Extensive research makes LU one of the Top 10 universities in Greater China in THE Impact Rankings 2022

In the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2022, LU is ranked third in the world for “Quality Education”, and in the Greater China region, covering the Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, LU is in the Top 10 overall impact rankings, and comes 6th for SDG 8 “Decent work and economic growth", which promotes inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent work opportunities for all.

 

As well as in governance and practice ensuring students’ and employees’ well-being, health and work-life balance, and knowledge transfer and engagement projects for society at large, LU scholars conduct a wide spectrum of research and studies, ranging from stress management, psychological health, working conditions, and leadership, to labour welfare, in order to address SDG 8.

 

Research projects

 

Project

Researcher(s) / Unit(s)

Survey on Doctor Manpower

LI, Pang Kwong

Department of Political Science

Tax Credit Ratings and the Pricing of Audit Services: China Evidence

LIN, Zhenpin Kenny

Department of Accountancy

Old-age Activation and the Delivery of Employment Services in Hong Kong: Views from Street-level Bureaucrats

AU YEUNG, Tat Chor

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

PCAOB International Inspections and CEO Compensation Around the World (PCAOB國際檢查项目和CEO薪酬)

SU, Lixin Nancy

Department of Accountancy

Provision of Random Sampling Service for 2021 Policy Address Consultation

LI, Pang Kwong

Department of Political Science

Employee Silence at Work

CHEN, Tingting

Department of Management

A qualitative study on older cleaning workers’ labour process during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrated approach

AU YEUNG, Tat Chor

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Acquirer mid-level management human capital and M&A

GONG, Zhaoran

Department of Accountancy

Entrepreneurs’ Crisis Experience, Bricolage, and Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: The Moderating Role of Self-identity (企业家的危机经历,创新和不道德的亲组织行为:自我认同的调节作用)

JEONG, In Seong Lewis

Department of Management

How Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Export Upgrading: Theory and Evidence from China

QIU, Dongxiao Larry

Department of Economics

Precarities facing food delivery workers – A cross-ethnic evaluation of job security and satisfaction

LEUNG, Yuk Ming Lisa

Department of Cultural Studies

Can Hong Kong’s Current Competition Policy Meet the Challenge of Increasing Economic Integration with the Greater Bay Area?

LIN, Ping | QIU, Dongxiao Larry | XIAO, Junji

Department of Economics

Directors' Electoral Incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility

WANG, Rui

Department of Accountancy

Revealing the Role of the Internet on Employees’ Daily Work: Its Classification and Impacts on Employee Outcomes (探究网络在员工日常工作中的作用:网络使用行为的分类及影响)

LI, Na Yolanda

Department of Management

Interpersonal Stress Management among Working Adults and Their Spouses: A Digital and Dyadic Intervention

CHAN, Meanne Ching Man | LO, Lik Hang Lincoln

Wofoo Joseph Lee Consulting and Counselling Psychology Research Centre

Proactive Personality Congruence in a Co-leading Situation

WANG, Nan | CHEN, Yifeng Nancy

Department of Management

Examining the occupational health difference between locals and new migrants from China: A pilot study

CHEUNG, Yue Lok Francis

Department of Applied Psychology

To Self-verify or Self-enhance? Effects of Self-presentation and Authentic Leadership on Trust and Performance

CHEN, Tingting

Department of Management

Airport Subsidies and Domestic Tourism in China

CHOW, Kong Wing Clement

Department of Marketing and International Business

Enhancing organisational competitive advantage on human capital through leadership

CHEN, Tingting

Department of Management

Transfer pricing knowledge and research for accounting professionals

LIN, Zhenpin Kenny | ZHANG, Yue | SIMMONS, Richard Stanley | LO, Wai Yee Agnes

Department of Accountancy

Promoting the Hong Kong-Mainland Economic Integration Index for policy analysis and discourse

CUI, Geng | CHUNG, Yu Ho Sebastian

Department of Marketing and International Business

Being Empowered, feeling Strained? Empowering Leadership, Challenge and Hindrance Appraisal, and Employee Outcomes

LI, Na Yolanda | YE, Huili

Department of Management

Mentor proactive personality and mentee proactive behavior that contribute to mentee’s career development

CHEN, Yifeng Nancy

Department of Management

Innovation-Related Mergers and Acquisitions

LI, Ang Leo

Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies

Digitalized Working Class Culture in Smart City

PUN, Ngai

Department of Cultural Studies

Meaning, justification and aspiration: A qualitative study on the moral underpinnings of platform workers’ practices in Hong Kong

AU YEUNG, Tat Chor

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

To make it worse or better? Couriers’ exposure to social media posts and their reactions to daily experienced customer mistreatment

