Working Papers

Working papers

• From Street Stalls to Screens: The Price Integration of China's Cities (with Marios Zachariadis), August 2026. 

• Managerial Attention to Climate Risk and Green Innovation: The Attention-Action Gap (with Peiyun Jiang, Kingsley Dogah, Eric Opoku, and Kamel Mellahi ) under review in Strategic Management Journal, August 2026

• Effect of Fintech on relationship banking in China (with Shun Lu, Kent Matthews and Wei Huang) submitted to European Journal of Finance

• The Dual Role of Guanxi in SME Lending: Soft Information Benefits and Rent Extraction in China’s Relationship Banking  (with Shun Lu, Wei Huang, and Kent Matthews). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7181912 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7181912  

• Banking Ties as Market-Embedded Resources: How Firm–Bank Relationships Shape Technological and Non-Technological Innovation in SMEs (with Shun Lu, Kent Matthews and Wei Huang), under review in Industrial Marketing Management 

• One Market or Many? Property-Type Heterogeneity in Regional Real Estate Price Convergence Dynamics in China (with Xiaochu Hu), under review in Economic Modelling

Work in progress

• • Roads to Integration: The role of Transport Infrastructure in the Domestic Market Integration in China (with Yingying Shi)

  • Determinants of digital piracy among digital natives in Malaysia (with Jainthi Rajoo and Chee Meng Tang)

  • Effect of the Belt and Road Initiative on International Price Integration

  • The E-Learning Paradox: Why the Best Study Tools Go Unused?