John Child has an M.A. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Management both from the University of Cambridge, which in 1984 also awarded him a Sc.D. for outstanding scholarly work. In 1996 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Helsinki School of Economics, one of the first business schools to be founded in Europe. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Corvinus University, Budapest.

In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management and also of the British Academy of Management.  In 2004, John Child received the Distinguished Contribution Award from theInternational Association for Chinese Management Research and in 2012 he received its first Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2006, he was made an Honorary Member of the European Group for Organization Studies [EGOS] in recognition of hiscontribution to the study of organization and to the work of the association. In the same year, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Professor Child's career started with posts in marketing and personnel at Rolls-Royce Ltd. He worked as a Research Fellow at Aston University from 1966 to 1968 and then held a faculty position atthe London Business School until 1973. In that year he was appointed Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Aston University.

From 1986 to 1989 he was Dean of the Aston Business School. During 1989-90, he was seconded to the position of Dean and Director of the China-European Community Management Centre in Beijing with which he had been connected since 1985. He took up the Guinness (later Diageo) Chair of Management at Cambridge in 1991. He was Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Organization Studies from 1992 to 1996. He also founded the Centre for International Business and Management [CIBAM] at Cambridge and he is a Fellow of the Judge Business School in Cambridge. He is also a Visiting Professor at Lingnan University College, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China.

John's research interests include Management and economic reform in China; organization and performance of strategic alliances; internationalization of SMEs; evolution of new organizational forms.

 

Inaugural Lecture, 23rd January 2003.

MBA

 

• Internationalization of SMEs;

 

• New and alternative organizational forms;

Coordinator of a seven-nation project investigating the internationalization of SMEs, with particular reference to decision-making modes, sources of information and other support, and use of networks.

Member of the University Court

2012 and forthcoming

Child, John (ed.). The Evolution of Organizations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Child, John, Kenneth K-T Tse and Suzana B. Rodrigues.  The Dynamics of Corporate Co-evolution.  Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (forthcoming).

Child, John.  Mary Parker Follett.  In Morgen Witzel and Malcolm Warner (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

Child, John, Roberto Duarte, Betania Tanure and Suzana Rodrigues.  Access to tacit knowledge by executive retention in cross-border acquisitions.  Brazilian Administrative Review, 9 (3): 329-350.

Child, John, Suzana B. Rodrigues and Kenneth Tse. The Dynamics of Influence in Corporate Co-evolution.  Journal of Management Studies (forthcoming). doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.0157.

Elbanna, Said, John Child and Mumin Dayan.   A model of antecedents and consequences of intuition in strategic decision-making: Evidence from Egypt. Long Range Planning (forthcoming).

Marinova, Svetla T., John Child and Marin Marinov.  Institutional field for outward foreign direct investment: A theoretical extension? Advances in International Management, 25 (forthcoming).

Rodrigues, Suzana B. and John Child.  Building Social Capital for Internationalization.  Revista de Administração Contemporãnea, 16 (1): 23-38.

Seifert, R.E. Jr, John Child and Suzana B. Rodrigues.  The role of interpretation in the internationalization of smaller Brazilian firms.  Brazilian Administrative Review (forthcoming).

 

2011 

Alon, Ilan, John Child, Shaomin Li and John R. McIntyre. Globalization of Chinese Firms: Theoretical Universalism or Particularism. Management and Organization Review, 7: 191-200.

Boisot, Max, John Child and Gordon Redding. Working the System: Towards a Theory of Cultural and Institutional Competence. International Studies of Management and Organization 41: 62-95.

Child, John and Suzana B. Rodrigues.  How Organizations Engage with External Complexity: A Political Action Perspective.  Organization Studies 32 (6): 803-824.

Child, John and Suzana B. Rodrigues.  Social Identity and Organizational Learning.  In Mark Easterby-Smith and Marjorie A. Lyles (eds.) Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management.  Chichester: Wiley 2nd edition: 305-329.

Hsieh, Linda H.Y.,  Suzana B. Rodrigues and John Child.  Risk Perception and Post-formation Governance in International Joint Ventures in Taiwan: The Perspective of the Foreign Partner. Journal of International Management, 16(3): 288-303. 

Svetla Marinova, John Child and Marin Marinov. Evolution of Firm- and Country-Specific Advantages and Disadvantages in the Process of Chinese Firm Internationalization. Advances in International Management, 24: 235-269.

2010

Child, John. Organization design theory: its evolution within a changing context, in Clegg, S. (ed.), Managing Organizations: Fundamentals and latest thinking, The Marketing & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London (online at http://hstalks.com/go)

Child, John, Said Elbanna and Suzana B. Rodrigues.  The Political Aspects of Strategic Decision Making.  In David C. Wilson and Paul C. Nutt (eds.) Handbook of Decision Making. Chichester: Wiley: 105-137.

Rodrigues, Suzana B. and John Child. Private Equity, the Minimalist Organization and the Quality of Employment Relations. Human Relations 63: 1321-1342.

 

2009

Child, John.  Challenging Hierarchy.  In Mats Alvesson, Hugh Willmott and Todd Bridgman (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 501-514.

Child, John. Context, Comparison and Methodology in Chinese Management Research.  Management and Organization Review, 5: 57-73.

Child, John. China and International Business.  In Alan M. Rugman (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of International Business. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 648-686.

Child, John and Derong Chen. The China-Europe Management Institute: A Pioneer of Management Education in China. In Malcolm Warner and Keith Goodall (eds.) Management Training and Development in China.  London: Routledge. 

Child, John, Suzana B. Rodrigues and George Frynas.  Psychic Distance, its Impact and Coping Modes: Interpretations of SME Decision Makers.  Management International Review 49: 199-224.

