Public Lecture by Prof. Sabine SONNENTAG – “Conducting daily-survey studies”

MM held a Public Lecture on the topic "Conducting daily-survey studies" presented by Prof. Sabine Sonnentag, Professor for Work & Organizational Psychology, University of Mannheim, 25 January 2018 in M1603, Li Ka Shing Tower. Abstract: Quantitative diary methods and similar approaches (e.g., experience-sampling methods) receive increasing attention within management research. In essence, diary methods allow for "capturing life as it is lived" (Bolger, Davis, Rafaeli, 2003, p. 579) and thereby they overcome retrospective bias and other limitations of other survey methods. Importantly, multiple assessments allow for modeling changes in affect, attitude, and behavior over time. In this 3-hour workshop, I will provide an overview of research questions to be addressed with quantitative diary methods, study designs as well as approaches to data collection and data analysis. No prior experience with quantitative diary methods is required.     MORE DETAILS

Happy Hour for MM Master’s students & graduates

Date: 19 January 2018 (Friday) Time: 6 – 8 pm Venue: Theatre Lounge, PolyU campus Networking event for MM Master's students, graduates and professors was held on 19 January 2018 at Theatre Lounge of PolyU.     MORE DETAILS      

2017 Marketing Research Camp of the Asian Centre for Branding & Marketing

Date: 13 – 14 December 2017 (Wed-Thu) MM Research Centre "Asian Centre for Branding & Marketing" organized its 2017 Marketing Research Camp on 13 & 14 December 2017 in Multi-function Hall, Alumni Atrium, Chung Sze Yuen Building. It has invited 4 keynote speakers Prof. Barbara Kahn, Patty and Jay H. Baker Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Prof. Oleg Urminsky, Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago, Prof. Subramanian Balachander, Professor of Marketing Disipline, Albert O. Steffey Chair, University of California & Prof. Stephan Wuyus, Professor of Marketing, Koç University this year to share their research insights.

Professional Mentorship Programme Opening Ceremony

Date: 21 Sep 2017 (Thu) Time: 18:30 – 21:00 Venue: Staff Club, PolyU     MORE DETAILS

Academic Advising Tea Gathering

Date: 8 Sep 2017 (Fri) Time: 14:30 – 17:30 Venue: Chinese Garden, PolyU     MORE DETAILS

Academy of Management Annual Meeting Cocktail Reception

MM held a Cocktail Reception in the Academy of Management Annual Meeting on 5 August 2017 in Hilton Atlanta, US.   MORE DETAILS

Public Lecture by Dr Jian Ni – “A Dynamic Game of Doctors’ participation in Online Platform”

MM held a Public Lecture on the topic "A Dynamic Game of Doctors’ participation in Online Platform" presented by Dr Jian Ni, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School on 27 July 2017 in AG710, Chung Sze Yuen Building. Abstract: Online healthcare communities allow physicians to share knowledge with peers (participate) and answer questions from patients (communicate) and patients to make appointment with doctors. How to motivate doctors to contribute expertise to help consumers achieve more judicious decisions is of fundamental importance for online healthcare platforms. We develop a dynamic equilibrium model in which doctors make participation and communication decisions to compete for demand from patients. The model recognizes learning from peers and the dynamic trade-off of the two decision variables: while publishing signals quality, it also intensifies competition among doctors in the long-run because of learning; communication helps increase demand at the risk of receiving lower ratings for service quality. Applying the model to a unique dataset with history of doctor participation and communication decisions, we estimate the viewership demand elasticity, returns to scale in production, and analyze the factors and efficiency of doctor's decisions and their implications. Estimates of the structural parameters explain observed heterogeneity in doctors' choice, frequency and intensity, and understand how participation in the online platform drives the change of doctor ranking/reputation/productivity. Counterfactual simulations allow us to evaluate various policy interventions and quantify the aggregate benefit for the health care providers.     MORE DETAILS

