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PhD in International Economics, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡

MPhil in Economics, Beijing Normal University

BSc in Economics, Beijing Normal University

Xiaohui Liu is Professor of International Business at Birmingham Business School, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. Previously, she was a professor at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University. Her main research interests are international knowledge spillovers, labour mobility, innovation and the internationalisation strategies of emerging-market firms. She has published widely in journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Organization Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of World Business and International Business Review. 

Professor Liu is a silver medalist of the Academy of International Business as one of the most prolific authors in the Journal of International Business Studies. She has won Best Competitive Paper awards from the Academy of International Business (UK) and International Association for Chinese Management Research. Her research has been funded by the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She is advisory editor of Research Policy and associate editor of International Business Review. She also serves on the editorial boards for various journals, including of Journal of World Business and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. She is treasurer of AIB UK & Ireland and a member of ESRC Peer Review College.  

 Xiaohui has extensive teaching experience and has taught research-led courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA levels on international business and strategic management.

• International Business
• International Business Strategy
• Implementing Strategy and Managing Change

Currently supervising PhD research in the following areas:

• Cross-border merger and acquisitions by emerging market firms
• Political risk and Subsidiary performance
• Open innovation and firm performance

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

• Innovation in the context of transition economies
• The internationalization strategy of emerging market firms
• International knowledge transfer/spillovers, outward foreign direct investment and human mobility

Research and Academic interests

• Subsidiary performance, interstate relations and political risk  
• International knowledge transfer/spillovers, outward foreign direct investment and human mobility
• Innovation in the context of transition economies

• Advisory editor of Research Policy
• Editorial board member: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, International Business Review, Asian Business & Management and the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.
• General secretary of the Chinese Economic Association (UK)
• A member of ESRC Peer Review College