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.

Research Seminar by Prof. Ying Zhang

Date: 15 April 2019 (MON) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Prof. Ying Zhang is a Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Science at the Guanghua School of Management. Ying Zhang received his PhD from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago. Professor Zhang does research in consumer decision making, with a particular interest in the interaction between consumer cognition and motivation. He has published extensively in both marketing and psychology.

Research Seminar by Dr Mihoko Hosojima

Date: 11 April 2019 (THU) Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Dr Mihoko Hosojima is an Associate Professor at International University of Japan, Center for Global Communications. Her academic background is Information Systems and Policy Design. She received her PhD from the Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance in Japan. She has studied effective ways of using Information Communication Technology in Japan's municipal governments. After the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, she conducted field research and designed information systems to enhance the handling of future and unexpected disasters, especially for municipalities which have to deliver disaster relief operations to their residents. She is also an affiliate of Keio University as a researcher. Currently she is working on the notion of resilience and how information systems can support this. Her works related to the earthquake won the Best paper award at ITU Kaleidoscope conference (2013) and HICSS (2016). Her works has also been published in IEEE communications magazine, IJISCRAM (International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management), Communications of AIS, and ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems).

Journal of Marketing Research Development Workshop

Thanks to the generous support from Faculty of Business, our Department of Management and Marketing has successfully organized the Journal of Marketing Research Development Workshop in New World Millennium Hong Kong Hotel, on 3 - 4 April 2019.   The Workshop has attracted more than 120 researchers, students and business executives from different universities, professional organizations and companies. The event included plenary speakers and small group workshops. The plenary speakers and their topics include: Christine Moorman (Duke University, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Marketing), “Generating Marketing Ideas from the Real World” Harald van Heerde (UNSW, Co-editor, Journal of Marketing) and Prof. Jie Zhang (University Maryland) “Generating Ideas from Marketing Data“ C. Page Moreau (University of Wisconsin, Co-Editor, Journal of Marketing), “Fostering Research Creativity” Jacob Goldenberg (IDC-Herzliya), Prof. Oded Netzer (Columbia University) and Prof. Rom Schrift (University of Pennsylvania), “Using Templates to Develop Marketing ideas” Kapil Tuli (Singapore Management University), “Developing Theories-in-Use in Marketing”   We are glad that the Workshop has achieved a number of objectives including :   Facilitating JM’s mission to share knowledge, skills, and experiences to improve the quality and impact of knowledge generated to answer real-world marketing questions; Enhancing PolyU’s visibility and reputation in marketing scholarship throughout the world; Strengthening our research collaboration with marketing scholars from JM’s editorial team, and throughout Hong Kong and the Great Bay Area; and Generating ideas and insights to inform managerial practices in marketing.   We look forward to more opportunities to hosting world-class academic events in the future to further enhance our research visibility and reputation.   MORE DETAILS

Research Seminar by Prof. Nancy Wong

Date: 19 March 2019 (Tue) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Prof. Nancy Wong has focused on the influence of culture in consumption decisions, affective responses, and consumption values such as materialism. In addition to exploring methodological issues in cross-cultural research, she also conducts research on consumer decisions in healthcare, personal finance and sustainable consumption. Her research has been published in Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Psychological Methods, Cognition and Emotion.

Research Seminar by Prof. Sea Jin Chang

Date: 14 March 2019 (Thu) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Prof. Chang Sea-Jin is the Lim Kim San Chair Professor of Business Administration at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. Prior to joining NUS, he was a Visiting Professor at Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and Kumho Asiana Group Endowed Chair Professor at the School of Administration at Korea University. Previously, he was a Professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University and had visiting appointments at Stanford University, New York University, INSEAD, London Business School and Hitotsubashi University. He is primarily interested in the management of diversified multinational firms. His current research focuses on understanding the process of creating operating synergies among diversified lines of business and building a strong local organisation after foreign entry. His other research interests include organisational learning, corporate growth through joint ventures and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, and comparative management studies of Japan, Korea, and China. His research work has been published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Organisation Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies,and Journal of Industrial Economics. He was an Associate Editor of Journal of International Business Studies, a leading academic journal in international business, and serves on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal. He has written several books as well. His recent book, `Sony vs. Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics` Giants Battle for Global Supremacy,`(Wiley, 2008) compares and contrasts these two firms` global strategy. His new forthcoming book, `Multinational Firms in China: Entry Strategies, Competition and Performance,` (Oxford University Press, in press), examines the competitive dynamics between multinational firms and strong local firms in China. He has received several honours and awards for academic excellence. He was elected as one of fifteen National Scholars by the Korea Ministry of Education. He was awarded The Linsu Kim Memorial Award by The Korea Academy of Management and won a Grand Prize in Social Sciences from the 2004 Chung Jinki Memorial Cultural Foundation in Korea. In addition, he has received several research grants and won the Wharton School Dean`s Fellowship. He completed his Master of Arts in Economics at Seoul National University in Korea and Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies at the Japan-American Institute of Management Science in Tokyo and Chaminade University in Honolulu; as a part of Fujitsu Asian Scholarship Programme. He obtained his PhD in Organisation and Strategy at Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.

