Phong Nguyen

Dr. Phong Nguyen

Lecturer, Blockchain Enabled Business

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About

  • Phong Nguyen is a Lecturer at RMIT University, Vietnam. He holds a PhD degree in Management at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Phong's research focuses on the ways individuals and collectives respond to organizational change including digital / technology transformation, organizational restructuring, mergers, downsizing, and reengineering, etc. He also explores the impact of workplace characteristics / behaviors (e.g., diveristy, incivility, presenteeism) on organizational outcomes (e.g., performance and innovation). His work has been published in journals like: Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Organizational Psychology Review, and Journal of Business Research.
  • Dr Phong has served as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. He is also an ad-hoc reviewer for journals like Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Review. 
  • He is among the recipients of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insights Grants 2024 ($208,204) (together with Frances Jorgensen, Adelle Bish, Helen De Cieri, Andrew Dhaenens, and Karin Sanders): Interventions to reduce workplace incivility: The what, why and how?

 

Selected Publications

 

  • Bouckenooghe, D., Schwarz, G. M., Nguyen, P. T., & De Clercq, D. (2025). Person-centered insights into organizational change: Identifying and analyzing profiles using latent profile analysis. Australian Journal of Management, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03128962251334223.
  • Nguyen, P. T., Rafferty, A. E., & Xerri, M. J. (2025). The Impact of Personal and Change Event Characteristics on Employee Wellbeing via Uncertainty and Insecurity. Organizational Psychology Review, 20413866251317433.
  • Nguyen, P., Rafferty, A., & Xerri, M. (2024). 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 (pp. 95-113). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781035300549.00010
  • Nguyen, L. T. M., & Nguyen, P. T. (2024). Determinants of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance adoption-A configurational exploration. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 201, 123244.
  • Sanders, K., Nguyen, P., Bouckenooghe, D., Rafferty, A., & Schwarz, G. (2024). Human resource management system strength in times of crisis. Journal of Business Research, 171, 1-15. doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114365
  • 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, 1-14. doi:10.1016/j.hrmr.2023.100999
  • Bouckenooghe, D. B., Schwarz, G., Sanders, K., & Nguyen, P. (2023). The multiple faces of collective responses to organizational change: Taking stock and moving forward. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(7), 997-1014. doi:10.1002/job.2738
  • 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.
  • Nguyen, P., Sanders, K., Schwarz, G., & Rafferty, A. (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, 12(4), 428-452. doi:10.1177/20413866221114847
  • Sanders, K., Nguyen, P., Bouckenooghe, D. B., Alannah Rafferty, A. R., & Schwarz, G. (2020). Unraveling the What and How of Organizational Communication to Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic: Adopting an Attributional Lens. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 56(3), 289-293. doi:10.1177/0021886320937026

 

Research fields

  • 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 350707 Leadership
  • 350701 Corporate governance
  • 350307 Technology management

Supervisor projects

  • Blockchain governance: taking stock and moving forward
  • 9 Aug 2023

Teaching interests

I have recently taught the following courses:

  • Understanding the Business Environment
  • Financial Innovation and Technology Systems
  • Cryptofinance and Cryptocurrency
  • Blockchain for Business
  • Business Statistics

Previous teaching at UNSW, Sydney 

  • Managing and Leading People (2020)

PhD supervion

Topic: Blockchain governance - taking stock and moving forward (principle supervior since 2023)

Research interests

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