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Name	Research Interests
Assoc Prof Adam Joel Knee	Current research interests include new Southeast Asian cinemas (especially Thai cinema); film genre (especially horror and science fiction) and genre theory; race and gender in American film; film stardom; American television in the 1950s-60s.
Asst Prof Alexander Robertson Coupe	Alexander Coupe's major contributions to linguistic research have focused upon aspects of the grammar of Ao; more recently he has turned his attention to other Tibeto-Burman languages of north-east India, including Chang, Khiamniungan, Lotha, and Yimchungru, and he has investigated evidence of their contact and convergence with Indic languages. This fieldwork-based research is driven by a desire to record and analyse the grammars of these poorly understood Tibeto-Burman languages, to determine their genetic relationships, and to document them for posterity. The output of this work feeds another research goal: to seek functional and diachronic explanations for the structural diversity and commonalities found in Tibeto-Burman languages and in human language more generally, and to advance knowledge in the field of linguistic typology. Specific areas of research interest include the analysis of tone systems, phonetics and phonology, the role of pragmatics in grammar, case marking systems, morphosyntax, clause linkage, nominalization, grammaticalization and language contact.
Vg Asst Prof Amporn Jirattikorn	My areas of research interest are media flows in Asia, popular culture, migration, nationalism and transnationalism with a focus on Burma and Thailand.
Assoc Prof Anilkumar K Samtani	Prof Samtani's areas of expertise are in intellectual property law and information technology law. His current research works focus on trademarks and bilateralism in intellectual property rule-making.
Dr Cao Yong	(1) Reform and development of the Chinese economy; (2) The development of China's financial market; (3) Productivity efficiency and industrial structural change.
Asst Prof Caroline Pluss	My areas of expertise are: Identity, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Globalization, Culture, Transnationalism, Religion, Socialization, Migration, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Prof Chan Kam Leung Alan	Chinese Philosophy and Religion; Hermeneutics and Critical Theory; Comparative Philosophy and Religion
Dr Chan Teng Heng	Prof Chan's areas of expertise are business & HR strategies, HR Consulting, impact of technology on management and role of entrepreneurship in startups. His current research areas are in strategic impact of HR practices on organisation performance, HR impact on photographic equipment retailing, and impact of technology on HR & Management.
Asst Prof Chang Youngho	Economics of Global Warming and Climate Change; Economics of Renewable Resources; Energy Efficiency and Conservation of Energy; Efficiency and Equity in Electricity Market Deregulation; Economics of Energy Security; Energy and Economic Growth in China
Asst Prof Chia Wai Mun	Prof Chia's areas of interest include international macroeconomics and cost-benefit analysis. Her current researach work focuses on the effects of real and nominal shocks in a small open economy under different exchange rate regimes, research issues related to Asian economic integration and estimation of value of a statistical life.
Prof Chiu Chi-Yue	Professor Chiu's current research focuses on cultures as knowledge traditions and the social, cognitive, and motivational processes that mediate the construction and evolution of social consensus. He is also interested in the dynamic interactions of cultural identification and cultural knowledge traditions and their implications for cultural competence and intercultural relations.
Vg Asst Prof Cho Mihye	Dr. Cho's research areas are cultural policy, creative cities, world cities and urban changes. Her current research is about Asian world cities and creative industries.
Assoc Prof Christos Sakellariou	Associate Professor Chris Sakellariou conducts research in the area of Labor Economics. In particular, his area of expertiese is in the Economics of Education and the Economics of Gender. Currently his is doing reseach on the role of cognitive skills in the labor market and in particular the relationship between education and cognitive skills acquired in school vs. elsewhere.
