Yipeng Liu

Professor Yipeng Liu is a Visiting Professor at Henley Business School and Director of the Centre for China Management and Global Business. He was previously Professor in Management and Organisation Studies and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; the Academy's Fellowship is made up of distinguished individuals from academic, public and private sectors, across the full breadth of the social sciences.

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Yipeng's research interests centre on international entrepreneurship, global talent management and the emerging market multinationals global strategy from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective by embracing the notion of 'West-Meets-East'. He believes that exploring the social mechanisms and illuminating the multi-faceted human side factors of micro-foundations in an international context can advance management and organisation studies in important ways. His research has been funded by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust and others.

He actively contributes to the academic community as a keynote speaker and track/session chair in international academic conferences, such as the Academy of Management and British Academy of Management. He has served as Guest Editor for several Special Issues on micro-foundations, organisation and management studies, including the Journal of Organisational Behaviour. He is a Senior Editor of Management and Organisation Review, an Associate Editor of Asian Business and Management and currently serves on the editorial review board of five international journals, including the Journal of Management Studies.

He has gathered broad professional experience in the business world such as management consulting, venture capital, business development and engineering in Asia, North America and Europe before moving to the academic world. He worked for clients such as Bosch, Heidelberg Druckmaschinen, Fresenius, Siemens, Allianz and Deutsche Telekom.

Specialisms

• International Entrepreneurship
• International Management
• Microfoundations of Management and Organisation Studies
• Regional Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change
• China

Education

• Master's degree Technical University of Munich
• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD University of Mannheim