Extensive research makes LU one of the Top 10 universities in Greater China in THE Impact Rankings 2022

Research & Impact

26 May 2022

In the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2022, LU is ranked third in the world for “Quality Education”, and in the Greater China region, covering the Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, LU is in the Top 10 overall impact rankings, and comes 6^th for SDG 8 “Decent work and economic growth", which promotes inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent work opportunities for all.

As well as in governance and practice ensuring students’ and employees’ well-being, health and work-life balance, and knowledge transfer and engagement projects for society at large, LU scholars conduct a wide spectrum of research and studies, ranging from stress management, psychological health, working conditions, and leadership, to labour welfare, in order to address SDG 8.

Research projects

Project	Researcher(s) / Unit(s)
Survey on Doctor Manpower	LI, Pang Kwong Department of Political Science
Tax Credit Ratings and the Pricing of Audit Services: China Evidence	LIN, Zhenpin Kenny Department of Accountancy
Old-age Activation and the Delivery of Employment Services in Hong Kong: Views from Street-level Bureaucrats	AU YEUNG, Tat Chor Department of Sociology and Social Policy
PCAOB International Inspections and CEO Compensation Around the World (PCAOB國際檢查项目和CEO薪酬)	SU, Lixin Nancy Department of Accountancy
Provision of Random Sampling Service for 2021 Policy Address Consultation	LI, Pang Kwong Department of Political Science
Employee Silence at Work	CHEN, Tingting Department of Management
A qualitative study on older cleaning workers’ labour process during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrated approach	AU YEUNG, Tat Chor Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Acquirer mid-level management human capital and M&A	GONG, Zhaoran Department of Accountancy
Entrepreneurs’ Crisis Experience, Bricolage, and Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: The Moderating Role of Self-identity (企业家的危机经历，创新和不道德的亲组织行为：自我认同的调节作用)	JEONG, In Seong Lewis Department of Management
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Export Upgrading: Theory and Evidence from China	QIU, Dongxiao Larry Department of Economics
Precarities facing food delivery workers – A cross-ethnic evaluation of job security and satisfaction	LEUNG, Yuk Ming Lisa Department of Cultural Studies
Can Hong Kong’s Current Competition Policy Meet the Challenge of Increasing Economic Integration with the Greater Bay Area?	LIN, Ping \| QIU, Dongxiao Larry \| XIAO, Junji Department of Economics
Directors' Electoral Incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility	WANG, Rui Department of Accountancy
Revealing the Role of the Internet on Employees’ Daily Work: Its Classification and Impacts on Employee Outcomes (探究网络在员工日常工作中的作用：网络使用行为的分类及影响)	LI, Na Yolanda Department of Management
Interpersonal Stress Management among Working Adults and Their Spouses: A Digital and Dyadic Intervention	CHAN, Meanne Ching Man \| LO, Lik Hang Lincoln Wofoo Joseph Lee Consulting and Counselling Psychology Research Centre
Proactive Personality Congruence in a Co-leading Situation	WANG, Nan \| CHEN, Yifeng Nancy Department of Management
Examining the occupational health difference between locals and new migrants from China: A pilot study	CHEUNG, Yue Lok Francis Department of Applied Psychology
To Self-verify or Self-enhance? Effects of Self-presentation and Authentic Leadership on Trust and Performance	CHEN, Tingting Department of Management
Airport Subsidies and Domestic Tourism in China	CHOW, Kong Wing Clement Department of Marketing and International Business
Enhancing organisational competitive advantage on human capital through leadership	CHEN, Tingting Department of Management
Transfer pricing knowledge and research for accounting professionals	LIN, Zhenpin Kenny \| ZHANG, Yue \| SIMMONS, Richard Stanley \| LO, Wai Yee Agnes Department of Accountancy
Promoting the Hong Kong-Mainland Economic Integration Index for policy analysis and discourse	CUI, Geng \| CHUNG, Yu Ho Sebastian Department of Marketing and International Business
Being Empowered, feeling Strained? Empowering Leadership, Challenge and Hindrance Appraisal, and Employee Outcomes	LI, Na Yolanda \| YE, Huili Department of Management
Mentor proactive personality and mentee proactive behavior that contribute to mentee’s career development	CHEN, Yifeng Nancy Department of Management
Innovation-Related Mergers and Acquisitions	LI, Ang Leo Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies
Digitalized Working Class Culture in Smart City	PUN, Ngai Department of Cultural Studies
Meaning, justification and aspiration: A qualitative study on the moral underpinnings of platform workers’ practices in Hong Kong	AU YEUNG, Tat Chor Department of Sociology and Social Policy
To make it worse or better? Couriers’ exposure to social media posts and their reactions to daily experienced customer mistreatment	LI, Na Yolanda Department of Management
How Does the Overqualified Employee Become a Leader? A Dual-strategy Model	LI, Na Yolanda Department of Management
Within-person Dynamics of Employee Performance After Disruption Events	WANG, Nan Department of Management
Migration, Mobility and Labor	PUN, Ngai Department of Cultural Studies

