Business School

International collaboration


The School is committed to working with top researchers from around the world to provide critical insights and solutions for policy makers and business decision makers as they face the challenges of operating in a global economy.

A sample of our current international collaborative research:

Business School staff Current international collaborations
Prof. Kenneth Clements

Dr Dongling Chen (Shanghai Municipal Authority). International Comparisons of Real Incomes and Prices.

Prof. John Cordery

Prof. Bradley Kirkman (Texas A&M), Prof. John Mathieu (Uni. of Connecticut), Prof. Benson Rosen (Uni. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill). Effectiveness of global virtual teams.

Dr Kathy Parkes (University of Oxford). Early life failures in subsea installations.

Prof. Sharon Parker (University of Sheffield). Design of innovative work systems.

Prof. Paul Miller

Prof. Barry Chiswick (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago). Immigrant earnings and occupational attainment.

Prof. Jill Sweeney

Prof. Joffre Swait, University of Alberta. Services failures in airline industry.

Dr Mark Rosenbaum (Northern Illinois University). Customer restorative experiences.

Dr Alan Simon

Dr J. LaCava (Boise State University). Strategic thinking and leadership.

Prof. Philip Brown

Dr Wendy Beekes (Lancaster University). Influence of standards of corporate governance on companiesâ?? disclosure policies.

Dr Alex Szimayer (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany). Executive stock options.

Prof. Janice How, Dr Peter Verhoeven (Univ. Of Auckland), Dr Söhnke Bartram (Lancaster University). Corporate financial policy.

Dr Simone Pettigrew

Prof. Steve Charters (Rheims Management School). Prevention of adolescent binge drinking.

Prof. John Taplin

Prof. Xin Shi (Shanghai Maritime University). Port & shipping study.

Prof. Dan Lovallo

Prof. Daniel Kahneman (Princeton). Behavioural decision-making.

Dr Nicolaas Groenewold

Dr Patricia Fraser (Univ. of Aberdeen). Housing price decomposition.

Dr Jiangang Peng, Dr Guanzheng Li and Dr Xiangmei Fan (Hunan University). Financial system reform and economic growth in China.

Dr Jiangang Peng, Dr Jing He, Dr Zhangfei Li and Dr Yu Yi (all Hunan University). Financial service provision and regional inequality in China.

Dr Anping Chen (Jinan University). Regional spillovers and regional integration.

Dr Jamie Murphy

Dr Rob Law (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). Developing a multi-item measure of journal quality.

Prof. Peter O'Connor (ESSEC). Computer-mediated communication.

Prof. Arno Scharl (Vienna University of Economics & Business). Global vs local online branding.

Dr Xiangping Liu (Nanjing University of Finance & Economics). Consumer ethnocentrism.

Prof. Roland Schegg (Haute Ecole Valaisan, Switzerland). Quality clusters of email responses by luxury hotels.

Dr Phil Hancock

Prof Kent Zumwalt (Colorado State University). Credit unions and taxation.

Dr Abu Siddique

Dr Ken Jackson (Auckland University). South Asian Free Trade Areas.

Prof. S. Ghatak (Kingston University, UK). Immigration, wages and unemployment.

Dr Tim Mazzarol
Prof. Jane Klobas

Collaborative research on international study of innovation in SMEs involving academics from following institutions: U St Gallen, Switzerland, Lessius Hogeschool, BelgiumWirtschafts Universitat Wien, Austria, Groupe ESC Dijon Bourgogne (Burgundy School of Business), France, U Waikato, New Zealand, U La Trobe, Melbourne, Boise State U, USA, Bocconi U, Italy, U Durham, UK, U Sherbrooke, Canada, U Granada, Spain, U Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule Mainz, Germany.

Prof. Ray Fells

Prof. Dan Druckman (George Mason University). Cooperative and competitive behaviours in negotiation.

Prof. Jane Klobas

Participant in Global CyberBridges project (NSF Project 0636031), in collaboration with Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA), Florida International University, Miami, USA.

Participant in Veronica Project, in collaboration with Department of Management, Economics & Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, School of Business â?? American University in Dubai, and University College, Copenhagen.

Dr Christine Soo

Prof. Torben Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School). Organizational learning.

Dr Sharon Purchase

Dr Sid Ellis (Kingston University, UK), Dr Nick Ellis (Leicester University). Business networks.

Dr Theingi, Dr Yokfar Phungphol (Assumption University, Thailand). Business relationships and networks in Thailand.

Dr Dave Webb

Team member on international consumer well-being project, with collaborators from Virginia Tech (USA), Yonsei University (Korea), St Thomas University (USA), HEC Montreal (Canada), California State University San Bernadino (USA), St Gallen (Switzerland), George Washington University (USA), American University (Cairo), Bilkent University (Turkey), City University (Hong Kong), ESADE (Spain).

Dr James Lau

Dr Brigitte Oger (Institut d' Administration des Entreprises de Paris). The effects of fairness of performance evaluation procedures.

Prof. Jerome Caby (Institut d' Administration des Entreprises de Paris). Financial measures, participation and task characteristics.

Dr Sharon Tan (Singapore Polytechnic). Budget targets as performance measures.

Dr Yanrui Wu

Dr Bing Wang (Jinan University, China). Environmental Regulation and Productivity Growth among APEC Economies.

Dr Xingjun Zhao (Nankai University, China). Determinants of China's Energy Imports.

Dr Xiangmei Fan, (Hunan Normal University). China's Stock Market Development.

Prof. Shantong Li (Development Research Centre, Beijing, China). Understanding Economic Growth in China.

Dr Trish Todd

Dr Mhinder Bhopal (Univ. North London). Malaysian employment relations.

Prof. Richard Mizerski

Dr Gail Taylor (Wharton). Childrenâ??s responses to advertising for foods.

Dr Desmond Lam (University of Macau). Gambling behaviour.

Prof. Bill Jolley (Norwich University). Gambling behaviour.

Dr David Butler

Prof. Graham Loomes (University of East Anglia). Imprecise preferences.

Prof. Martin Dufwenberg (University of Arizona). Behavioural game theory.

Dr Rob Lambert

Prof. Edward Webster (U. of Witwatersrand). Sociology of work.

Center for Global Labour Research (Cardiff University). Restructuring of the white goods industry.

Institute on Globalisation and the Human Condition (McMaster University, Canada). New labor internationalism.

Professor Izan

Dr Jason Mitchell (World Bank). Share Buybacks.

Dr Michelle Lin and Dr Suzanne Lin (Takming University of Science and Technology, Taiwan). IPOs and Corporate Governance.