Staff Profile

Xinwei Shi (Jason) is a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in Strategic Management at Newcastle University Business School. He achieved a PhD from Durham University and completed full-time Postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University.

Before joining Newcastle University, he worked as a Lecturer and Chief Youth Professor at the Capital University of Economics and Business; full-time Post-doctoral Researcher at Tsinghua University; and full-time Business Lecturer at Durham University.

His research has been published in top and leading international academic journals, e.g., Industrial and Corporate Change, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Digital Economy. He currently sits on the Editorial Review Board of the Management and Organization Review, Journal of International Business Policy, and Journal of Digital Economy.

Research interests

• Internationalization of emerging-county MNEs
• Business/innovation ecosystem (e.g., AI, 5G etc.)
• Digital economy

He is keen to supervise PhD students in these and related areas. Please feel free to contact.

BUS3054 Strategy, Organizations & Society

BUS3035 Contemporary Issues in International and Comparative Business

• Articles

  • Wang H, Shi X, Chen W, Chen Z, Wang Z. The Impact of Formal and Informal Institutional Distances on the Strategic Asset Seeking Motives of Chinese Multinational Enterprises: An Analysis of Patent and Trademark Acquisitions. International Business Review 2024.
  • Li X, Rong K, Shi X. Situating artificial intelligence in organization: A human-machine relationship perspective. Journal of Digital Economy 2024, (ePub ahead of Print).
  • Rong K, Shi X, Lv R. Empowering the sustainable development of the AI industry ecosystem with the "i7C" framework. 科学学研究 Studies in Science of Science 2024, 2023-4074.
  • Sahadevan M, Shi X. Who are business groups? What is their role in outward foreign direct investment (OFDI)? A conceptual paper with evidence from Malaysia. International Journal of Business, Economics and Law 2023, 30(2), 96-99.
  • Rong K, Zhou D, Shi X, Huang W. Social Information Disclosure of Friends in Common in an E-commerce Platform Ecosystem: An Online Experiment. Production and Operations Management 2022, 31(3), 984-1005.
  • Shi X, Williams C, Sutherland D, Rong K. Patent- and trademark-seeking outward foreign direct investment by Chinese firms: The role of business group affiliation. Industrial and Corporate Change 2022, 31(3), 838-862.
  • Ye Y, Zhou A, Shi X, Huang C. A SEED model for constructing the data factor market: Evidence from Guiyang Global Big Data Exchange (GBDEx) in China. Journal of Digital Economy 2022, 1(3), 273-283.
  • Wang H, Shi X. The influence of government affiliation level on Chinese MNEs' strategic motivation preference for specific FDI strategies. 西安交通大学学报 Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University (Social Sciences) 2021, 41(2), 42-51.
  • Rong K, Li B, Peng W, Zhou D, Shi X. Sharing economy platforms: creating shared value at a business ecosystem level. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2021, 169, 120804.
  • Wang H, Zhou S, Shi X, Hu A. Impact of ownership on Chinese local state owned enterprise's strategic asset seeking oriented foreign acquisition strategy. 管理学报 Chinese Journal of Management 2021, 18(3), 343-352.
  • Rong K, Shi Z, Zhou D. How can a Second Computing Industry Ecosystem be Built?. 科学学研究 Studies in Science of Science 2021, 39(6).
  • Shi X, Sutherland D, Williams C, Rong K. Chinese MNE acquisition of unrelated foreign businesses: The role of diversified business group affiliation, private ownership and strategic asset seeking. Journal of Business Research 2021, 129, 145-156.

• Book Chapter

  • Shi X, Lei J. Breakthroughs in Information Technology and Their Implications for Education and Health. In: Technological Breakthroughs and Future Business Opportunities in Education, Health, and Outer Space. Hershey: IGI Global, 2021, pp.83-95.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Wang H, Shi X, Chen W, Chen Z, Wang Z. Formal versus Informal Institutional Distance Impact on Strategic Assets Seeking Foreign M&A. In: 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. 2023, Boston, Massachusetts: Academy of Management.
  • Shi X, Sutherland D, Williams C. Why do Chinese MNEs Acquire Unrelated Foreign Businesses?. In: Academy of Management. 2020.
  • Shi X. Strategic-Asset-Seeking Foreign Direct Investment by Chinese Firms. In: Academy of Management. 2020.