IBSS RCE 5 - Business Education Research

IBSS RCE 5 - Business Education Research

About

IBSS Research Centre of Excellence (RCE) for Business Education Research aims to work across disciplines to address complex and important issues in business education, by ensuring that the people who receive and deliver business education are at the core of such research. The Centre brings together knowledge experts from diverse disciplines to develop business cases and to understand and explore the challenges to business education. The overarching aim of the Centre is to identify, understand and address issues in business education from multiple and diverse perspectives including but not limited to pedagogy, learning outcomes, curriculum development, the learning environment, and stakeholder perspectives on teaching and learning.

People

Director

Professor Steven Dellaportas
Professor
Department of Accounting

Lab Coordinators

Dr Xiangyun Lu
Assistant Professor
Digital Accounting Lab

Dr Samuel Kwok
Senior Associate Professor
Case Lab

Members

Dr Lili Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of Accounting

Huijin Lu
Senior Teaching Fellow
Department of Intelligent and Operations Marketing

Dr. Yingchan Luo
Senior Teaching Fellow
Department of Economics

Dr. Yingying Wu
Assistant Professor
Department of Finance

Dr Xiaoyan Liang
Associate Professor
Department of Strategic Management and Organisation

Supporting staff

Weilin Wu
School Academic Administrator
Academic Support Team

Research Activities

The Centre is committed supporting staff in the development of high-quality case studies and in this regard has planned a series of ongoing workshops to help staff develop knowledge and skills in writing and disseminating case studies.

Research Output

Samuel Kwok, Poshan Yu, & Jean Yves Le Corre, (2025) Eds, Exploring Practice-Led Research for Professional Development, Pages 530, IGI Global.

The Centre is supported by two labs, the Digital Accounting Lab and Case Lab

Labs and facilities


The Digital Accounting Lab (DALab) aims to advance research and innovative teaching methods in accounting. Its main emphasis is on the use of technology to support accounting research and teaching. The DALab has developed a series of projects focused on both accounting research and the applications of technology in learning and teaching.

There are three high-performance workstations with GPUs that provide computing power for machine learning models and natural language processing (NLP) models. DALab will offer computing support for researchers with GPU computing requests for their machine learning, deep learning, or NLP models.


The Case Lab aims to enhance business education by facilitating the development of high-quality teaching case studies in the age of artificial intelligence.

History

The Case Lab was established in December 2024, transforming from the former Case Development Centre (CDC).

Mission

We leverage the expertise of XJTLU’s world-class faculty and the IBSS’s extensive business connections to create case studies from an Asian perspective, aimed at those interested in studying businesses in the Asia-Pacific region. Our mission is to promote business case studies through workshops focused on case development, teaching, and writing. We offer these workshops to students and faculty members from business schools throughout the region.

Strengths

Presenting business cases from Asia to enhance the understanding of diverse cultures, management styles, ethics, and business environments in the region, with a specific focus on Greater China. Our world-class faculty writes and oversees case studies to meet exceptional quality standards.

Focus on collecting field cases to ensure that the case materials are derived from primary sources, including interviews with key decision-makers within the company. The case collection will feature materials available in English, with some also available in Chinese, aimed at students worldwide, including students in undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs, as well as industry practitioners and professionals. Members of the VaseLab are actively engage in collaborations with companies to promote inter-university cooperation in case writing and the case method.

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