ISSUE: OCTOBER 2020

During September and October 2020, colleagues in FBA published (including forthcomings)

1 ABS4, 11 ABS3, 37 other refereed journal papers and 2 books. Cumulatively, from January

to October 2020, 58 ABS3/4/4* and 81 other refereed journal papers have been published,

which is more than for the whole year in 2019 (44 ABS3/4/4* and 59 other refereed journal

papers).

Dr. Fiona Yang, Dr. Morris Liu and Dr. Richard Qiu received research grants funded by the

Macao Higher Education Fund (FES) in 2020.

A forum on the “Development and Governance of Transnational Corporations”, was jointly

Lin, C., Li, X. & Lam, L. W. (2020), Development or maintenance? Dual-oriented HR system,

employee achievement motivation, and work well-being. Human Resource Management,

59(4): 311. (ABS4)

Chen, T., Investor protection and post-disclosure disagreement: International evidence, The

International Journal of Accounting, Forthcoming. (ABS3)

Choe, J. Y., Kim, J. J., & Hwang, J., The environmentally friendly role of edible insect

restaurants in the tourism industry: Applying an extended theory of planned behavior.

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. Accepted. (ABS3)

Hwang, J., & Choe, J. Y. (2020), How to enhance the image of edible insect restaurants:

Focusing on perceived risk theory. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 87,

505-547. (ABS3)

Lin, X. W., Lam, L. W., Zhang, L. L. (2020), The curvilinear relationship between job

satisfaction and employee voice: Speaking up for the organization and the self. Asia Pacific

Journal of Management, 37: 587-607. (ABS3)

Pan, W., Sun, L.Y., & Lam, L. W. (2020), Employee–organization exchange and employee

creativity: a motivational perspective. International Journal of Human Resource Management,

31(3): 385-407. (ABS3)

Lei, A. C. H., Ma, X., and Yick, M. H. Y., Callable Bull/Bear Contracts, Call Auction Sessions

and Price Manipulations: Evidence from Hong Kong, Journal of Futures Markets, Forthcoming.

(ABS3)

director surname sharing, Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming. (ABS3)

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Highlights

Journal Publications

Books

Research Grants

Forum

Seminar Series

PhD Student Award

Online Briefing for the Doctoral /

PhD Student Award

Online Briefing for the Doctoral/Postdoctoral Recruitment 2021

FBA successfully organized an online briefing for the doctoral/postdoctoral recruitment on 10th

October 2020. The purpose of this briefing was to promote UM in Mainland China and overseas,

and to recruit quality PhD students and post-doctoral researchers for FBA. The briefing provided a

platform for PhD/Postdoctoral applicants to communicate with potential supervisors.

More than 70 students participated in the briefing. Many of them were from well-known universities

in China, such as Tsinghua University, Sun Yat-sen University, Wuhan University, Renmin

University of China, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beihang University,

Chongqing University, Central South University, Xiamen University, South China University of

The students who attended the online briefing showed a strong interest in the doctoral/post-

doctoral programmes offered by FBA. Even after the briefing, the students continued to

communicate with their potential doctoral supervisors through emails. The briefing provided the

students with a better understanding of the academic status and learning environment in FBA and

UM. Many of them have made an application on the Graduate School website and are looking

forward to joining the PhD programme at UM.

Due to COVID-19, FBA did not organize the summer camp in UM campus this year. Nevertheless,

FBA continued to promote the doctoral/post-doctoral programmes through online briefings, as well

as through emails and online platforms, such as Weibo, WeChat public accounts, and friend

circles in WeChat. Around 100 students were interested in applying for the doctoral programme in

Fa culty o f Busin es s Adm in istra ti on, Uni versity of Mac au

2020” for Postgraduates.

Dr. Fangquan Shi, a PhD graduate in Decision Science from the Faculty of Business Administration

in 2019, won the Macao Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates in 2020. This is

the highest award presented to postgraduate students in Macao for their research excellence. Dr. Shi

won this award for his innovative work in portfolio optimization by shrinking eigenvalues of the

sample covariance matrix of asset returns. His research paper is co-authored with Prof. Lianjie Shu

(his PhD Supervisor), Prof. Aijun Yang (from the College of Economics and Management at Nanjing

Forest University) and Prof. Fangyi He (from the School of Finance at Southwestern University of

Finance and Economics). The joint paper entitled “Improving Minimum-Variance Portfolios by

Alleviating Overdispersion of Eigenvalues” has been published in the Journal of Financial and