Business Studies Panel (General Research Fund and Other Funding Schemes for Individual Research)
(as at 3 November 2025)
Member Sphere of Interest
Chairman
Professor Nancy Wong* Interests in Culture, Materialism, Consumer Decision Making, Financial Decisions, Sustainability
Deputy Panel Chairman
Professor Tim Woonghee Huh* Interests in Inventory Control, Pricing, Capacity, Operations Management, Data-driven Methods, Business Analytics, Health-care Operations
Members
Professor Wai Fong Boh* Interests in Knowledge and information management, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship, and Blockchain
Professor Jun Cai Interests in Financial analysts, Institutional investors, Family firms, Earnings restatements
Professor Michael Chau Interests in Business analytics and big data, Artificial intelligence, Web mining and social media, Electronic commerce, Fintech Smart health, Security informatics, Human-computer interaction, IT in education
Professor Hong Chen* Interests in Clean Energy Market and Finance, and Carbon Reduction in Supply Chain; Modeling, Optimization and Empirical Analysis of Supply Chain Management, and Healthcare Management; Corporate Finance, Real Estate
Professor Maggie Xiaoyang Chen* Interests in International Trade, Multinational Firms, Economic Development
Professor Christina G. Chi* Interests in Destination Branding and Marketing, Customer Experience and Customer Behavior, Tourism Sustainability, Wellbeing & Mindfulness, Food and Wine Consumption Behaviors, Food Tourism, Heritage Tourism, Generation Issues
Professor Andrew Tat Tin Ching* Interests in Quantitative Marketing, Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, Economics and Marketing of the following industries: Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Consumer Package Goods and Video Games
Professor Kaye Chon Interests in Study of Hospitality, Hospitality and Tourism Strategies, Marketing
Professor J. Michael Crant* Interests in Organizational Behavior, Proactive Personality and Behavior, Voice Behavior, Creativity, Impression Management
Professor Ozgun Demirag* Interests in Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Operations Management, Inventory Management, Game Theory Applications
Professor Carolyn Egri* Interests in Corporate environmental and social responsibility, international management, organizational power and politics, leadership, management education, organizational change and development
Professor Pingyang Gao Interest in Securities Regulation, Corporate Governance, Banking, Capital Markets, Accounting Standards
Professor Dogan Gursoy* Interests in Artificially Intelligent Device Use in Service Delivery, Services Management, Hospitality and Tourism Marketing, Tourist Behavior, Travelers' Information Search Behavior, Community Support for Tourism Development, Cross-Cultural Studies, Generational Leadership, Sustainability and Metaverse
Professor Jens Leth Hougaard* Interests in Applied Microeconomics: Economic Design, Networks, Game Theory, Blockchains, Efficiency Analysis
Professor Ming Hu* Interests in Revenue Management, Pricing, Supply Chain Management, Service Operations Management, Sharing Economy
Professor Rong Huang* Interests in Performance evaluation, executive compensation, strategic cost analysis, and business valuation
Professor Xu Huang Interests in Leadership, power, proactive and abnormal work behaviors, employee well-being, cross-cultural psychology, and management issues in China
Professor Mingyi Hung* Interests in International Financial Reporting and Disclosures, Global Accounting Regulations and Governance Reforms, Sustainability Disclosures
Professor Masakazu Ishihara* Interests in Quantitative Marketing, Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, Entertainment Industry
Professor Kai Li* Interests in Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Culture and Finance, Corporate Innovation, Machine Learning, Gender and Finance
Professor Tse-Chun Lin Interests in Behavioral Finance, Empirical Asset Pricing, Financial Market
Professor Alan Muller* Interests in International Business, Management
Professor Sharon Ng* Interests in Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior, Branding, Technology, Sustainability
Professor Xianwen Shi* Interests in Mechanism Design and Information Economics, with applications to Industrial Organization, Political Economy and Marketing
Professor Haiyan Song Interests in Tourism economics with a particular focuses on tourist behavior and tourism demand modeling and forecasting
Professor Zheng (Michael) Song Interests in Macroeconomics, Chinese Economy, Political Economy
Professor Nancy (Lixin) Su Interests in Auditing, Earnings Quality, Voluntary Disclosure, Social Network, Supply Chain
Professor Carlos Torelli* Interests in Consumer Behavior, Global Branding, Marketing Management
Professor Anand Vijh* Interests in Corporate Finance, Investments, Mergers and Acquisitions, Stock Repurchases, Equity and Debt Issues, Derivative Markets, Capital Markets, Mutual Funds, Institutional Ownership, Financial Accounting, Earnings Manipulation, Corporate Disclosure
Professor Mo Wang* Interests in Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Research Methods
Professor Zheng Wang Interests in Capital Market, Financial Reporting, Corporate Disclosure
Professor Yanhui Wu Interests in Media Economics, Organizational Economics, the Chinese Economy, Economics of Digital Platforms and AI
Professor Sean Xin Xu* Interests in Digital Transformation, Analytics and AI, IT Business Value, IT Strategy, IT Governance, E-commerce
Professor Wei Thoo Yue Interests in Information Security, Software Piracy, Software Bundling, Data Mining, Expert Systems, E-commerce and E-Business Strategy
Professor Songfa Zhong Interests in behavioral economics, experimental economics, decision theory, neuroeconomics
Professor Luo Zuo* Interests in Financial Accounting and Corporate Finance
Secretary
Ms Milly Ng Assistant Secretary General (Research)1, UGC

* Non-local Members