About me

Dr. Eric Kong is an Associate Professor at the School of Management & Enterprise, University of Southern Queensland (USQ). He completed his PhD in Strategic Management at Monash University, Australia. He also holds a Master of Science in Quality Management from the University of Paisley, United Kingdom and a Postgraduate Diploma in Training from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. Eric has taught at Monash University and Charles Sturt University before. Prior to joining the academia, Eric worked in Human Resources and Training & Development in the private sector for 10 years. His current research interests include intellectual capital, knowledge management, organisational learning and non-profit management. He has published over 85 publications, including international refereed journal articles, refereed conference papers, scholarly research book and book chapters.

One of Eric's papers presented at 2014 International Symposium on Business and Management – Fall Session (ISBM 2014 – Fall Session) received the Distinguished Paper Award at the conference. He was a winner of the 2011 Highly Commended Emerald Literati Award for an article he published in the Journal of Intellectual Capital. An article he published in Knowledge Management Research & Practice in 2009 was selected as one of the top 10 articles in the Journal in the last decade. Eric was nominated as the Chair of the Best Paper Award for Public and Non-profit Division at the Academy of Management Conference in 2008 and 2010. In 2010, he served as Guest Editor of Special Issue of Journal of Intellectual Capital on ‘Intellectual Capital and Non-profit Organisations in the Knowledge Economy’.

Eric has developed a gamified exercise called Prison Escape and included it in teaching an online Knowledge Management course at USQ. The online exercise is designed for teaching an online undergraduate degree course namely 'Knowledge Management & Organisational Leanring'. However, the online exercise can be used in both online and on-campus management courses (perhaps with some minor adjustements). Prison Escape is covered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence and is now available to OER Commons as an open educational resource for the wider academic community.