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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! 
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        Article about the visit
 written by the Department of Marketing, Sun Yat-sen University
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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
  • Supervisors, overseas doctoral programmes




Research Interests of Department Staff  

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Best Graduate Student Paper

Ms Yanan Wang, our postgraduate student (2002-04) won the Best Graduate Student Paper at the 2005 International Academy of e-Business Conference in San Francisco.  

Exploring Online Brand Choice at the SKU Level: The Effects of Internet-Specific Attributes

by Yanan Wang

Supervisor:       
Prof. Cui Geng
Co-Supervisor: 
Prof. Chan Tsang-Sing




Research Excellence Awards


Prof. Cui Geng and Dr. Zhou Lianxi received the Research Excellence Awards in 2002 and 2004 respectively to recognise their outstanding research performance.

Prof Geng CUI received the Research Excellence Award in 2002 Dr Lianxi Zhou received the Research Excellence Award 2004
Department of Marketing and International Business, Lingnan University
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