A case study written by first-year CMMU Ph.D. student Chris Babicci and his advisor Dr. Winai Wongsurawat has been accepted for publication in the journal Strategy and Leadership. Strategy and Leadership is an international journal published by Emerald, listed in the Scopus database (quartile Q2). The case study is based on Chris’s work experience as a bank executive in the Middle East, and it was written as part of his Research Apprenticeship course at CMMU with Aj. Winai. The paper is titled, “Case study: From an `Underperforming 80’s bank’ to one of Oman’s best – The transformation of Bank Dhofar”. Congratulations to Chris and Aj. Winai!

Ms. Atcha Kamolsareeratana, CMMU full academic scholarship PhD candidate presented her research paper at the 22nd New Zealand Finance Colloquium held in Palmerston North, New Zealand from 7-9 February 2018. The annual colloquium was an initiative introduced in 1996 to promote the discussion, dissemination and development of finance related research. The School of Economics and Finance, Massey Business School, Massey University hosted the event this year receiving successful number of research papers.



The presented paper titled, “Gambling in the stock market: The motivations behind excessive and speculative trading” authored by Assist. Prof. Dr. Ruben Cox, Atcha Kamolsareeratana, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Roy Kouwenberg received research grants from the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar) and Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). The research paper received useful feedback and a lot of interests from participants.







Abstract: Active stock trading by individual investors is hard to explain, as investors who trade more actively tend to perform worse. We investigate to what extent gambling motives can explain excessive and speculative trading. We use five different proxies for gambling motives, ranging from fairly innocent, such as aspiring a small chance to become rich, to quite severe, namely compulsive gambling. We find that especially compulsive gambling can explain frequent trading by individual investors well, in addition to indicators for recreational gambling (e.g., in casinos). Further, investors driven by gambling motives tend to be in a significantly worse financial situation.

Congratulations to Krisakorn Sukavejworakit for receiving Best Paper Award at Asia-Pacific Innovations Forum 2018.

Krisakorn Sukavejworakij attended the Asia-Pacific Innovations Forum 2018 on 24-25 January 2018.  His paper titled “Increasing Entrepreneurial Intention with the Application of Experiential Learning Theory: An Innovative Learning Method and Empirical Test" has been selected for "Best Paper Award: first runner-up".

Ms Boontip Boonbumroongsuk (CMMU Ph.D. Candidate) presented her research on the effects of perceived talent management practices on work-related outcomes at the 6th Workshop on Talent Management held in Barcelona, Spain from 2 – 3 October 2017. Organized by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, this workshop follows on from the five previous highly successful workshops on talent management held in Brussels in 2012 and 2013, Berlin in 2014, Valencia in 2015 and Copenhagen in 2016. Hosted by The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the workshop took place in the premises of the fabulous modernist building, the Palau Macaya.

The chairpersons for the 2017’s workshop are as follows:
Professor David Collings, Dublin City University, Ireland
Assistant Professor Eva Gallardo-Gallardo, ETSEIB - UPC, Spain (local host)
Professor Hugh Sculllion, Hull University, UK
Professor Vlad Vaiman, California Lutheran University, U.S.A. (Coordinating Chairperson)


                                 Boonbumroongsuk, B., The Effects of Perceived Talent Management Practices on Work-Related 
                                 Outcomes, 6th Workshop on Talent Management, October 2017, Barcelona, Spain


                                 A growing academic community from 19 nations

This workshop is considered the most prestigious arena intended to provide a forum for academic debate on the rapidly growing field of talent management. It attracts many prominent members of the talent management academic community, including Professor Wayne Cascio, Dr. Marian Thunnissen and Professor Kristiina Mäkelä, and also participants from the industry (Dr. Dagmar Daubner-Siva, Adidas Headquarters, Germany).

                                 Dr. Marian Thunnissen (Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands) and 
                                 Ms Boontip Boonbumroongsuk (Mahidol University, Thailand)


                                 Ms Iris Kolesa (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Ms Dana Abeuova (ESCP Europe, France) 
                                 and Ms Boontip Boonbumroongsuk (Mahidol University, Thailand)

Abstract: This study examines the relationship between perceived talent management practices and work-related outcomes (job satisfaction, turnover intentions, organizational citizenship behavior, in-role behavior, organizational commitment, work motivation, work-life balance and job stress, psychological contract fulfillment, perceived overall justice, employee engagement and employee brand identification). Additionally, the difference between employees who are included in their organization’s talent pool (Group A) and those who are not included (Group B) are also examined. Online surveys were conducted with 5 organizations totaling 552 respondents from Thailand. The results show that there are significant relations between perceived talent management practices and work-related outcomes, however, expected differences are not observed between Group A and Group B, suggesting that talent management efforts and investments are currently not producing expected effects amongst the selected group of talented employees.