Business and Administration

We have a number of supervisors for PhD applicants interested in Business and Administration research. The staff members and their research interests are:

Business Management PhD supervisors

Gowrie Vinayan

Gowrie Vinayan | Associate Professor | G.Vinayan@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Entrepreneurial
  • Strategy
  • Women Entrepreneurship
  • Project Management
  • Supply Chain
Jessica Sze Yin Ho

Jessica Sze Yin Ho | Associate Professor | J.Ho@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Digital Marketing (Online Consumer Behaviour, Social Media Marketing, Customer Experience Behaviour, Online Buyer-Seller Relationship, and Online Service Quality)
  • Sustainable Consumption
  • Consumers and Demographics Behaviour
  • Organisational Behaviour
Ng Lai Hong

Ng Lai Hong | Associate Professor | LaiHong.Ng@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Marketing
  • Services Marketing
  • Digital Marketing 
  • Sustainable Marketing
Ng Lai Ling

Ng Lai Ling | Associate Professor | LaiLing.Ng@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Human Resource Management 
  • Organisational Behaviour 
  • Communities of Practice
     
Praveen Balakrishnan Nair

Praveen Balakrishnan Nair | Associate Professor | P.Nair@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Marketing
  • Sustainability
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Triple Bottom Line
Dewi Arual

Dewi Arual | Assistant Professor | dewi.arual@hw.ac.uk | 

  • Research specialisms:
  • Strategy
  • RBV
  • Talent Management
  • Flexible Work Practices
  • ICT in Education
  • Work Intensification
Lim Ooi Wei

Lim Ooi Wei | Assistant Professor | o.lim@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Health Economics
  • Behavioural Economics
  • Digital Economy
May Ng

May Ng | Assistant Professor | M.Ng@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Law and Policy
  • Civil Rights
  • Social Justice
Shaharudin Yunus

Shaharudin Yunus | Assistant Professor | S.Yunus@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Business Ethics
  • Moral Reasoning
  • Moral Development
  • Ethical Decision Making
  • Strategic Management
  • Operations Management
  • Strategic Change
  • Change Management
  • Business Strategy

Accounting PhD supervisors

Jimmy Tam

Jimmy Tam | Assistant Professor | K.Tam@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Performance Measurement
  • Commercialisation of R&D Outputs
  • Strategic Management Accounting
Nor Irdawati Mahyuddin 

Nor Irdawati Mahyuddin | Assistant Professor | N.Mahyuddin@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

  • Corporate Reporting
  • Earnings Management
  • Ownership Structure
  • Corporate Governance
Rick Chee

Rick Chee | Assistant Professor | C.CHEE@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Asset Pricing
  • Market Efficiency
  • Share Repurchases
  • Dividend Policy
  • Corporate Finance
Ricky Wong

Ricky Wong | Assistant Professor | R.Wong@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Auditing
  • Voluntary Risk Disclosure
  • Corporate Governance
  • Firm Performance
  • Financial Management
Wahida Yaakub

Wahida Yaakub | Assistant Professor | n.yaakub@hw.ac.uk | Research profile

Research specialisms:

  • Initial Public Offerings
  • Investor Sentiment
  • Financial Planning
  • Financial Wellbeing
  • Financial Resilience