Faculty Profile

SAY Gui Deng

Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship (Education); Course Coordinator, Business, Government & Society

LKCSB Full-time Faculty

Email
gdsay@smu.edu.sg

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Areas

School of Accountancy
- Corporate Reporting & Disclosure
- - Sustainability Reporting and Disclosure
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
- - Well-being and Stress
- Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- - Entrepreneurship
  - Digital transformation and platform strategies
  - Sustainable and socially responsible strategy
  - Organisation Theory
- Communication Management
- - Crisis Communication & Management
- Digital Business
- Social Inclusion
- Corporate Social Responsibility
School of Computing and Information Systems
- Information Systems & Technology
- - Cybersecurity
- Health & Wellbeing
- - Ageing & Mental Health
- Safety, Security & Fairness
- - Security & Governance of Software/AI Systems

Strategic Priorities

Digital Transformation

EDUCATION

2018	PhD in Business Administration Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
2011	CEMS MIM (International Management) London School of Economics, HEC Paris
2011	M.S. in Management NUS Business School, National University of Singapore
2011	B.Eng in Environmental Engineering National University of Singapore

CURRENT APPOINTMENT(S)

2024	Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship (Education) Lee Kong Chian School of Business Singapore Management University
2019	Assistant Professor of Strategic Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business Singapore Management University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Strategic responses to organizational failures
Data breaches from cyber-hacking
Institutional and social activism
Stakeholder management
Entrepreneurship in emerging economies

COURSES TAUGHT

MGMT 102: Strategy (Undergraduate)
MGMT330: The Design of Business (Undergraduate Business Capstone)
MGMT 682: Strategic Management (Masters of Business Administration)

AWARDS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

Faculty Advisor for SMU COGNITARE (Case Competition Club)
SMU Excellent Teacher Award Winner, 2024 (university-level)
Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) Best Instructor Award (2023, 2024)
SMU Most Promising Teacher Award Winner, 2021 (university-level)
SMU Innovative Teacher Award Nominee, 2020 (university-level)
Dean’s Teaching Honor List (2019- 2023)
Adjunct Coordinator

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES (REFEREED)

Say, Gui Deng., Vasudeva, Gurneeta. 2020. Learning from Digital Failures?: The Effectiveness of Firms’ Divestiture and Management Turnover Responses to Data Breaches. Strategy Science, 5(2): 71-145. (available here)

Vasudeva, Gurneeta., Nachum, Lilac., & Say, Gui Deng. 2018. A signaling theory of institutional activism: How Norway’s sovereign wealth fund affect firms’ foreign acquisitions. Academy of Management Journal, 61(4): 1583-1611. (available here)