LI, Na Yolanda

Department of Management

How Does the Overqualified Employee Become a Leader? A Dual-strategy Model

LI, Na Yolanda

Department of Management

Within-person Dynamics of Employee Performance After Disruption Events

WANG, Nan

Department of Management

Migration, Mobility and Labor

PUN, Ngai

Department of Cultural Studies

 

Journals

 

Journal

Researcher(s) / Unit(s)

Dying for an iPhone : Apple, Foxconn, and the lives of China's workers

PUN, Ngai

Department of Cultural Studies

Social cohesion and welfare reforms : the Chinese approach

KANG, Yuyang | MOK, Ka Ho Joshua

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

The quest for global talent for changing economic needs: a study of student mobility and job prospects for returnees in China

MOK, Ka Ho Joshua | HAN, Xiao

Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies | School of Graduate Studies

Educational Expansion, Skills Diffusion, and the Economic Value of Credentials and Skills

ARAKI, Satoshi

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

The development of “Islamic welfare regime” in South East Asia : Drawing experiences from Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Indonesia

YUDA, Tauchid Komara

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Higher Education Financing Trends in Africa

XIONG, Weiyan

School of Graduate Studies

Artists or Slave Laborers? Performing Uncapturability in Burkinabe Performers’ Labor Rights Struggle in South Korea

YOON, Soo Ryon

Department of Cultural Studies

The metropolitan scale

OH, Do Young

School of Graduate Studies

Special Issue on Environmental Governance in Asia: Introduction

HONG, Fuhai

Lingnan University

Aspiring to Be a Social Entrepreneur: Does Prosocial Motivation Matter?

ASANTE, Eric Adom

Lingnan University

Competition, Innovation and Trade

QIU, Dongxiao Larry

Lingnan University

Critical Reflections on Mainland China and Taiwan Overseas Returnees’ Job Searches and Career Development Experiences in the Rising Trend of Anti-globalisation

MOK, Ka Ho Joshua | XIONG, Weiyan

School of Graduate Studies

Psychologizing indexes of societal progress: Accounting for cultural diversity in preferred developmental pathways

LUN, Miu Chi Vivian

Department of Applied Psychology

Reflecting on Hong Kong protests in 2019–2020

PUN, Ngai

Department of Cultural Studies

Negotiating Debt: The Making of Puhan Rural Community in North China

YAN, Xiaohui

Centre for Cultural Research and Development

Minimum Wage Hikes, Innovation, and Corporate Investment

LIU, Sibo

Lingnan University

Institutional constraints for the extension of social insurance coverage to informal economy workers in China

QIAN, Jiwei | WEN, Zhuoyi Vincent

Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies

Do political relations affect international trade? Evidence from China’s twelve trading partners

WHITTEN, Gregory William | FAN, Cheng Ze Simon

Department of Economics

Worker training, firm productivity, and trade liberalization : Evidence from Chinese firms

QIU, Dongxiao Larry

Department of Economics

A Common Destiny: COVID-19 and the Ongoing Impact on China’s Belt and Road Initiative Among ASEAN Countries

HUNG, Wing Lok | CHOW, Man Kong | CHANG, Chak Yan

China Economic Research Programme | Pan Sutong Shanghai-Hong Kong Economic Policy Research Institute

Social entrepreneurship interventions in the HIV/AIDS sector : A social entrepreneurship–social work perspective

SHANG, Liang Echo

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

The role of social entrepreneurship for youth purpose development

SHANG, Liang Echo

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Minimum Wage and Corporate Investment: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in China

LIU, Sibo | LIN, Chen 

Lingnan University

To Explore the Disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility under the Mode of Equity Crowdfunding Financing

WANG, Lijie 

School of Graduate Studies

Re-organizing Peasant Labour for Local Resilience in China

LAU, Kin Chi | WONG, Tak Hing | SIT, Tsui

Centre for Cultural Research and Development | Department of Cultural Studies

Extension of social insurance coverage to informal economy workers in China : An administrative and institutional perspective

QIAN, Jiwei | WEN, Zhuoyi Vincent

Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies

The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China

KWONG, Yim Tze Charles

Lingnan University

Experiences of chin irregular migrant workers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : a case study

TUAL SAWN, Khai 

Lingnan University

Information Economy, Employment Vulnerability and the Development of New Urban Marginality: A Case of Bangladesh

HUSSAIN, Rasel 

Lingnan University

Women, business management and development : the case for Uganda’s enterprises

KATUNZE, Miriam Nabawanga  

Lingnan University

Sporting events in China as economic development, national image, and political ambition

CHU, Pok

Department of Political Science

Occupying the Fringes: The Struggles of Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Rural Ghana - Evidence from the Prestea–Huni Valley Municipality

ABREFA BUSIA, Kwaku  | ARTHUR-HOLMES, Francis 

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Managing social policy in the emerging welfare regime of governance: What Indonesia can learn from South Korea’s experience