 

 

 

2008

 

Child J. and Suzana B. Rodrigues. The Process of SME Internationalization: British Firms Entering Brazil. Economia e Gestão, 17 (3): 31-55.

 

Rodrigues, Suzana B. and John Child. Corporate Co-evolution. Chichester: Wiley. (Winner of the George F. Terry BookAward of the Academy of Management 2009)

 

Rodrigues, Suzana B. and John Child. The development ofcorporate identity: A political perspective.  Journal of Management Studies, 45: 885-911.

 

 

 

2007

 

Child, John, Yuan Lu and S-H Terence Tsai. Institutional Entrepreneurship in Building an Environmental Protection System for thePeople's Republic of China. Organization Studies 28(7):1013-1034.

 

Elbanna, Said and John Child. The Influence of Decision, Environmental and Firm Characteristics on the Rationality of StrategicDecision-Making. Journal of Management Studies, 44 (4): 561-591.

 

Elbanna, Said and John Child. Influences on Strategic Decision Effectiveness: Development and Test of an Integrative Model. Strategic Management Journal 28: 431-453.

 

Yan, Yanni, John Child and Can Yong Chong.  Vertical integration of corporate management in international firms:Implementation of HRM and the asset specificities of firms in China. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18(5): 788-807

 

2006

 

Boisot, Max and John Child.  China and the New Economy: A Case of Convergence? In Angelo Corallo, Giuseppina Passianteand Andrea Prencipe (eds.), The Digital Business Ecosystem. Cheltenham:Edward Elgar.

 

2005

 

Child, John. Organization: Contemporary Principles and Practice.  Oxford: Blackwell.

 

Child, John, David Faulkner and Stephen Tallman. Cooperative Strategy.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Child, John and Terence Tsai.  The Dynamic between Firms’Environmental Strategies and Institutional Constraints in Emerging Economies: Evidence from China and Taiwan. Journal of Management Studies, 42.(1): 95-125.

 

Child, John and Suzana Rodrigues, The Internationalization of Chinese Firms: A Case for Theoretical Extension?  Management and Organization Review, 1 (3): 381-410.

 

 

 

2004

 

 

 

Child, John. Foreword to Kwok Leung and Steven White (eds.) Handbook of Asian Management. New York: Kluwer.

 

Child, John and Hubertus Pleister.  Governance andManagement.  In Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (eds.) China’s Third Economic Transformation. London: Routledge: 192-208.

 

Child, John and Suzana B. Rodrigues. Repairing the Breachof Trust in Corporate Governance. Corporate Governance: AnInternational Review, 12: 143-151.

 

 

 

Child, John and Suzana B. Rodrigues.  Corporate Governancein International Joint Ventures: Toward a Theory of Partner Preferences.  In Anna Grandori (ed.). Corporate Governance and Firm Organization.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Child, John and Suzana B. Rodrigues, Corporate Governanceand the Move from Hierarchy: The Problem of Double Agency.  In HervéDumez (ed.) Gouverner les Organisations. Paris: L’Harmattan 2004:255-279.

 

Rodrigues, Suzana B., John Child and Talita R. Luz. Aprendizagem Contestada em Ambiente de Mudança Radical.  Revista de Administração de Empresas. 44: 27-43.

 

Yan, Yanni and John Child.  Investors’ Resource Commitmentsand Information Reporting Systems: Control in International Joint Ventures. Journal of Business Research, 57: 361-371.

 

Yan, Yanni and John Child. Investors’ Resources andManagement Participation in International Joint Ventures: A Control Perspective. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 21: 287-304.

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

Child, John. Organizational Learning.  In David O. Faulkner and Andrew Campbell (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Strategy.  Oxford: Oxford University Press: 437-465.

 

Child, John. The Management of Joint Ventures within International Business Networks: US Companies in China.  In BruceMcKern (ed.) Managing the Global Network Corporation.  London:Routledge: 60-80.

 

Child, John, Leanne Chung and Howard Davies.  ThePerformance of Cross-Border Units in China: A Test of NaturalSelection, Strategic Choice and Contingency Theories.  Journal of International Business Studies, 34 (3): 242-254.

 

Child, John and Guido Möllering. Contextual Confidence and Active Trust Development in the Chinese Business Context.  Organization Science, 14 (1): 69-80.

 

Child, John and Hubertus Pleister.  Governance and Management in China’s Private Sector.  International Management, 7 (3):13-23.

 

Child, John and Suzana B. Rodrigues.  Social Identity and Organizational Learning.  In Mark Easterby-Smith and Marjorie A. Lyles(eds.) Handbook of Organizational Learning.  Oxford: Blackwell: 535-556.

 

Child, John and Suzana B. Rodrigues. The International Crisis of Confidence in Corporations.  Journal of Management and Governance, 7 (3): 233-240.

 

Child, John and Suzana B. Rodrigues. Corporate Governanceand New Organizational Forms. Journal of Management and Governance, 7(4): 337-360.

 

Child, John and Malcolm Warner.  Culture and Management inChina.  In Malcolm Warner (ed.) Culture and Management in Asia. London: Routledge: 24-47.

 

Child, John and Yanni Yan. Predicting the Performance ofInternational Joint Ventures, Journal of Management Studies, 40 (2):283-320.

 

Faulkner, David, Robert Pitkethly and John Child. Organizational Change Processes in International Acquisitions. Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, 2: 59-80.

 

Pitkethly, Robert, David Faulkner and John Child. Integrating Acquisitions.  Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, 2: 27-57.

 

Rodrigues, Suzana B. and John Child.  Co-evolution and transformation in times of deconstruction: A dynamic multi-level process. Journal of Management Studies, 40 (8): 2137-2162.