Desmond Ng Directory Profile

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic Management and Agribusiness
• Analyses of Intra-firm, Inter-firm, Market-level Processes
• Complex Systems Perspectives

Professional Summary

Desmond Ng, Ph.D. is an associate professor of agribusiness and strategy management. Ng’s research is mainly focused on the interstices of strategic management and agribusiness. A focus of Ng’s research program is to examine strategic issues at multiple levels of analysis that span intra-firm, firm, inter-firm and market level processes. This involves drawing from varied disciplinary areas that include management, psychology, sociology and evolutionary thinking; including complex system perspectives. He has published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Small Business Development and Enterprise Development, Journal of Strategy and Management, Emergence, Journal of Chain and Network Science, International Food and Agribusiness Management Review and other related journals. Dr. Ng is current serving on the editorial boards of Human System Management, and the International Journal of Complexity, Leadership and Management.

Selected Publications

Ng, D. (2020), “Looking forward instead of backward: Overconfidence, forward-looking aspirations and exploitive/explorative search”, Journal of Strategy and Management, Forthcoming

Ng. D., James, H., Klein, P.G. (2020). “ Keeping it in the family: a socio-cognitive approach to the prioritization of family goals”. Journal of Small Business Development and Enterprise Development 27(3): 471-487

Ng, D. (2019). “Should all Stakeholders be Treated Fairly? Identifying Stakeholders that

Legitimately Matter”, Organization Management Journal, 16 (4): 298-310.
Ng, D., L. Sanchez, and S. Huseynov. (2019). “Seek and You Shall Find: The role of exploitive and explorative search to a biotechnology firm’s patent claims.” International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. 22 (3):321-337

Ng, D. and K. Litzenberg. (2019). “Where have our educational silos taken us? A solution to organizing interdisciplinarity in higher education.” Palgrave Communications. 1-17.