Professor Peter Buckley

Director of Research (Business, Political Economy and Development cluster)

1975 PhD, Lancaster; 1971 MA (Development Economics), East Anglia; 1970 BA (Social Sciences/Economics), York.

Research interest

The theory of the multinational enterprise, methods of foreign market entry and development, the management of co-operative strategies, theoretical and empirical work on joint ventures and alliances (including specific projects on UK international alliances), knowledge management in multinational firms, transfer pricing in multinational firms, economic integration and the strategy of multinational firms, international takeovers (including cultural aspects of post-merger integration, the impact of globalisation and government policies on multinationals. Specific area interests in China, India, the EU and NAFTA.

Selected publications

Books

The Challenge of International Business , Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2004, p305.

Strategic Business Alliances: An Examination of the Core Dimensions (co-authors Keith Glaister and Rumy Husan), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2004, p212.

What is International Business ? Palgrave, Basingstoke, (editor), 2004, p195.

'Cultural Awareness in Knowledge Transfer to China : The Role of Guanxi and Mianzi' (co-authors Jeremy Clegg and Hui Tan) Journal of World Business (forthcoming).

'Is the relationship between inward FDI and spillover effects linear? An empirical examination of the case of China (co-authors Jeremy Clegg and Chengqi Wang) Journal of International Business Studies (forthcoming).

'The impact of foreign direct investment on Chinese export performance' (co-authors Jeremy Clegg and Chengqi Wang) Transnational Corporations (forthcoming December 2005).

'China's inward foreign direct investment success: Southeast Asia in the Shadow of the dragon' (co-authors Jeremy Clegg, Adam Cross and Hui Tan) Multinational Business Review (forthcoming).

'Language and social knowledge in foreign knowledge transfer to China ' (co-authors Martin Carter, Jeremy Clegg and Hui Tan). International Studies of Management and Organisation , Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2005.

'The strategy of foreign invested manufacturing enterprises in China : Export orientated and market orientated FDI revisited' (co-author Chen Meng) Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. Vol. 3, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 111-131.

'Reform and restructuring in a Chinese State Owned Enterprise: Sinotrans in the 1990s' (co-authors Jeremy Clegg and Hui Tan) Management International Review Vol. 45, No. 2, 2005, pp 147-172.