Dr Tianyou Hu

    School of Business

    Lecturer / Assistant Professor

    Biography

    Dr. Tianyou Hu serves as assistant professor in Maynooth university. He earned his PhD in Management from National University of Singapore (NUS Business School), and two Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics and Literature and an MBA from Peking University. Dr. Hu has published in Journal of International Business Studies, British Journal of Management and European Journal of International Management. His research interests span the areas of strategic management and international business, with a focus on institutional environments for foreign direct investment, as well as interfirm alliances and networks.

    Research Interests

    1. Strategic Management: Interfirm Alliances and Networks; Interfirm Competition and Strategies ·      2. International Business: Foreign Direct Investment; Political Risks; Non-Business Environments; Business Groups; MNE theory.

    Research Projects

      Project Role Funding Body / Program Description Start Date End Date Award (€)
    Resource Exchange and Strategic Compromise: How Small Firms Gain from the Alliances with Large Firms PI, first and leading author / 01-JAN-21
    Extradition treaties and the foreign location choice of emerging market firms PI, first and leading author / 01-JAN-20

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2021 'Centrality Asymmetry and Partner Complementarity as Influences on Alliance Dissolution'
    Hu, Tianyou,Jain, Amit,Delios, Andrew (2021) 'Centrality Asymmetry and Partner Complementarity as Influences on Alliance Dissolution'. British Journal of Management, 32 (1):59-79 [Details]
    2019 'The Determinants of Foreign Investment Size: The Role of Parent Firm Advantage and Cross-National Distance'
    Nan Zhou, Tianyou Hu, & Andrew Delios (2019) 'The Determinants of Foreign Investment Size: The Role of Parent Firm Advantage and Cross-National Distance'. European Journal of International Management, [Details]
    2021 'Sister cities, cross-national FDI, and the subnational FDI location decision'
    Hu, Tianyou,Natarajan, Siddharth,Delios, Andrew (2021) 'Sister cities, cross-national FDI, and the subnational FDI location decision'. Journal of International Business Studies, 52 (7):1279-1301 [Details]

    Conference Publications

      Year Publication
    2014 When Diplomacy Matters: How Foreign Subsidiaries Survive Bilateral Relation Fluctuations
    Tianyou Hu, Jane Lu (2014) When Diplomacy Matters: How Foreign Subsidiaries Survive Bilateral Relation Fluctuations Academy of Management Proceedings [DOI] [Details]

    Honours and Awards

      Year Title Awarding Body
    2014 Fundação Dom Cabral Best Paper in Strategy / IB Theory Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2014
    2016 IM Division, Best Papers Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016

    Committees

      Committee Function From / To
    Business in Arts committee member 2021 /

    Languages

      Language Reading Writing Speaking
    German Fluent Functional Functional

    Reviews

      Journal Role
    Management And Organization Review Member of the Editorial Board

    Teaching Interests

    International Business
    Strategic Management

    External Collaborators

      Name Role / Description Country
    National University of Singapore co-author SINGAPORE