As a result of our research positioning, our broad areas of inquiry are:
CHINA MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- Documenting the nature of Asian Management and Entrepreneurial practice, including organisational issues, stakeholder relationships, governance and ethics, its impact on PRC economic growth.
ESSENTIALIST CHINA MANAGEMENT THEORIES
- Explore the appropriateness of general (Western) theory versus theories specifically grounded in distinctly China sociologies, philosophies and religions for explaining management and entrepreneurship in Asia. We welcome thesis topics that rest on thought-provoking essentialist assumptions.
PERFORMANCE COMPARISONS AND LESSONS FOR THE OTHER
- Studies of the ‘other’ can highlight the nature of the self. In the third theme, observations and theorising grounded in China management and entrepreneurship theory and practice are used suggest policy and practice guidelines (to improve performance) for European practice and European business engagement with Asia.
Within these broad themes, a variety of specific topics may be addressed, including:
- ODI from China: Characteristics and Performance
- Top Teams in management, entrepreneurship and other areas: Characteristics and Performance
- Asian Management and Entrepreneurship: Differences with, and consequences for European Theory and Practice
- Questions of practice and conceptualisation of business practice
- Chinese Top Management Teams, their modus operandi and organizational characteristics such as teamness or hierarchies
- Chinese entrepreneurs, their approaches, biases and heuristics, through frameworks such as the varieties of capitalism
- Varieties of capitalism (VoC): Modelling the Systems of China
- The Financial Crisis: Strategies for Recovery from China
- National Business Models: Unique Mercantilism, export-orientation and trade surpluses as destabilizing factors for markets and firms
- Business Models at Firms: Description and Innovation
- National Innovation Systems in China
- Country and regional specialisation, such as the China IT or automotive sector, and their Western counterparts: cooperation and competition
- China consumers and their impact on manufacturing and the service sector
- The role of the state in shaping managerial and entrepreneurial practice
- Made in Europe vs. Made in China vs. Made Together
- Factor based growth vs. efficiency based growth vs. innovation based growth in China
- The modus operandi of Chinese diasporas, the value of family, social and political networks
- How does the European market (and its economic and monetary union) affect strategy formulation of old and new Chinese firms?
- Institutional elements and the structure of opportunity in Chinese entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship of last resort: images, myths and metaphors of Chinese entrepreneurs
- Chinese conglomerates and family firms: reorganization, governance, decentralization, minority shareholders, international partnerships and transparency.
* Note that the EIASM (European Institute for Advance Studies in Management) “ASIAN MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOP” co-chaired by IIDM-HSG faculty (formerly FIM-HSG), is an annual event. You are encouraged to contact CCC and submit your thesis to this Asia themed workshop, as well as other workshops related to China.