Public Lecture by Dr Meng Zhu – “The Motivational Consequences of Resource Constraints”

MM held a Public Lecture on the topic "The Motivational Consequences of Resource Constraints" presented by Dr Meng Zhu, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School on 27 July 2017 in AG710, Chung Sze Yuen Building. Abstract: In spite of a rich body of knowledge that has primarily focused on examining the impact of resource constraints on consumers' cognitive performance, attentional focus, physiological responses, and choice strategies, our understanding of the motivational consequences of resource availability remains limited. In our recent research, we examine the impact of resource constraints on individuals' extrinsic motivation (e.g., effort-exertion contexts where external rewards are provided) and intrinsic motivation (e.g., learning contexts where no contingencies of tangible rewards or punishments are provided). The results from our investigations advance and deepen our understanding of the powerful and profound influences of constraints on human society, shedding further light on individual decision makers' adaptive versus maladaptive responses to resource constraints and offering implications for policy makers who seek to improve the long-term wellbeing of our institutions, communities and society as a whole.     MORE DETAILS

Academy of Management Journal Paper and Idea Development Workshop “New Ways of Seeing”

MM held the Academy of Management Journal Paper and Idea Development Workshop, themed "New Ways of Seeing" on 29 & 30 December 2017 in Multi-function Hall, Alumni Atrium, Chung Sze Yuen Building. The purpose of the workshop is to develop papers and ideas that could later be submitted for review in AMJ's Special Research Forum (SRF) on "NEW WAYS OF SEEING: Using Novel Theory and Meaningful Cross-disciplinary Collaborations to Advance Management Research". This Special Research Forum (SRF) encourages "New Ways of Seeing." This theme challenges our community of researchers, and beyond, to consider fresh, novel, and different theoretical positions, assumptions, and frameworks that expose and empirically examine new phenomena or permit new ways of seeing well-researched phenomena. In addition, new ways of seeing may also provide an impetus to engage in meaningful, ground-breaking partnerships with researchers in other disciplines-using, building, or extending conceptual frameworks, research designs, and analytic techniques rooted in disciplines outside of the management domain to advance our understanding of management issues. The workshop is a 1.5 day event and includes presentations by AMJ's editorial team as well as presentations and roundtable discussions from participants.     MORE DETAILS

Public Lecture by Prof. Peter Bamberger – “Addressing the “Too Much Theory” Problem in Management and Organizational Research: Abductive Reasoning and the Role of Academy of Management Discoveries”

MM held a Public Lecture on the topic "Addressing the 'Too Much Theory' Problem in Management and Organizational Research: Abductive Reasoning and the Role of Academy of Management Discoveries" presented by Prof. Peter Bamberger, Professor of Management and Organizations School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University & Research Director, Smithers Institute, Cornell University on 6 March 2017 in Multi-function Hall, Alumni Atrium, Chung Sze Yuen Building. Abstract: Management and Organizational research is largely grounded on two basic logics or epistemological approaches, namely induction and deduction. These approaches have served our science well, gaining our ­field respect among the sciences, and resulting in its rapid growth over the past decades. However, increasingly scholars have begun to question whether the grounding of our fi­eld in these two logics alone may be overly restrictive, generating obtuse and abstract results and limiting our relevance to the broader community which our science seeks to serve. In this talk, I will present a complementary scienti­c logic, one grounded on abductive reasoning (i.e., inference to the best plausible explanation). Building upon Mantere & Ketokivi’s (2013: 72) statement that, "we predict, confirm, and discon­firm through deduction, generalize through induction, and theorize through abduction," I will distinguish the latter from these other two, more established scientifi­c logics. After demonstrating how abduction serves as the basis for many other scientific ­fields, I will argue that it also serves as the under-recognized (and often maligned) basis upon much of what we do as management scholars. Finally, I will discuss the types of situations for which such an approach may be most suitable and how scholars might design and present studies grounded on such a logic in order to maximize theoretical contribution and practical impact.   MORE DETAILS