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Dr Eric Kong

Name :	Dr Eric Kong
Position :	Senior Lecturer (Management)
Section :	Faculty of Business and Law School of Management and Marketing
Office :	T416
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1257
Extension :	1257
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA(Hons) Sunderland GDipFET Leicester MSc Paisley PhD Monash

Professional Memberships

Member of the Asia Academy of Management (AAoM).

Member of the Academy of Management (AOM).

Member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).

Member of the Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development (ACSBD) at the University of Southern Queensland.

Member of the Centre for Rural and Remote Area Health (CRRAH) at the University of Southern Queensland.

Professional Affiliations

Associate Editor in Volume 18, Issue 1 of the International Journal of Learning.

Associate Editor in Volume 6, Issue 1 of the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.

Associate Editor in Volume 6, Issue 2 of the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.

Best Article Award Committee Chair of Public and Non-profit Division, Academy of Management (AOM) (2008 and 2010).

Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Organisation Theory and Behaviour (IJOTB).

Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Organisational Behaviour (IJOB)

Research Interests

Intellectual capital, Knowledge management, Non-profit management

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Kong, E. (2013). The role of social intelligence in acquiring external knowledge for human capital development, organisational learning and innovation, in Chilton, M.A. & Bloodgood, J.M. (Eds.), Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage: Issues and Potential Solutions, IGI Publishing, Hershey, Pennsylvania, Chapter 9, Forthcoming.

Kong, E. (2013). Strategic Trisector Collaboration in Disaster Response. World Review of Business Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.127-140.

Kong, E. (2013). The role of human resource strategies and practices in developing intellectual capital for innovation in non-profit organisations, in Ordóñez de Pablos, P., Tennyson, R.D. & Zhao, J. (Eds.), Intellectual capital strategy management for knowledge-based organisations, IGI Publishing, Hershey, Pennsylvania, Chapter 10, pp.174-194.

Kong, E., Chadee, D. and Raman, R. (2013). Managing Indian IT professionals for global competitiveness: The role of human resource practices in developing knowledge and learning capabilities for innovation. Knowledge Management Research and Practice, Forthcoming (ERA B Journal; 2010 Impact Factor: 0.855).

Tsai, H-S., Gururajan, R., Kong, E., Hafeez-Baig, A., and Lin, M.K. (2012). Deploying Mobile Data Services: An Australian Case Study. IT Professional (IEEE Computer Society), Vol. 14, No. 5, pp.22-27.

Eljayash, K., James, K. & Kong, E. (2012). The quantity and quality of environmental disclosure in annual reports of national oil and gas companies in Middle East and North Africa. International Journal of Economics and Finance, 4(10), pp.201-217. (ABDC C Journal)

Kong, E. (2012) The potential of neuro-linguistic programming in human capital development. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.131-141 (ERA C Journal). Selected paper from the 8th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning (2011) for inclusion in the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management

Kong, E., Chadee, D. and Raman, R. (2012). Social intelligence and top management team: An exploratory study of external knowledge acquisition for strategic change in global IT service providers in India. International Journal of Learning and Change, Vol. 6, Nos. 1/2, pp.1–17 (ERA B Journal).

Kong, E. (2012). Facilitating knowledge and learning capabilities through neuro-linguistic programming. International Journal of Learning, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp.253-266 (ERA B Journal).

Ko, S. and Kong, E. (2012). Prospects of social enterprises from a framing perspective. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp.169-186 (ERA B Journal).

Award of Social Justice Faculty Grant (2013-2014: $49,960)
Project Title: CALD to Success
Project Team: Sue Bishop, Jill Lawrence, Eric Kong, Geoffrey Parkes

Most notable :

Tsai, H-S., Gururajan, R., Kong, E., Hafeez-Baig, A., and Lin, M.K. (2012). Deploying Mobile Data Services: An Australian Case Study. IT Professional (IEEE Computer Society), Vol. 14, No. 5, pp.22-27. Selected paper for the "Essence of ITPro 2012". This collection presents a snapshot of current issues, developments, and trends in IT through carefully selected articles published in IEEE IT Professional in 2012.

Kong, E., (2012) The potential of neuro-linguistic programming in human capital development. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.131-141 (ERA C Journal). Selected paper from the 8th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning (2011) for inclusion in the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management

Kong, E. (2010). Innovation processes in social enterprises: An IC perspective. Journal of Intellectual Capital, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.158-178 (ERA B Journal). Selected Paper as a 'Highly Commended Award Winner' at the Emerald Literati Network for 2011 Excellence Outstanding Paper Award (www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/literati/awards.htm?year=2011).

Kong, E. and Thomson, S.B. (2009) An intellectual capital perspective of human resource strategies and practices. Knowledge Management Research and Practice, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp.356-364 (ERA B Journal; 2010 Impact Factor: 0.855). Selected by the Editor - John Edwards as one of the top ten articles in Knowledge Management Research and Practice in the last decade (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/kmrp_collections_10from10.html).

Kong, E. (2008). The development of strategic management in the non-profit context: Intellectual capital in social service non-profit organisations. International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp.281-299 (ERA A Journal; 2010 Impact Factor: 2.641).

Kong, E. (2007). The strategic importance of intellectual capital in the non-profit sector. Journal of Intellectual Capital, Special issue on Strategic Enterprise Valuation, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp.721-731 (ERA B Journal). Selected paper from the 9th McMaster World Congress on Intellectual Capital & Innovation for inclusion in the Journal of Intellectual Capital

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

MGT2002 - Managing Organisations
MGT2008 - Managing Knowledge
MGT8002 - Strategic Management

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 15 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Co-Facilitator of Community of Practice: External Grant Funding
Member of USQ Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC)
Member of USQ Multicultural Staff Network (MSN)