Journals

Journal	Researcher(s) / Unit(s)
Dying for an iPhone : Apple, Foxconn, and the lives of China's workers	PUN, Ngai Department of Cultural Studies
Social cohesion and welfare reforms : the Chinese approach	KANG, Yuyang \| MOK, Ka Ho Joshua Department of Sociology and Social Policy
The quest for global talent for changing economic needs: a study of student mobility and job prospects for returnees in China	MOK, Ka Ho Joshua \| HAN, Xiao Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies \| School of Graduate Studies
Educational Expansion, Skills Diffusion, and the Economic Value of Credentials and Skills	ARAKI, Satoshi Department of Sociology and Social Policy
The development of “Islamic welfare regime” in South East Asia : Drawing experiences from Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Indonesia	YUDA, Tauchid Komara Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Higher Education Financing Trends in Africa	XIONG, Weiyan School of Graduate Studies
Artists or Slave Laborers? Performing Uncapturability in Burkinabe Performers’ Labor Rights Struggle in South Korea	YOON, Soo Ryon Department of Cultural Studies
The metropolitan scale	OH, Do Young School of Graduate Studies
Special Issue on Environmental Governance in Asia: Introduction	HONG, Fuhai Lingnan University
Aspiring to Be a Social Entrepreneur: Does Prosocial Motivation Matter?	ASANTE, Eric Adom Lingnan University
Competition, Innovation and Trade	QIU, Dongxiao Larry Lingnan University
Critical Reflections on Mainland China and Taiwan Overseas Returnees’ Job Searches and Career Development Experiences in the Rising Trend of Anti-globalisation	MOK, Ka Ho Joshua \| XIONG, Weiyan School of Graduate Studies
Psychologizing indexes of societal progress: Accounting for cultural diversity in preferred developmental pathways	LUN, Miu Chi Vivian Department of Applied Psychology
Reflecting on Hong Kong protests in 2019–2020	PUN, Ngai Department of Cultural Studies
Negotiating Debt: The Making of Puhan Rural Community in North China	YAN, Xiaohui Centre for Cultural Research and Development
Minimum Wage Hikes, Innovation, and Corporate Investment	LIU, Sibo Lingnan University
Institutional constraints for the extension of social insurance coverage to informal economy workers in China	QIAN, Jiwei \| WEN, Zhuoyi Vincent Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies
Do political relations affect international trade? Evidence from China’s twelve trading partners	WHITTEN, Gregory William \| FAN, Cheng Ze Simon Department of Economics
Worker training, firm productivity, and trade liberalization : Evidence from Chinese firms	QIU, Dongxiao Larry Department of Economics
A Common Destiny: COVID-19 and the Ongoing Impact on China’s Belt and Road Initiative Among ASEAN Countries	HUNG, Wing Lok \| CHOW, Man Kong \| CHANG, Chak Yan China Economic Research Programme \| Pan Sutong Shanghai-Hong Kong Economic Policy Research Institute
Social entrepreneurship interventions in the HIV/AIDS sector : A social entrepreneurship–social work perspective	SHANG, Liang Echo Department of Sociology and Social Policy
The role of social entrepreneurship for youth purpose development	SHANG, Liang Echo Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Minimum Wage and Corporate Investment: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in China	LIU, Sibo \| LIN, Chen Lingnan University
To Explore the Disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility under the Mode of Equity Crowdfunding Financing	WANG, Lijie School of Graduate Studies
Re-organizing Peasant Labour for Local Resilience in China	LAU, Kin Chi \| WONG, Tak Hing \| SIT, Tsui Centre for Cultural Research and Development \| Department of Cultural Studies
Extension of social insurance coverage to informal economy workers in China : An administrative and institutional perspective	QIAN, Jiwei \| WEN, Zhuoyi Vincent Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies
The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China	KWONG, Yim Tze Charles Lingnan University
Experiences of chin irregular migrant workers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : a case study	TUAL SAWN, Khai Lingnan University
Information Economy, Employment Vulnerability and the Development of New Urban Marginality: A Case of Bangladesh	HUSSAIN, Rasel Lingnan University
Women, business management and development : the case for Uganda’s enterprises	KATUNZE, Miriam Nabawanga Lingnan University
Sporting events in China as economic development, national image, and political ambition	CHU, Pok Department of Political Science
Occupying the Fringes: The Struggles of Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Rural Ghana - Evidence from the Prestea–Huni Valley Municipality	ABREFA BUSIA, Kwaku \| ARTHUR-HOLMES, Francis Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Managing social policy in the emerging welfare regime of governance: What Indonesia can learn from South Korea’s experience	YUDA, Tauchid Komara Department of Sociology and Social Policy
The effects of digital media upon labor knowledge and attitudes: a study of Chinese labor subjectivity in a vocational training school	PUN, Ngai Department of Cultural Studies
