Social Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Executive Yuan（行政院科技部人 文社會科學研究中心）for sponsoring our editorial personnel, who have been providing invaluable assistance to both the conferences and the publication. Last but not the least, we would like to thank T. N. Soong Foundation for their continuous support. To encourage research efforts in accounting, auditing, finance, taxation, and accounting information management in Taiwan, the Foundation has been sponsoring the Best Master’s Thesis Award since 1996. NTU Management Review has been publishing quite a few awarded research papers ever since. Introduction of this Edition This edition of NTU Management Review contains five articles. The following is a brief introduction to all of them. For the two articles in the field of organizational behavior/human resources, one article is written by Lu, Chang, and Kao, who examine the joint interactive effects of gender role orientation and biological sex on the work and family interface. They conducted a two-wave survey of employees working in different organizations of diverse industries across Taiwan. Three-way interactions (sex × gender role orientation × family responsibility) in predicting the bidirectional work and family conflict are found significant after controlling for traditional gender role values. Specifically, for men, high femininity strengthened the positive relationships between family responsibility and work-tofamily conflict as well as between family responsibility and family-to-work conflict. For women, however, it was low femininity that strengthened the same sets of relationships. Their findings suggest that certain types of non-traditional gender identities increase the adjustment challenges for both sexes, especially in a transitional society. They suggest that researchers should recognize the differences between the individual’s socially prescribed gender role and his/her psychological gender identity, so as to have a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of men’s and women’s lived experiences on the work and family interface. Another article in the field of organizational behavior/human resources by Hsiung and Lee investigates how leaders’ Negative Implicit Followership Theories (NIFTs) affect employees’ psychological status and their service performance and altruistic behavior toward colleagues through an emotional process and a work-cognition process. They
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