Assoc Prof Crossland-Guo Shuyun	Dunhuang Studies (Dunhuang Manuscripts & Cave Arts) Chinese Oral Literature Folk Operatic Performance Arts Oral-Formulaic Theory Modern & Contemporary Chinese Literature
Prof David Alexander Reisman	Economic thought, esp. Marshall,Galbraith and Schumpeter Health economics, esp. policy issues in South-East Asia Political economy, esp. policy studies (theoretical and applied)
Asst Prof Emma Jane Flatt	Emma Flatt's research concentrates on the History of South Asia, with a special emphasis on the Medieval Deccan. Her work focuses on the social and cultural history of Indo-Islamicate courts and courtiers including investigations into practices of letter-writing, perfume making, astrology and magic, and the use of courtly social spaces like gardens. She is interested in the history of emotions and the cultural constructions of the five senses. She is about to commence a research project into the philosophies and practices of friendship and sociability in Medieval India. Selected publications: 'The Ethic of Jawanmardi: Wrestling and Sword fighting in the Ta?lim of the Deccan,' in Anand Pandian and Daud Ali eds., Genealogies of Virtue: Ethics in South Asia, Indiana University Press, (in press). 'Heavenly Gardens: Astrology and Magic in the Garden Culture of the Medieval Deccan,' in Daud Ali and Emma Flatt, eds., Fragrance Symmetry and Light: The History of Gardens and Garden Cultures in the Deccan (in press).
Asst Prof Feng Qu	Panel data econometrics, spatial econometrics and productivity analysis Chinese economy; labor economics.
Asst Prof Fernando De La Cruz Paragas	Dr. Paragas researches and consults on transnational migration, message design and analysis, and communication technologies.
Assoc Prof Foo Check Teck	Professor FOO Check Teck's areas of research interests are cross disciplinary in technology, management and strategy. His current focus on management is to lead in developing Chinese theories of management and relating Art of War thinking to systems engineering. As for applied engineering and technology, he concentrates on sustainability engineering (neogenesisasean.web.com) and innovations in port/infrastructural technology and AI for judging.
Asst Prof Foo Tee Tuan	Assistant Prof Foo Tee Tuan areas of expertise are Transnational Chinese Cinema, and Convention and Constraint in Asian Media. His current research work focuses on the interaction between Hollywood and China's motion picture industry.
Asst Prof Genaro Castro Vazquez	Prof Genaro Castro-Vázquez areas of expertise are sociology of health, reproductive health matters, HIV/AIDS, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, sociology of education and education and migration. His current research works focus on the education for foreign children from Latin American in Japan, HIV/AIDS and disability in Japan and male circumcision and HIV/AIDS.
Assoc Prof Geoffrey Benjamin	Prof Benjamin's areas of expertise are: (1) RESEARCH ON ASIA: (a) The anthropology and sociology of Southeast Asia, especially the Malay World; (b) The state in Southeast Asia; (c) Social theory with special reference to Asian materials; (d) Musical systems of the Malay World. (2) SOCIOLOGY: (a) The sociology and ethnography of Malay, Temiar, other Orang Asli, Singaporean and Indonesian societies; (b) The state in Southeast Asia; (c) The explanation of socio-cultural change in ecological, prehistoric and political terms; (d) Comparative social organisation; (e) Religion; (f) Language, culture and politicsl; (g) Sociolinguistics; (h) Social theory with special reference to Asian materials; (i) The cline of person in society and culture; (j) The nation-state and modernity. (3) LINGUISTICS: (a) The explanation of grammar in socio-cultural and semantic terms; (b) Mon-Khmer (especially Aslian) linguistics; (c) Austronesian (especially Malayic) linguistics; (d) The linguistic and sociolinguistic history of the Malay Peninsula.
Assoc Prof (Adj) Gerard Dionicio Gonzales	Services marketing and innovation Brand equity management Hospitality & tourism marketing
Asst Prof Goh Geok Yian	Assistant Professor Goh Geok Yian's areas of expertise are: early history of Burma and Southeast Asia, modern Southeast Asian history, China-Southeast Asia relations, early Buddhist networks in mainland and island Southeast Asia, and Burmese historical chronicles and novels. Her current research focuses on the study of Buddhist architecture and mural paintings of Bagan, a medieval Burmese kingdom. Her other research work includes the study of early urbanization and cities in Burma, particularly on comparison made with other contemporary Southeast Asian polities and the applicability of theoretical models. She is also working on an English translation of a 20th-century Burmese novel by a well-known author, Ma Sandar.
