Patrick Sik-wah Fong

Griffith University · School of Engineering and Built Environment

Driven by the rise of big data, enterprises urgently need to accurately utilize users’ real-time and accumulated information to realize present value and establish long-term advantages, then achieving the sustainable development. Previous works identified value co-created through big data as “big data cooperative assets”. However, while the mainstr...

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was designated by the World Health Organization in January 2020 as a newly emerging coronavirus in 2019, and its variants have placed unbearable strain on the healthcare systems of various countries, with serious implicat...

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a collaborative arrangement between the public and private sectors to deliver a project or service that is traditionally provided by the government. This partnership arrangement has been adopted in many countries with great successes, as well as concerns. The open access journal “Buildings” is arranging a Special...

With the proliferation of social media, the detection of fake news has become a critical issue that poses a significant threat to society. The dissemination of fake information can lead to social harm and damage the credibility of information. To address this issue, deep learning has emerged as a promising approach, especially with the development...

Employability in any field, and especially in construction, is enhanced by the right amount of skill sets, competences, and attributes. However, today there exist notable skill gaps between students’ preparation and industry requirements. This study therefore seeks to address the perceived importance and expectancy gap of skill sets for new entrant...

How traditional industries adapt to the digital economy to achieve sustainable development has attracted scholars and practitioners. Exploring the concept of BMA (business management adaptability) can not only theoretically explain adaptive micro-operation mechanisms but can provide practical guidance for enterprises to form adaptability. To date,...

As a critical factor in promoting organizational performance and sustainable development, knowledge management research has become increasingly important. In particular, big data and other emerging technologies are forcing traditional enterprises to achieve digital transformation. This requires technological reforms and coordinated knowledge manage...

According to social learning theory, we explored the relation between ethical leadership and knowledge hiding. We developed a moderated mediation model of the psychological safety linking ethical leadership and knowledge hiding. Surveying 436 employees in 78 teams, we found that ethical leadership was negatively related to knowledge hiding, and tha...

In seeking to understand factors contributing to team creativity in dynamic environments, we explored the role of external knowledge search on team creativity through absorptive capacity and knowledge integration. We tested our hypotheses with a sample of 96 teams involving 421 employees in China. Results demonstrated that external knowledge search...

Successful university technology transfer requires close cooperation between the inventor and the firm. However, occasionally, this cooperation is not self-conscious for both the inventor and the firm. In this paper, we develop a game model by introducing the concept of the university technology transfer chain. We examine the inventor’s and firm’s...

Purpose: This paper investigated the individual difference on digital reading, by examining the eye tracking records of male and female readers with different reading ability (including their pupil size, blink rate, fixation rate, fixation duration, saccade rate, saccade duration, saccade amplitude, and regression rate). Design/methodology/approac...

Purpose Knowledge sharing, as a kind of social behavior that incorporates collective intelligence to achieve a certain goal, has become a remarkable developing trend in recent years. Under the context of traditional teaching, this study aims to explore the manner in which students become effective in sharing knowledge to help optimize course design...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of incentive contracts in multi-partner project teams (MPPTs) on the agents’ effort expenditure and project performance, analyze how the agents allocate their efforts between production and cooperation and offer suggestions for project managers on how to design incentive contracts. Des...

The technological insurgency which characterizes the era of Knowledge-based economy coupled with the emergence of Industry 4.0 makes the future of the construction industry very promising especially for the prepared. As the World Bank report on Knowledge Economy rightly puts it, an educated and skilled population is a requisite for creating, sharin...

We examined the influence of reward structures on team adaptation. We collected data from Chinese university students, whom we assigned to 62 teams of 3 members. They took part in a team-based card game in a laboratory setting to test if a cooperative structure promotes team adaptation by facilitating shared mental model updating, and if a competit...

This paper provides evidence of individual difference on digital reading, by examining male/female and good/poor readers’ eye tracking records (including pupil, blinks, fixations, saccades, and regressions). From 6,520 undergraduate students’ university entrance exam scores and the follow-up reading assessments, we strategically selected 74 partici...

Purpose-With regards to the widespread cross-references on knowledge management (KM) and organizational effectiveness in their corresponding definitions, expectations would be that there leaves not much to be explored since research strands have taken a look in this direction. However, an exception to the rule is the synchronous study of organizati...

Dramatically increased societal demands on the municipal services that contradict environmental protection and information processing capability oriented to resource utilization efficiency suffer from opposing simultaneous requirements. The smart city provides better solutions for urban areas which are increasing at an unprecedented speed. This pap...

Purpose Creativity and innovation are crucial in improving the organizational performance and sustaining competitive advantage. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between knowledge hiding and team creativity. Design/methodology/approach The authors tested the hypotheses with a sample of 87 knowledge worker teams involvi...

