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School of Accounting and Finance Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies Department of Management and Marketing

Accounting and Auditing
PhD Programme Co-directors
Prof. Walid Saffar
Tel: 2766 7059
Email: walid.saffar@polyu.edu.hk

Prof. Jie Cao
Tel: 2766 7099
Email: jie.cao@polyu.edu.hk
Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing
PhD Programme Co-directors
Prof. Walid Saffar
Tel: 2766 7059
Email: walid.saffar@polyu.edu.hk

Prof. Jie Cao
Tel: 2766 7099
Email: jie.cao@polyu.edu.hk

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Aviation Management and Economics
- Air cargo markets, competitive airline schedules
- Airport finance, congestion management, strategic partnerships between airlines: alliances and code-shares
- Airport price regulation, airport concession businesses
- Airport slots, airline networks, airline and airport competition, intermodal competition between airlines and high-speed rail companies
Maritime Law and Shipping Finance
- Maritime law and legal policy
- Marine insurance and risk management
- Organisation management in shipping
- Shipping financing and investment
Maritime Studies
- Maritime and logistics information technology
- Maritime and port economics
- Maritime environment
- Maritime safety and security
- Regional competition in port and shipping
- Shipping and port management
Operations Management
- Data envelopment analysis, forecasting, scheduling
- International operations, operation strategy, production planning and control
- Linear and nonlinear optimisation, productivity analysis and technology management
- Project management, quality management
Supply Chain Management
- Contract design for supply chain coordination, Supply chain decision support system, Queueing and stochastic networks
- Demand management, Auction and game theory, Customer relationship management, Risk management Simulation
- Strategic planning for supply chain, Distribution channel management
- Stochastics optimisation, Outsourcing and strategic alliance
Transport and Logistics Management
- Facility layout and design, Warehousing and inventory management
- Multi-mode logistics, Terminal Design and Operations
- Network design and optimisation, Vehicle routing and dispatch
- Transport economics, Revenue management in transport

Management
- Business Ethics
- Corporate Governance and Family Business
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Cross-Cultural Management
- Culture
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity and Inequality
- Emerging Market Strategies
- Employee Attitudes and Behaviors
- Innovation Management
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Leadership
- Organisational Justice
- Philanthropy
- Proactive Behaviours
- Public Sector Management
- Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
- Social Networks
- Strategic HRM
- Stress and Health
- Voice and Citizenship Behaviours
- Work Teams
- Work-Family Conflict
Management Information Systems
- BlockChain Applications and Digital Assets
- Digital Transformation
- Disinformation and Promotional Information on the Internet
- E-Commerce
- E-Health
- Human-AI Interaction
- Internet of Things & Smart Service
- IoT and AI Methods and Applications
- IT Governance
- Knowledge Management & Innovation
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- M-Commerce
- Platformization
- Social Commerce
- Social Media Analytics & Social Media Marketing
Marketing
- Consumer Information Processing
- Consumer Judgment and Decision Making
- Consumer Psychology
- Digital Marketing
- International Marketing
- Marketing Strategy
- Omni-Channel Management
- Pricing and Competitive Strategies
- Pro-Social Consumer Behaviour
- Quantitative Marketing Modelling
- Relationship Marketing
- Sensory Marketing
- Social Influence on Consumer Behaviour
- Theoretical Marketing Modelling
- Visual Marketing

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