Faculty Profile

SAY Gui Deng

Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship (Education); Course Coordinator, Business, Government & Society; Course Coordinator, Capstone Development

LKCSBFull-time Faculty

Email
gdsay@smu.edu.sg

Phone
68281906

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Areas

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Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Communication Management
- - Crisis Communication & Management
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Digital Business
- Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
- - Well-being and Stress
- Social Inclusion
- Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- - Entrepreneurship
  - Digital transformation and platform strategies
  - Sustainable and socially responsible strategy
  - Organisation Theory
School of Accountancy
- Corporate Reporting & Disclosure
- - Sustainability Reporting and Disclosure
School of Computing and Information Systems
- Health & Wellbeing
- - Ageing & Mental Health
- Information Systems & Technology
- - Cybersecurity
- Safety, Security & Fairness
- - Security & Governance of Software/AI Systems

Strategic Priorities

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Digital Transformation

EDUCATION

2018	PhD in Business Administration Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
2011	CEMS MIM (International Management) London School of Economics, HEC Paris
2011	M.S. in Management NUS Business School, National University of Singapore
2011	B.Eng in Environmental Engineering National University of Singapore

CURRENT APPOINTMENT(S)

2024	Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship (Education) Lee Kong Chian School of Business Singapore Management University
2019	Assistant Professor of Strategic Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business Singapore Management University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Strategic responses to organizational failures
Data breaches from cyber-hacking
Institutional and social activism
Stakeholder management
Entrepreneurship in emerging economies

COURSES TAUGHT

MGMT 102: Strategy (Undergraduate)
MGMT330: The Design of Business (Undergraduate Business Capstone)
MGMT 682: Strategic Management (Masters of Business Administration)
Strategic Management in Asia/Southeast Asia (MBA international exchange students)

AWARDS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

Course Coordinator for MGMT330 (The Design of Business) and COR-MGMT1302 (Business, Government and Society)
2026 Lee Kong Chian School of Business Excellence in Teaching Award
Faculty Advisory Committee for Teaching and Learning (FACTL)
Faculty Advisor for SMU COGNITARE (Case Competition Club)
SMU Excellent Teacher Award Winner, 2024 (university-level)
Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) Best Instructor Award (2023, 2024, 2026)
SMU Most Promising Teacher Award Winner, 2021 (university-level)
SMU Innovative Teacher Award Nominee, 2020 (university-level)
Dean’s Teaching Honor List (2019- 2026)
Adjunct Coordinator

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES (REFEREED)

Say, Gui Deng., Vasudeva, Gurneeta. 2020. Learning from Digital Failures?: The Effectiveness of Firms’ Divestiture and Management Turnover Responses to Data Breaches. Strategy Science, 5(2): 71-145. (available here)

Vasudeva, Gurneeta., Nachum, Lilac., & Say, Gui Deng. 2018. A signaling theory of institutional activism: How Norway’s sovereign wealth fund affect firms’ foreign acquisitions. Academy of Management Journal, 61(4): 1583-1611. (available here)