In this paper, we explored the role of knowledge sharing on team creativity through absorptive capacity and knowledge integration, and tested the condition under which knowledge sharing is positively related to absorptive capacity and knowledge integration. We tested our hypotheses with a sample of 86 knowledge worker teams involving 381 employees...

Invention disclosure is a complex problem faced by many university faculty members. Existing studies have investigated related issues, but few researchers have considered disclosure from the perspectives of both disclosure stage (early or late) and disclosure type (university or firm). This paper seeks to address this gap by investigating the influ...

The detection of university online learners' reading ability is generally problematic and time-consuming. Thus the eye-tracking sensors have been employed in this study, to record temporal and spatial human eye movements. Learners' pupils, blinks, fixation, saccade, and regression are recognized as primary indicators for detecting reading abilities...

This research aims to investigate the influence of planned behaviour and personal variables on entrepreneurial intention in order to explain and improve low entrepreneurial intention among tourism students in China. A total of 109 tourism students were surveyed to find the key factors affecting their entrepreneurial intention by factor analysis. Th...

Recent research has explored the issue of university faculty patent assignment in the US, Europe and Japan from the individual or organization perspectives. However, there is limited empirical research that examines the real picture of faculty patent assignment in China’s universities. This paper aimed to fill this gap by creating a special dataset...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of gender grouping on students’ group performance, individual learning achievements and attitudes in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). 588 undergraduate students enrolled in a digital design course were randomly divided into 147 four-student groups that fell into five categories a...

Much previous research has explored university-industry technology transfer, but few researchers have examined the more comprehensive technology transfer process from faculty to firm. This paper focuses on faculty’s decisions on invention disclosure and selection of the mode of commercialization, and it aims to fill this gap through developing game...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the current status of sustainability education in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Sample MOOCs were searched for from seven popular platforms and three search engines. After screening, 51 courses were identified as the final sample. Course description, content outlines, reading materials, recommende...

Knowledge management (KM) strategy is the planned or actual coordination of a firm's major goals and learning in time; this coordination continually co-aligns the firm's knowledge-based resources with the environment. Based on the organic perspective of strategy, a KM performance evaluation approach should be able to 1) review the knowledge governa...

Fragmentation is a well-known problem in the construction field; however, the literature shows a lack of a precise definition and appropriate measurement of this notion. The purpose of this paper is to determine indicators of fragmentation in construction projects using a second-order formative measurement model. The data were collected using a que...

Successful university technology transfer depends on close cooperation between faculty inventor and firm. Their related moral hazard has been investigated separately in previous studies in order to maximize the individual or organizational payoff. However, few researchers have considered the double moral hazard of the participants jointly and attem...

Invention disclosure is a complex problem for many university faculty inventors. Existing studies have investigated related issues. However, few researchers have considered this issue from the perspectives of disclosure stage and type. This paper seeks to narrow this research gap by investigating the influences of economic benefit, reputation, comp...

Internet use has become an increasingly common leisure time activity among Chinese citizens. The association between Internet use and engagement in leisure activities is especially unclear among China population. This study aims to investigate Internet usage and to determine whether active Internet use is a marker for low or high levels of leisure...

A firm, as a dynamic, evolving, and quasi-autonomous system of knowledge production and application, develops knowledge management capability (KMC) through strategic learning to sustain competitive advantages in a dynamic environment. Knowledge governance mechanisms and knowledge processes connect and interact with each other, thereby forming learn...

With the increase importance of online learning nowadays but with the lack of instructional design applications available have limit and de-motivate most of the instructors to continue using learning management system. In this paper, we propose an interactive, scenario-based e-learning platform namely RAPIDS where users can create the scenarios eas...

Enterprise knowledge portals offer, among other characteristics, a centralized access point for information as well as a wide range of tools and content for individual knowledge workers to personalize to suit their daily tasks. Such tasks often include the collection, aggregation, and analysis of data/information as well as collaborative work among...

The focus of knowledge management (KM) in the construction industry is moving towards capability building for value creation. The study reported by this paper is motivated by recent assertions about the genesis and evolution of knowledge management capability (KMC) in the strategic management field. It attempts to shed light on the governance of le...

Purpose Storytelling is regarded as a fundamental way for humans to communicate with each other, no matter whether in the form of folklore, myths or war stories. Storytelling is applied in management and organisational practices in order to achieve specific purposes. Management activities within projects are similar to managing organisations with h...

Lessons learned, which are a special kind of knowledge obtained by people from experience, can help enterprises avoid reinvention and standardize their best practices. Professionals' performance in various sectors can also be improved.Lesson learning is the process of converting people's experience of events into knowledge for application in the fu...

A study was conducted to extract students' feedback regarding learning in small teams on a real-life problem-based subject entitled 'Professional Studies'. The real-life problem-based subject was studied by four classes of students enrolled in building surveying (BS), building engineering and management (BEM), construction economics and management...