YUDA, Tauchid Komara

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

The effects of digital media upon labor knowledge and attitudes: a study of Chinese labor subjectivity in a vocational training school

PUN, Ngai

Department of Cultural Studies

COVID-19 crisis and challenges for graduate employment in graduate employment in Taiwan, Mainland China and East Asia: a critical review of skills preparing students for uncertain futures

MOK, Ka Ho Joshua | XIONG, Weiyan

Institute of Policy Studies | School of Graduate Studies

Is entrepreneurship a remedy for Chinese university graduates’ unemployment under the massification of higher education?  A case study of young entrepreneurs in Shenzhen

KANG, Yuyang | XIONG, Weiyan

Institute of Policy Studies | School of Graduate Studies

Labour market experience, educational attainment and self-reported happiness: crowding-out amongst young people in Hong Kong

JIANG, Jin | LAU, Ka Wai Maggie | WEN, Zhuoyi Vincent | KUEHNER, Stefan

Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies | Department of Sociology and Social Policy | Institute of Policy Studies | School of Graduate Studies

Social policy in East Asia: Between productivism and social investment

KUEHNER, Stefan

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Multidimensional social identity and redistributive preferences: an experimental study

HONG, Fuhai

Department of Economics

Political-economic Suboptimization of China's Belt and Road Initiative: The Case of Infrastructural Investments in Southeast Asia

CHAN, Sze Nam | VOON, Jan Piaw Thomas | CHUNG, Chien-peng

Department of Economics | Department of Political Science

The forms of decommodification and (de)familisation measures during COVID19: What is the impact on female's welfare?

YUDA, Tauchid Komara

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Assessing the era of Jiang Zemin

WONG, Yiu Chung

Department of Political Science

Helping While Competing? The Complex Effects of Competitive Climates on the Prosocial Identity and Performance Relationship

CHEN, Tingting

Department of Management

A city of exceptional risks? A critical policy analysis of Hong Kong unemployment insurance

PUN, Ngai

Department of Cultural Studies

The Normative Construction of and Contestation over In-Work Benefits in Hong Kong: A Moral Economy Approach

AU YEUNG, Tat Chor

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Identity in public goods contribution

HONG, Fuhai

Department of Economics

WISE Management : Competencies of the Managers of Work Integration Social Enterprises in Hong Kong

WONG, Shing Pui, Doris

Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies

Impact of precarious employment on retirement planning for young workers and their parents: the case of Hong Kong

AU YEUNG, Tat Chor

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Family-to-work interface and workplace injuries: The mediating roles of burnout, work engagement and safety violations

SIU, Oi Ling | NG, Ting Kin

Department of Applied Psychology

Covid-19 prevention knowledge, attitude, and practice challenges amongst Myanmar refugees and irregular migrants in Malaysia

TUAL SAWN, Khai 

School of Graduate Studies

Psychological capital and family satisfaction among employees : Do occupational stressors moderate the relationship?

SIU, Oi Ling | NG, Ting Kin | KONG, Qianting

Department of Applied Psychology

Long working hours, precarious employment and anxiety symptoms among working Chinese population in Hong Kong

AU YEUNG, Tat Chor

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Contract institution and differentiated exports

VOON, Jan Piaw Thomas

Department of Economics

Adolescents’ filial piety attitudes in relation to their perceived parenting styles: An urban–rural comparative longitudinal study in China

LIN, Li Jocelyn

Department of Applied Psychology | School of Graduate Studies

Protracted refugees: Understanding the challenges of refugees in protracted refugee situations in Uganda

TULIBALEKA, Paul Ogwang 

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic : The Case of Creative Industry

PUN, Ngai | CHEN, Peier

Department of Cultural Studies

Credential Inflation and Decredentialization: Re-examining the Mechanism of the Devaluation of Degrees

ARAKI, Satoshi

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Unintended environmental consequences of placebased economic policies

XIAO, Junji

Department of Economics

Preference for modernization is universal, but expected modernization trajectories are culturally diversified: A nine-country study of folk theories of societal development

YEUNG, Wai Lan Victoria

Department of Applied Psychology

An Exploratory Study of Women Learners’ Identity and Investment in Learning English in the United Arab Emirates

HUNT, Neil David

Centre for English and Additional Languages

Barriers in the Commencement of Entrepreneurship for University Graduates in China’s Greater Bay Area: Human Capital or Social Capital?

KANG, Yuyang

Institute of Policy Studies | School of Graduate Studies

Spatial Mismatch, Different Labor Markets and Precarious Employment: The Case of Hong Kong

PUN, Ngai

Department of Cultural Studies0

The Socioeconomics of Nationalism in China : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

FAN, Cheng Ze Simon

Department of Economics