Senior Lecturer in International and Chinese Business
Background
PhD 1998 (Edinburgh), MPhil 1989 (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), BSc. 1982 (Shanghai Institute of Railway Technology, a part of Tongji University).
- Research Associate in IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Consultant at China Connection Consultancy, Edinburgh
- Research fellow in the Chinese Institute of Management Science (Beijing) and the Chinese Institute of Management Science (Shanghai)
- Teaching Fellow in Shanghai Institute of Railway Technology, China.
Dr Shen is currently a visiting Professor in Peking University Law School; she has also held a visiting position in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She is associate editor of the Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management.
Research Taxonomy
- Strategic entrepreneurship
- Technology & innovation management
- Technology & organisational change
- Technology transfer & commercialisation
- Technology transfer & university spinouts
- Technology ventures
- Philanthropy
- Professional development
- Psychological contract
- Public management reform
- Situational analysis
- User innovation
- Volunteer management
- Workplace performance
- Entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Entrepreneurial finance
- Entrepreneurial resource assembly
- Academic entrepreneurs
- Adoption & use of information technologies in organisations
- Big data analytics
- Business models / business model innovation
- Change management
- Co-production
- Corporate entrepreneurship
- Corporate venturing
- Data mining
- Development of university-industry-government
- Digital innovation
- eBusiness & eCommerce
- Entrepreneurship & family business
- Entrepreneurship & innovation & China
- Entrepreneurial leadership
- Entrepreneurial narratives
- Financial innovation
- Geographies of entrepreneurship
- Geographies of innovation
- Globally distributed grid and cloud computing
- Governance & public sector management
- Health service reform
- Industrial relations
- Information technologies in supply chain
- Innovation & entrepreneurship
- Innovation & technology in tourism
- International business
- International entrepreneurship
- Operations improvement
- Operational risk
- Product innovation
- Public services reform
- Regional innovation systems
- Services management
- Social entrepreneurship
- Social innovation
- Sociology of information systems
- Small & medium size enterprises (SME)
- Small business management (SBM)
- Spectrum management
- Standardisation
- Telecommunication policies & standardisation
- The third sector
- Business cooperation in the pharmaceutical industry
- Comparative corporate social responsibility, governance and sustainability
- Corporate sustainability
- Emerging markets
- European & international economics
- Foreign direct investment
- Hospitality industry
- Institutional change
- Internationalisation of high technology companies
- Internationalisation of MNEs and SMEs from emerging markets
- Organisational change processes
- Strategy implementation & process
- Strategy process
- Travel of ideas across fields
- The political economy of business and mangement in Africa
- Markets for responsible / impact investing and entrepreneurship
- Multinational enterprises (MNEs) as agents of sustainable development
- Actor-network theory
- Assessment & selection
- Business & management education
- Career development planning
- Co-production & co-creation
- Complimentary currencies
- Corporate governance, responsibility & sustainability
- Community development
- Cross cultural management
- Diversity & well-being at work
- Executive pay
- Expatriate management & development
- Health & social care service systems
- HRM in multinational firms
- Humanistic management & economic discourse
- International & comparative HRM
- International career orientations & career trajectories
- Internet studies
- Inter-organisational relationships
- Managerial career development
- Managing performance at work
- Multidisciplinary research ethics
- New / contemporary careers
- Organisation studies
- Organisational places & spaces
- Organisational sensemaking
- Partnerships
Research Interests
Currently, Xiaobai is working on intellectual property (IP) regimes in China. In general, her research is on the social analysis of technology (products/services), their markets, and embedding broader context. She specialises in the areas of telecommunications, information and computing sectors, in particular focusing on issues concerning emerging markets.
She is the principal investigator for the research project on Convergence or differentiation in IP protection strategies and business models? The project is funded by the AHRC Centre for Digital Copyright and IP Research in China and CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright & New Business Models in the Creative Economy.
She has acted as an investigator for several large research projects in biotechnology and ICT, including GM technology in China: the ESRC INNOGEN programme, and CIPR - collective intellectual property rights project under PRIME, funded by an EU commission and EU-China ICT Standards partnership. Her previous research ranges from telecommunication technologies, open source software to vaccine development and so forth, focusing on technology transfer, IP and innovation institutional mechanisms in China.
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