Associate Professor Dr Gan Joo Ee

Associate Professor Dr Gan Joo Ee

  • Associate Professor
Centre for Commercial Law & Justice
  • ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Business School
SDGs Focus

Biography

Gan Joo-Ee specialises in socio-legal studies and empirically evaluates the impact of legal measures. Through a multi-disciplinary lens, she combines law, management, and economic concepts to examine state intervention, business resilience, government support, and other social or legal phenomena. In the field of protected areas, Joo-Ee explores tourism governance as a vehicle for protecting the environment and advancing the socio-economic well-being of the indigenous people. She is a member of the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), a network of volunteers who contribute to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Prior to joining academia, Joo-Ee was a solicitor specializing in corporate matters, in particular, franchising, agency, distributorship, logistics, regulatory compliance and licensing. She was also a legal editor of the Hong Kong Law Report & Digests. She is an accredited mediator of the Malaysian International Mediation Centre.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Taylor’s University (2017)
  • Master of Laws (LL.M), University of Cambridge (1996)
  • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B (Hons)), Queen Mary University of London (1995)
  • Advocate and Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (1998)

Research Interests

  • Workplace Relations Law
  • Tourism and Hospitality Law
  • Tourism governance
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Teaching Areas

  • Workplace Relations Law
  • Business Law
  • Company Law
  • Tourism and Hospitality Law

Courses Taught

  • Strategic Management in the Hospitality and Service Industry
  • Contemporary Issues
  • Sustainable Tourism Development
  • Integrity and Anti-Corruption

Notable Publications

  1. 2025 - Gan, J.E., & Daniels, G. (2025). Personalized learning in a perforce single-student environment: The role of self-efficacy and self-regulation. Interactive Learning Environments, 
  2. 2025 - Gan, J. E., & Trupp, A. (2025). Deciphering Malaysia’s tourism self-image: Insights from industry. Current Issues in Tourism, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2025.2487619
  3. 2025 - Dimitrovski, D., Trupp, A., Gan, J. E., Stephenson, M. L., & Algas, E. (2025). Tourist or resident, or maybe both? International students’ staycation considerations. Tourism Geographies, 
  4. 2024 - Gan, J. E., Lim, J. P. S., Poon, W. C., & Thuraiselvam, S. (2024). Rights awareness and Covid-19 tourism job losses: Perspectives from Malaysia. Current Issues in Tourism, 27(2), 171-177.
  5. 2024 - Gan, J. E., Lim, J. P. S., Trupp, A., & Poon, W. C. (2024). State intervention and tourism business resilience: Exploring firm-level crisis response. Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 5(2), 100142.
  6. 2024 - Trupp, A., Salman, A., Stephenson, M. L., Chan, L F., & Gan, J. E. (2024). A systematic review of challenges faced by micro and small enterprises in tourism destinations: Producing solutions through resilience building and sustainable development. Tourism Planning & Development
  7. 2023 - Durai Rajah, K. & Gan, J. E. (2023). Workplace surveillance and the legal vacuum in Malaysia. [2023] 2 Malayan Law Journal xxix - xlii. 
  8. 2022 - Gan, J. E. (2022). Ecotourism and Malaysia’s Orang Asli: The social construction of indigeneity in community boundary-drawing. Journal of Ecotourism, 21(1), 54-70,
  9. 2020 - Gan, J. E. (2020). Vendors as environmental stakeholders: Lessons from a regional sports event. ASEAN Journal on Hospitality and Tourism, 18(2), 95-110. 
  10. 2020 - Gan, J. E. (2020). Uncovering the environmental and social conflicts behind residents’ perception of CBT: A Case of Perak, Malaysia. Tourism Planning & Development, 17(6), 674-692,  
  11. 2019 - Gan, J.E. (2019). Contestation over the minimum wage in the Malaysian hotel sector: Spotting the elephant in the room. The Malayan Law Journal, 2019, 2, ix-xxiv.
  12. 2019 - Gan, J. E., Nair, V. & Hamzah, A. (2019). The critical role of a lead institution in ecotourism management: A case of dual governance in Belum-Temengor, Malaysia. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 11(2), 257-275,

Achievements & Accolades

  1. Ministry of Higher Education’s Long Term Research Grant Scheme 2011 [LRGS grant no: JPT.S (BPKI)2000/09/01/015Jld.4(67)]. Value: RM9 million. Status: Co-researcher.
  2. International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Natural Resource Governance Framework (NRGF) Asia Scoping Work 2016. Status: Co-investigator. 
  3. Monash University Malaysia Business School Research Seed Grant no. B-5-19 (1 March 2019 – 29 November 2019) entitled: The social sustainability of indigenous tourism villages: A comparative study between Belum-Temengor, Perak and Padawan, Sarawak. Value: RM6,998.40. Status: Principal investigator.
  4. Monash Malaysia Education Award Grant 2020 for project (ID: 25052): ‘Transition as a rite of passage’. Value: RM10,000. Status: Co-researcher.
  5. Monash University Malaysia Learning and Teaching Research Grant 2021 for project (ID: 2101-0000000051): The Impact of Authentic Assessment on University Identification. Value: RM10,000. Status: Co-researcher.
  6. ºìÐÓÊÓƵ University Research Accelerator Grant Scheme 2024 for project (Grant code: GRTIN-RAG-SHSM-09-2024): The Institutional Quality of Malaysia’s Ecotourism Governance: Belum-Temengor as the Litmus Test. Value: RM29,130. Status: Principal investigator.
     

Professional Associations

  1. Admitted to the High Court of Malaya as an Advocate & Solicitor in 1998.
  2. Tourism Educators Association of Malaysia (TEAM) – member since 2014; Treasurer 2022-2025; Executive Committee 2021-2022; TEAM Journal of Hospitality & Tourism – managing editor from 2014 to 2017.
  3. Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) – member since 2018.
  4. Malaysian International Mediation Centre’s Panel of Mediators - member since 2019.
  5. Environmental Protection Society Malaysia – member since 2020, the auditor in 2022.
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