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Research and Scholarly Activities
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A group of faculty members from Department of
Marketing, School of Business, Sun Yat-sen University come to visit the
Department on 2 May 2008 (Friday) for academic exchange and research
collaboration. It appears that we have had a fruitful event!
Photo Gallery Article about
the visit written
by the Department of Marketing, Sun Yat-sen University -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Faculty members of the Department are very active in
research and scholarly activities. We engage in both applied and basic
researches. In the last few years, faculty members successfully attracted
research funding from the Research Grants Council, external research
institutions, and internal research grants. Our research outputs are regularly
published in international referred journals and presented at major international
conferences:
Poon, Patrick, Lianxi Zhou,
and T. S. Chan
(Forthcoming), "Social Entrepreneurship in a Transitional Economy: A
Critical Assessment of Rural Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms," Journal of
Management Development.
Zhou, Lianxi, Lefa Teng and Patrick Poon (2008), "Susceptibility to
Global Consumer Culture: A Three-Dimensional Scale," Psychology and Marketing,
Vol. 25, No. 4, 336-351.
Albaum, Gerald,
Joel Herche, Julie Yu, Felicitas Evangelista, Brian Murphy and Patrick Poon
(2007), "Differences in
Marketing Managers' Decision Making Styles within the Asia-Pacific Region:
Implications for Strategic Alliances." Journal of Global Marketing
Vol. 21, No. 1: 63-78. Whitla, Paul,
Peter G. P. Walters and Howard Davies (2007), "Global Strategies in the
International Hotel Industry," International Journal of Hospitality
Management, Elsevier, 26, 777-792.
Zhou, Lianxi, W. P. Wu and X. Luo (2007),
"Internationalization and the Performance of Born-Global Firms: The Mediating
Role of Social Networks." Journal of International Business Studies,
Vol. 38, Issue 4, 673-690.
Zhou, Lianxi (2007), "The Effects of Entrepreneurial Proclivity and Foreign Market
Knowledge on Early Internationalization." Journal of World Business, Vol.
42/3, 281-293.
Cui, Geng, Man Leung Wong and Hon-Kwong Lui
(2006), "Machine Learning for Direct Marketing Response Models: Bayesian
Networks with Evolutionary Programming," Management Science, Vol.
52, No. 4, 597-612.
Whitla, Paul, Peter Walters and Howard Davies (2006), "The use of Global
Strategies by British Construction Firms," Construction Management and
Economics, Vol. 24.9, 945-954.
Chan, T. S. and Haiyang Li and Yan Zhang (2005), "Entrepreneurial
strategy making and performance in China's emerging economy - the contingency
effect of environments and firm competences," Journal
of High Technology Management Research,
Vol. 16, Issue 1, 37-57.
Cui, Geng and Hon-Kwong Lui (2005), "Order of Entry and Performance of
Multinational Corporations in an Emerging Market: A Contingent Resource
Perspective," Journal of International Marketing, Vol. 13, No. 4, 28-56.
Lui, Hon-Kwong
with Wong, Yui-Tim,
Chi-Sum Wong and Hang-Yue Ngo (2005). "Different
Responses to Job Insecurity of Chinese Workers in Joint Ventures and State-owned
Enterprises," Human Relations
58
(November):1391-1418.
Poon,
Patrick, Felicitas Evangelista and Gerald Albaum (2005), "A Comparative Study of
the Management Styles of Marketing Managers in Australia and the People's
Republic of China," International Marketing Review,Vol. 22, No.1, 34-47.
Zhou, Lianxi,
X. Luo, and S. Liu (2005), "Entrepreneurial Firms in the Context of China's
Transition Economy: An Integrative Framework and Empirical Examination," Journal of Business Research, 58, 277-284.
Chan, T. S. and Cui Geng (2004),
"Consumer Attitudes toward Marketing in a Transitional Economy: A Replication
and Extension," Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 21, No. 1, 10-25.
Li Ling-Yee (2004), "An
Examination of Foreign Market Knowledge of Exporting Firms Based in the People's
Republic of China: Its Determinants and Effect on Export Intensity." Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 33, 561-572.
Poon, Patrick, Michael Hui and Kevin Au (2004), "Attributions on Dissatisfying
Service Encounters: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Canadian and PRC
Consumers," European Journal of Marketing ,Vol. 38, No. 11, 1527-1540.
Zhou, Lianxi (2004), "A Dimension-Specific Analysis of Performance Only
Measurement of Service Quality and Satisfaction in China's Retail Banking," Journal of Services Marketing, Vol. 18, No. 7, 534-546.
Chow, K W Clement and Michael Fung (2002), "Business Risk, Political
Affiliation and Future Development Plans of Small Business Owners in China,"
Journal of Enterprising Culture, Vol. 10 (1), 1-22.
Chow, K W Clement, Udo Broll and Kit Pong Wong (2001), "Hedging of Exchange Rate
Risk and Regression Dependence," Oxford Economic Papers, Blackwell
publishing, April 2001, Vol. 53, No.2, 281-296.
Other than academic research, academic staff are active members of the academic and public communities. We provide service to sister institutions and professional bodies in various capacities. To name but a few, in the recent past, we have been:
External examiners for courses offered by other universities
Members of validation panels for programmes offered by a sister university
External examiners for doctoral or masters theses of sister universities
Executive members of professional bodies
External examiner for an overseas professional body
Editorial board members of international refereed journals
Member, School Examinations Board of Hong Kong Examination Authority
Member, Insurance Training Board of Vocational Training Council
National Director, Hong Kong Canada Business Association
Prof. Cui Geng
and
Dr. Zhou Lianxi received the
Research Excellence Awards in 2002 and 2004 respectively to recognise their
outstanding research performance.