Phong Thanh Nguyen

School:  The Business School
Department: Economics & Finance
Position: Lecturer
Location: RMIT Saigon South
Email: phong.nguyen28@rmit.edu.vn
ORCID: 0000-0001-8630-0474 

Dr Phong’s research focuses on blockchain-related phenomena (e.g., governance, innovation, investor behaviors), organisational change and crisis communication, corporate governance, workgroup diversity, and workplace conditions (e.g., presenteeism and incivility). His work has been published in journals like: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Organizational Psychology Review, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, and Review of Behavioral Finance.

Dr Phong has recently served as a Guest Editor of a Special Issue in the Journal of Organizational Behavior as well as Editorial Board member of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. In addition, Phong is also a member of the Development Economics and Emerging Markets research cluster and FinTech-Crypto Hub at RMIT Vietnam.

Ph.D in Management, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 

Blockchain Enabled Business

  • Corporate Governance
  • Technology, Innovation, and Change
  • Attitudes toward organizational change
  • Workplace behaviors and contexts (e.g., diversity, incivility, humor, etc.)

  • Nguyen, L. T. M., & Nguyen, P. T. (in press). Determinants of Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Finance Adoption - A Configurational Exploration. Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Nguyen, P. T., Rafferty, A. E., & Xerri, M. J. (in press). The interplay between uncertainty and insecurity and employee wellbeing during planned and emergent changes. In P. Brough & G. Kinman (Eds.), Wellbeing at Work in a Turbulent Era. UK: Edward Elgar.
  • Sanders, K., Nguyen, P.T., Bouckenooghe, D., Rafferty, A.E., Schwarz, G. (2024), Human resource management system strength in times of crisis. Journal of Business Research
  • Jorgensen, F., Bish, A., Sanders, K., & Nguyen, P. (2024). Kick me while I’m down: Modeling employee differences of the impact of workplace incivility on employees' health and wellbeing. Human Resource Management Review, 100999.
  • Bouckenooghe, D., Schwarz, G. M., Sanders, K., & Nguyen, P. T. (2023). The multiple faces of collective responses to organizational change: Taking stock and moving forward. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(7), 997-1014.
  • Nguyen, P. T., & Nguyen, L. T. M. (2023). A multi-country analysis of policy uncertainty and Blockchain Innovation. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 8(3), 100379
  • Nguyen, L. T. M., & Nguyen, P. T. (2023). The board profiles that promote environmental, social, and governance disclosure–Evidence from S&P 500 firms. Finance Research Letters, 103925
  • Nguyen Thanh, Binh and Perera, Devmali and Nguyen Thanh, Phong and Nguyen, Thai Vu Hong and Pham Thi Thu, Tra and Nguyen Thi My, Linh and Chu, Thanh Tuan and Kiong Kok, Seng, Monetary Policy in the Age of Cryptocurrencies (April 3, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4407460 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4407460
  • Nguyen, L. T. M., & Nguyen, P. T. (2023). Do crypto investors wait and see during policy uncertainty? An examination of the dynamic relationships between policy uncertainty and exchange inflows of Bitcoin. Review of Behavioral Finance
  • Nguyen, P. T., & Nguyen, L. T. M. (2022). Understanding platform market value through decentralization governance — An integrative model from signaling and mechanism design theory. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 183, 121913. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121913
  • Nguyen, P. T., Sanders, K., Schwarz, G. M., & Rafferty, A. E. (2022). The linkage between cognitive diversity and team innovation: Exploring the roles of team humor styles and team emotional intelligence via the conservation of resources theory. Organizational Psychology Review, 20413866221114847.
  • Nguyen, P. T., Rafferty, A., Schwarz, G. M., & Minbashian, A. (2022). The Multilevel Linkage Between Organizational Communication and Readiness for Change. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2022, No. 1, p. 15314). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.
  • Sanders, K., Nguyen, P., Bouckenooghe, D., Rafferty, A., Schwarz, G. M., Elias, A., ... & Wu, D. Human Resource Strength in Times of Crisis: Information Sharing from an Attributional Perspective. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4038256 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4038256
  • Nguyen, L. T. M., Nguyen, P. T., Tran, Q. N. N., & Trinh, T. T. G. (2021). Why does subjective financial literacy hinder retirement saving? The mediating roles of risk tolerance and risk perception. Review of Behavioral Finance, (ahead-of-print).
  • Sanders, K., Nguyen, P. T., Bouckenooghe, D., Rafferty, A., Schwarz, G. M., Elias, A., ... & Rafique, Z. (2021). The Antecedents of HR strength in Times of Crisis: An attributional lens. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2021, No. 1, p. 11154). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.
  • Sanders, K., Nguyen, P. T., Bouckenooghe, D., Rafferty, A., & Schwarz, G. (2020). Unraveling the what and how of organizational communication to employees during COVID-19 pandemic: Adopting an attributional lens. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 56(3), 289-293.

  • Funding for research on university communication in times of COVID-19: Decoding the messages through the lenses of international human resource management and transformational change perspectives communication, Business School, Brock University, Canada, Bouckenooghe, D. (PI), Sanders, K., Nguyen, P., Rafferty, A.  &  Schwarz, G. CAN $13,224
  • Monetary Policy in the Age of Cryptocurrencies (AUD$96,107.72)

  • Blockchain governance - taking stock and moving forward