Tao Chen
Academic and research departments
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Strategy and International Business.About
Managers are continuously looking for ways to improve their firms' competitive advantage in the face of global competition. In particular, firms in emerging countries have increasingly leveraged their non-market strategy to access external resources and sustain their competitive positions. Considering the importance of non-market strategy, he examines how firms improve their innovation by managing market and non-market strategies.
He received his MSc degree from Loughborough University and completed his bachelor’s degree at the China University of Mining and Technology. He has five-year work experience for an investment bank and investment corporation. He took the PhD Masterclass from Mark Casson and Alain Verbeke at the University of Reading. He is a teaching assistant and research assistant at the University of Surrey and the Univerisity of Sussex now.
I am honored to have received the Vice-Chancellor’s Studentship Award and the Best Reviewer Award for the International Business and International Management Track at BAM 2023.
Affiliations and memberships
Publications
Publication
Chen, T, Park, H and Rajwani, T (Forthcoming). "Diverse Human Resource Slack and Firm Innovation: Evidence of Politically Connected Firms". International Business Review.
Conference presentation and paper
Chen, T, Park, H (2023). "The Risk-Taking Behaviours of Ex-Military Executives and Family Firm in Domestic Innovation and Overseas Expansion Decisions". Strategic Management Society, Toronto, Canada.
Chen, T, Park, H (2023). "The Risk-Taking Behaviours of Ex-Military Executives and Family Firm in Domestic Innovation and Overseas Expansion Decisions". Academy of International Business, Warsaw, Poland.
Chen, T, Park, H (2023). "The Risk-Taking Behaviours of Ex-Military Executives and Family Firm in Domestic Innovation and Overseas Expansion Decisions". British Academy of Management, Brighton, UK.
Chen, T, Park, H (2023). "The Risk-Taking Behaviours of Ex-Military Executives and Family Firm in Domestic Innovation and Overseas Expansion Decisions". Academy of International Business (UK-Ireland), Glasgow, UK.
Chen, T, Park, H, Rajwani, T, (2022). "The role of political connection and human resource slack in firm innovation process". Academy of International Business (UK-Ireland), Henley, UK.
Chen, T, Park, H, Rajwani, T, (2022). "Diverse Human Resource Slack And Firm Innovation: Evidence of Politically Connected Firms". European International Business Academy, Oslo, Norway.
Chinese publication
Chen, T, Wu, Y, Hao, C, (2013). "Research on Logistics Reengineering and Development of Coal Enterprises". Coal Technology, China.