Chee Meng Tan

Contact

• workRoom EB14 E-Block
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• work+6 (03) 8924 8298
• CheeMeng.Tan@nottingham.edu.my
• https://sites.google.com/site/cheemengtan/

Biography

Chee Meng Tan is an Assistant Professor of Business Economics at Nottingham University Business School. He received a Ph.D in Business Administration from the ESSEC Business School and a doctorate in economics from the University of Cergy-Pontoise. Chee Meng's research interest includes institutional and political economics, and works extensively on quantitative topics related to the intersection between politics, economics and social psychology. Recent works include how national culture influences the impact that work-family conflict bear on happiness; how institutional/governmental confidence affects vaccination intent; and how panda diplomacy improves inbound tourist flows from China.

Teaching Summary

I teach the following in 2021/2022

Autumn Semester

1. Quantitative methods 2a (BUSI2055)

2. Industrial Economics 3: Market Structure and Competition Policy (BUSI3164)

Spring Semester

1. Industrial Economics 4: Games and Strategy (BUSI3165)

2. Industrial Economics 5: Economics of Regulation and Public Choice (BUSI3166)

Research Summary

My work focuses the intersection between politics, economics and social psychology using applied statistical/econometric methods.

Recent work looks into how

1. work-family conflict and culture impacts individual happiness

2. vaccination and governmental confidence influences vaccination intent

3. panda diplomacy influence inbound Chinese tourists

Selected Publications

• TAN, C. M., OWUAMALAM, C. K. and NG, P. K, 2021. Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health. Personality and Individual Differences. 179, 110948
• TSEN, M. K., GU, M, TAN, C. M. and S. K. GOH, 2021. Effect of Flexible Work Arrangements on Turnover Intention: Does Job Independence Matter? International Journal of Sociology. 1-22
• TAN, C. M., 2020. Infrastructure investment and China's image problem in Southeast Asia
• 2020. China's belt and road: an environmental disaster for Southeast Asia? . South China Morning Post. 01/01/1900 00:00:00

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• OWUAMALAM, C. K., TAN, CHEE MENG, CARICATI, L., RUBIN, M. and SPEARS, R., 2022. Cultural Group Norms for Harmony Explain the Puzzling Negative Association between Objective Status and System Justification in Asia. European Journal of Social Psychology. (In Press.)
• GU, MANLI, TAN, CHEE MENG, HO, YEE SEN and LIU, LI, 2022. Work-family conflict and happiness: the moderating role of national culture EVIDENCE-BASED HRM-A GLOBAL FORUM FOR EMPIRICAL SCHOLARSHIP.
• TAN, CHEE MENG, OWUAMALAM, CHUMA KEVIN and SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN, 2022. Improving vaccination intent among skeptics through confidence in governments' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA. 225,
• TAN, C. M., OWUAMALAM, C. K. and NG, P. K, 2021. Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health. Personality and Individual Differences. 179, 110948
• TSEN, M. K., GU, M, TAN, C. M. and S. K. GOH, 2021. Effect of Flexible Work Arrangements on Turnover Intention: Does Job Independence Matter? International Journal of Sociology. 1-22
• OKAFOR, L., TAN, C. M. and KHALID, U., 2021. Does Panda Diplomacy Promote Chinese Outbound Tourism Flows? Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. 49, 54-64
• TSEN, MUNG KHIE, GU, MANLI, TAN, CHEE MENG and GOH, SEE KWONG, 2021. Does flexible work arrangements decrease or increase turnover intention? A comparison between the social exchange theory and border theory INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL POLICY.
• TAN, C. M., 2020. Infrastructure investment and China's image problem in Southeast Asia
• 2020. China's belt and road: an environmental disaster for Southeast Asia? . South China Morning Post. 01/01/1900 00:00:00
• LECHNER, A. M., OWEN, J. R., TRITTO, A., HORSTMAN, A., TEO, H. C., TAN, C. M. and AHIMSA, C. A., 2019. Making the Belt and Road Environmentally Sustainable in Southeast Asia Perspectives. 110,
• LECHNER, A. M., OWEN, J. R., TRITTO, A., HORSTMAN, A., TEO, H. C., TAN, C. M. and AHIMSA, C. A., 2019. The Belt and Road Initiative: Environmental Impacts in Southeast Asia Trends in Southeast Asia. 18,
• CHEE MENG TAN and VENGADESHWARAN SARMA, 2018. National Identity, Revolt and Taxation Theoretical Economics Letters. 8(14), 2972-2986
• CHEE MENG TAN, YOONG HON LEE and PEK KIM NG, 2018. National Identity and Social Welfare Theoretical Economics Letters. 8(10), 1665-1673
• CHEE MENG TAN, 2015. Nationalism Increases the Perception of Democracy In: Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference in Chicago.
• CHEE MENG TAN, 2014. Is Nationalism a Double-edged Sword In: Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference.
• 2014. Identity in Insurgencies: Nationalism and Social Class Identification in Revolutions, Coups and Repression In: European Economic Association Annual Conference, Toulouse, France.
• 2014. Identity in Insurgencies: Nationalism and Social Class Identification in Revolutions, Coups and Repression, Canadian Economic Association In: Canadian Economic Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
• CASTRO, ALFONSO, KWON, JOHN and TAN, CHEE MENG, 2007. INFINITELY MANY RADIAL SOLUTIONS FOR A SUB-SUPER CRITICAL DIRICHLET BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM IN A BALL ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.
• CHEE MENG TAN, Dataset for Confucius Institutes Version 1.0 https://sites.google.com/site/cheemengtan/data.