SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
FACULTYRESEARCHINTERESTS Department of Accounting
Professor Jevons Chi-Wen LEE, Head of Department
Market models; inventory accounting; accounting policy and information.
Professor David K. EITEMAN, Visiting Professor
Financial management of multinational corporations; control systems used in multinational corporations.
Dr Danny WONG, Reader
Management accounting models; optimisation; production control.
Dr Yew-ming CHIA, Lecturer
Application of contingency theory and agency theory in the design of manage- ment accounting systems; materiality in an auditing context.
Dr Won W. CHOI, Lecturer
Empirical research on capital markets; valuation implication of book value and earnings; economic consequences of accounting choice; firm's response to tax law changes.
Dr Alice P.L. CHUI, Lecturer
Capital asset pricing model; arbitrage pricing theory; financial statement analysis.
Dr Howard J. GENSLER, Lecturer Tax policy, applied economics.
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Dr Beny F. C. HSU, Lecturer
Law and accounting; law and society; economic analysis of tax cases.
Dr Woody Y. WU, Lecturer
Management buyouts; management manipulation of accounting information;
valuation of assets and liabilities; noise trading.
Dr Bing XIANG, Lecturer
Market-based accounting; agency theory; industrial organisation and account- ing information.
Dr Guochang ZHANG, Lecturer
Contracting theory; information asymmetry in financial markets; corporate financial policy; theory of the firm.
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Department of Business Information Systems Dr Tung X. BUI, Senior LecturerImplementation of information systems in large organisations; group decision and negotiation support systems, crisis management support systems; design of distrib- uted knowledge-bases for organisational decision making.
Dr Kar Yan TAM, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department
Decision support systems; information systems development and manage- ment; applications of informatsn technology in finance, and logistic and operation management.
Dr Grace AU, Lecturer
Office automation; multi-media information system; document image process- ing; workflow analysis; executive information system; visual simulation modelling.
Dr Patrick Y.K. CHAU, Lecturer
S c h o o l of Business and Management
Dr Kunihiko HIGA. Lecturer
Database design; expert systems design; object-oriented data model; distrib- uted information systems.
Dr Sunro LEE, Lecturer
Methodological issues in expert systems development and testing, experimen- tation in software engineering; Al applications to managerial problem solving.
Dr Ben A. PETRAZZINI, Lecturer
Telecommunications policy; telecommunications reforms in developing coun- tries; socioeconomic impact of telecommunications privatisation.
Dr Roy C. SCHMIDT, Lecturer
Interaction between organisations and information systems; information sys- tems support for strategic decision making; information systems development (involve- ment and satisfaction).
Dr Brenda MAK, Visiting Lecturer
Model-based marketing decision support systems; systems and models for the information needs of marketing and sales managers; improving the utilisation of market information.
Dr Kalle LYYTINEN, Visiting Scholar
Systems design methods and methodologies; management and planning of information systems as a strategic issue; IS research strategies and their selection.
Department of Economics
Professor Isaac EHRLICH, Visiting Professor
General application of economic theory; economics of human resources; law and economics; economics of information and uncertainty; economic growth and devel- opment.
Decision support systems; expert systems; visual interactive modelling; simu- lation; applications of management science techniques in marketing and finance.
School of Business and Manapemerat
Professor Gregory CHOW, Adjunct Professor Econometrics, optimal control.
Dr Leonard CHENG, Reader and Associate Dean of Business and Management International trade, microeconomic theory.
Dr Ivan P. PNG, Visiting Reader
Economics of enforcement; pricing policies; international business economics.
Dr Francis T. LUI, Senior Lecturer
Economic growth; macroeconomic theory; social security; public economic policy.
Dr Louis CHAN, Lecturer
Industrial organisation, econometrics.
Dr Son Ku KIM, Lecturer
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Dr Joseph Y. LIN, Lecturer
Industrial organisation; economics of marketing; development economics; law and economics.
School of Business and Management
Dr Zhiqiang LIU, Lecturer
Applied microeconomics; economic growth and development; applied econometrics; corporate finance.
Dr Larry D. QIU, Lecturer
International economics; industrial organisation.
Dr Zhigang TAO, Lecturer
Microeconomic theory; industrial organisation; theory of the firm.
Dr Grant Allan TAYLOR, Lecturer
Econometrics; applied microeconomics; dynamic optimisation.
Dr Philip A. TROSTEL, Lecturer
Applied microeconomics; public economics; macroeconomics.
Dr Susheng WANG, Lecturer
Microeconomics; macroeconomics; econometrics.
Dr Changqi WU , Lecturer
Industrial organisation: strategic aspects of oligopolistic vertical integration, cooperative R&D; industry and competition analysis.
Dr Danyang XIE, Lecturer
Economic growth; general equilibrium theory.
Dr Chi-Wa YUEN , Lecturer
Economic growth; dynamic macro-policies in closed and open economies.
School of BmlLSlness and Management
Dr Haiying ZHAO, Lecturer
lnternational economics; international business and multinational firms; growth and development economics; monetary economics.
Dr Lijing ZHU, Lecturer
Theory of organisations; applied game theory; auction theory; comparative
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economic systems; China's economy.Department of Finance
Professor Yuk-Shee CHAN, Dean of Business and Management
Corporate finance; financial contracts and institutions; information economics.
Professor Nai-Fu CHEN
Arbitrage pricing theory; empirical research in asset pricing.
School of Business and Management
Dr Jess BELTZ, Lecturer
Theoretical and empirical issues in corporate finance and financial intermedia- tion.
Dr Jun CAI, Lecturer
Asset pricing; empirical finance; applied time series.
