Rate My Professor Stephen Nicholas

Emeritus Professor Stephen Nicholas is an Emeritus Professor of International Business at Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University, USA, a Master of Arts from the University of Iowa, USA, and a PhD Honorary Doctorate from Superior College Lahore, Pakistan. His distinguished career includes serving as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at the University of Newcastle from 2006 to 2011. Previously, he was Head of School of International Business at the University of Sydney from 2003 to 2006, Professor of Economic History and Co-Director of the Centre for International Business at the University of Melbourne from 1993 to 2003, and held progressive roles at the University of New South Wales from Lecturer in 1975 to Associate Professor in 1993. Internationally, he has been Visiting Professor and Chair Professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guest Professor at Beijing Normal University and Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, and High-end Foreign Expert and 1000 Tianjin Talent Expert at Tianjin Normal University. He also served as President of the Australia-NZ International Business Academy from 1998 to 2003 and Executive Member of the Pacific Asia Consortium of International Business Education and Research from 2006 to 2012.

Professor Nicholas's research focuses on international business, business strategy, health management and policy in China, restructuring of Chinese and foreign firms, new institutional economics, foreign direct investment in Australia and China, business economic history, anthropometric history, and econometric history. He has authored over 180 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and edited books, published in outlets such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Economic History, Business History, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Frontiers in Public Health. Notable publications include 'Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrialization, 1770-1815' (Journal of Economic History, 1991), 'Managing the Manager: An Application of the Principal Agent Model to the Hudson's Bay Company' (Oxford Economic Papers, 1993), 'The Living Standards of Women During the Industrial Revolution, 1795-1820' (Economic History Review, 1993), and recent works like 'Student COVID-19 Vaccination Preferences in China: A Discrete Choice Experiment' (Frontiers in Public Health, 2022). His contributions extend to consulting for major firms and editorial roles. Elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1997, he received the Mayor of Tianjin's HaiHe Friendship Medal in 2016.