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Prospective PhD and DBA students

Prospective doctoral students, with strong quantitative or qualitative research training, professional experience, or a strong desire to choose an academic career, are encouraged to contact me. Please send your CV and research proposal, outlining your research questions, motivations, methods, and possible data sources.

Current doctoral supervision:

• Corporate Governance and Internationalisation in China
• China’s Outward FDI in the world renewable energy sector: a survey approach
• Corporate governance and firms’ decisions to Internationalise: evidence for China
• The Liability of Foreignness: Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment in the USA

Prospective MBA (Full-time, Executive and Global) and MSc students

Dr Lutao Ning has a track of record of successfully completed E/MBA & MA dissertation supervision. He hopes that all students will enjoy doing research for their dissertations as this can be a rewarding part of the E/MBA learning experience, and often a stepping stone to their next career move.

Please feel free to contact Dr Ning at for your potential dissertation projects.

Dissertation supervision areas:

• Strategy, business creation (entrepreneurship) and performance, and industry & market analysis
• International business, globalisation and strategy of multinational enterprises (e.g. assessment of market entry modes, location choice, business clusters, foreign market and industry analysis and international expansion planning)
• International marketing, market entry and retail strategy (excluding consumer behaviour/branding/marketing psychology related subjects)
• International investment analysis
• International mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and joint ventures
• Corporate governance
• Inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and international investment and economic policies
• Emerging markets and emerging market multinational enterprises
• Chinese and East Asian Business and economies
• Quantitative or qualitative research methods

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