Impact - Research Impact

CKGSB-SMU DBA alumni, Sun Xiushun. Together with his thesis Chair, Associate Professor Tan Hwee Hoon, the research will be presented at the 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024, hosted by the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.

📚 Thesis Title: "Trust building across and within cultures: A study of Guinea, West Africa and China"
🔍 Sub-theme: Trust and Crises in a New Era of Turbulence

We are thrilled to announce a significant achievement within our academic community. Our DBA alumni, Andrew Heng's article, titled “Stuck at Home: Does the Virtual Office Stifle Creativity?”, co-authored with Professor Roy Chua, has been officially published by the California Management Review. This article is based on Andrew's DBA dissertation.

A paper co-authored by Yangfang (Helen) Zhou, an Associate Professor of Operations Management at LKCSB, has won a Best Publication Award given out by INFORMS, a professional association for operations research and management science.

Meat grown in a lab offers the promise of ethical consumption of animal protein but also suffers from consumer hesitation because of its extreme novelty. What would get consumers to eat lab-grown meat? A name with positive connotations would certainly help.

Researchers led by Professor Mark Chong of LKCSB have found that the consumers preferred the term “cultivated meat” over phrases like “lab-grown meat” and “cell-based meat”. 

Two papers by an assistant professor of Finance at LKCSB were given an award by PriceWaterhouseCoopers China in September 2023.

Asst Prof Weikai Li won the 2023 PwC 3535 Best Paper Award for “Inside Brokers”, which was published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2021, and “Exchange-Traded Funds and Real Investment”, which was published in 2023 in the Review of Financial Studies.

For his contribution to inter-organisational research, Lee Kong Chian Professor of Marketing Nirmalya Kumar has been given a lifetime award by the American Marketing Association. 

In May, Professor Kumar was named the 2023 Lifetime Award Winner by the association's Interorganizational Special Interest Group (IOSIG).

Lee Kong Chian Professor of Human Resources Filip Lievens and three other co-authors have been given the Scholarly Achievement Award by the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management (AoM). 

The four co-authors were given the award for the paper “Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity in personnel selection: Addressing systematic overcorrection for restriction of range”. This paper was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology in December 2021. 

A journal article on using augmented reality in retail, written by three people associated with the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, has won the H. Paul Root Award for 2022.

The annual prize, co-sponsored by the American Marketing Association (AMA) and the Marketing Science Institute (MSI), is given to the Journal of Marketing article that has made the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of marketing in a calendar year.

A paper on electric vehicle charging that was written by an Associate Professor of Operations Management has been accepted for publication in the journal, Operations Research.