School of Business and Economics

Lecturing Staff

• Dr Grahame Boocock (Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance)
  Small business finance; Entrepreneurship
• Dr Amon Chizema (Professor in International Business and Strategy)
  Corporate governance and executive compensation
• Maxine Clarke
  International Higher Education
• Dr Regina Frank (Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
  M&A; Synergy valuation; Bank Mergers; Entrepreneurship Education; Social Entrepreneurship
• Dr Lan Gao (Lecturer in Strategy) Foreign direct investment from emerging economies; cross-border knowledge transfer; internationalisation performance of firms from emerging economies, with a particular focus on China; human mobility and MNEs
• Dr Ian Hodgkinson (Lecturer in Strategy) Strategic planning; the utilisation and deployment of strategic resources; the strategy-performance relationship; market orientation, with particular reference to the public private paradox.
• Dr Julie Holland (University Teacher in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management)
  
• Dr Eleni Lioliou (Lecturer in International Business and Strategy)
  IT outsourcing, off-shoring, governance, control
  
• Dr Xiaohui Liu (Professor in International Business and Strategy)
  The internationalisation of Chinese firms, the role of FDI, labour mobility and technological inter-linkages in economic development, with special reference to China
• Dr Ravishankar Mayasandra-Nagaraja, (Reader in Globalisation and Emerging Markets)
  Globalisation and India; Offshore Outsourcing; Strategic Management of Information Technology (IT)
• Professor Ilan Oshri (Professor of Technology and Globalisation)
  Globalisation; Offshoring; Outsourcing; Emerging Technology; Management
  
• Dr Ursula Ott (Lecturer in International Business)
  International collaboration and negotiations; game theory and its applications; contract and incentive theory; bargaining theory
• Dr. Alex Wilson (Lecturer in Strategy)
  New Technology in Organizations; Strategy Practice; Trends in Management    
  Education
• Dr. Helen Xia (Lecturer in Innovation)
  Open Innovation and Competitive Advantage; New Product Development in  
  SMEs

• Dr Angelika Zimmermann (Lecturer in International Business and Strategy)
  International cooperation; organisational strategy

Research Fellows

• Dr Fu-Mei Chuang (Research Associate)
  Marketing strategy, learning and business performance; creativity and new product development in the emerging market with particular reference to China
• Dr Lan Gao (Research Associate)
  FDI from Emerging Economies; Cross-border Knowledge Transfer; Human Mobility and MNEs

Visiting Academics

• Dr Jiangyong Lu is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China.
• Professor Enjun Xia is a Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation at the School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology.

International Activities

Professor Xiaohui Liu is the Vice President of the Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe).

Conferences

Professor Xiaohui Liu is President of the Chinese Economic Association (UK) from 04/2008, and she has organised two CEA conferences: the 19th CEA Annual Conference, Cambridge University, April 2008 and a joint conference of the CEA and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, September 2008

Dr Ravishankar Mayasandra is Associate Editor of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2010 and Associate Editor of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) 2010.

Dr Ravishankar Mayasandra was a guest speaker at the ESRC centre for socio-cultural change: Workshop on Gender, Service Work and the Cultural Economy, University of Manchester, UK, Feb 2008.

Journal Editorships

Professor Ilan Oshri is the Senior Editor of the Journal of Information Technology

Dr Xiaohui Liu is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.

Awards

Professor Xiaohui Liu and Professor Trevor Buck (with Xiaohui Liu, Y. Wei and Xiaming Liu) won the Best Competitive Paper prize at the Academy of International Business (AIB) UK and Ireland (UKI) conference, Bath University, 2005, ‘The Trade Development Path and Export Spillovers in China: A Missing Link?’