Assoc Prof Hesan Ahmed Quazi	HR & Compensation Management; Quality Management, Environmental Management.
Asst Prof Ho Kong Weng	Dr Ho had published in the areas of social mobility, international outsourcing, wage inequality, technopreneurship, and unemployment, including both theoretical investigations and empirical studies using Singapore data. His current research topics include intergenerational transmission of religious human capital, economic growth of a small open economy in a world of ideas, trade and indeterminacy, non-monotonic relationship between human capital and unemployment, and happiness studies. He is currently writing a paper on the educational aspiration and intergenerational mobility in Singapore, and another paper on inter-personal and intergenerational transmission of happiness. Together with other researchers, he is also wrting a paper on distance to frontier and the natural rate of unemployment, and working on a mutli-year evaluation of a work support program.
Assoc Prof Ho Mian Lian	Her research interests are Business Communication, Business English, Varieties of English, Singaporean English, and Discourse Analysis.
Assoc Prof Ian McGovern	The economies of Southeast Asia; International Business
Asst Prof Josh Wheatly Keller	Asst Professor Keller's primary research interest in studying the way culture influences strategic management and organizational processes. He studies how culture influences the way people think about cooperation and competition (and their relationship and its impact on individual and firm-level outcomes. He also looks at how national-level logics influence people's thoughts about change and its impact on entrepreneurship and organizational change.
Asst Prof Kang Yoonhee	language and culture; sociology of emotions; gender, sexuality and the body; migration; education; East Asia (Korea) and Southeast Asia (Indonesia).
Dr Khoo Hong Meng	Her main research interest lies in the area of Relationship Marketing. In particular, she is interested in investigating network relationships in Asia. However, she is also keen to conduct research in areas of measurement, cross-cultural marketing, and product innovations.
Asst Prof Kwan Sze Pui Uganda	20th Century Chinese literature; The history of translation in the 20th century China; Comparative literature on Japanese literature and Chinese literature in the late 19th to early 20 century; Hong Kong literature and culture.
Assoc Prof Kwok Kian Woon Anthony	Social and Political Theory; Qualitative Social Research; Social Memory; Comparative Cultural Policy (Arts, Heritage & Creative Cities); Singapore Studies; and Mental Health and Illness.
Asst Prof Lam Siu Lee	Econometrics; Management, strategy and modelling for supply chains, shipping, ports and other related areas; Development of integrated intelligent systems/ decision support systems; Port competition and cooperation; Supply chain management; Maritime and port policy; Trade and maritime developments, especially for Asia.
Asst Prof Lan Shi-Chi	Dr Lan has written on modern Chinese history-particularly Chinese nationalism and China-Taiwan relations, history and international relations of modern East Asia, and the production of national identities, historical knowledge, and war memory in China, Taiwan, and Singapore.
Asst Prof Lau Wai Man	Prof Lau's areas of expertise are Fluidization, Multiphase Flow, and Reactor Design. His current research works focus on the kinetic and hydrodynamic study of Fisher-Tropsch Synthesis process, the design of particle properties in pulmonary drug delivery,and the design of bioreactor for photosynthesis of algae.
Assoc Prof Lee Guan Kin	Dr. Lee Guan Kin's areas of expertise are Lim Boon Keng, Singapore Chinese intellectuals, History of Nanyang University, Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, and Southeast Asian Chinese and modern China. She is currently working on two research projects, the first, "The History of Nanyang University", funded by the NTU Academic Research Fund, and the other, "Cultural Transplant and the Construction of Chinese Communities: A Project of Documents & Research on Singapore Chinese Communities", sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.
