Dr Pi-Shen Seet

Biography/ Background

Pi-Shen Seet is Senior Lecturer in Management at the Business School, University of Adelaide.  He joined the Business School in 2005 after completing a PhD at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has researched and taught entrepreneurship, organizational behaviour, marketing and strategy on undergraduate and post-graduate courses at the University of Cambridge. He has also conducted training for senior officers at the Singapore Command and Staff College and was a visiting lecturer on the Graduate Diploma Technopreneurship & Innovation Programme conducted jointly by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and the University of Washington, USA. He has completed programs with the Singapore Civil Service College and National University of Singapore (NUS).

Before becoming an academic, Pi-Shen spent more than 13 years as an Army officer in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) in various challenging command and staff appointments. This included senior appointments with responsibilities to integrate strategies, training and systems across operational planning, intelligence, manpower, and logistics areas. He has undergone courses with the New Zealand and Australian Defence Forces and has completed a Master of Defence Studies and staff college training with the Australian Army Command and Staff College. More recently, he was the lead Project Officer in the NTU Business Process Review and Transformation and has also consulted on UK Higher Education Innovation Fund projects for the London School of Economics, the Library House, and Cambridge University's Institute of Manufacturing.

He currently teaches on the Adelaide MBA programme in Entrepreneurship, Managing Contemporary Organisations (Organisation Behaviour) and Fundamentals of Leadership. He is also lecturer-in-charge of the Adelaide Master of Commerce course in Strategic Compensation Management.

His research interests are in New venture creation, Corporate Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Creative Cultures.

He enjoys cycling, swimming, sailing, running, tennis, tinkering on DIY computer system and taking long walks with his wife, son and twin daughters.

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Qualifications

MA (Oxon), MDefSt(Canberra), MBA (SQld), PhD (Cantab), GradCertEd HigherEd (Adel)

Awards & Achievements

PRIZES

2008/09    The Scott Henderson Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching/ Lecturer of the Year Award, Business School, University of Adelaide.

2007    Best Paper Award for Scholarship and Rigour - “Dilemma-Reconciliation as an Entrepreneurial Dynamic Capability - A Study Of Singapore’s Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurs”, 7th International Entrepreneurship Forum, Fudan University, Shanghai

2003    Team Leader of winning team, A.T. Kearney / Judge Business School’s Business Plan Competition

2003    Merit Award - “Manoeuvre Warfare: Lessons from the Boardroom for the Battlefield”, SAF Chief of Defence Force (CDF) Essay/ Paper Competition

2002    Best Paper Award - “Transformational Change - Strategies for the Singapore Army”, SAF Chief of Army Essay/ Paper Competition

2002    Merit Award - “A Culture for Transformational Change - Strategies for the SAF”, SAF CDF Essay / Paper Competition

2001    Best Paper Award - “The Revolution in Military Affairs for the Singapore Armed Forces” , SAF CDF Essay/ Paper Competition

2000    Best Paper Award - “The Manoeuvrist Approach for the Singapore Armed Forces.” , SAF CDF Essay/ Paper Competition

 

SCHOLARSHIPS & FINANCIAL AWARDS

2008  Kauffman Foundation – American Marketing Academy (AMA) Scholarship

2006  Qantas Researcher Travel Support Award for Early Career Researchers

2002-05  Lee Foundation PhD Study Award

2003-04  University of Cambridge David Lane Award, Smuts Memorial Award and Worts Travelling Scholars Award

1999  Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Overseas Training Award

1989-92  SAF Merit Scholarship

1987-88  Singapore Ministry of Education Humanities Scholarship

 

OTHERS

1.  Nominated by the Faculty of the Professions for the inaugural 2009 University of Adelaide Excellence in Education Awards ( http://www.adelaide.edu.au/pvclq/excellence/).

 

Teaching Interests

Pi-Shen teaches on the following Adelaide MBA Courses: Entrepreneurship, Managing Contemporary Organisations, Fundamentals of Leadership. He is also lecturer-in-charge on the Adelaide Master of Commerce course, Strategic Compensation Management.  He has been awarded The Scott Henderson Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching by the Business School, University of Adelaide.  More recently, he was nominated by the Faculty of the Professions for the inaugural 2009 University of Adelaide Excellence in Education Awards ( http://www.adelaide.edu.au/pvclq/excellence/).

Research Interests

His current research and consulting interests include exploring how entrepreneurs and managers overcome leadership, cultural, institutional, and commercial dilemmas as they seek to grow their new ventures or transform their existing organisations. He has won awards for his publications on the interface between technology, military policy and commercial strategy and technology, interest areas that he picked up while attending the Australian Army Command and Staff College. He is currently supervising 3 PhD students who are looking into the phenomena of strategy, culture and paradoxes in fast growing enterprises. He has recently been successful, winning funding from CPA Australia as part of its competitive Small Business Research Grant scheme. The grant, of which, he is the chief investigator, is to conduct research into understanding the barriers to and opportunities for access to private equity for small-to-medium sized family-owned enterprises and their business advisers (for more information, see http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3F57FEDF-D6BFB531/cpa/hs.xsl/1038_21550_ENA_HTML.htm and http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3F57FEDF-D6BFB531/cpa/hs.xsl/1019_20741_ENA_HTML.htm)

Publications

These are selected publications:

Refereed Journal Articles

1. Ahmad N., Seet P-S.  In press (accepted July 2009). Cross-Cultural Insights into Entrepreneurial Competency-Mix Of SME Owners In Australia And Malaysia.  International Business Research
2. Seet P-S, Graves C. In press (accepted March 2009). The Effect of Finance, Knowledge and Empathy Gaps on the Use of Private Equity amongst Family-Owned SMEs. International Journal for Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB)
3. Seet P-S. In press (accepted February 2009)  Conceptualizing the Entrepreneurial Process Using Chinese Classics: A Paradoxical Perspective, International Journal of Business and Systems Research (IJBSR)
4. Seet P-S. 2009. Power Paradoxes in National Innovation Systems - An Exploratory Study among Singapore’s Technocrats and Technopreneurs.  International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy (IJFIP), Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 260–276. (see

