Rate My Professor Hui Tan

Professor Hui Tan is Professor in Strategy and International Business in the Department of Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship at Royal Holloway Business School, University of London. He earned a BA in Economics from Renmin University of China (1988) and a PhD in Management from the University of Bath (2000). Tan commenced his academic career in the early 1990s as a lecturer in international business at Renmin University of China, Beijing. After completing his doctorate, he served as a lecturer at the Centre for International Business, University of Leeds, before joining Royal Holloway in 2006 as Reader in Strategy, progressing to Professor.

His research specializations encompass foreign direct investment into and from China, strategies of multinational enterprises from emerging markets, knowledge transfer and organizational learning, mergers and acquisitions, trust, cross-cultural management, and innovation. Tan's scholarly contributions have been published in prestigious journals such as Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, Management International Review, International Business Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Technovation. Key publications include 'Historic and Emergent Trends in Chinese Outward Direct Investment' (Buckley, Cross, Tan, Xin & Voss, 2008, Management International Review, over 599 citations) and 'Cultural Awareness in Knowledge Transfer to China—The Role of Guanxi and Mianzi' (Buckley, Clegg & Tan, 2006, Journal of World Business, over 565 citations). Recent works feature 'Advancing Energy Justice through ESG: The Role of Confucian Culture and Digital Finance' (Xin et al., 2026, Research in International Business and Finance), 'AI Investment Decision in Digital Home-Based Elderly Care Service: A Mean Field Game Analysis' (Wang et al., 2026, Technovation), and 'Power Dynamics and Outbound Openness: Licensing Exclusivity Choices in the Semiconductor Industry' (Serge, Hagedoorn & Tan, 2025, Journal of Technology Transfer). As Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review (2022–2027), he has supervised more than ten PhD students to completion. With over 2,500 citations on Google Scholar, Tan's work has profoundly impacted international business strategy and emerging market studies. He welcomes PhD applications in global business management, internationalization, knowledge transfer, M&A, innovation, service firms, and strategy in practice.