Dr Chen Zheng

Chen Zheng is senior lecturer in the School of Event, Tourism and Hospitality Management. His research interests cover corporate strategy and governance, determinants of firm performance, and sustainability in MICE industry.

Chen earned his MSc and PhD degrees from the School of Hotel & Tourism Management of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His PhD investigated the influential factors on the relationship between diversification strategies and firm performance in public-listed event, tourism and hospitality organisations. He also worked as a tutor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University while he was studying his PhD. Financial management and strategic management were his key teaching subjects. His working experiences were gained from diverse geographic regions, e.g., South Carolina in the U.S., Netherlands, and Hong Kong. Before his PhD, he worked for different event companies in Hong Kong, five-star and five-diamond hotel and resort in the U.S. and Netherlands.

Chen’s previous research focused on the impact of covered corporate strategy (e.g., types of diversification strategy) and corporate governance (e.g., board size and board diversity) on firm performance, as well as event venues’ drivers and barriers to engage sustainability practices.
His recent research focusing on the impact of furlough or so-called furlough “hangover” on employees’ job turnover in the service sectors including event and exhibition, hospitality and Tourism is funded by The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant.

• Managing Event Organisations
• Strategic Management in Event Organisations
• Strategic & Financial Management in Event Organisations
• Hospitality Finance