As e-learning or blended learning is more and more popular these days, but with the lack of certain tools, most of the e-learning objects are just simple power point files, pdf files, word documents, HTML files or simple flash files uploaded to a Learning Management System. On many occasions, instructors cannot devote sufficient energy nor time to...

Industry is now aware of the need for sustainable decision making and is being forced to meet newly imposed targets by legislation. To date, however, there has been no widely accepted methodology that enables stakeholders collectively to balance competing interests. As a proven decision-making framework that can be conducted throughout a project's...

Projects are classified as a secondary type of organisational form, with limited time and resources, great complexity and new teams each time. Construction projects, as temporary organisations, require varieties of knowledge from different stakeholders to make them work. The varieties of knowledge required are a mixture of explicit and tacit knowle...

DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000106 This research focuses on contracting firms within the construction sector. It characterizes and evaluates the composition of organizational culture using four culture types (clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy), the strategic approach for knowledge flow, and the success of knowledge management (KM) systems...

Purpose In the knowledge economy, the management of knowledge is important because the value of corporations and individuals is directly related to their knowledge and intellectual capital. This is especially true for real estate management, which is of increasing concern to the public and plays an important role in the property market today. This...

Purpose This article interweaves the disciplines of knowledge management and entrepreneurship, where the purpose is to develop a model that depicts the knowledge creation relationship of entrepreneurial firms in particular and its environmental context related to real estate management. How does the educational level of workers affect knowledge cre...

Purpose Quantity surveying firms are characterized by their professional identity and knowledge‐driven nature; knowledge is crucial to their success in the competitive and dynamic business environment. As knowledge management is still in its infancy in the construction industry and structured knowledge management processes have not yet been adequat...

'Lessons learned', defined as knowledge gained from successful or failed experience, are keys to the success of project-oriented organisations such as those in the construction industry. The temporary nature of projects does not allow learning and knowledge transfer to be properly carried out, as team members are disbanded upon completion and move...

DOI: 10.1504/IJKMS.2009.028841 Owing to the unique nature of building maintenance projects, building professionals need sufficient technical, product and project-organising knowledge and experience to facilitate their decision-making. Apart from gaining this knowledge and experience by learning on the job, learning from others is an important alter...

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This paper reports on an international study into construction industry development that was used as a framework for a study into Hong Kong's construction industry and, based on the findings, argues that the role of a project manager is important to the development of the industry. Having used the same approach for both studies allowed for comparis...

Knowledge in designing a product or rendering a service does not form a complete and coherent body of knowledge that can be precisely documented or even articulated by a single individual. Rather, it is a form of knowing that exists only through the interaction among various collective actors (Gherardi & Nicolini, 2000). Existing literature (Kanter...

Designing a product or service does not form a complete and coherent body of knowledge that can be precisely documented or even articulated by a single individual. Rather, it is a form of knowing that exists only through the interaction among various collective actors (Gherardi & Nicolini, 2000). Existing literature (Kanter, 1988; Nonaka, 1994) has...

Interorganizational teamwork has attracted considerable attention over the years and is one of the characteristics of the construction industry. However, most of the research has just focused on the factors necessary for team success, rather than investigating human perceptions of interorganizational teamwork and what factors affect the individual'...

With the intention of introducing unique and value-added products to the market, organizations have become more conscious of how to best create knowledge as reported by Ganesh Bhatt in 2000 in "Information dynamics, learning and knowledge creation in organizations." Knowledge creation is recognized as having an important role in generating and sust...

Designing a product or service does not form a complete and coherent body of knowledge that can be precisely documented or even articulated by a single individual. Rather, it is a form of knowing that exists only through the interaction among various collective actors (Gherardi & Nicolini, 2000). Existing literature (Kanter, 1988; Nonaka, 1994) has...

Knowledge in designing a product or rendering a service does not form a complete and coherent body of knowledge that can be precisely documented or even articulated by a single individual. Rather, it is a form of knowing that exists only through the interaction among various collective actors (Gherardi & Nicolini, 2000). Existing literature (Kanter...

Construction industry development has drawn attention for decades. However, there have been very few conceptual models which provide theoretical constructs to the knowledge base of construction industry development. The research on which this paper is based, aimed to validate a generic model developed by Fox (2003a) for the development of internati...

According to Dede Bonner in 2000, employees hold a wealth of knowledge and experience about their companies, including the products, customers, internal processes, histories, technologies, and competitors. But this knowledge is usually dispersed across scattered individuals and locations. Although learning happens at an individual level, it is usua...

Construction projects in Hong Kong involve huge investments of capital, resources and time. Good management practices can maximize profits in construction projects. However, almost no organizations have adopted formal systems to manage such practices. Lessons learned systems (LLS) supported by knowledge management and organizational learning princi...