SooCheong (Shawn) Jang

Areas of Expertise

• Finance and Strategic Management
• Hospitality Service Management and Consumer Behavior
• Business Analytics and Applications

Biography

Dr. SooCheong (Shawn) Jang, is Professor in the White Lodging-J.W. Marriott School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. His research interests are twofold: hospitality finance/strategic management and hospitality/tourism marketing. Dr. Jang has more than 200 published articles in refereed top-tier HTM and business journals and has received numerous accolades including the W. Bradford Wiley Memorial Best Research Paper of the Year Award 2009 and the Michael D. Olsen Research Achievement Award 2015. In addition, he was selected as a Fellow by the International Academy for the Study of Tourism (The Tourism Academy) in 2019. He was recognized as the top-ranked author in HTM academia during the past decade (Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research (2011), 35(3)). Dr. Jang is frequently invited as a speaker for academic and interdisciplinary research by many universities and international conferences.

Education

• PhD, 2002, Purdue University

Websites

• Center for Hospitality & Retail Industries Business Analytics (CHRIBA)

Selected Honors/Awards

• Fellow, Selected by the International Academy for the Study of Tourism (The Tourism Academy) - December 9, 2019
• University Faculty Scholar, Purdue University - April 2019
• Martin Oppermann Memorial Award for the JTTM (Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing) Best Article of the Year 2014 - May 5, 2015
• The Michael D. Olsen Research Achievement Award 2015. Awarded at the 20th Graduate Conference in Hospitality and Tourism Education - January 10, 2015
• W. Bradford Wiley Memorial Best Research Paper of the Year Award, i-CHRIE - July 29, 2009