Staff interests in China
Professor David H Brown (Management Science and Director of the LCMC) was appointed Director of the LCMC in October 2005. He has visited and taught at a number of Universities including North Western Polytechnical University, Xi’an; University of International Business and Economics, Beijing; University of Science and Technology, Beijing (BSTU); Renmin University of China, and Fudan University. In the last five years his research has focused on strategy development in the Township and Village Enterprise Sector. In 1998 he was awarded a Professorial Fellowship in Management Science from Renmin University.
During recent visits to China, he and Professor MacBean (see below) initiated discussions of possible collaborations with Tsinghua, Tongji, Sun Yat Sen (Lingnan College), Nanjing and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
David has collaborated with Professor Alasdair MacBean to develop the curriculum development project funded under the Asia-EU scheme. He is also currently contributing to development of the North West Development Agency’s China strategy.
For more information on his China connections see Academic links and projects and on his publications, see the LCMC publications web page.
Mark has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Institute of Management fellowship through which he is looking at developing more organisational learning strategies. There is a comparative focus to the project, with practice in China being analysed. For more information on Mark's interests in China see Academic links and projects Academic links and projects
Dr Xiaoping James Huang (Accounting and Finance) has contacts (Professor Yulu Chen, Dean) in the Finance College, Renmin University, where he worked before coming to Lancaster. He also has close contacts (Professor Jingbei Hu; Professor Baohau Zhu; Professor Deyuan Zhang) in the Economics College, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics. He visits these two universities frequently.
Emeritus Professor Alasdair MacBean (Economics) was the founding Director of the Lancaster Centre for Management in China, and was instrumental in launching its activities. He has taught a semester for graduate economists at Fudan University, Shanghai (1990) and at the People’s University, Beijing (1992) under the programme of the US National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Economics and Research in China (financed by the Ford Foundation).
He has also given papers to International Conference/Workshops on ‘The Economic Development of China’s Coastal Special Economic Zones’ in Shanghai in September 1992, and on "Globalisation and International Environmental Standards" at Qinhuangdao (July/August 2001) at the Renmin University-organised conference on 'European Integration in the Globalisation Era'.
He completed a research project on China’s trade policy reforms, especially the role of China’s Foreign Trade Corporations, with a research grant from ESCOR of ODA (now DflD). Outputs from the project are reflected in his publications.
With Professor David Brown he ran a one-day seminar on ‘Investing and Trading with China’ in June 1994 and a course for Ministry of Finance officials from China in September 2004. He has contacts at the Universities of Fudan, Shanghai including Professor Ru Rong Zhang (Professor of Marketing, Department of World Economics); People’s University, Beijing; Xiamen University, and the University of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.
He is a member of the Chinese Economic Association and was Director of the Inaugural LCMC Conference 'Economy and Business in China - Now and Future' in April 2003 and is (with Professor David Brown as co-editor) editor of the papers delivered at the Conference, “Challenge for China’s Development – an enterprise perspective” which has been publlished by Routledge Curzon.
He remains an active researcher, most recently by directing a project on the economic impact of the Chinese community in Manchester, and by being co-director of the Asia-EU funded project on curriculum development in innovation and entrpreneurship, where the Chinese partner is Beijing University of Science and Technology. See academic projects and links for more information.
Dr Dermot Williamson (Honorary Fellow) has conducted research in China, funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, into cultural differences in perceptions of management control and of trade credit control. He has given several papers on perceptions of management control and of accountability at international conferences.
In July/August 2002 he visited Beijing and Shanghai to tell business managers about his Chinese research. He also visited or made contact with Beijing University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and China Europe International Business (CEIBS), most recently in summer 2004 when he also spent time at Dalian Institute of Technology (DIT).
Dermot has recently been awarded a research grant by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland to undertake research, in collaboration with DIT, on risk management in China. See academic links and projects for more information.
Stein W.Wallace (Management Science) has taught for two and a half years years at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has research cooperation with Professors Yer-Van HUI, Department of Management Sciences, City Unversity of Hong Kong and Lawrence C. LEUNG, Dept of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with funding from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.
He has taught several times at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the latest being a two week PhD course in September 2010. He is also initiating research with Professor Lei ZHAO at Tsinghua.
Professor Juan Antonio Fernandez (Visiting Fellow in LCMC, March 2006)
Professor Fernandez earned his PhD from IESE (Spain) in 1997. He is currently teaching at the China Europe International Business School (www.CEIBS.edu) in Shanghai. He is frequently invited to give presentations to leading multinationals on how to manage business enterprises in China, and has recently given presentations in China, South Korea, Japan and Europe.
His work has been published in Harvard Business Review (Spain), Business Week-China, Organizational Dynamics, Business Strategy Review, and the Asian Case Research Journal. He has written two books. The first, China CEO, published by John Wiley & Sons, is based on interviews with 20 CEOs of multinationals in China. His second book, China’s State Owned Enterprise Reforms: an Industrial and CEO approach, will be published soon by Routledge, UK. Currently, he is working on his third book, HR Practices of Multinationals in China, based on interviews with HR directors of multinationals in China.
