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Bui Thi Minh Hong

Bui Thi Minh Hong, PhD, Prof.

Center for Education Management

Director

Biography

Professor Hong T. M. Bui has a broad social science background, including economics, education, communication, management, and various methodologies in both qualitative and quantitative research. Her research focuses on learning organization, organizational studies, and an interdisciplinary approach to innovation and sustainability. Hong served as an associate editor for The Learning Organization and now for Applied Psychology: An International Review.

Hong has worked for five different universities in the UK, including the University of Southampton (ranked among the top 100 world universities) and the University of Bath (ranked among the top 10 UK universities). She also worked for the Vietnam National University, Hanoi, for seven years before embarking on her academic career in the UK, which spanned 20 years. She has extensive experience working in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams on global challenges, including decarbonization, smart cities, healthcare management, energy, agricultural innovation, entrepreneurship, migration, and tourism development, both between the UK and the Global South, as well as within the Global North.

Forbes Vietnam named Hong to its list of 20 Inspiring Women 2021. The Public Administration Review journal in 2014 reviewed her as a “talented researcher” and “leading scholar”. She has also received various teaching and research awards in her career.

Hong has developed numerous leaders for higher education, the public, and the private sector worldwide. She is passionate about nurturing the next generation of students and early-career faculty members who will collectively transform society toward innovation and sustainability. She welcomes doctoral and post-doctoral candidates who wish to make a difference in society.

· Learning organization for innovation and sustainability

· Co-innovation process

· Multiple methodologies

· Wicked issue investigation

· Interdisciplinary collaboration

· Provincial and regional socio-economic and environmental strategy development

• Human Resource Development

• Organizational Behavior

• Leadership

• Research Methods

• Contemporary Issues in Business & Management

Journal articles

1. Kodeih, F., Raynard, M. & Bui, H. T. M. (accepted). The Moral and Emotional Impact of Well-intentioned Policy on Marginalized. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

2. Du Plessis, L. & Bui, H. T. M. (2024). Psychologically Gaining through Losing: A Metaphor Analysis. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 39(2), 185-201.

3. Bui, H. T. M., Shoaib, S., Tran, L.T., Tran-Vu, V. H. & Baruch, Y. (2024). University’s shared vision for research and teaching: an international comparative study. Higher Education, 88, 61-84.

4. Bui, H. T. M., Pinto, J., Tran, A., Nguyen, T. Q. & Trong, N. M. (2024). Moderators of the Relationship between Turnover Intentions and Performance. Journal of Trade Science, 12(2), 82-99.

5. Bui, H. T. M. & Irmayanti, A. (2024). Employment Brand Equity and Corporate’s Job Growth and Reputation: The Case of US Fortune’s Best Companies to Work. Journal of Trade Science, 12(3), 203-219.

6. Audretsch, D. A., Beliski, M., Bui, H. T. M. & Herzig, M. (2023). Improvisation and Innovation in Teams: The Jazz Effect. British Journal of Management, 34(3), 1684-1684.

7. Du Plessis, L. & Bui, H. T. M. (2023). #FeesMustFall# Movement in the Post-Apartheid Era: Legitimacy Battle for Leaders. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 36(4), 663-678.

8. Khong, H., Celik, I., Le, T.T.T., Lai, V.T.T., Nguyen, A. & Bui, H.T.M. (2023). Examining Teachers’ Behavioural Intention for Online Teaching After COVID-19 Pandemic: A Large-Scale Survey. Education and Information Technologies, 28, 5999–6026.

9. Jones, D., Gardner, T. & Bui, H.T.M. (2022). Vietnamese Early Career Academics’ Identity Work: Balancing Tensions between East and West. Studies in Higher Education, 47(6), 1284-1296.

10. Bui, H. T. M. & Galanou, E. (2022). Translation of Systems Thinking to Organizational Goals: A Systematic Review. Journal of General Management, 47(4), 233–245.

11. Tran, H, Baruch, Y. & Bui, H. T. M. (2021). On the way to self-employment: The dynamics of career mobility. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(14), 3088-3111.

12. Bui, H. T. M. (2020). From the Fifth Discipline to the New Revolution: What we have learnt from Senge’s ideas over the last three decades. The Learning Organization, 27(6), 495-504.

