Dr Tao Bai
Lecturer in International Business
School of Business
Researcher biography
Dr. Tao Bai is a lecturer in International Business. His research interests include multinational firm strategy, non-market strategy including political activity and social activity, and the intersection between, with the focus on emerging market multinationals as a field of research and practice. He has published articles at Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Research Policy, Long Range Planning, Management International Review, and Journal of Business Research, and in top Chinese academic and practical journals.
Publications
Journal Articles
Zhang, Jing A., O'Kane, Conor and Bai, Tao (2024). How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs. Research Policy, 53 (7) 105027, 105027. doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105027
Gu, Qian, Wang, Stephanie Lu and Bai, Tao (2024). Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals. Journal of International Business Studies ARTN s41267-024-00695-6, 1-20. doi: 10.1057/s41267-024-00695-6
Yu, Lin, Bai, Tao, Yin, Jingwei and Tan, Xue (2024). Overcoming the liability of origin by hiring foreign independent directors: evidence from Chinese firms' cross-border M&As. Journal of World Business, 59 (2) 101520, 101520. doi: 10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101520
Zhang, Jing A., Bai, Tao and O’Kane, Conor (2023). How political connections affect entrepreneurial risk-taking in SMEs: a symmetric assessment and a configurational approach. International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 41 (7), 685-713. doi: 10.1177/02662426221122845
Yu, Yang, Bai, Tao, Tang, Fei and Liu, Yulong (2023). The impact of nonfamily CEOs on family firms’ pursuit of political connections: The theory of bounded reliability perspective. Family Business Review, 36 (3), 1-32. doi: 10.1177/08944865231182194
Moeller, Miriam, Maley, Jane F., Wechtler, Heidi, Bai, Tao and Zheng, Linglin (2023). Navigating disruptive events to strengthen global managerial resilience. AIB Insights, 23 (3), 1-6. doi: 10.46697/001c.75449
Zhang, Jing A., Bai, Tao, Tang, Ryan W., Edgar, Fiona, Grover, Steven and Chen, Guoquan (2022). The development of individual ambidexterity across institutional environments: symmetric and configurational analyses. Management International Review, 62 (4), 517-540. doi: 10.1007/s11575-022-00477-y
Bai, Tao and Liesch, Peter (2022). Organizational goals and resource allocation to overseas foreign direct investment. Journal of World Business, 57 (3) 101308, 101308. doi: 10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101308
Bai, Tao, Chen, Stephen and Xu, Youzong (2021). Formal and informal influences of the state on OFDI of hybrid state-owned enterprises in China. International Business Review, 30 (5) 101864, 101864. doi: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2021.101864
Wang, Jingyi and Bai, Tao (2021). How digitalization affects the effectiveness of turnaround actions for firms in decline. Long Range Planning, 57 (1) 102140, 1-19. doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2021.102140
Jiang, Han, Jia, Nan, Bai, Tao and Bruton, Garry D. (2021). Cleaning house before hosting new guests: A political path dependence model of political connection adaptation in the aftermath of anticorruption shocks. Strategic Management Journal, 42 (10) smj.3315, 1793-1821. doi: 10.1002/smj.3315
Zheng, Leven Jianwen, Bai, Tao and Cross, Adam R. (2021). Signaling information management in entrepreneurial firms’ financing acquisition: an integrated signaling and screening perspective. Journal of Global Information Management, 29 (6) 90. doi: 10.4018/JGIM.287590
Bai, Tao, Chen, Stephen and He, Xiao (2019). How home-country political connections influence the internationalization of service firms. MIR: Management International Review, 59 (4), 541-560. doi: 10.1007/s11575-019-00386-7
Yu, Yang, Liu, Yulong and Bai, Tao (2019). Does attention from headquarters influence subsidiary behavior? A social psychological perspective. Long Range Planning, 52 (4) 101877, 101877. doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2019.03.003
Du, Jialin, Bai, Tao and Chen, Stephen (2019). Integrating corporate social and corporate political strategies: performance implications and institutional contingencies in China. Journal of Business Research, 98, 299-316. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.014
Bai, Tao, Du, Jialin and Solarino, Angelo M. (2018). Performance of foreign subsidiaries "in" and "from" Asia: A review, synthesis and research agenda. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 35 (3), 607-638. doi: 10.1007/s10490-017-9552-x