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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.

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.

Ph. D candidate, Manjiri Kunte, participated in the Asia Academy of Management Conference and presented her paper on, “Context in Engagement Research”. The University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Sydney organized the conference on “Contextualization: The Role of Context in Theory Building and Exploring New Ideas”. This conference was held between June 20 to June 22, 2017, at Kitakyushu Convention center, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka, Japan. Manjiri Kunte got a chance to present her paper titled, “Context in engagement research, future research directions” authored by Manjiri Kunte, and her advisor, Asst, Prof. Dr. Parisa Rungruang. The paper received an encouraging response and participants responded with appropriate questions and queries.

Abstract: Engagement at work has been a much-studied topic in the past few decades. However, during the last three decades, engagement research has been dominated majorly by quantitative studies. This study aims to point out at the significance of contextual factors in the wide and seemingly saturated research panorama of engagement. Essentially, this study should be seen as a comparison of Kahn’s (1990) grounded theory with other studies where using the limitations from previous studies, this study aims to establish a clear evidence for future research directions. This study will help managers change their perspective to engagement. To the question of saturation of engagement research, context is the answer.