13. Bui, H. T. M., Liu. G., Ko, W. W. and Curtis, A. (2021). Harmonious Workplace Climate and Employee Altruistic Behavior: From Social Exchange Perspective. International Journal of Manpower, 42(1): 95-112.

14. Bui, H. T. M, Shoaib, S., Tran Vu, V. H., Nguyen, Q. T. & Mai. N. (2021) Career Ambition and Employee Performance Behaviour: The Presence of Ideological Development. Journal of General Management, 46(4): 302-312.

15. Bui, H. T. M, Nguyen, H.T.M and Chau, V. S. (2020) Strategic agility orientation: The impact of CEO duality on corporate entrepreneurship in privatised Vietnamese firms. Journal of General Management, 45(2), 107-116.

16. Bui, H. T. M., Chau, V. S., Degl’Innocenti, M., Leone, L. & Vicentini, F. (2019). The resilient organisation: A meta-analysis of the effect of communication on team diversity and team performance. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 68 (4), 621–657. (Received Award of Top Downloaded Paper in Applied Psychology 2018-2019).

17. Bui, H. T. M., Pinto, J. and Srivastava, A. (2019). Sexualisation of the work environment and emotional exhaustion: The case of emerging India. International Journal of Manpower, 40(4), 558-573.

18. Bui, H. T. M., Chau, V. S. & Cox, J. (2019). Managing survival syndrome as scenario planning methodology … and it matters. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 68(4), 838-854.

19. Wanick, V & Bui, H. T. M. (2019). Gamification in Management: a systematic review and research directions. International Journal of Serious Games, 6(2), 57 – 74.

20. Secchi, D. & Bui, H. T. M. (2018). Group effects on individual attitudes toward social responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics, 149(3): 725-746.

21. Bui, H. T. M., Kuan, A. & Chu, T.T. (2018). Female entrepreneurship in a patriarchal society: motivation and challenges. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 30(4): 325-343.

22. Bui, H. T. M., Zeng, Y. and Higgs, M. (2017). The role of person-fit in the relationship between transformational leadership and job engagement. Journal of Managerial Psychology. 32(5): 373-386.

23. Bui, H. T. M. (2017). Big five personality traits and job satisfaction: evidence from a national sample. Journal of General Management, 42(3), 21-30. (nearly 23,000 reads on ResearchGate)

24. Bui, H. T. M., Liu, G. and Footner, S. (2016). Perceptions of HR practices on job motivation and work-life balance: Mixed drives and outcomes in a labor-intensive sector. International Journal of Manpower, 37(6): 1004-1023.

25. Bui, H. T. M., Baruch, Y., Chau, V. and He, H. (2016). Team learning: The missing construct from a cross-cultural examination of higher education. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 33: 29-51.

26. Secchi, D., Bui, H. T. M. & Gamroth, K. (2015) Involuntary Wellness Programs: The Case of a Large US Company. Evidence-based Human Resource Management, 3(1): 2-24.

27. Tabvuma, V., Bui, H. T. M. & Homberg, F. (2014) Adaptation to externally driven change: the impact of political change on job satisfaction in the public sector. Public Administration Review, 74(3): 384-395. (A Commentary on the study’s impact published in the same journal issue)

28. Bui, H.T.M. (2014) Student-supervisor expectations in the doctoral supervision process for business and management students. International Journal of Business & Management Education in Higher Education, 1(1): 12-27.

29. Bui, H.T.M., Ituma, A. & Antoconapoulou, E. (2013). Antecedents and Outcomes of Personal Mastery: Cross Country Evidence. International Journal of Human Resource Management 24(1-2): 167-194.

30. Homberg, F & Bui, H.T.M. (2013). Top Management Team Diversity: A Systematic Review. Group and Organization Management 38(4): 455-479. (Editor’s Choice Award)

31. McCarthy, D., Bui, H.T.M. & Chau, V. S. (2013) Assessing performance determinants of Higher Education Academics in developed and emerging economies: the UK vs Vietnam. Strategic Change, 22(5-6): 371-385.

32. Bui, H.T.M. & Baruch, Y. (2012). Learning organisations in higher education: an empirical evaluation within an international context. Management Learning, 43(5): 515-544.