Asst Prof Lee Hyun Jung	Dr. Lee's research focuses on theatre studies, literature, and popular culture and her articles have been appeared in the Journal of Popular Culture and in Situations. She is now working on a book manuscript which deals with representation, reception, and consumption of Broadway musical productions in contemporary East Asia.
Asst Prof Lim Khek Gee, Francis	globalization, religion, tourism, South Asia (Nepal, Tibet), China, Singapore
Asst Prof (Adj) Loh Kah Seng	Singapore and Malayan history (postwar, colonial) Urban social history Squatters and slum dwellers History of medicine (leprosy) Fires in history Oral history and memory Student activism
Asst Prof Lucy Davis	Lucy's current art practice and writing revolves around ways in which culture and nature are imagined represented and performed in Southeast Asia. Lucy is founder of the Migrant Ecologies Project (2009): The project's mission "embraces concerned explorers, curious collectors, daughters of woodcutters, miners of memories and art by nature.The project evolves through and around past and present movements and migrations of naturecultures in art and life in Southeast Asia." Workwith the Migrant Ecologies Project involves a three year art practice and writing research into of stories of, and relationships between, humans, wood and trees and humans in our region, where trees and wood are explored as material, magic, metaphor, ecological resource and historical agent. Part of the research for the Migrant Ecologies Project is carried out while Lucy is Artist in Residence with Double Helix Timber Tracking Technologies--a company dedicated to combatting illegal logging through DNA profiling timber. The conceptual part of this research engages theoretical intersections of contemporary art practice, posthumanist theory and materiality. The aesthetic explorations in this research involve a reflexive recasting of the material, form and content of the Singapore modern woodcut movement through myriad histories of art, nature and life in Singapore/Malaya. The first production coming out of the Wood:Cut; research was exhibited at Post Museum gallery in May 2009 and received considerable local and international press attention. The second production in this research will be exhibited at The Substation Art Centre, Singapore 09. Alongside the above, Lucy has also an ongoing engagement in the role of public intellectuals and the position of academics and artists in civil society in Singapore/Southeast Asia. A considerable time spent in art and tertiary institutions, in Singapore and elsewhere, has moreover provoked an interest in a politics of gender and ethnicity amongst late capitalist "homo academicus".
Prof Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy	Interaction between tone and intonation; Prosody in Conversational Interaction; Conversation Analysis; English and Chinese grammar; Chinese Linguistics; History and structure of Cantonese; Language and Cognitive Neuroscience; Corpus Linguistics; Natural Language Processing
Asst Prof Mak Ka Ying Angela	Dr Mak?s research interests include organizational-stakeholder relationships, identity and reputation, public relations management and international public relations and education.
Asst Prof Marko M Skoric	New forms of online sociability and civic/political engagement Communication networks and political/economic development Comparative political communication Video game addiction/engagement; video game violence
Asst Prof Michael Thaddeus Tan Koon Boon	Asst Prof Tan areas of expertise are Visual representation, Everyday life, Urban Cultures, Urban studies, Visual communication, Spatial practice. Asst Prof Tan is currently working on a visual ethnographic project titled, Shoes and social fabrics: Exploring the journeys and life-worlds of a pair of flip-flops, with Dr. Caroline Knowles, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College where they are attempting to reveal human biographies that are attached to slippers that we often perceived as banal. His research interest explores the symbiotic and synergistic possibilities between visual practice and logocentric discipline such as sociology and human geography by exploring notions of dimensionality in knowledge production, presentation and dissemination.
Asst Prof Nanci Takeyama	Prof Nanci Takeyama research interests are on Semantics of form, Visual Culture Identity, Anthropology of form, Asian traditional arts and crafts, Asian design curriculum, Social responsibility.
Prof Naresh K. Malhotra	Currently interested in the research and application of multivariate methods to the study of consumer decision processes. Other research interests include international marketing/cross-cultural research. More recently, research on the interface of marketing and information technology management. Application areas include healthcare, retailing, Internet usage, India and China.
