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Management: Asian/Chinese business organization and management practice; organizational learning; human resource strategies; organizational behavior of employees; entrepreneurship; leading change and growth in Chinese firms; network organizations; cross-cultural management. Contact Person Prof. Simon Lam Tel: 2859 1008 Fax: 2858 5614 Email: simonlam@business.hku.hk Accounting (only PhD students will be admitted): Production and use of accounting information; relationship between financial information and stock prices; voluntary disclosure and earnings management behaviour of corporate managers; enterprise governance; performance measurement; inventory and supple chain management; international accounting and auditing related issues. Contact Person Dr. Neale O'Connor Tel: 2241 5664 Fax: 2858 5614 Email: oconnor@business.hku.hk Finance: Corporate finance; asset pricing theories; portfolio analysis; financial institutions; fixed-income securities; derivative securities; exotic options; international finance; risk management; capital market microstructure; Asian financial markets; econometric applications in finance. Contact Person Professor Eric Chang Tel: 2241 5138 Fax: 2858 5614 Email: ecchang@business.hku.hk Corporate strategy and business environment: Management and strategy; international business; economics of organization and strategy; organization and strategy in Chinese economy; business economics; competitiveness of Chinese economy; regional clustering and development; international competitiveness; international competition and strategy; strategy and its execution; multinational enterprises. Contact Person Professor Zhigang Tao Tel: 2857 8223 Fax: 2858 5614 Email: ztao@business.hku.hk China marketing and services marketing: China Marketing High-performance firms in China : marketing orientation, product innovation and channel capabilities; changing institutional environment and firm dynamic capabilities; organizational learning and development of core competencies. Global firm operations and globalization of Chinese firms: FDI flows and their impacts on home country factors; diversification and strategies of global brands in China ; globalization of Chinese firms; branding strategies. Sociology of consumption: materialism; impacts of globalization on consumption values; consumer aspirations; consumption strategies and consumers in transition. Contact Person Services Marketing Branding and Growth: service as brands; operational competence; growth and globalization Hong Kong firms. Consumer Satisfaction and Service Delivery Systems: customer satisfaction; consumer participation; staff-customer relationship; consumer captivity; loyalty and switching; involvement/emotional attachment to service firms. Electronic commerce and its impact on procurement; electronic catalogs; enterprise resource planning; global electronic commerce; groupware and workflow management; hypermedia and web design; information system evaluation; information systems/technology adoption and implementation; information presentation and model visualization; IT-based supply chain management; internet navigation and information retrieval; management of technology and innovation; system development methodologies. Contact Person
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