Business Studies Panel (Joint Research Schemes)
(as at 12 March 2025)
Member Sphere of Interest

Chairman

Professor Nancy Wong*

Culture; materialism; consumer decision making; financial decisions; sustainability

Deputy Chairman

Professor Daniel Cohen*

Financial accounting; disclosures; empirical analysis of financial reporting

Members

Professor Hong Chen*

Clean Energy Market and Finance, Carbon Reduction in Supply Chain, Modeling, Optimization and Empirical Analysis of Supply Chain Management, Healthcare Management, Corporate Finance, Real Estate

Professor Christy Mei-Kwan

Cheung

 

Information systems use, IT and well-being, Innovation management

Professor Bin Gu*

Information system management; data analytics; online platforms; mobile commerce

Professor Zhaoyang Gu

Accounting, Auditing, Corporate Finance

Professor Dogan Gursoy*

Travelers information search behavior, involvement and decision-making, tourism impacts, complaint behavior, cross-cultural studies, generational issues in the workplace and leadership, and factors influencing companies’ financial performance

Professor Cathy Hsu

Consumer behavior, Branding, Consumer psychology, Cross-cultural studies, Service quality and marketing, Tourism and hospitality management

Professor Kai-lung Hui

Cybercrime economics and policy, Information security, Information privacy, IT policy, FinTech, Electronic commerce, Digital platforms

Professor Sara Kim

Marketing, Consumer behaviour, Consumer decision making, Service quality and marketing, Implicit theories and attribution theory

Professor Jingyuan Li

Economic, finance and uncertainty theory

Professor Yingying Li

Statistical learning for financial big data, Large portfolio analytics, Individualized asset allocation, High-dimensional financial data, Vast volatility matrix modeling and inference high-frequency financial data, volatility estimation and prediction

Professor Liping Liang

Operations and Supply Chain Management, Incentive Mechanism Design, Cooperative Game Theory, Data Analytics

Professor Kai Lim

Digital transformation, e-Health, Cross-cultural issues related to information systems management, IT-enabled business strategy, e-commerce, Social media and human-computer interactions

Professor Kenny Zhenpin Lin

Accounting, Behavioral Accounting, Auditing methodologies, China accounting and auditing

Professor Tzachi Zach*

Accounting, Finance, and Economics

Professor Houmin Yan

Risk modeling and analysis, Machine learning and algorithms, Stochastic models, Supply chain management

Secretary

Ms Milly NG

Assistant Secretary-General (Research)1, UGC

* Non-local Members