consulting. She holds a Ph.D. in strategy from New Mexico State University under the mentorship of David Boje and has advanced training in management consulting and critical management studies.
Industry Expertise (3)
Research
Education/Learning
Management Consulting
Areas of Expertise (6)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Organizational Development and Change Management
Socio-Economic Performance Management
Strategy
Action Research
New Venture Strategic Dynamics
Accomplishments (5)
Wesley R. Elingburg Distinguished Professor of Business Innovation (professional)
2023-05-25
Yue Hillon, professor of management in Western Carolina University’s College of Business, has been appointed to the university’s position of Wesley R. Elingburg Distinguished Professor of Business Innovation, effective July 1.
Top Community Engagement Faculty Award (professional)
2019-2020 Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL)
Paul A. Reid Distinguished Service Award (professional)
2018
Outstanding Achievement: Service in Teaching Award (professional)
2018 Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL)
College of Business Engagement Award (professional)
2018
Education (3)
New Mexico State University: Ph.D., Strategic Managemen 2006
New Mexico State University: M.B.A., Business Administration 2003
Minor in Computer Science
New Mexico State University: B.S., Business Information Systems 2002
Affiliations (3)
- Academy of Management
- Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group : Reviewer
- Tamara Journal of Critical Organization Inquiry : Reviewer
Links (3)
Languages (1)
- English
Media Appearances (3)
Yue Hillon named Elingburg Distinguished Professor
WCU Stories online
2023-05-15
Yue Hillon, professor of management in Western Carolina University’s College of Business, has been appointed to the university’s position of Wesley R. Elingburg Distinguished Professor of Business Innovation, effective July 1.
College of Business team receives Academy of Management award
WCU Stories online
2018-09-25
WCU’s Yue Cai Hillon, associate professor of management, and Wendy Cagle, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and former regional director of the Small Business and Technology Development Center, collaborated with Christine Madonna and Alana Pierce of Madonna and Pierce Small Business Consulting of Arden and received the recognition for the paper “Narrative Interplay in the Discovery of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ Fundamental Constraints to Growth.”
A loving push: Cullowhee farm provides growth, safety for people with autism
Smoky Mountain News online
2018-07-25
“At a glance when you think about it, the College of Business doesn’t sound like a fit,” acknowledged Yue Hillon, associate professor of management at WCU and treasurer for the Full Spectrum board. “But no matter business or nonprofit, when you look at the operation side and planning, that’s going to teach strategies.”
Event Appearances (5)
Community Sourced Research: An Economic Balance for Ecosystem Impact Assessment
The 9th International Conference and Doctoral Consortium, ISEOR – Academy of Management ODC-MC & ISODC Lyon, France
Who killed the French Broad?
The 9th Annual New Mexico Quantum Storytelling Conference Las Cruces, New Mexico
Community Sourced Research: A Watershed Ecosystem Approach to Management Research and Practice
The 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management Vancouver, Canada
Theories of Power, Boundary Spanning and the Impact of Technology: A Japanese Company in China
The 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management Vancouver, Canada
Women in management consulting: Beyond inclusion and thriving as partners.
The 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management Boston, MA
Articles (5)
Pondy, Lou: Mentor of My Mentor
The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers2021 Lou Pondy was one of the rare thought leaders in our field who knew how to make a science out of management and organization. His training brought about a unique convergence of Lewin’s line of social scientists with those of the Carnegie School, actively merging in the curious mind of a physicist.
Community Sourced Research: A Watershed Ecosystem Approach to Management Research and Practice
Academy of Management Proceedings 20202020 Defining, measuring, and actually creating impact with the world beyond academic stakeholders is an elusive objective for management scholarship. The value of a management degree has declined and other options to the business school are emerging.
Where are the people in Continuous Improvement efforts?
Recherches en Sciences de Gestion2020 The main motivation for organizations to embark upon continuous improvement (CI) efforts such as Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has been traditionally to improve key measures of performance (e.g. cost, speed, etc.). However, most efforts have been confronted with significant implementation failures, primarily due to the lack of proper consideration for the organizational and people-related aspects of change.
Theories of Power, Boundary Spanning and the Impact of Technology: A Japanese Company in China
Academy of Management Proceedings 20202020 This case study examined how a Chinese Japanese manufacturing company’s communication problem between departments and the failure of the Corporate Information Systems (CIS), such as the ERP SAP or APQP, were eased through the implementation of social media.
Women in Management Consulting: Beyond Inclusion and Thriving as Partners
Academy of Management Proceedings 20192019 Since the late 18th century, women’s presence and roles in the workplace have no doubt changed, especially in occupations that were traditionally male-dominated like management consulting. Today, client organizations are demanding more gender-balanced consulting teams and the use of feministic approaches to problem-solving, especially when the client organization has experienced major unsuccessful changes.
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