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International Business and Strategy Research
Group
Introduction
This Group was set up early in 2004 to expand the Business School’s
scope and depth of research in the fields of International Business and
Strategy. The intention is to recruit active researchers in the near future
to augment the themes listed below and to open up related areas.
Research Themes
Broadly, research is conducted in two areas: transitional
and emerging economies and international and strategic management.
Work on transitional and emerging economies includes
studies of economic transition, with an emphasis on China; international
joint ventures; outsourcing and Indian firms; and industrial pollution.
Work has been funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme.
Work in the area of international and strategic management
includes topics such as the management of ex-patriots, export strategies,
strategy in high-technology firms and executive pay.
Group Members and Their Research Interests
Core Members
- Professor Trevor
Buck (Professor of International
Business)
International corporate governance and strategy with particular reference
to executive pay in the UK, China and Germany.
- Dr Amon Chizema (Lecturer
in International Business and Strategy)
Corporate governance and executive compensation
- Professor Malcolm Hill
(Professor of Russian and East European Industrial Studies)
Russian and East European industrial studies; the operation of the Kyoto
protocol on global warming.
- Dr Paul Hughes (Lecturer
in Strategic Management)
Strategic formation and the strategic management of business strategy
and product-market strategy in high technology organisations; adherence
to strategy; strategic failure; strategic planning and improvisation;
export strategy
- Dr Xiaohui Liu (Senior
Lecturer in International Business)
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
(Lecturer in Strategy)
Strategic global IT outsourcing, IT in developing nations, KM solutions
for the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, cultural analyses
of organizations, issues of identity in large organizations.
- Dr Ursula Ott (Lecturer
in International Business)
International collaboration and negotiations; game theory and its applications;
contract and incentive theory; bargaining theory.
- Dr Angelika
Zimmermann (Lecturer in International Business and Strategy)
International cooperation; organisational strategy
- Dr Huan Joy Zou (Lecturer
in Strategic Management)
International marketing entry strategy, including foreign acquisitions;
investments in emerging markets by MNEs.
Examples of recent publications
Buck, T., Shahrim, A. (2005). The Translation of Corporate
Governance Changes across National Cultures: the Case of Germany, Journal
of International Business Studies, 36, 42-61.
Chizema, A.. Buck, T. (2006). Neo-Institutional Theory
and Institutional Change: Towards Empirical Tests of an 'Americanized'
Executive Pay Practice in Germany, International Business Review,
15, 488-504.
Steenhof, P.A., Hill, M.R. (2006). Carbon Dioxide Emissions
from Russia's Electricity Sector: Future Scenarios, Climate Policy,
5, 531-548.
Hughes, P., Morgan, R.E. (2007). A resource-advantage
perspective of product–market strategy performance & strategic
capital in high technology firms, Industrial Marketing Management,
36, 503-517.
Liu XH, Buck T. Innovation performance and channels for
international technology spillovers: Evidence from Chinese high-tech industries,
Research Policy, 36, 355-366.
Ott, U.F. (2006). International Joint Ventures: An Interplay
of Co-operative and Non-co-operative Games under Incomplete Information.
Palgrave/ Macmillan, Basingstoke.
PhD Candidates
We welcome approaches from suitably qualified graduates, particularly
those with a relevant Masters degree and sufficient funding, who may wish
to undertake research projects in the specialist areas of the group, leading
to a PhD. For students interested in further information on potential
PhD projects and supervisors, please look carefully through our webpage.
For an online
application form click here
and for full details
of the Business School PhD programme click here
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