Vg Asst Prof Ng Woon Lam	His research interests include areas in Art Education, Scientific study of art materials, Oriental Art History and Culture, South East Asia Art and Classical Painting language in Contemporary Art.
Asst Prof Ngoi Guat Peng	Ming Intellectual History ;Daoxue Neo-Confucianism;Syncretism in late Ming;Chinese Knowledge Production and Local History in Malaysia.
Assoc Prof Oh Joo Tien	Prof Oh'ss areas of expertise are Magnetic Materials, Ceramic Substrate Materials for Microelectronic Packaging, Electrolytic Capacitors and Electron Microscopy. His current research works focus on Nanostructured Magnetic Materials
Asst Prof Olwen Anna Bedford	Research Interests +Moral emotions, Chinese face, guanxi, filial obligation +Conflict resolution +Organizational culture and ethics Selected Publications Bedford, O. & Hwang, S. (in press). Flower drinking and masculinity in Taiwan. Journal of Sex Research. Huang, Y.H. & Bedford, O. (in press). The role of cross-cultural factors in integrative conflict resolution and crisis communication: The Hainan incident as a case. American Behavioral Scientist. Yeh, Y.K., Bedford, O., & Yang, Y. J. (2007). A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Coexistence and Domain-Superiority of Individuating and Relating Autonomy. International Journal of Psychology. Bedford, O. & Hwang, K. K. (2006). Taiwanese Identity and Democracy: The Social Psychology of Taiwan's 2004 Elections. Palgrave-MacMillan, New York: New York. Bedford, O. (2004). The individual experience of guilt and shame in Chinese culture. Culture and Psychology, 10(1), 123-146. Bedford, O. & Hwang, K.K. (2003). Guilt and shame in Chinese culture: A Cross-cultural framework from the perspective of morality and identity. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 33(2), 127-144. Hwang, Shu-Ling & Bedford, O. (2004). Juveniles' motivations for remaining in prostitution. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28(2), 136-146. Yeh, Kuang-hui & Bedford, O. (2003). Filial piety: A test of the dual model. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 6(3), 215-228. Hwang, S. & Bedford, O. (2003). Precursors and pathways to juvenile prostitution in Taiwan. Journal of Sex Research, 40(2), 201-210.
Assoc Prof Quah Sy Ren	Modern Chinese literature and culture, theatre and performance, Singapore studies. Dr Quah is currently working on theatre and cultural activism in Singapore between 1950s and 1970s.
Assoc Prof Russell Arthur Smith	Russell Arthur Smith and Joan Henderson, 2008, Integrated Beach Resorts, Informal Tourism Commerce and the 2004 Tsunami in International Journal of Tourism Research Vol. 10, No. 3, pp 271-282. Russell Arthur Smith, 2008, Joint International Hospitality Management Programs: The Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management, Singapore in Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education Vol. 20, No. 1, pp 38-44. Russell Arthur Smith, 2008, Environmental Responsibility in the Spa Industry: a Business Perspective in Gerry Bodeker and Marc Cohen (eds.) Understanding the Global Spa Industry Spa Management, pp. 307-312. Oxford, UK: Butterworth Heinemann. Russell Arthur Smith, 2007, Anchoring Tourism to the Coast: Innovative Spatial and Community Strategies in Michael Luck (editor) Nautical Tourism Development: Concepts and Issues, Amsterdam: Wiley, pp. 25-36. Goodwin, Nigel; and Russell Arthur Smith, 2007, Novotel Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel: Aligning Development with Operation. Singapore, in Wee Beng Geok (ed.) Hospitality Industry in Asia ? Selected Case Studies. Singapore: The Asian Business Case Centre, pp. 117-125. Goodwin, Nigel; Elizabeth O'Neil and Russell Arthur Smith, 2007, Raffles International: Positioning the Acquired Swissotel Brand, in Wee Beng Geok (ed.) Hospitality Industry in Asia ? Selected Case Studies. Singapore: The Asian Business Case Centre, pp. 67-77.
