Full CV

Dr. rer. soc., University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1990

M.A. in Sociology and Development Planning, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1987

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

Practice Associate Professor, Singapore Management University (2001–Present)

Previous Appointments:

National University of Singapore:

Assistant Professor (2000–2001),

Senior Fellow (1998–2000),

Coordinator of the Applied Sociology Program (1999–2000),

Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Study Group ‘Asian Business Networks’ (1998–2000),

Teaching Fellow (1993–1995)

Lecturer, Cologne University, Germany (1990–1993)

Research Fellow/Staff Member, University of Bielefeld (1987–1989)

Other Positions

Director/Consultant, Human Resources Development Council, Ministry of Human Resources, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1995–1998)

Honors & Awards

Member of Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of the International Journal of Applied Knowledge Management (5/2005)

SMU Research Grants (2002-2003) / Grant by SMU's School of Business for Developing eLearning Course on ‘Knowledge Management' (2005)

Nominated by Academy of Management 2003 for ‘2003 Carolyn Dexter All-Academy Award for Internationalising the Academy' (Paper ‘Reflections about the Role of Expert Knowledge and Consultants in an Emerging Knowledge-based Economy') (with Hans-Dieter Evers)

Founder of ‘The Knowledge Force' (Community of Interest ‘Knowledge Management') (2002)

Fellowship (Freeman Foundation): Salzburg Seminar, Session 373 ‘ China and the Global Community' (1999)

Graduate Fellowships by Volkswagen Foundation (1989 – 1990), German Academic Exchange Service/DAAD (1990) and European Community (1989) for Ph.D. related field visits/studies at University of Bielefeld ( Graduate School: Sociology of Development and Social Anthropology), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and University of London (School of African & Oriental Studies)

Courses Taught in SMU

Management of People at Work

Creating & Managing Knowledge in Organisations

Theory & Practice of Effective Change Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian Business Networks

Selected Consulting Activities

German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), GOPA (FRG), Carl Duisberg Centren (FRG), Arthur D Little (Singapore), Ministry of Education, Government of Malaysia, Human Resources Development Council, Ministry of Human Resources, Government of Malaysia

Research Areas

Organisations in East and Southeast Asia

Knowledge Management and Experts

Small Business Management and SME Development

Human Resource Development and OD/Change Management

Ethnic Entrepreneurship

Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia

Development & Globalisation

Knowledge Economy

Current Projects

China's Decentralised Bureaucratic Capitalism and Science & Technology Parks as Knowledge-Economy Catalysts – Origins, Challenges, Outcomes

Building an Intelligent Organisation: A Knowledge Management Framework for the Singapore Management University (SMU)

Benchmarking Organisational Knowledge: A Study of Singapore and German Organisations

Selected Book, Journal & Other Publications

Thomas Menkhoff, H.-D. Evers and Y. W. Chay, “Governing and Managing Knowledge in Asia (353 pages)”, Series on Innovation and Knowledge Management, Vol. 3. New Jersey : World Scientific Publishing.

Thomas Menkhoff & Hans-Dieter Evers (2004), “Reflections about the Role of Expert Knowledge and Consultants in an Emerging Knowledge-based Economy", Human Systems Management, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 137-149.

Thomas Menkhoff & L. Kay (2003), “Change Management and Consultants – New Challenges for Small Entrepreneurs in Singapore”, in B. Yeoh, C.K. Tong and M.W. Charney (eds.), Approaching Transnationalism: Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts and Imaginings of Home, Norwell , MA : Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 83-93.

Thomas Menkhoff & S. Gerke (2002), "Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian Business Networks", London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon.

Thomas Menkhoff, L. Kay & B. Loh (2002), “Worlds Apart? Reflections on the Relationship between Small Entrepreneurs and External Change Advocates in Singapore ”, J. of Asian Business , Vol. 18, No. 1.

Thomas Menkhoff (2002), “New Challenges Ahead for the Business Empire of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia (in German)”, Etudes Asiatiques, (edited by Prof. Robert H. Gassmann, Seminar for East Asian Studies, University of Zuerich, Switzerland), Revue de la Societe Suisse – Asie , Vol. LVI, No. 1, pp. 93-123.

Thomas Menkhoff, Y.W. Chay & B. Loh (2002), “Change Leadership in Organisations: The Case of Singapore's Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises”, International Small Business Series, edited by Prof. Dr. Koenig, Dr. Klaus Mueller and Dipl.-Volkswirt R. Strohmeyer, Institute of Small Business, University of Goettingen, Federal Republic of Germany.

Thomas Menkhoff & B. Loh (2002), “Champions of Change or Petty Dinosaurs? A Survey of Organisational Change Management Practices of Chinese SMEs in Singapore”, in L. Suryadinata (ed.), The Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia : A Dialogue between Tradition and Modernity, Singapore : Times Books, pp. 277-298.