CB emphasizes producing innovative and relevant applied research that enriches the understanding and practice of business and has established this research excellence award scheme to recognize and reward overall research excellence and important research achievements, and research that has a significant impact on society, industry and knowledge advancement. The award is also intended to publicize research excellence in the College of Business to the University and the wider community, and to promote a culture of pursuing high-quality research among faculty.
The CREA Selection Panel was favorably impressed by the high quality of work presented and commended the awardees for their overall research excellence: “The two research excellence awardees of this year have very strong research achievements. They truly deserve this honor because of their significant contribution to world class research within a short period of time, and the research findings of one of the papers had also received coverage from major international media. We believe that their works will have strong impact on their respective fields and they will consistently generate high impact research in their careers.”