Assoc Prof Sia Siew Kien	Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems represent a major change in organisational information systems in terms of their scale and scope, reliance on vendors and advocacy of best practices. They are pervasive and often mission critical. Streamlining and integrating organisational procedures and standardising them over a single platform were what these systems promised. However, cases of expensive ERP implementations going awry has led many to recognise the inherent challenges of successfully implementing such complex package software. Research is currently in progress on these themes: (1) cultural fit of the underlying ERP business models, (2) partitioning the sources of misfits in ERP, (3) challenges in analysing, designing, and implementing ERP, and (4) ERP as an leverage for enterprise integration. Achieving Global Excellence in Asian Companies: Strategy, Governance and Technology The growth of the Asian market has led to the development of a select group of Asian companies that have successfully established an international presence. How did these enterprises transform themselves to capture the opportunities in the international market? What strategy and governance principles have they used? How has information technology enabled scale, responsiveness, and innovation in the highly volatile business environment? This research study seeks to understand the practices followed by a handful of leading Asian companies that have clearly established themselves as global leaders.
Assoc Prof Stephen Teo Kian Teck	Associate Professor Stephen Teo's current research work focuses on several aspects of theoretical interest in film. Firstly, contributing to the discourse on Asian Cinema as an alternative paradigm to Hollywood as the global form, and thus to evolve a concept of Asian Cinema as a viable cinematic and media theory supporting pedagogical and creative modules. Asian cinema and the concept of national cinema are inter-related forces but it is the latter that tends to subsume the former in theoretical discourse. Teo's research work seeks a concentrated, rigorous approach to defining Asian cinema as a specialized norm of aesthetics and thematic field that can be broadly applied to Asian films produced by diverse national film industries in Asia. How do Asian cinemas transcend national interests and become an Asian Cinema as a unitary and unifying element? With Asian film industries modelling themselves on Hollywood,how can an Asian cinema stand up as an alternative model to Hollywood? A second area of Teo's reasearch interest revolves around the nature of film in relation to cultural theory and other fields of cultural interest, including literature, history and popular arts. The literary and visual contrast inherent in cinema is a striking anomaly that calls for more theoretical investigation. Teo's work has concerned itself with how historical literary works are transposed into the cinema and how historical prototypes are transfigured as cinematic personalities but retaining essential qualities. A third area of Teo's work lies in genre and auteur studies. Teo is interested in standard Hollywood genres such as the Western, the action-adventure film, the thriller, the epic, the musical, and he seeks to explore their inter-textual connections with Asian genres such as the martial arts film, the gangster action film, the melodrama, horror, and historical epic. How do auteurs transform genre? A fourth area of research interest lies in the study of emerging Asian "New Waves" in traditionally ignored film industries such as those in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines. Can these Southeast Asian cinemas make a lasting impact on the discourse of Asian cinema?
Asst Prof Sulfikar Amir	Science and Technology Studies (STS); Technological Politics; Globalization; Nationalism; Development; Southeast Asia (Indonesia); Democracy; Alternative Energy; Risk and Crisis; Design Studies.
Mr Syed Javed Nazir	My research is focused on issues of religion, ethnicity and media. I am working on a book that argues that journalism in Pakistan, especially the vernacular press, is complicit in radicalising the religious beliefs of people.
Asst Prof Tam Chen Hee	Social stratification (particularly class reproduction), work (especially unemployment) and life-course analysis.
