Professor Linda Hsieh

The Department of Strategy and International Business
Professor of International Business

Contact details

Telephone: +44(0)121 414 3127
Email: h.hsieh@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Linda is a Professor of International Business and Head of the Department of Strategy and International Business at Birmingham Business School in the University of Birmingham. Her main research interests include decision-making, internationalization of firms, management of international strategic alliances and reshoring. Her research has been funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust. She has published in Journal of World Business, international Business Review, Journal of International Management, Management International Review, R&D Management, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Linda is an editorial board member of Journal of International Management. She also serves as a reviewer to leading management journals (ABS 3* and 4*) and the British Academy’s 2019 Programme on Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling the UK’s International Challenges.

Qualifications

University of Birmingham - PhD in Commerce

University of Reading - MSc in International Business and Finance (with Distinction)

University of Sheffield - B.A. (Hons) in Accounting & Financial Management and Business Studies

Teaching

International Cooperative Strategy (MSc International Business)
Cross-Cultural Management (MSc International Business Dubai)
Directing Strategy (MBA Singapore)

Postgraduate supervision

Linda would be interested in supervising PhDs in the areas of internationalization of firms and strategic alliances.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Child, J, Faulkner, D, Tallman, S & Hsieh, L 2019, Cooperative Strategy:Managing Alliances and Networks. Oxford University Press.

Article

Enderwick, P, Buckley, P, Hsieh, L & Shenkar, O 2026, 'Criminal Multinational Enterprises and Host State Relations: Insights from Transaction Cost Economics', Multinational Business Review, vol. 34, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-05-2025-0161

Liu, B, Tsang, E, Ahlstrom, D & Hsieh, L 2026, 'More replication studies are needed in international management!', Journal of International Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2026.101369

Buckley, PJ, Enderwick, P, Hsieh, L & Shenkar, O 2024, 'International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise', Journal of World Business, vol. 59, no. 5, 101553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101553

Elbanna, SM, Hsieh, L, Child, J, Narooz, R, Marinova, S, Puthusserry, PN, Karmowska, J, Tsai, T & Zhang, Y 2023, 'Foreign market involvement, entry-mode learning potential and SME internationalization outcomes', Management Decision. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-01-2023-0045

Child, J, Narooz, R, Hsieh, L, Elbanna, S, Karmowska, J, Marinova, S, Puthusserry, P, Tsai, T & Zhang, Y 2022, 'External resource provision and the international performance of SMEs – a contextual analysis', Journal of International Management, vol. 28, no. 3, 100924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2021.100924

Elbanna, SM, Hsieh, L & Child, J 2020, 'Contextualizing internationalization decision-making research in SMEs: towards an integration of existing studies', European Management Review, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 573-591. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12395

Hsieh, L, Child, J, Narooz, R, Elbanna, SM, Karmowska, J, Marinova, S, Puthusserry, P, Tsai, T & Zhang, Y 2019, 'A multidimensional perspective of SME internationalization speed: the influence of entrepreneurial characteristics', International Business Review, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 268-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.09.004

Child, J, Hsieh, L, Elbanna, S, Karmowska, J, Marinova, S, Puthusserry, P, Tsai, T, Narooz, R & Zhang, Y 2017, 'SME international business models: the role of context and experience', Journal of World Business, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 664-679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.05.004

Robinson, PK & Hsieh, L 2016, 'Reshoring: a strategic renewal of luxury clothing supply chains', Operations Management Research, vol. 9, no. 3-4, pp. 89–101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12063-016-0116-x

Mabey, C, Wong, ALY & Hsieh, H-Y 2015, 'Knowledge exchange in networked organizations: does place matter?', R&D Management, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 487-500. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12099

Child, J & Hsieh, H-Y 2014, 'Decision mode, information and network attachment in the internationalization of SMEs: A configurational and contingency analysis', Journal of World Business, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 598-610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2013.12.012

Rodrigues, SB & Hsieh, H-Y 2014, 'Revisiting the Trustworthiness–Performance–Governance Nexus in International Joint Ventures', Management International Review, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 675-705. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-014-0217-4

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Hsieh, L 2026, Global Perspectives on Cooperative Strategy. in N Roijakkers, D Cobben, Y Kirkels & M Soltanifar (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Cooperative Strategy. Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management, Edward Elgar. <https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elgar-encyclopedia-of-cooperative-strategy-9781035307999.html?srsltid=AfmBOoryQCjZYEqIXN-cuyWAKqJUELHvdCkmwXb-BaM-CvbR9BXK2hPb>

Conference contribution

Leek, S, Hsieh, L & Kumakura, T 2018, Network Contacts, Facilitators and Inhibitors of International Opportunity Development: The Case of Japanese SMEs. in Academy of International Business (AIB) .

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