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5. Ahmad N., Seet P-S.  2009. Dissecting Behaviours Associated with Business Failure: A Qualitative Study of SME Owners in Malaysia and Australia.  Asian Social Science, Vol. 5, No. 9, pp. 98-104. (see http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/2688/3349)
6. Burgess T, Crocombe L, Kelly J, Seet P-S. 2009. The Effect of Cultural Background on the Academic Adjustment of First Year Dental Students. ergo – The Journal of the Education Research Group of Adelaide, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 5-14. (see http://www.adelaide.edu.au/erga/ergo/ergo_v1n2_p5-14.pdf)
7. Ahmad N., Seet P-S.  2009. Understanding Business Success through the Lens of SME Founder-Owners in Australia and Malaysia.  International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (IJEV), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.72–87. ( see http://www.inderscience.com/filter.php?aid=23821 or http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/49217)
8. Seet P-S. 2008. The Creativity Paradox. Monash Business Review. Vol. 4 No. 1, pp 24-26.  (see http://publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/full/10.2104/mbr08006)
9. Seet P-S, Ahmad N, Seet L-C. 2008. Singapore’s Female Entrepreneurs– Are They Different? International Journal for Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB), Vol. 5, Nos. 3/4, pp 257-271. (see http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&rec_id=17303 or http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/40983)
10. Seet P-S. 2008. Dilemma-Reconciliation as an Entrepreneurial Dynamic Capability - A Study of Singapore’s Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurs’. R&D Management, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 11-17. [Best Paper Award for Scholarship and Rigour, 7^th International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF) (30-31 August 2007): Fudan University, Shanghai]
11. Seet P-S. 2007. Entrepreneurial Dilemmas and Resolutions of a Huaqiao (华侨) Entrepreneur in China – A Case Study. Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp 74-91. (see http://www.asiaentrepreneurshipjournal.com/AJESIII3Seet.pdf or http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/40984)
12. Seet P-S, Seet L-C. 2006. Changing Entrepreneurial Perceptions and Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies through Experiential Learning: Evidence from Entrepreneurship Education in Singapore's Tertiary Education Institutions. Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp 162-191. (see http://www.asiaentrepreneurshipjournal.com/AJESII2Seet.pdf or http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/35315)
13. Tse T, Kangaslahti V, Seet P-S. 2003. The Power of Reconciliation in the Face of a Dilemma: Lessons From Business, War and Nature. Interspectives- A Journal on Transcultural Education, Vol. 19 No. 1, pp 31-35. (see http://resources.cisv.org/docs/main?action=document.view&id=152)
14. Seet P-S. 2002. A Culture for Transformational Change - Strategies for the SAF. Pointer, Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces, Vol. 28 No. 3, pp 63-82; [Merit Award in SAF CDF Essay Competition 2001/2002.] (see http://www.mindef.gov.sg/safti/pointer/back/journals/2002/Vol28_3/4.htm)
15. Seet P-S. 2001. The Revolution in Military Affairs for the Singapore Armed Forces. Pointer, Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces, Vol. 27 No. 2, pp 10-32; [Best Paper Prize in SAF CDF Essay Competition 2000/2001.] (see http://www.mindef.gov.sg/safti/pointer/back/journals/2001/Vol27_2/1.htm)
16. Seet P-S. 2000. The Manoeuvrist Approach for the Singapore Armed Forces. Pointer, Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces Vol. 26 No. 2, pp 11-28; [Best Paper Prize in SAF CDF Essay Competition 1999/2000.] (see http://www.mindef.gov.sg/safti/pointer/back/journals/2000/Vol26_2/1.htm)

Book Chapters

1. Seet P-S., Ahmad N. in press (accepted December 2008).  Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies through Dilemma Reconciliation. In Velde, C. (Ed.) (forthcoming), International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace – Research, Policy and Practice (2^nd Edition).  Springer: London.
2. Seet P-S. in press. (accepted February 2007). Manoeuvre Warfare: Lessons from the Boardroom for the Battlefield. In Belgamkar, S. (Ed.), Military to Management. ICFAI University Press: Hyderabad. [Merit Award in Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Chief of Defence Force (CDF) Essay Competition 2002/2003.]

A more detailed list is found on the University of Adelaide's Digital Library (http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/items-by-author?author=Seet%2C+Pi-Shen) and in the PDF attachment below.

Professional Associations

Academy of Management (USA); International Council for Small Business (Australian/ New Zealand Chapter); Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI); Temasek Society (Singapore)

Professional Interests

Pi-Shen is especially active in helping and consulting start-ups and SMEs with business planning and development. As leader of the winning team in the 2003 A.T. Kearney-Judge Business School business plan competition, he continues to advice potential managers and entrepreneurs on new venture creation strategies. In 2007, he was business mentor to student business plan teams that reached the semi-finals and finals of the University of Adelaide's Entrepreneurs'Challenge competition (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/echallenge/). Pi-Shen has also helped to start up a science education consultancy that focuses on developing science education programs for children as well as creative teaching and life science education courses for professional educators.

Community Engagement

Pi-Shen is a member of the University of Adelaide's Childcare Centre's Parent Advisory Group.

Files

• Pi-Shen Seet - selected publications - pishenseet_publications_3pages_22Sep2009.pdf [59.9K] (application/pdf)

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Entry last updated: Sunday, 22 Nov 2009