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Desmond Ng Assistant Professor Ph.D. (Agricultural Economics), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.S. (Agricultural Economics), McGill University, Montréal B.S. (Agricultural Economics), University of British Columbia Research Interests: Strategic Management and Agribusiness Office Address: 349B Blocker 2124 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-2124 Contact Information: (979) 845-1192 (Office) (979) 862-1563 (Fax) Email Address: dng@ag.tamu.edu Personal Website: http://agecon2.tamu.edu/people/faculty/ng-desmond/

About Dr. Ng:
Dr. Ng received all of his degrees in Agricultural Economics. His research is mainly focused on strategic management and agribusiness. Dr. Ng's article titled "The Paradox of Embeddedness: Strong and Weak Tie Performance in the Biotechnology Industry," won best paper at the 7th International Chain Conference in June 2006. Also, he won the Outstanding Research Paper Award from the Academy of International Business and Economics in 2005 for an article titled "Strategic Change through a Competition of Realities," and in 2004 he won best paper for Management, Organization Division and was nominated for the William H. Newman Award of the Academy of Management for "The Enactment of Competitive Markets and Organizational Performance."

Selected Publications:
Ng, D., Untershultz, J., and Laate, E. 2006. "The Performance of Relational Ties: A functional Approach in the biotechnology industry," Journal on Chain and Network Science, 6, 1, 9-21.

Ng, D. 2005. "Strategic Change through a Competition of Realities," Journal of International Business Strategy, 1 (1):1-10.

Ng, D. 2005. "Strategic Entrepreneurship: An Austrian Economic Approach to Competitive Strategy," Journal of International Business Strategy, 1 (1):75-84.

Getu Hailu, Scott Jeffrey, Ellen Goddard & Ng, D. 2005. "Regulatory Environment, Co-operative Structure and Agency Costs for Co-operative Agribusiness Firms in Canada: Comparative Case Studies," Journal of Food Distribution Research, Volume XXXVI, No. 2 pp. 39-49.

Ng, D. 2005. "The Discovery of and Coordination of Resource Complements in a Dispersed Knowledge Society," International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 5 (2), 142-163.

Ng. D, 2004. The Social Dynamics of Diverse and Closed Networks, Human Systems Management, 23: 111-122. (International Circulation) (Published by IOS press)

Ng. D, 2003. The Social Structure of Organizational Change and Performance, Emergence: a Journal of Complex Issues in Organization and Management, 5 (1): 79-101. (International Circulation) (journal retitled to "Emergence: Complexity and Organization (ISSN: 1521-3250) (Published by Complexity Society, the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, and Cognitive Edge)