Asst Prof Tan Brian Roy	Institutional Theory (Including soft aspects such as cultural dimensions) Firm Strategy such as product and geographic diversification Business Models Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions
Prof Tan Kong Yam	His research interests are in international trade and finance, economic and business trends in the Asia Pacific region and economic reforms in China. He has published five books and numerous articles in major international journals including World Bank Economic Review, American Economic Review, Long Range Planning, and Australian Journal of Management etc on economic and business issues in the Asia Pacific region. He served as board member at the Singapore Central Provident Fund Board (1984-96) and the National Productivity Board (1989-90). He has also consulted for many organizations including Citigroup, IBM, ATT, BP, ABN-AMRO, People's Bank of China, EDB, Areva, Guangdong provincial government, Samsung, Mauritius Government, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Mobil, Singapore Technology, Temasek Holdings, GIC etc.
Assoc Prof Tan Lay Hong	Current research interest: Corporate Governance and Corporate Law.
Asst Prof Tan Ying Ying	Tan Ying Ying is trained as a phonetician. Her research in phonetics has focused largely on the prosody (stress, intonation, rhythm) of Singapore English and other languages in Singapore, with particular attention to social-indexical variation, ethnic differentiation and substrate influence. Her current research inquiry concerns the constitution of the Singaporean accent. Besides Singapore English, she is also interested in the tonology of Southern Min languages such as Teochew and Hokkien. A firm believer in interdisciplinarity, she is engaged in understanding and analyzing language policy and planning through the lenses of cultural theory and contemporary thought. She has published in areas as phonetics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and cultural theory.
Asst Prof Teo You Yenn	Political sociology, political economy, sociology of culture, gender, social theory.
Assoc Prof Tsui-Auch, Lai Si	Dr. Lai Si Tsui-Auch specializes in institutional theory, business group studies, corporate governance reforms, state-capital relations, and the issues of trust and control within multinational corporations.
Assoc Prof Wee Beng Geok	Her research focus is in case research and writing and she has published more than 25 cases. Her cases have been published in strategy and operations management textbooks. She has also written/edited three casebooks, including one on best practices in the hospitality industry. Her current areas of such research are: 1. The maritime and shipping sector in Asia 2. The social welfare services in Singapore as well as other NPLs 3. The hospitality industry in Asia. More generic research interests are: 1. Complex adaptive systems 2. Business history 3. Technological innovation
Assoc Prof Weining Chu Chang	My current projects are the following: 1. Socially oriented dimension in Chinese emotions and motivations. 2. Control and autonomy in the Asian context. 3. Individual and organizational resilience in the Asian context. 4. Comparative studies of major personality measures of the Chinese populations. 5. Psychological reactions and psychological reconstructions of Sichuan earthquake victims.
Asst Prof Xu Xiaoge	Dr. Xu's research interests include online journalism, citizen journalism, development journalism, comparative press systems, media literacy, and media in China. Currently, he is conducting projects on modeling journalism differences, development journalism, online journalism, foreign TV news, citizen journalism, newsroom communication, news production, media education, and media in China.
Asst Prof Yeo Puay Hwa Jesvin	Prof Jesvin professional interests include theoretical and practical influences on creative concept development in the design-visual communication process, typography design, interdisciplinary creativity, designers as entrepreneurs, art & design in everyday life and design trends and forecasts. Her main research is on semantics of Asian cultural identity and knowledge visualization. Presently, Prof Jesvin is enthusiastic about typography communication and exploring the possibility of using unusual ways to communicate type. Her inspirations are mainly drawn from the processes of designing, reproduction and typesetting, where she finds great pleasure in discovering type characteristics and pushing them to their limits.
