Dear IACMR Community,

The Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund was created to commemorate the life and work of Professor Kwok Leung and to continue his mission of supporting young scholars. This fund is intended to assist Ph.D. students who need financial support to collect data for their dissertations. It is open to all doctoral students conducting research in Chinese Management.

This is the 10th year of inviting proposals for the fund grant. By the submission deadline of April 11, 2025, we received more than 40 valid proposals from students worldwide.

The IACMR Research Committee, co-chaired by Professor Cuili Qian (The University of Texas at Dallas) and Professor Wei He (Nanjing University), reviewed and assessed the submitted proposals. The following five proposals, listed in alphabetical order by the authors’ last names, received the highest ratings and have been awarded the 2025 Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund grants:

Yishu Cai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Political Transparency, Business Groups, and Government Contract Redistribution in the Taiwan Region

Ziyan Cui, Tsinghua University
Co-Creating with AI: A Multi-Level and Multi-Contextual Investigation of Human-AI Interaction Through the Lens of Human Capital Theory

Xiaoxiao Jiang, University of Western Australia
When Leaders Step into My Shoes: A Privacy Regulation Perspective on the Detrimental Effects of Empathy

Pengzhao Lyu, University of Cambridge
The Effect of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Human Moral Inclinations

Runjia Zhang, Peking University
Exploring Organizational Digitalization Practices Through the Lens of Technology Affordances

Warm congratulations to the above winners! Each winner will receive a grant of RMB 10,000.

We would also like to take this opportunity to recognize the outstanding contributions of our reviewers, listed in alphabetical order by their last names:

• Cuili Qian, The University of Texas at Dallas (Co-Chair)
• Wei He, Nanjing University (Co-Chair)
• Jie (Jasmine) Feng, Rutgers University
• Chak Fu Lam, City University of Hong Kong
• Shuping Li, Hong Kong PolyTech University
• Cecilia Gu Qian, Georgia State University
• Zhiyan Wu, Erasmus University
• Yucheng Zhang, University of Southampton

Thanks to the generous donations of many scholars, this award has been made possible. We would greatly appreciate it if you could join us in supporting Kwok’s mission of training young scholars. Please contact Dr. Lerong He, IACMR Treasurer, at lhe@geneseo.edu if you would like to contribute.

Thank you for your kind attention and constant support!

Professor Runtian Jing

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
IACMR President