Dr Andrew P. CARVERHILL, Lecturer
Valuation of derivative financial instruments; bond options, interest rate caps and associated computational problems.
Dr Lewis LU, Lecturer
Market microstructure; continuous time heterogeneous information; continu- ous time finance.
Dr Ann Guenther SHERMAN. Lecturer Professor Sheridan TITMAN
Corporate finance; porlfolio management and performance evaluation; merg- ers and acquisitions.
Dr K. C. CHAN, Reader
Investment; empirical asset pricing; options and futures; market microstruc- ture.
Dr Eric CHANG, Reader and Deputy Head of Department
Capital asset pricing theory; risk and return in futures trading; investment performance evaluation; market microstructure; applications of econometrics in finance.
Dr John WEI, Senior Lecturer
Asset pricing theories; options and futures; international finance; applications of econometrics in finance.
Investment banking; shelf registration of new security issues; initial offering;
interaction of investment and financing decisions.
Dr Jhinyoung SHIN, Lecturer
Market microstructure; corporate finance; financial market regulation; deriva- tive securities; investment analysis.
Dr Wilson TONG, Lecturer
lnternational finance; investment; economic theory.
Dr Keith WONG, Lecturer
Bank regulation; corporate finance; industrial organisation.
Dr Takeshi YAMADA, Lecturer
Empirical test of asset pricing with asymmetric information; corporate finance.
School of Business and Management School o f Business and Management
Mr Hong-Leung LAM, Assistant Lecturer
Empirical research in asset pricing; applied econometrics.
Dr Sudipto DASGUPTA, Visiting Lecturer
Corporate finance; auction theory; industrial organisation; game theory.
Department of Management
Professor Albert Y. LO, Deputy Head of Department Statistics (Bayesian Estimation).
Professor Karlene ROBERTS, Visiting Professor Psychology; organisational behaviour.
Dr Thomas R. JEFFERSON, Reader
Management science (particularly optimisation); operations management;
statistics; information systems.
Dr Ann S. TSUI, Visiting Reader
Behavioral and organisational science; personnellindustrial relations; psychol- ogy.
Dr Jiing Lih Larry FARH, Senior Lecturer
Organisational behaviour; human resource management; research methods;
comparative management.
Dr Hong CHEN, Visiting Senior Lecturer
Engineering economic systems; operations research.
Dr Marc J. DOLLINGER, Visiting Senior Lecturer
Organisational behaviour; organisational theory; general economic theory;
managerial economics.
Dr Murray Z. FRANK, Visiting Senior Lecturer Industrial behaviour; economics.
Dr Anthony T. CHAN, Lecturer
Statistics (time series and forecasting stochastic control); management sci- ence.
Dr Ki Ling CHEUNG, Lecturer
Production and operations management; decision theory.
Dr Haresh GURNANI. Lecturer
Enterprise and logistics management; operations and technology manage- ment; manufacturing strategy; total quality management; operations research; applied optimisation models.
Dr lnchi HU, Lecturer
Sequential analysis; stochastic control; stochastic process.
Dr Chun HUI, Lecturer
Human resource/organisational behaviour; congnitive psychology.
Dr Siming HUANG, Lecturer
Mathematical programming; combinatorial optimisation;graph theory; stochastic process; quantiative approaches to production/operations management problems; facility location/design modelling and analysis.
Dr Peter HWANG, Lecturer
Organisational behaviour; strategic management.
Dr Shing Keung LAW, Lecturer
Human resource management; marketing
School of Business and Management
Dr Shu Ming NG, Lecturer
Mathematical programming; combinatorial optimisatioin; manufacturing mod- els.
Dr Dorothy S.C. WONG, Lecturer
Management studies; marketing and organisational behaviour.
Dr Stephen A. LINSTEAD, Visiting Scholar
Organisation theory and behaviour especially postmodernism; management learning; education and development; organisational change and development; person- nellhuman resource management; qualitative research methods; strategic management.
Department of Marketing
Dr David Kwaiche TSE, Senior Lecturer
Crosscultural consumer behaviour; crosscultural managerial decisions; con- sumer satisfaction and postchoice process; marketing issues in greater China.
Dr Bemd H. SCHMITT, Visiting Senior Lecturer
Global branding and advertising; categorisation and brand positioning; waiting and delays in services; customer satisfaction and service quality; consumer behaviour in transforming socialist countries; corporate aesthetics.
Dr Jin Kyung HAN, Lecturer
Brand equity; comparative advertising; categorisation; context effects; adver- tisement effects; information processing.
Dr Sangman HAN, Lecturer
Price and promotion strategy, specifically reference price effects, price promo- tions, private label brands and price discounts; consumer segmentation and market structure; d i i s i o n models.
School o f Business and Management
Dr Namwoon KIM, Lecturer
Use of quantitative methods and modelling techniques in marketing decision making; new product diffusion models; consumer brand choice models; impact of perceived risk and information on consumer choice behaviour; organisational buying behaviour; use of dynamic modelsfor strategic resource allocations; models incorporating bayesian updating and time-dependent coefficients; marketing research methodology;
interface of marketing and R&D.
Dr Robert E. KRIDER, Lecturer
Retailing and distribution; long-term competition dynamics; competition in entertainment industries.
Dr Seshan RAMASWAMI, Lecturer
Models of consumer response to pricing and advertising; consumer decision making; market structure analysis; marketing in developing countries; pricing.
Dr Philip M. PARKER, Visiting Scholar
Competitive pricing and advertising strategy; diffusion of innovations; develop- ing pre-launch forecasting methodologies: role of product characteristics, the social system, product perceptions on diffusion; study of particular forms of information asym- metry and their impact on marketing strategies.