LOCOMOTIVE FINAL CONFERENCE

Hamburg 5-6 June 2007

Xiaming

Xiaming Liu is Professor of International Business at the School of Management and Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. He received his BA and MPhil from Anhui and Fudan Universities respectively in China and PhD from Strathclyde University in the UK. Before joining Birkbeck College in January 2006, he had held various academic and management positions in Shanghai and Hangzhou (now Zhejiang) Universities in China, and Abertay Dundee, Aston and Surrey Universities in the UK. Prior to becoming an academic, he had many years' agricultural and industrial experience in China.

Xiaming Liu’s research interests include foreign direct investment, international business strategy, technology transfer and spillover, trade and comparative advantage, and the Chinese economy. His recent research projects include multinational subsidiary typology, and knowledge creation and flows in multinational enterprises. He is the General Secretary of the Chinese Economic Association in the UK, and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies published by Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Group.

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