School of Finance and Management
Dr Huan Zou
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- School of Finance and Management Reader in International Management China Institute Academic Staff
- Department
- School of Finance and Management
- Qualifications
- BA LLB (Peking) PhD (Manchester)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- 530
- Email address
- h.zou@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone number
- 0207 898 4056
- Support hours
- On leave Term 1 2023/24
Biography
Dr Huan Zou completed her PhD in International Business at Manchester Business School in the UK.
She was formerly a lecturer in Strategic Management in Loughborough University and taught various undergraduate and post-graduate modules in strategy and international management. She joined SOAS in 2010 as a senior lecturer in International Management. Her research focuses on international entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, economic development and international business under climate change, internationalization of emerging economy firms, creative industry and firm growth.
Huan is one of the 33 outstanding academics who has been awarded the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2018-2019, the only one in the field of Management and Business Studies. She is co-investigator on 6 external research grants awarded by EPSRC, Newton Fund, Royal Academy of Engineering and Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK, working closely with business consultants, scientists and policy-makers in the UK and China.
Huan has published in high-ranking international business and entrepreneurship journals such as the Journal of World Business, Management International Review, International Journal of Small Business and International Marketing Review. She serves the editorial board of International Business Review, the official journal of EIBA.
Research interests
International entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, economic development and international business under climate change, internationalisation of emerging economy firms, creative industry and firm growth.
Research projects
| 2018-2019 | British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, “Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Attributes, Motivation and Action of Habitual Entrepreneurs in China”, the British Academy |
| 2017-2021 | Co-I, “Sustainable Solutions for Managing Compound Flood Risks under Future Uncertainties: The Case of Shanghai City and the Yangtze River Delta Region”, EPSRC |
| 2017-2019 | Co-I, “Development of an Integrated Urban Framework for Climate Services in the Yangtze River Delta Region”, Met Office UK |
| 2016-2017 | Co-I, “Climate Risk Assessment for the City Cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Region”, China Prosperity Fund, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK |
| 2015-2016 | Co-I, “Provide UK Expertise on Flood Control in Shanghai”, China Prosperity Fund, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK |
| 2008-2009 | PI, “The role of venture capital in the growth of Chinese high-tech new ventures”, British Academy Small Grant |
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Ms Ghadah Alharthi | Social Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia |
| Mr Linlan Huang | The Sino-Japanese Cooperation on Clean Coal Technologies in the Post-ODA Period: A Local Policy-Making Interplay |
| Miss Katherine Moe | Entry mode of emerging market firms |
Publications
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