8th Symposium of the Centre for Leadership & Innovation “The Future of Work: Driving Change in Organizations”

MM Research Centre "Centre for Leadership & Innovation" organized its 8th annual symposium, themed "he Future of Work: Driving Change in Organizations" on 1 March 2019 in Multi-function Hall, Alumni Atrium, Chung Sze Yuen Building. The event attracted more than 80 researchers, students and business executives from different universities, professional organizations and companies. This year, it has invited Prof. Mark Griffin, Director of the Future of Work Institute in the Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University, and Dr Chan Wing Li, Director of Li CW Consultant Limited, to be our keynote speakers. The keynote topics are "Optimal Uncertainty: Flexibility and Innovation for The Future of Work" and "The Future of Work: Changing Management Needs in the Greater Bay Area".   MORE DETAILS

FB Outstanding Student Award Ceremony - KALIYEVA Madina

Research Seminar by Dr Maryam KOUCHAKI

Date: 20 Febuary 2019 (Wed) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Dr Maryam Kouchaki is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Kellogg School of Management. Maryam is an organizational psychologist who seeks to understand everyday moral encounters, particularly at work. Her research is organized around two conceptual themes that involve 1) understanding the dynamic nature of moral decision-making and 2) understanding how individuals psychologically experience everyday moral encounters. Maryam examines these with a particular emphasis on the consequences of these encounters for individuals and groups. Across a series of articles, she has uncovered novel and often counterintuitive forces that continually create widespread unethicality. Notably, she offers evidence that everyday moral encounters cannot be fully understood without a thorough consideration of the individuals’ psychological experience of them. Her work has appeared in scholarly publications such as Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Psychological Science, and has been featured in media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, and BBC world radio.

Research Seminar by Prof. Mats ALVESSON

Date: 8 Febuary 2019 (Fri) Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn Venue: M802, Li Ka Shing Tower Professor Alvesson’s current research projects focus on leadership, functional stupidity in organizations and experiences of bureaucracy and managerial work in universities. My research interests include critical theory, gender, power, management of professional service (knowledge intensive) organizations, leadership, identity, organizational image, organizational culture and symbolism, qualitative methods and philosophy of science. My most recent books include Return to Meaning (Oxford University Press 2017), Reflexive Leadership (Sage, 2017, with Martin Blom and Stefan Sveningsson),The Stupidity Paradox (Profile 2016, with André Spicer), Managerial Lives (Cambridge univ Press 2016, with Stefan Sveningsson),The Triumph of Emptiness (Oxford University Press 2013), Qualitative Research and Theory Development (Sage 2011, with Dan Kärreman), Constructing Research Questions. (Sage 2013, with J Sandberg) Interpreting Interviews (Sage 2011), Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding leadership in the real world. (Routledge 2011, ed with André Spicer), Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies (Oxford University Press, edited with Todd Bridgman and Hugh Willmott). Understanding gender and organizations (Sage, 2009, 2nd ed with Yvonne Billing), Reflexive methodology (Sage, 2009, 2nd ed, with Kaj Skoldberg), Changing organizational culture (Routledge 2015 2nd ed, with Stefan Sveningsson), and Knowledge work and knowledge-intensive firms (Oxford University Press,2004). He currently teach courses on qualititative methods, knowledge work, and organizational change at the PhD and masters levels at Lund University.