COVID-19 crisis and challenges for graduate employment in graduate employment in Taiwan, Mainland China and East Asia: a critical review of skills preparing students for uncertain futures	MOK, Ka Ho Joshua \| XIONG, Weiyan Institute of Policy Studies \| School of Graduate Studies
Is entrepreneurship a remedy for Chinese university graduates’ unemployment under the massification of higher education? A case study of young entrepreneurs in Shenzhen	KANG, Yuyang \| XIONG, Weiyan Institute of Policy Studies \| School of Graduate Studies
Labour market experience, educational attainment and self-reported happiness: crowding-out amongst young people in Hong Kong	JIANG, Jin \| LAU, Ka Wai Maggie \| WEN, Zhuoyi Vincent \| KUEHNER, Stefan Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies \| Department of Sociology and Social Policy \| Institute of Policy Studies \| School of Graduate Studies
Social policy in East Asia: Between productivism and social investment	KUEHNER, Stefan Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Multidimensional social identity and redistributive preferences: an experimental study	HONG, Fuhai Department of Economics
Political-economic Suboptimization of China's Belt and Road Initiative: The Case of Infrastructural Investments in Southeast Asia	CHAN, Sze Nam \| VOON, Jan Piaw Thomas \| CHUNG, Chien-peng Department of Economics \| Department of Political Science
The forms of decommodification and (de)familisation measures during COVID‐19: What is the impact on female's welfare?	YUDA, Tauchid Komara Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Assessing the era of Jiang Zemin	WONG, Yiu Chung Department of Political Science
Helping While Competing? The Complex Effects of Competitive Climates on the Prosocial Identity and Performance Relationship	CHEN, Tingting Department of Management
A city of exceptional risks? A critical policy analysis of Hong Kong unemployment insurance	PUN, Ngai Department of Cultural Studies
The Normative Construction of and Contestation over In-Work Benefits in Hong Kong: A Moral Economy Approach	AU YEUNG, Tat Chor Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Identity in public goods contribution	HONG, Fuhai Department of Economics
WISE Management : Competencies of the Managers of Work Integration Social Enterprises in Hong Kong	WONG, Shing Pui, Doris Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies
Impact of precarious employment on retirement planning for young workers and their parents: the case of Hong Kong	AU YEUNG, Tat Chor Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Family-to-work interface and workplace injuries: The mediating roles of burnout, work engagement and safety violations	SIU, Oi Ling \| NG, Ting Kin Department of Applied Psychology
Covid-19 prevention knowledge, attitude, and practice challenges amongst Myanmar refugees and irregular migrants in Malaysia	TUAL SAWN, Khai School of Graduate Studies
Psychological capital and family satisfaction among employees : Do occupational stressors moderate the relationship?	SIU, Oi Ling \| NG, Ting Kin \| KONG, Qianting Department of Applied Psychology
Long working hours, precarious employment and anxiety symptoms among working Chinese population in Hong Kong	AU YEUNG, Tat Chor Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Contract institution and differentiated exports	VOON, Jan Piaw Thomas Department of Economics
Adolescents’ filial piety attitudes in relation to their perceived parenting styles: An urban–rural comparative longitudinal study in China	LIN, Li Jocelyn Department of Applied Psychology \| School of Graduate Studies
Protracted refugees: Understanding the challenges of refugees in protracted refugee situations in Uganda	TULIBALEKA, Paul Ogwang Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic : The Case of Creative Industry	PUN, Ngai \| CHEN, Peier Department of Cultural Studies
Credential Inflation and Decredentialization: Re-examining the Mechanism of the Devaluation of Degrees	ARAKI, Satoshi Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Unintended environmental consequences of place‐based economic policies	XIAO, Junji Department of Economics
Preference for modernization is universal, but expected modernization trajectories are culturally diversified: A nine-country study of folk theories of societal development	YEUNG, Wai Lan Victoria Department of Applied Psychology
An Exploratory Study of Women Learners’ Identity and Investment in Learning English in the United Arab Emirates	HUNT, Neil David Centre for English and Additional Languages
Barriers in the Commencement of Entrepreneurship for University Graduates in China’s Greater Bay Area: Human Capital or Social Capital?	KANG, Yuyang Institute of Policy Studies \| School of Graduate Studies
Spatial Mismatch, Different Labor Markets and Precarious Employment: The Case of Hong Kong	PUN, Ngai Department of Cultural Studies
The Socioeconomics of Nationalism in China : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives	FAN, Cheng Ze Simon Department of Economics