33. Bui, H.T.M. & Baruch, Y. (2010). Creating learning organisations: a systems perspective. The Learning Organization, 17(3): 208-227.

34. Bui, H.T.M. & Baruch, Y. (2010). Creating learning organisations in higher education: applying a systems perspective. The Learning Organization, 17(3): 228-242.

Books

35. Bui, H. T. M. (2023). Rap4Skills. Great Britain: Amazon.

36. Duong, B.H., Hoang, A.D. and Bui, T.M.H. (2021). General Education in Vietnam: Challenges, Innovation & Change (Giáo dục Phổ thông Việt Nam: Chuyển biến và Sáng tạo). Hanoi: Nha Xuat Ban Quang Van. (In Vietnamese).

37. Bui, H.T.M., Nguyen, H.T.M, and Cole, D. (2019). Innovate Higher Education to Enhance Graduate Employability. London: Routledge.

Book chapters

38. Bui, T.M.H. (2021). Future Vietnamese citizens. In Duong Bich Hang, Hoang Anh Duc & Bui Thi Minh Hong (ed), pp. 37-45. Vietnamese Education: Changes and Innovation. Hanoi: Nha Xuat Ban dan Tri. (In Vietnamese)

39. Bui, H.T.M. (2020). What impacts academics’ performance from the learning organisation perspective? A comparative study. In Phan Le Ha & Doan Ba Ngoc (Ed), pp, 78-106. Higher Education in Market-Oriented Socialist Vietnam: New Players, Discourse, and Practices. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

40. Bui, H.T.M. (2019). Senge’s learning organisation: Development of the learning organisation model. In A. Örtenblad (Ed), pp. 35-49. The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organisation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

41. Bui, H.T.M. (2019). Other definitions of the learning organisation: When more is not less: Toward a new definition of the learning organisation. In A. Örtenblad (Ed), pp. 137-147. The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organisation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

42. Bui, H.T.M. (2019). Building multidisciplinary programmes that engage industry: A critical task for higher education to enhance graduate employability. In H.T.M. Bui, T.M.H. Nguyen & D. Cole (Ed). Innovate Higher Education to Enhance Graduate Employability, pp. 9-19 London: Routledge.

43. Bui, H.T.M. & Nguyen, H.T.M. (2019). Higher education, innovation and employability. In H.T.M. Bui, T.M.H. Nguyen & D. Cole (Ed). Innovate Higher Education to Enhance Graduate Employability, pp. 1-8. London: Routledge.

44. Bui, H.T.M. & Baruch, Y. (2013). Universities as Learning Organizations: Internationalisation and Innovation. In A. Örtenblad (Ed). Handbook of Research on the Learning Organisation: Adaptation and Context. Pp 227-244. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Also available as an e-book.

PhD: Human Resource Development: Creating Learning Organisation in Higher Education: An International Comparative Study, funded by the University of East Anglia, UK.

MA: Communication & Language Studies, University of East Anglia, UK (funded by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training).

MA: Educational Leadership & Management, funded by RMIT Vietnam.

BA: Economics, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

BA: English, University of Hanoi, Vietnam.

• 2021 Forbes Vietnam’s 20 Inspiring Women 2021

• 2021 Academy of Management Conference’s Best Paper Award

• 2020 Award of Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019 in Applied Psychology

• 2019 200+ Vietnamese Global Leaders

• 2015 Editor’s Choice Award for the publication in Group and Organization Management

• 2015 Vice-Chancellor Teaching Award of the University of Southampton

• 2013 You are Brilliant by the Student Union and Student Representative of Bournemouth University

• 2012 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)

• 2003 Train the Trainers Scholarship by the Singapore Government

• 2005, 2001, 2000 Eminent Young Scholars (Gương Mặt Trẻ Tiêu Biểu) awarded by the Vietnam National University Hanoi.