Assoc Prof Yip Sau Leung	Research Interest 1. International Monetary Economics 2. Foreign direct investments 3. Applied Econometrics in Economics, Finance and Management Studies 4. Exchange rate systems and macroeconomic policies in China, Singapore and Hong Kong Journal Papers 1. Tsang Eric W. K., Yip Paul S. L. and Toh M. H. 2008, The Impact of R&D on Value Added for Domestic and Foreign Firms in a Newly Industrialized Economy, International Business Review (United States), Vol. 53, No. 3. 2. Yip Paul S.L., Tan K.C., 2008, Impacts of Ageing Population on Monetary and Exchange Rate Management in Singapore, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), Vol. 53, No. 2. 3. Tsang Eric W.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2008, Competition, Agglomeration, and Performance in Beijing Hotels, The Service Industries Journal (United Kingdom), Vol. 29, No. 2. 4. Tsang Eric W.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2007, Economic Distance and Survival of Foreign Direct Investments, Academy of Management Journal (United States), 50(5), 1156-1168. 5. Yip Paul S.L., 2007, China's Exchange Rate System Reform, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 52( 3), 363-402. 6. Yip Paul S.L., Tsang Eric W.K., 2007, Interpreting Dummy Variables and Their Interaction Effects in Strategic Research, Strategic Organization (Canada), 5(1), 13-30. 7. Yip Paul S.L., 2007, Editorial Overview: Important Lessons from Some Major Exchange Rate and Monetary Experiences in Asia, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 52(3), 269-283. 8. Yip Paul S.L., Yao S.T., 2006, Removing Foreign Direct Investment's Exchange Rate Risk in Developing Economies, International Review of Economics and Finance (United States), 15(3), 294-315. 9. Tse Y.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2006, Exchange Rate Systems and Interest Rate Behavior: The Experience of Hong Kong and Singapore, International Review of Economics and Finance (United States), 15(2), 212-227. 10. Yip Paul S.L., 2005, On the Maintenance Costs and Exit Costs of the Peg in Hong Kong, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (United States), 8(3), 377-403. 11. Tse Y.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2003, The Impacts of Hong Kong's Currency Board Reforms on the Interbank Market, Journal of Banking and Finance (Netherlands), 27(12), 2273-2296. 12. Yip Paul S.L., 2003, A Restatement of Singapore's Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 48(2), 201-212. 13. Yip Paul S.L., Wang R.F., 2002, Is Price in Hong Kong That Flexible? Evidence from the Export Sector, Asian Economic Journal (Japan), 16(2), 193-208. 14. Yip Paul S.L., 2002, A Note on Singapore's Exchange Rate Policy: Empirical Foundations, Past Performance and Outlook, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 47(1), 173-182. 15. Yip Paul S.L., Wang R.F., 2001, On the Neutrality of Exchange Rate Policy in Singapore, ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Singapore), 18(2), 251-262. 16. Yip Paul S.L., 1999, The Speculative Attack in Hong Kong Amid the Asian Financial Crisis, Asian Pacific Journal of Finance (Singapore), 2(1), 79-92. [Extended from an anti-crisis proposal against the speculative attack and interest rate hike in Hong Kong in 1997-98.] 17. Driver, D., Yip Paul S.L., Dakhil, N., 1996, Large Company Capital Formation and Effects of Share Turbulence: Micro-data Evidence from the PIMS Data Base, Applied Economics (United Kingdom), 28(6), 641-651. 18. Yip Paul S.L., Yeo H.H., Tan T.M., Tan C.H., 1996, The Asian Consumer Durable Market: With Special Reference to China, ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Singapore), 12(3), 380-396. Books 1. Yip Paul S. L., 2008, The Exchange Rate Systems and Policies in Asia, World Scientific. 2. Yip Paul S. L., 2005, The Exchange Rate Systems in Hong Kong and Singapore: Currency Board vs Monitoring Band, Prentice Hall.
Asst Prof Yu Wenxuan	His research interests include performance measurement in public sector, citizen participation, intersectoral collaboration, E-governance and quantitative research methods in public administration. Dr. Yu has contributed to several journal articles, book chapters and international conference proceedings. Besides his academic work, Dr. Yu has been actively involved in the academic and professional exchanges between U.S. and China.
Asst Prof Zhang Zhibin	Public governance; public policy and management, public administration theory, Chinese politics
Asst Prof Zhou Wubiao	Prof Zhou's areas of expertise are economic sociology (especially entrepreneurship and economic development), organizations, and inequality.

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