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Research Seminar by Prof. Gerard P Hodgkinson

Date: 11 Nov 2019 (MON) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Prof. Gerard P Hodgkinson, PhD (Sheffield), DSc (Warwick), is Professor of Strategic Management and Behavioural Science at Alliance Manchester Business School and Vice Dean for Research (Faculty of Humanities) at the University of Manchester, UK. The (co-) author of three books and more than 100 articles and book chapters, his scholarly work focuses primarily on the psychological foundations of strategic management, especially cognitive processes in strategic adaptation and the development and evaluation of techniques for mapping strategic knowledge. His most recent work has been concerned with the application of advances in the social neurosciences to the analysis of cognitive processes in strategic decision making (including the nature and role of emotion and intuition) and the evaluation of techniques for overcoming cognitive bias and inertia in such decision making. Registered with the (UK) Health and Caring Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Occupational Psychologist, over the past twenty five years Gerard has carried out numerous consultancy assignments with public and private sector organizations. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the British Academy of Management, the British Psychological Society, and the Royal Society of Arts, among other bodies. Over an eight year period (1999-2006) he was the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management and for 12 years (2005-2016) he co-edited the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and Strategic Management Journal. An earlier version of his 2011 article with his Manchester-based colleague Dr. Mark Healey, on the psychological foundations of strategic adaptation (dynamic capabilities), which was published in the Strategic Management Journal, won the Business Policy and Strategy Division's Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Chicago, IL).

Research Seminar by Prof. Xiao-Ping Chen

Date: 12 Nov 2019 (TUE) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Professor Xiao-ping Chen is currently Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. She is an elected Fellow in Academy of Management (AoM), American Psychological Association (APA), and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Professor Chen has served as Editor-in-Chief for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2010-2016) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Management Insights, a bilingual (Chinese and English) magazine for business educators and practitioners. She received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Chen’s research interests include cooperation and competition in social dilemmas, teamwork and leadership, entrepreneur passion, Chinese guanxi, and cross-cultural communication and management. Professor Chen has published more than 30 research papers in top-tier journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Management Science, and Journal of International Business Studies. She was a faculty previously at Indiana University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She was also a distinguished visiting professor at University of Cambridge, Fudan University, Peking University, Kobe University, Indian School of Business, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Nanyang Technological University, and China Europe International Business School. Professor Chen is highly involved in Chinese management research and business community. She served as President for International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR). She has organized numerous research methods workshops, professional development workshops, and panel discussions for IACMR. She has published one English book entitled Leadership of Chinese Private Enterprises: Insights and Interviews, and ten Chinese books so far, among which the Empirical Methods in Organization and Management Research book has been the best seller in China since 2008. As the editor of Management Insights, she has conducted in-depth interviews with distinguished CEOs and founders of Chinese companies such as Liu Chuanzhi of Lenovo, Jack Ma of Alibaba, Pony Ma of Tencent, Wang Shi of Vanke, Ma Weihua of China Merchant Bank, Michael Yu of New Oriental Group, Richard Liu of JD.Com and so on. Professor Chen is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards, including Scholarly Impact Award by Journal of Management (2019), Best Paper of Chinese Management Research by Peking University Press (2018), Dean’s Leadership Award (2017), Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award by IACMR (2016), Andrew Smith Faculty Development Award, Outstanding University of Washington Woman Award, Outstanding Ph.D. Mentor Award, Dean’s International Research Award, and Charles E. Summer Teaching Award.

Research Seminar by Prof. Yanjun Guan

Date: 13 Sep 2019 (FRI) Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Prof. Yanjun Guan is currently a Professor in Management at Durham University Business School, UK. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009. Before he joined Durham University, he used to work for University of Surrey, Renmin University of China and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His key research areas are career management and cross-cultural management. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF = 3.4). His work appears in Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Psychological Science, Nature Climate Change (IF = 21.2), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology, and so on.

Academy of Management Annual Meeting Cocktail Reception 2019

MM held a Cocktail Reception in the Academy of Management Annual Meeting on 10 August 2019 in The Westin Copley Place, Boston, US.   MORE DETAILS

2nd PolyU-AIS Research Development Workshop

Thanks to the generous support from Faculty of Business, our Department of Management and Marketing has successfully organized the 2nd PolyU-AIS Research Development Workshop on 24 June 2019.   The Workshop has attracted more than 50 researchers, students and business executives from different universities, professional organizations and companies. The plenary speakers and their topics include:   Han Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Expressed Anger in Online Reviews: Unhelpful but Persuasive?" Ni (Nina) Huang (Arizona State University), "Not Registered? Please Sign-up Now: A Randomized Field Experiment on the Timing of Registration Request" Chee-Wee Tan (Copenhagen Business School), "The Magnetism of Images: Deciphering the Role of Visual Cues in Service E-Tailing” Wen Xie (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), "Designing Persuasive Chatbot—Should Chatbots Take the Initiative?” Kun Xiong (Tencent Robotics X Lab), "Challenges and Opportunities for Robots with AI” Frankie Cheung (Deloitte Blockchain Lab), "AI Use Cases in Financial Services" Yili (Kevin) Hong (Arizona State University), "Peer Symbolic Awards Increase Content Generation but Reduce Content Novelty" Baozhuang Niu (South China University of Technology), "Network Effect and Tax-Planning in IT Companies’ Global Entry Decisions"   MORE DETAILS

MM Annual Summit Conference for Management Studies

The MM management graduate students and faculty members organized an internal research symposium called “MM Annual Summit Conference for Management Studies” on June, 24th (Monday) at BC201. The purpose of this event is to promote idea exchange and build the research culture among graduate students and faculty members.     MORE DETAILS

Research Seminar by Prof. Richard Whittington

Date: 8 May 2019 (WED) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Prof. Richard Whittington’s research focuses on Strategy as Practice and in particular Open Strategy. He has two books coming out this year: Opening Strategy: Professional Strategists and Practice Change, 1960 to Today (Oxford University Press, 2019) and The Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy (with David Seidl and Georg von Krogh, Cambridge University Press, 2019). He is currently co-editing an Organization Studies special issue on ‘Open Organizations in an Open Society’ (submissions due November, 2019). He is also author of two influential textbooks on strategy: Exploring Strategy (Pearson, 11th ed 2016), the biggest-selling textbook in Europe, and What is Strategy–and Does it Matter? (Thomson, 2nd edition, 2000), past winner of the Management Consulting Association prize. He is also an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal. He has recently served on the Board of the Strategic Management Society, and as Chair of the Strategy as Practice interest group at the Academy of Management. He has held full or visiting appointments at Harvard Business School, HEC Paris, Imperial College, the University of Technology Sydney, the University of Toulouse and Warwick Business School. Alongside his current role at Saïd Business School, he is a Fellow in Management at New College, Oxford.

Research Seminar by Dr Keisha Cutright

Date: 7 May 2019 (TUE) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Dr Keisha Cutright is an associate professor of Marketing at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Keisha received her Ph.D. in Marketing from Duke in 2011, and was a faculty member at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania before returning to Duke. Her research explores the psychological drivers of consumer behavior, often addressing issues related to religion, personal control, culture and emotion. Her work has been published in top-tier academic journals, including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, and Marketing Science. She also serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology. Popular accounts of her work have appeared in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, NewsWeek, Time, and Fast Company. Prior to beginning her career in academia, Professor Cutright worked in brand management at Procter and Gamble. She teaches Strategic Brand Management and was previously named one of the world’s best 40 b-school professors under the age of 40 by Poets and Quants.