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=78jfxLgAAAAJ&hl=en

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7895-2106

Featured work:

  • 2025-2028 Canadian SSHRC: Including Students in Success: Using First Year Experience Programming to Create Belonging and Success Through Inclusion. CoI
  • 2023-2024 UNESCO-Bangkok: Higher Education Digital Transformation Regional Study (Southeast Asia). PI.
  • 2023 GW4 Building Communities Development Award: Management Knowledge Transfer Partnership workshop (mKTP). Co-I.
  • 2022-2023 Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey: Grounded Dynamism in a Nascent Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Perspectives from Turkey. Project supervisor for Dr. Begum Samur Teraman.
  • 2021 UK-Pakistan Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to participate in “Texonomy” workshop (07-09/06)
  • 2019-2020 AVSE Global: Edit and publish a book on Vietnamese Education: Changes and Innovation. PI.
  • 2019-2020 IPAG Business School, France, for research collaboration
  • 2018-2019 School of Management’s Seed Corn Grant, University of Bath: “Modern Slavery in Vietnamese Nail Bars in the UK”. PI.
  • 2017 UK-Turkey Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to participate in “Empowering Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Leaders: Theory and Action” workshop in Ankara, Turkey (02-05/10
  • 2017 UK-Thailand Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to organise “Innovate Higher Education to Enhance Graduate Employability” workshop in Bangkok, Thailand (31/07-03/08)(PI)
  • 2017 UK-Brazil Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to participate in “Higher Education for all” workshop in Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil (20-23/03)
  • 2017 UK-Mexico Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to participate in “Decarbonising the Yucatan region in Mexico” workshop in Merida, Mexico (08-12/01)
  • 2016 Research Mobility Award funded by Santander to participate “Sustainable Systems and Societies: Energy, Environment and Policy Frameworks’ workshop among the University of Bath (UK), Unicamp (Brazil), Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Zhejiang University (China) in Campinas, Brazil (16-18/11/2016).
  • 2016 UK-South Africa-Egypt Newton Trilateral Researcher Links Grant to participate “Building research capacity towards assessing success-factors in building ethical cross-sectoral healthcare management partnerships within the business, government and NGOs” workshop in Stellenbosch, South Africa (11-15/11).
  • 2016 UK-Brazil Newton Fund Researcher Links Grant to participate “The expansion of new frontiers for renewable energy: Effects, conflicts & alternatives for populations in spaces of socio-environmental vulnerability” workshop in State of Goiás, Brazil (24-27/10).
  • 2016 UK-Indonesia Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to participate in “Maximising Migration Benefits: Indonesian Migrant Workers from Security to Development” workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia (19-21/09).
  • 2016 UK-Kazakhstan Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to participate in “Energy Challenges and Rural Development in the Context of Climate Change in Kazakhstan” workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan (24-26/08).
  • 2016 UK-Kazakhstan Newton Fund Researcher Links Grant to participate “Energy – Food – Water Nexus in Kazakhstan & UK Integrated Approach to Green Economy Transition” workshop in Astana, Kazakhstan (21-23/08).
  • 2016 UK-Mexico Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to participate in “Sustainable Development – Exploring Energy Efficiency Opportunities through Supply Chain and Operations Innovation” workshop in Aguascalientes, Mexico (23-27/05).
  • 2016 UK-Thailand Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to participate in “Short Food Chain: A pathway to sustainable development and employment creation” workshop in Bangkok, Thailand (21-23/03) (£2,000).
  • 2016 UK-Malaysia Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to participate in Agri-Innovation Workshop: Building resilience to climate change in Malaysia through innovative and sustainable agricultural technologies in Selangor, Malaysia (14-17/03).
  • 2016 UK-Brazil Newton Fund Researcher Links grant to participate in “1st Community-based Sustainable Energy” Workshop in Florianopolis, Brazil (15-18/02).
  • 2016 UK-Philippine Newton Fund International Research Grant to participate in “Sustainable Cities” workshop in Manila, Philippine (25-29/01).
  • 2015 RENKEI (Japan-UK Research and Education Network for Knowledge Economy Initiatives) Intercultural Workshop on “Renaissance Entrepreneurship: Shaping a Future of Demographic Change” at UCL sponsored by the RENKEI network and the University of Southampton.
  • 2015-2017 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 2015 Round: Roles of Business Schools for New Generations of Innovative Business Leaders, (PI).
  • 2014-2018 University of Southampton, Faculty PGR Scholarship: Non-rational decision making in uncertainty,(PI).
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