Dr Amon Chizema won the Michael Z Brooke Prize for the best doctoral dissertation at the AIB (UKI) conference in 2006, awarded at Manchester University

Dr Angelika Zimmermann, Professor Xiaohui Liu and Professor Trevor Buck won the Best Competitive Paper prize at the AIB (UKI) conference, Portsmouth University, 2008, ‘Employee Tenure in China: Comparing Foreign Joint Ventures’

PhD candidate Sigrun Wagner was awarded the Neil Hood and Stephen Young Prize for the Most Original New Work at the Doctoral Colloquium of the AIB (UKI) conference at Portsmouth University, 2008

Current PhD Students

Darwina Ahmad Arshad (FT, Co-Supervisors Dr Paul Hughes and Prof Trevor Buck) ‘Strategic Improvisation and Malaysian High-Tech Firms’

Ou Dai (FT, Supervisor Prof Xiaohui Liu) ‘Returning Entrepreneurs and their Role in Technology Transfer and Internationalisation’

Andrei Gurca (FT, Supervisor Dr M.N. Ravishankar) ‘The Influence of Internet-Enabled Technologies on Customer Agility: A Strategic-Cognitive Perspective’

Abd Rahim Jaguli (FT, Co-Supervisors Dr Ursula Ott and Prof Xiaohui Liu) ‘FDI and Technology Spillovers in Malaysia’

Lianghui Lei (FT, supervisor Dr. Ursula F. Ott) 'The Impact of Regional Differences on Sino-Western Negotiations'

Ramya Parthasarathy (FT, Supervisor Angelika Zimmermann) ‘Global talent management systems in Indian firms’

Lee Staley (FT, co-supervisor Dr. Ursula F. Ott and Prof. Jim Saker) 'The Strategic Role of International Joint Ventures in the Automotive Industry'

Recent PhD Graduates

Dr Cynthia Akwe ‘The Process of Creating Dynamic Capabilities’

Marc Bollbach (FT, Co-Supervisors Dr Angelika Zimmermann and Dr. Nicola Bateman) ‘Country-specific Barriers to Implementing Lean Production in China’

Dr Yi Yin Chang ‘HRM Strategies and Emerging Economies’ MNCs in the UK - The Case of Taiwanese MNCs in the UK’

Dr Amon Chizema ‘Neo-Institutional Theory and German Executive Stock Options’

Dr Jay Fattorusso ‘Executive Pay and UK Firm Performance’

John Fitzakerley (PT, Co-Supervisors Profs Trevor Buck and Geoff Chivers) ‘Railway Safety’

Dr Ian Hodgkinson ‘Strategies in Local Authority Leisure Suites’

Trien Le Vinh (FT, Co-Supervisors Dr Amon Chizema and Prof Trevor Buck) ‘Chinese Privatization: State Ownership and Firm Performance’

Sigrun Wagner (FT, Co-supervisors Dr Ursula Ott and Prof Malcolm Hill) ‘Political strategies of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) across the European Union and its Member States, with a special focus on Environmental Regulations’

Thinking of doing a PhD?

The International Business, Strategy and Innovation Group can offer qualified PhD supervision in a number of areas:

• Globalisation, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Emerging Technology, or Management
  Contact: Ilan Oshri

• The internationalisation of Chinese firms; the role of FDI; human mobility and technology spillovers; innovation and channels for international technology spillovers with special reference to China.
  Contact: Xiaohui Liu

• International corporate governance
  Contact: Amon Chizema

• International joint ventures. Game theory and international business
  Contact: Ursula Ott

• Globalisation and India; Culture and Strategy; Offshore outsourcing
  Contact: M.N. Ravishankar

• Outsourcing Contracts; Governance and Control in IT outsourcing
  Contact: Eleni Lioliu

• Strategic planning and improvisation; Ambidextrous strategies; Middle managers and strategy; Product-strategy in high-tech industries
  Contact: Ian Hodgkinson

• Social Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan contexts; Institutions and entrepreneurship; Chinese entrepreneurs
  Contact: Regina Frank

• Enterprise and innovation management; Innovation in health-care; Entrepreneurship and higher education
  Contact: Julie Holland

• International teams, Expatriate adjustment, Human resource management in China
  Contact: Angelika Zimmermann

The group welcomes applications from suitably qualified graduates, particularly those with a relevant Masters degree. For students interested in further information on potential PhD projects and supervisors, please look carefully through our webpages.

For an online application form click here
and for full details of the Business School PhD programme click here