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Chuck C. Y. Kwok
Title: | Distinguished Business Partnership Foundation Fellow Professor |
Department: | Department of International Business Darla Moore School of Business |
Email: | ckwok@moore.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-777-3606 |
Office: | Darla Moore School of Business, Room 461H |
Resources: | Curriculum Vitae [pdf] |

Background
Chuck Kwok is Distinguished Business Partnership Foundation Fellow and professor of
international business at the University of South Carolina. He received his undergraduate
and master degrees in sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He came to
the United States in 1981 to study at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving
a Ph.D. in International Business in 1984.
He has been consistently invited as a visiting professor to prestigious institutions
around the world, including the Peking University (Beijing University, PRC), the Chinese
University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, PRC), Jiaotong University (Shanghai, PRC), Wirtschaftsuniversitat
Wien (Austria) and the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM, Mexico). He was given
the International Professional Award by the South Carolina Governor, David Beasley,
at the Governor’s International Gala in 1998. In December 1999, he was awarded the
honor of Guest Professorship by the Peking University, PRC. In 2007, he was invited
to join as a member of the Center for China Financial Research at the Peking University.
In 2012, he was given the Best Teaching Award of the Beijing International MBA program
of the Peking University. In 2015, he was given the “Teaching Excellence Award” of
the Vienna Executive MBA program jointly offered by the University of Minnesota and
Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien.
He has been teaching various international finance and China business courses at both
master and doctoral levels at the University of South Carolina since Fall 1984. He
received numerous teaching awards within the College of Business Administration, including
the Alfred Smith Award for Excellence in Teaching. From 2007 to 2009, he helped link
together the Chinese University of Hong Kong and USC. The interaction between the
administration of the two universities resulted in the launching of an innovative
International Business and Chinese Enterprise degree program in Fall 2009. He was
a recipient of the International Advocate Award of the University of South Carolina
in 2009.
He has served on five journal editorial boards, including that of the Journal of International
Business Studies. He was vice president of administration of the Academy of International
Business for the two-year term of 1995 to 1996. He has been consistently serving on
the conference program committees of various academic associations such as the Academy
of International Business, the Financial Management Association, the Academy of Management
and the Decision Sciences Institute. He also reviews articles for other journals such
as the American Economic Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management,
Journal of Financial Research, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Canadian Journal of
Administrative Science and so forth. At the University of South Carolina, he served
on the 24-person University Tenure and Promotion Committee from 2007 to 2009. He was
the coordinating director of the Ph.D. program in International Finance from 1995
to 2008. He has served as the chairperson of several departmental and college committees.
He also serves as a faculty adviser of student organizations at USC.
Research
Professor Kwok's research concentrates on international finance and international business education. He is one of the pioneers conducting interdisciplinary study on how national culture influences various financial practices around the world. He has published more than 50 refereed journal articles as well as five books and monographs. He was ranked among the list of most prolific scholars contributing to the Journal of International Business Studies (the leading journal in international business). His academic papers have received a number of awards, including the prestigious Moskowitz Prize, given by the Center for Responsible Business, University of California, Berkeley in 2011.
His research interests include international finance, national culture and finance and financial management of multinational corporations,
Education
- Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1984
- M.A., Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1981
- B.A., Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1979