Liang Tsz (Ines) Wen joined Graduate House in 2023 with an MBA from the National Taiwan University and is now undertaking her PhD at the University of Sydney. She has been honoured by being shortlisted for the Best Paper Award at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) 2026 Annual Conference at the University of Agder in Kristiansand Norway this June. The conference theme, “Navigating High Waters: Managing in an Age of Disruption”, closely reflects Ines’s research, which uses Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831) as a metaphor for how disruption can trigger innovation in management and organisational structures.
EURAM is a learned society founded in 2001 to advance the academic discipline of management in Europe. With members from 60 countries across Europe and beyond, EURAM brings together a highly diverse scholarly community and provides opportunities to enrich debate across a wide range of management research themes and traditions.
This latest recognition follows a series of significant achievements for Ines, including being named one of only five scholars worldwide to receive the 2024 Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund award from the International Association for Chinese Management Research. Her doctoral research, which examines how disruption can catalyse innovation in Chinese state-owned enterprises operating globally, has also led to several conference paper acceptances, including presentations on international business, sustainability and Chinese management research.
Ines credits her recent success to the generous support and guidance of her PhD supervisors, Associate Professor Stefan Meisiek (Sydney), Dr Bart De Keyser (Sydney) and Professor Stewart Clegg (UTS).
She has also received academic support in Norway from Professor Patrick Spieth, Professor of Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at Universität Kassel, who has provided Ines with tremendous guidance and mentorship over the past two years.
Congratulations to Ines on another outstanding academic achievement, bringing great credit to the University of Sydney and St Paul’s College post-graduate community.
