Possible Research Areas

Our demonstrated strength and international competitiveness in some main research areas are listed below.

Department of Accountancy

Research in accounting covers a broad spectrum of issues in the areas of financial accounting, auditing, and corporate governance. The major foci in the department include:

1. Corporate governance, auditing, external monitoring issues in the China, U.S., and cross-country or international settings as they relate to ownership structures, institutional infrastructures, legal regimes, information environments;
2. Accounting disclosure issues such as disclosure and audit quality, earnings management, accounting conservatism, voluntary disclosures or management earnings guidance, and audit pricing;
3. Emerging issues in accounting research such as the role of accounting disclosures and audit quality in the debt market or debt contracting, accounting standards harmonization and foreign investment flows, information flows along the supply chain, economic consequences of corporate tax avoidance, the impact of political connections on accounting quality, economic consequences of internal control reporting, accounting determinants of stock price crash risk, accounting quality versus credit quality, tax complexity and tax compliance.

Department of Decision Analytics and Operations

Research expertise in the Department can be grouped into two streams:

1. Operations and supply chain management in a broad sense, which ranges from very theory oriented research such as optimization, game theory, robust optimization, and simulation, to more applied research such as inventory control, financial engineering, sustainability, planning and scheduling, and interdisciplinary research between operations and marketing/finance/accounting;
2. Business statistics in a broad sense, which includes business intelligence, quality management, survival analysis, statistical modeling, robust estimation, market research, and econometrics.

Department of Economics and Finance

Research expertise of the Department includes:

1. International Economics
   Trade policy; Intellectual Property Protection; FDI and Global Sourcing; International Migration; International Financial Crises; Exchange Rate Misalignments; Purchasing Power parity; Capital Mobility; Globalization
2. Microeconomics
   Game Theory; Industrial Organization; Energy and Environmental Economics; Contract Theory; Political Economy
3. Macroeconomics
   Business Cycles; Endogenous Growth; Structural Change; Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Real Estate and Urban Economics
4. Corporate Finance
   Capital Structure; Payout Policy; Capital Raising; Real Investment; Firm-bank Relationship; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Hedging; Corporate Governance and Control
5. Asset Pricing
   Equilibrium Asset Pricing; Equity Return-Risk Relationship; Term Structure of Interest Rates; Derivatives Pricing; Financial Engineering
6. Investments and Capital Markets
   Financial Investments; Market Microstructure; Anomalies; International Financial Management; Financial Services and Intermediation; Fund Management; Credit Risk Management

Department of Information Systems

Research foci/expertise in the Department includes:

1. The effective and efficient use of information technologies;
2. The creation of information systems as well as evaluation in a variety of business, government and societal contexts;
3. Design and evaluation of technological support for creation and use of knowledge;
4. Business models, processes and systems enabled by Web-based technologies;
5. Socio-technical issues surrounding the application of web-based technologies in business and organizations for improving efficiency, effectiveness, and competitiveness.

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Department of Management

Research foci/expertise in the Department include:

1. Human Resources Management
   Chinese Human Resource Management; Recruitment & Selection; Training & Development; Selection and Assessment
2. Organizational Behaviour
   Organization Theory; Organizational Change; Sociology of Work; Organizational Justice; Coaching; Conflict Resolution and Negotiation, Leadership; Risk & Uncertainty; Social Constructionism; Business Ethics; Job Attitudes; Virtual Teams
3. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
   New Product Management; New Product Forecasting; Innovation & Creativity; Entrepreneurship
4. International Business
   International Management; International Organizational Behaviour; MNC Control and Staffing; International Alliances; Intercultural Communication; Comparative Management; Japanese Management Practices; Culture and Cognition, Psychology of Biculturals, Cross-Cultural Research Methods
5. Strategic Management
   Strategic Management; Strategic Management of Financial Resources; Competitive & Cooperative Strategy; Decision-making; Strategy and Policy; Corporate Governance and Political Strategy in Transitional Economies (China); Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
6. Corporate Social Responsibility
   Business Ethics; Stakeholder Management; Corporate Social Responsibility.

Department of Marketing

Research foci/expertise in the Department include:

1. Business Markets
   Forming Channel Relationships; Governance Strategy Between Buyers and Suppliers; Application of Network Theory on Business Relationships
2. Multinational Corporate Strategy and Strategic Marketing
   International Strategic Alliance; Foreign Direct Investment in China; International HRM; Global Sourcing Strategy; Equity Control and Organizational Learning
3. Internet Marketing
   Online Consumer Behavior; Online Advertising; Social Media and Online retailing
4. China Marketing and Chinese Culture
   Dao De Jing; Branding
5. Cultural Influences on Consumer Behaviors
   How consumers from different cultures behave differently
6. Consumer Socialization
   How socialization shapes consumer behaviors