Awards and Academic Achievements

2011

  • Best professor in Business Strategy, CMO Council.


2010

  • Best Practitioner-Oriented Paper runner up, AMCIS (Americas Conference on Information Systems), Peru.  


  • Public Administration Medal (Silver), Republic of Singapore.


2009

  • AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) Assurance of Learning System at the Nanyang Business School, accorded Best Practice Status.  


2008

  • Outstanding Associate Editor Award, Decision Sciences Institute.  


  • Top Paper Poster Award, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Francisco, CA.  


  • Best Interactive Paper Award, Academy of Management Meetings, Anaheim, CA.  


2007

  • Researcher of Strategy, Management & Organization Award, Nanyang Business School.  


  • NTU Research and Innovation Award, Nanyang Technological University (1st social scientist to receive this highest research award accorded by NTU).  


2006

  • Ranked 3rd most prolific researcher worldwide in outsourcing (Gonzalez, R., Gasco, J., and Llopis, J. 2006. Information systems outsourcing: A literature analysis,Information & Management, 43, 7, 821-834).  


  • Nominee, Carolyn Dexter Award, Academy of Management Meeting, Atlanta, GA.  


  • Distinguished Leadership Award for International Alumni, University of Minnesota. (http://www.international.umn.edu/awards/leader/2006/ang.php)  


2005

  • Goh Tjoei Kok Distinguished Chair in Business Management (one of first three endowed chaired professors at NTU).  


2004

  • Researcher of Strategy, Management & Organization Award, Nanyang Business School.  


2002

  • Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCPR (Association for Computing Machinery - Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research) Conference, Kristiansand, Norway.  


  • Outsourcing World Achievement Award, Runner-up & Finalist for Best Academic Contribution to Outsourcing Research (PricewaterhouseCoopers & Michael Corbett & Associates).  


2000

  • Meritorious Reviewer Award, Human Relations.  


1998

  • Best Paper Award, Academy of Management Annual Meetings, San Diego, CA.  


  • Best Paper Award, 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Trends in Outsourcing of Information Systems, Organizational Systems and Technology Track.  


1992-1993

  • PhD Dissertation Fellowship, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.  


1991

  • Best Dissertation Proposal Award finalist, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS, TIMS/ORSA).  


  • University of Minnesota Doctoral Representative, Technology and Innovation Management Division, Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Doctoral Consortium, Miami.  


1987-1992

  • Senior Tutor Overseas Scholarship, National University of Singapore & Nanyang Technological University.  


1985

  • Price Waterhouse Gold Medal Award (Bachelor of Accountancy), for Best Performance in Advanced Auditing and Information Systems.  


1983-1984

  • National University of Singapore (NUS) Scholarship for distinguished 1st year undergraduate performance.