Fuming Jiang

Fuming Jiang is the Professor of International Business and Head of the Department of International Business & Innovation and Entrepreneurship in The School of Management at RMIT University. He has been full Professor of International Business since 2011 and held various leadership roles including Head of School, Deputy Head of School, School Research Director, Discipline Lead, and MIB Program Director at Curtin University. Prior to these roles, he held positions as Associate Professor of Strategy (International Business), Associate Director of Centre for Asian Business and Chair of Research Committee at the International Graduate School of Business, University of South Australia. During six years of his academic career at the ANU College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University, he held the posts of Deputy Head of School, Chair of Education Committee, Discipline Convener of International Business, and Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in International Business, etc. Born in China, he worked as a Pharmacist at the People's Hospital of Jiangsu Province in China specializing in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Professor Jiang earned a Ph.D. in International Business/Strategic Management in 2002. His PhD thesis examined foreign direct investment (FDI) entry strategies of multinational pharmaceutical enterprises into China. His research has since focused on FDI decisions and strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in and from China. His research work has appeared in leading international business/management journals such as Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Journal of World Business, Management International Review, International Business Review, and Journal of International Management, among others.

Professor Jiang's most significant contributions to the theoretical development and extensions aligned with three literature bodies in the field of FDI and MNEs including liability of localness, FDI entry mode decision, and knowledge acquisition from international joint ventures (IJVs).

He is among the pioneering researchers who introduced and developed the Liability of Localness (LOL) perspective related MNE theory (Jiang & Stening, 2013; Perez-Batres & Eden, 2008; Un, 2016). LOL, as a parallel perspective of the Liability of Foreignness (Hymer, 1960/1976; Nachum, 2003; Zaheer, 1995) that has been a building block of MNE theories since 1960's, may challenge the fundamental assumptions of MNE theories and provide alternative explanations to the natural of competition and cooperation between MNEs and local indigenous firms, and thus, the MNE theories.

He has been a major contributor to the literature on understanding how state-ownership may affect FID entry mode choices of MNEs (Cui & Jiang 2009, 2010, 2012) and how the global mindset, a critical aspect of micro-foundation perspective, of decision-makers of MNEs may affect how the decision-makers process available information and reach at their FDI decisions (Jiang, Ananthram, & Li, 2018; Jiang, et al., 2021).

His most recent work published in JIBS (Jiang, Liu, & Li, 2023) develops a "Three-Dimensional Attachment" framework, i.e., "interpersonal attachment, interorganizational attachment, and person-organizational attachment", which offers us with an effective framework to understand the nature of the relationships, commitments, and exchanges among the individual boundary spanners, MNE subsidiaries, and MNE headquarters.

According to a study published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited (Quer, et al., 2014; dx.doi.org/10.1108/S1745-886220140000009018), Fuming Jiang was ranked No. 1 in the world for empirical research on Chinese outward FDI and Chinese MNEs published in high impacting international business and management journals during 2002 – 2012. His co-authored JIBS paper (Cui and Jiang, 2012; doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2012.1) entitled “State ownership effect on firms’ FDI ownership decisions under institutional pressure: A study of Chinese outward-investing firms” was the most cited paper adjusted by the year of publication as reported by a recent study published in JIBS (Sun, et al., 2021; doi.org/10.1057/s41267-021-00438-x). His most recent JIBS paper (Jiang, et al., 2022; https://rdcu.be/cI9Fs) that proposed a “Three-Dimensional Attachment” framework explaining reverse knowledge transfer to parent firms is an important advancement to the international joint venture and knowledge transfer literature.

Fuming is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Research. He serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management.