Prof. Daphne Yiu Appointed as Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal
The Department of Management is delighted to share the good news that Prof. Daphne Yiu is appointed as Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) commencing on 1 July 2019.
Prof. Daphne Yiu is the Chairperson and Professor of the Department of Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. Her research interests lie in corporate and international strategy, strategies in emerging markets and Asia, business groups, corporate governance, business sustainability, and international entrepreneurship. She is currently serving as a Senior Editor at Journal of World Business, Senior Editor at Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Editor at Corporate Governance: An International Review. She is also editorial board member of a number of top-tier journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, etc.
Prof. Yiu’s appointment at Academy of Management Journal is a recognition of her standing and expertise in the academic and professional disciplines. AMJ is a prestigious top tier peer-reviewed journal in the field of management, with the mission to publish empirical research that tests, extends, or builds management theory and contributes to management practice. According to the Journal Citation Reports in 2017, the impact factor of AMJ is 6.7 and five-year impact factor is 11.25, being ranked as the 7th out of 140 journals in the “Business” category.
Meanwhile, other faculty members of the Department of Management have continued to play major editorial leadership roles, with Prof. William Wan serving as Associate Editor of Journal of Management, Prof. Kenneth Law as Consulting Editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Prof. Chi-Sum Wong as the Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Prof. Shige Makino as Associate Editor of Global Strategy Journal, and Prof. David Ahlstrom as Consulting Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
These engagements in editorial leadership place CUHK in the radar sphere of the field of management. Looking forward, the Department will strive to seek development in its core competencies in management research and education.