Professor L. Jeremy Clegg

Director of Research (Regionalisation and Globalisation cluster)

1985 PhD (Economics), Reading; 1976 BA (Economics), Nottingham.

Research interest

The determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the European Union, particularly the relationship between market integration and FDI by US and Japanese multinational firms. Intra European Union multinational activity, FDI and trade flows in the context of European market integration.The mutual cultural perceptions of managers within mergers and acquisitions between German and Polish and UK firms. Investigation of the impact of FDI by European and foreign-owned firms on knowledge transfer and radical organisational change in liberalising markets, especially in Hungary and the People's Republic of China. The impact of European and foreign-owned firms on the productivity and performance of Chinese firms. The internationalisation of services, particularly telecommunications services. The market entry modes of multinational banks in eastern and central Europe.

My research in international business covers a broad range of topics and research methods. Current projects include:

• Knowledge transfer, and in particular its role in productivity and productivity growth, in both the international and national dimensions
• Econometric modelling of the determinants of Chinese Outward FDI
• Foreign direct investment in China.

I am currently working on a three-year Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) project on the British retail industry. The project entitled "Knowledge. Skills and Productivity in the Retailing Sector" investigates the determinants of productivity levels, and changes in the levels, within this key service sector, with particular reference to the effects of multinationality and knowledge transfer. The research programme of which the project is part, the Productivity IDEAS Factory, was generated through the EPSRC's Ideas Factory Scheme, and is directed by the Advanced Institute of Management (AIM).

Much of my research has had a European Focus. In December 2005 I made a presentation at a Group of Economic Policy Analysis meeting on foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in China, entitled "China and the European Union: An analysis of FDI developments and prospects", to an audience of the President of the European Commission, Mr José Manuel Barroso, a number of European commissioners, directors-general and European experts.

Future research plans include extending my research on productivity further into the international and European dimension (where productivity is a leading policy issue). Also I intend to integrate the study of inward and outward FDI, using statistical data for a large number of countries.