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.

Alan William ZELLER

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2021

Dissertation
Debiasing a Decision Maker Facing Supply Uncertainties in a Newsvendor Setting

Committee Members
Associate Professor Pascale CRAMA (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Senior Lecturer Niyazi TANERI
- Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Anurag VIJ

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
Digital Exploration Alliances

Committee Members
Professor Kapil R. TULI (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Xuesong GENG
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Girish MALLAPRAGADA
- Indiana University
Professor Ajay KOHLI
- Georgia Institute of Technology
Dietmar KAPPEL

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2021

Dissertation
Resilience as an Organisational Capability: A Study of How Firms Survive and Outperform in Disruptive Times

Committee Members
Professor Gerard GEORGE (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Daniel MACK
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Andreas B. EISINGERICH, Head of Department Analytics, Marketing and Operations,
- Imperial College London
Eric Changhwan KIM

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
Changes in Decision-making Authority when Chaebol Firms Grow: From the Perspective of Non-family Managers

Committee Members
Professor Toru YOSHIKAWA (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Xuesong GENG
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Jungho LEE
- School of Economics, SMU
Guojun SHEN

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
The Importance of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China's Social Transformation

Committee Members
Professor Gerard GEORGE (Chair/Supervisor) -Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Binsheng TANG - Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Assistant Professor Daniel MACK -Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Hankun ZHAO

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
Regional Economic Impacts of China's High-speed Rail Development and its Institutional Challenges

Committee Members
Professor Gerard GEORGE (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Sock Yong PHANG
- School of Economics, SMU
Professor Bing XIANG
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Heng LI

SMU-SJTU Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
Studies on Data-driven Management of Extended Warranty Services for Household Appliances

Committee Members
Associate Professor Daniel Zhichao ZHENG (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Hai WANG
- School of Computing and Information Systems, SMU
Professor Guohua WAN
- Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Hui YU

SMU-SJTU Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
CEO Curiosity and Firm Innovation

Committee Members
Associate Professor Xuesong GENG (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG
- School of Social Sciences, SMU
Assistant Professor Luqun XIE
- Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Huiyong REN

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
On the Influence of Incentive Mechanisms for China’s Current Mixed Ownership Reform on Corporate Performance

Committee Members
Associate Professor Joe Zhe ZHANG (Chair/Supervisor)
-Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Rong WANG
-Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Dan MA
-School of Computing & Information Systems, SMU
Professor Chenggang XU
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Jonathan CHEE

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2021

Dissertation
Examining the Real Costs of US Manufacturing Decoupling Strategies

Committee Members
Associate Professor Xuesong GENG (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Zhichao Daniel ZHENG
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Xia CHEN
- School of Accountancy, SMU
Jun LIANG

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
Employees’ Ritual Sense in Organization: A Scale Development Study and Effects of Ritual Sense on Employee Outcomes

Committee Members
Professor Heli WANG (Chair/Supervisor)
-Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Yijiang WANG
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Associate Professor Xuesong GENG
-Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG
- School of Social Sciences, SMU
Kok Beng NEO

SMU Doctor of Innovation, 2021

Dissertation
Factors Contributing to The Innovation Orientation of Singapore Technology Small &amp; Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Committee Members
Associate Professor Wee Liang TAN (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Kenneth Guang-Lih HUANG
- NUS Business School and School of Engineering, National University of Singapore
Associate Professor David GOMULYA - Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Kok Wei HOE

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
Culture and Cyber Security: How Cultural Tightness-Looseness Moderates the Effects of Threat and Coping Appraisals on Mobile Cyber Hygiene

Committee Members
Associate Professor Roy CHUA (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Onur BOYABATLI
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Ping Fan KE-
- School of Computing and Information Systems, SMU
Krishna Kumar NALLUR

SMU Doctor of Innovation, 2021

Dissertation
Entrepreneurial Intention amongst Scientists and their Transition to Roles in Research Based Startups

Committee Members
Professor Gerard GEORGE (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Reddi KOTHA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU Professor Sarah Lai Yin CHEAH
- National University of Singapore
Mohammed Ali M ALSHEHRI

SMU Doctor of Innovation, 2021

Dissertation
Design Thinking Intervention in Healthcare

Committee Members
Associate Professor Reddi KOTHA (Chair/ Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Ted TSCHANG
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Jayanth NARAYANAN
- National University of Singapore
Ngai Meng HO

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
The Role of Employee Proactive Behaviors in Influencing Supervisors' Trust in Employees

Committee Members
Professor Donald L. FERRIN (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Shereen FATIMAH
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Andree HARTANTO
- School of Social Sciences, SMU
Reem Fihran A. ALSHEHRI

SMU Doctor of Innovation, 2021

Dissertation
The Most Influential Component of Intellectual Capital Components on the Level of Innovation Among the Faculty at Universities in Saudi Arabia

Committee Members
Associate Professor Reddi KOTHA (Chair/ Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Sarah Lai Yin CHEAH
- National University of Singapore
Shengqin ZHU

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
The Influence of Incumbent-and-Successor-related Factors on Succession Process in Family Firms: Exploring the Role of Values in Family Business Succession

Committee Members
Associate Professor Hwee Hoon TAN (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Yijiang WANG
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Associate Professor Gilbert Yip Wei TAN
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Xi ZOU
- Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University
Thi Anh Tram LE

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
The Effects of University Governance Structure on the New Degree Programme Development and Approval Process in Vietnamese Universities

Committee Members
Associate Professor Wee Liang TAN (Chair/Supervisor),
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Dr Burkhard N Schrage, Senior Program Manager
- RMIT University, Vietnam
Wa Fong HOI

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2021

Dissertation
Digital Strategies for Reshaping the Competitiveness of HOPSCA

Committee Members
Professor Heli WANG (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Xueong GENG
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Zhiling GUO
- School of Computing and Information Systems
Professor Jianwen LIAO
-Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

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