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Faculty Profile

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Terence FAN

Full-time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship (Education); Academic Director, Accreditation
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
LKCSB

Education

2004

PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , USA

2003

Master of Science in Finance
University of Cambridge

1999

Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
Master of Science in Technology and Policy, MIT

1997

Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering
University of British Columbia , Vancouver , Canada

 

Current Position(s) Held

2012 - Now

Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship (Education)
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Singapore Management University

2004 - 2012 Assistant Professor of Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Singapore Management University

 

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • 2019 Outstanding Author Contribution – for a book chapter in Advances in Airline Economics, Emerald Publishing.
  • 2013 First Prize, Emerald-SMU Case Writing Competition
  • 2013 Dean’s Teaching Honour List, SMU
  • Best Paper Prize Nominee, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Germany , for joint work with Duncan Robertson “Mutualistic Entrepreneurship: The Case of Facebook”, 2008
  • Best Paper Award, Graduate Division, U.S. Transportation Research Forum Student Paper Contest. Paper titled: “Small aircraft for more profits? - A preliminary examination on airlines' fleet size decision with fare and demand distributions", 2002 - 2003

 

Research Interests

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New Venture Strategy

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Inter-firm Collaboration

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Evolution of Technology

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International New Ventures

 

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

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Fan TPC, Schwab A, Geng X. 2021. Habitual Entrepreneurship in Digital Platform Ecosystems: A Time-Contingent Model of Learning from Prior Software Project Experiences.  Conditionally accepted at Journal of Business Venturing.
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Fan TPC, 2019.  Schedule creep: In search of an uncongested baseline block time by examining scheduled flight block times worldwide 1986-2016.  Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 121: 192-217.
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Megargel A, Shankararaman V, Fan TPC. 2018. SOA (Service-oriented architecture) maturity influence on digital banking transformation. IDRBT Journal of Banking Technology. 2(2): 1-27.
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Fan TPC. 2017.  Differentiating large absolute from relative expansions in de novo ventures - are large capacity expansions sustainable in the long run? In World Scientific Reference on Entrepreneurship: Volume 3: Sustainability, Society, Business Ethics, and Entrepreneurship, Eds. Siegel D, Markman G, Guerber A, Su SC-Y. World Scientific Press, p.395-423.

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Fan TPC, Lingblad M. 2016. Thinking through the meteoric rise of Middle-East carriers from Singapore Airlines' vantage point. Journal of Air Transport Management 54 (July), 111-122. 

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Fan TPC, Tan AWL. 2015. How product attributes influence internationalization: A framework of domain- and culture-specificity.  Management International Review, 55(1), 53-76.

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Fan TPC, Tan AWL, Geng XS. 2014. Rapid capacity expansions and failure: A trap for new airline entrants? Transportation Research Part E. 61(1), 176-191. 

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Fan TPC. 2010. International business travel in the global economy, Journal of Transport Geography 18 (6), 762-763.  

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Fan TPC. 2010. De novo venture strategy: Inaugural entry and arch-incumbency. Strategic Management Journal, 31 (1), 19-38. 2010.

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"Determinants of de Novo New Entrant Survival in the liberalized intra-European scheduled passenger airline industry", by Terence Ping Ching FAN, 2009 , 45(2) , Transportation Research (Part E Logistics & Transportation Review), Elsevier Ltd, 293-306, United States Of America

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"International New Ventures: revisiting the influences behind the ‘born-global' firm", by Terence Ping Ching FAN and Phillip PHAN, 2007 , 38 , 7, Journal of International Business Studies, 1113-1131

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"Improvements in intra-European inter-city flight connectivity linking the United Kingdom and Ireland with continental Europe 1996-2004", by Terence Ping Ching FAN, 2006 , 14 , (4), Journal of Transport Geography, 273-286

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"Price Disparity based on Trip Origins", by Terence Ping Ching FAN, 2005 , 4 , (3), Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, 252-269

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"Small aircraft for more profits? - A preliminary examination on airlines' fleet size decision with fare and demand distributions", by Terence Ping Ching FAN, 2002, Journal of Transportation Research Forum, Transportation Quarterly, 77-94

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"A Practical Perspective on Airport Demand Management", by Terence Ping Ching FAN and A.R. ODONI, 2002, 10, 3, Air Traffic Control Quarterly, 285-306, United States Of America

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"Evolution of Global Airline Strategic Alliance and Consolidation in the Twenty-First Century", by Terence Ping Ching FAN, L. VIGEANT-LANGLOIS, Geissler C., B. BOSLER, and J. WILMKING, 11/2001, 7, 6, Journal of Air Transport Management, 349-360


 

Published Book Chapters 

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Fan TPC, 2019. Strategic response from Singapore Airlines to the rapid expansion of global, full-service hub carriers in the Middle East. In Advances in Airline Economics - Airlines Economics in Asia. Eds: Fu XW, Peoples J.  Vol. 7: 33-60. Emerald Publishing, Bingley, U.K. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2212-160920180000007004

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Fan TPC, Phan P. 2018. International new ventures: Revisiting the influences behind the ‘born-global’ firm. In International Entrepreneurship: The Pursuit of Opportunities across National Borders. Ed: Reuber AR.  Springer, Cham, Switzerland: 131-172. https://10.1007/978-3-319-74228-1

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Differentiating large absolute from relative expansions in De Novo Ventures — Are large capacity expansions sustainable in the long run?,  by FAN, Terence Ping Ching. (2017). In Amy J Guerber, Gideon D Markman, Sherry Chih-Yi Su (Ed.), The World Scientific Reference on Entrepreneurship: Volume 3: Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship (pp. 395-423) USA:  World Scientific Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1142/9789813220614_0015 (Published)


 

Teaching Cases Authored

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Fan TPC 2024. Singapore Airlines Responding to the Middle East Behemoths on the Kangaroo Route hbsp.harvard.edu/product/105SMU-PDF-ENG

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Fan TPC, Kim CH, Koh CM. 2018. Divestment of Changi International Airport Services by Temasek Holdings. SMU-18-0008. This case documents the rationale of divesting a business, as part of corporate strategy. hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SMU305-PDF-ENG

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Loh PHM, Fan TPC. 2016 Lembu Dairy. SMU-16-0016.  This case documents several product diversification options available to an integrated dairy producer in Malaysia.  My collaborator is a successful entrepreneur in agriculture, and also an Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University, Australia. hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SMU255-PDF-ENG

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Fan TPC, Phan, P. 2013. ‘Way Smarter’: Valuair in the budget airline industry. SMU-13-0010. This case details the industry environment in which a budget airline based in Singapore began its operations, and illustrates how publicly available statistics can be informative in predicting the profitability of a new venture.  This case won the 2013 Emerald/Singapore Management University Teaching Case award. hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SMU362-PDF-ENG


 

Selected Presentations

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“Learning from prior innovative project experiences: a study of entrepreneurs developing Google apps”, with Samimi M, Schwab A, Nosrati M, Geng XS. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, 10-14 August.

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Megargel, A, Fan, TPC, Shankararaman V. 2019. SMU Teaching Bank: Case study of a multiyear development project utilizing student resources.  Proceedings of AIS (Association of Information Systems) Special Interest Group for Education (SIGED), December, Munich, Germany: 1-15