Professional Doctorate Graduates’ Profiles

SMU's first Professional Doctorate Programme was launched in 2012 and we had our first graduate in 2015.

You can view details of SMU's Professional Doctorate graduates.

Gavin Raj MAISTRY

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2020

Dissertation
An Examination of the Effectiveness of a Training Program to Improve Decision Making in Insurance Risk Underwriting

Committee Members
Associate Professor Jochen REB (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Thomas MENKHOFF
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Shenghua LUAN
- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Josephine KANG Poh Tin

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2020

Dissertation
Transformational Leadership & Follower Risk-Taking: Examining the Effects of Psychological Safety & Power Distance Orientation

Committee Members
Professor Gary J. GREGURAS (Supervisor/Chair)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Michael R. BASHSHUR
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor James M. DIEFENDORFF
- University of Akron
Patrick THNG

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2020

Dissertation
Successful Venture Building: What Matters! An Empirical Examination of Effective Incubation Practices

Committee Members
Professor Philip Charles ZERRILLO (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Terence FAN
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Rajendra K SRIVASTAVA
- Indian School of Business
David NG Wai Lun

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2019

Dissertation
The Business of Accelerating the Acceleration of Startups: A Study on the Effectiveness of Business Accelerators through a Mixed-Methods Approach

Committee Members
Assistant Professor Anne-Valeria OHLSSON-CORBOZ (Chair/ Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Phillip Charles ZERRILLO
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Vicente Katigbak FABELLA
- President, Jose Rizal University, Philippines
Horacio Arruda FALCAO FILHO

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2019

Dissertation
Gender, Emotional Displays and Negotiation Outcomes

Committee Members
Professor Gary J. GREGURAS (Chair/ Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Gokhan ERTUG
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Eric UHLMANN
- INSEAD
Krishnan Narayanan

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2019

Dissertation
Micro-Coaching as a Blend to make E-Learning more Effective

Committee Members
Professor Philip ZERRILLO (Supervisor/Chair)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Rajendra K. SRIVASTAVA
- Dean and Novartis Professor, Indian School of Business, India
Pavuth SRIARANYAKUL

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2019

Dissertation
An Exploratory Study of How to Navigate Brand Management and Improve Sales Performance through Control Policies

Committee Members
Professor Philip Charles ZERRILLO (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Rajendra K. SRIVASTAVA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Anne-Valerie OHLSSON-CORBOZ
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Prakash Bagri

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2019

Dissertation
The Multidimensionality of Business Risk Implications for its Classification, Interpretation &amp; Management

Committee Members
Professor Philip ZERRILLO (Supervisor/Chair)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Abhijeet K. VADERA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Rajendra K. SRIVASTAVA
- Dean and Novartis Professor, Indian School of Business, India
Steven Glenn BURTON

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2019

Dissertation
An Exploratory Comparative Study of Experts and Generalists as Change Management Leaders in Non-Core Areas of Organizations

Committee Members
Professor Philip ZERRILLO (Supervisor/Chair)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Anne-Valerie OHLSSON-CORBOZ
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Vicente FABELLA
- President, Jose Rizal University, Philippines
Chon Phung LIM

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2018

Dissertation
Purposeful Building Of Social Capital And The Adoption Of Essential Tools And Technologies In Impoverished Communities In The Philippines

Committee Members
Distinguished Professor Howard THOMAS (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Stephen Matthias HARNEY
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Nicholas HARRIGAN
- Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Sociology, Department of Sociology, Macqurie University
Eric SANDOSHAM

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2018

Dissertation
Towards an Effective Design of the Business Intelligence &amp; Analytics Function within an Organisation

Committee Members
Professor Rajendra SRIVASTAVA (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Philip Charles ZERRILLO (Practice)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Srinivas K REDDY
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Goutam CHALLAGALLA
- Marketing and Startegy, IMD Singapore
Hock Seng NG

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2018

Dissertation
The Relationships of Team Diversity, Social Capital and Ambidexterity

Committee Members
Senior Lecturer Saumya SINDHWANI (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Charles ZERRILLO (Practice)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Adjunct Professor Theresa LOO
- New York University, Shanghai
Jimmy TAN Wee Teck

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2018

Dissertation
Foreign Direct Investment, a Movement Toward Investors' Centricity, a Behavioral Perspective

Committee Members
Professor Charles ZERRILLO (Practice) (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Rajendra SRIVASTAVA
- School of Business, Indian School of Business (ISB)
LIM SEOW LING

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2018

Dissertation
Beyond Firm-Customer Interactions to Better Customer Experience

Committee Members
Professor Philip Charles ZERRILLO (Practice)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assoc Prof Yun Fong LIM
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor David LEE Kuo Chuen
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Miguel Angel Soriano

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2018

Dissertation
Factors Driving Financial Inclusion and Financial Performance in Fintech New Ventures: An Empirical Study

Committee Members
Distinguished Professor Howard THOMAS (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Francis KOH
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Aurobindo GHOSH
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor David LEE Kuo Chuen
- School of Business, Singapore Institute of Management
Nina TAN

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2018

Dissertation
Leading Mindfully in Dynamic Times: Can a Mindfulness-based Leadership Training and Coaching Program increase Leadership Effectiveness?

Committee Members
Associate Professor Jochen REB (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Philip Charles ZERRILLO (Practice)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Dr Jutta TOBIAS
- Senior Lecturer of Organizational Psychology
City, University of London
TAN Boon Heon

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2018

Dissertation
Effect of a Ubiquitous Moral Cue on Ethical Leadership, Moral Disengagement and Goal Difficulty: Real-world Outcomes of a Novel Behavioural Intervention by Mobile Application Technology

Committee Members
Professor Donald L. FERRIN (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG (Co-Supervisor)
- School of Social Sciences, SMU
Associate Professor Roy CHUA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Abhijeet K. VADERA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Victor KWAN Yao Han

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2018

Dissertation
Motivations to Engage in Word of Mouth from Non-market Participants: A Study using Automotive Business as the Field of Investigation

Committee Members
Professor Charles ZERRILLO (Practice) (Chair)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Gregor HALFF (Co-Supervisor)
- Copenhagen Business School
Assistant Professor Ernst Christiaan OSINGA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Zafar Abdulmajid Momin

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2018

Dissertation
Identifying The Competencies of Middle Managers Leading Successful Strategy Implementation

Committee Members
Professor Philip Charles ZERRILLO (Practice) (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU

Assistant Professor Anne-Valerie OHLSSON-CORBOZ (Practice)

- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU

Professor Goutam CHALLAGALLA

- International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Chi Kwan YUEN

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2017

Dissertation
Can Honesty Reminders Reduce Budgetary Slack?

Committee Members
Associate Professor Chee Yeow LIM (Chair/Supervisor)
- School of Accountancy, SMU
Associate Professor Gary PAN
- School of Accountancy, SMU
Associate Professor Poh Sun SEOW
- School of Accountancy, SMU
Professor Philip Charles ZERRILLO (Practice)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU

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