Contributing authors

Bowen Liu is an undergraduate student majoring in Business Administration at the Business School of Shandong Jianzhu University in China. His professional interests include enterprise strategic management, business communications, and family-owned firms. He has published two articles in leading Chinese journals and is involved in a research project funded by the ShanDong Science and Technology Department.

Jie Shen currently is Professor of Human Resource Management (HRM) at the Shenzhen University. Previously, he was Professor of HRM at Curtin University (received market loading), and Associate Professor of HRM at the University of South Australia and Monash University. He currently holds a number of visiting professorship positions, including ones at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Southwest Jiaotong University, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai University, Fujian Normal University, and Northwest Agriculture and Forest University. His main research interests are HRM, industrial relations (IR), and organizational behavior. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Human Resource Management, the Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change and International HR Issues (now known as Evidence-based HRM: A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship).

Mengyao Chen is a PhD student at King's College London. She received her MSc degree in International Financial and Political Relations, which contained several courses related to globalization and global cities, from Loughborough University. This subsequently sparked her interest in and passion for urban geography. Therefore, she did her master's dissertation on the topic of The rise of Shanghai as a global city in the contemporary globalizing world. After learning more about the importance of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the global economy, she started to be interested in why TNCs are located where they are in global cities, especially in China. As a result, for her PhD, she researched the location strategies for the regional headquarters of some TNCs in mainland Chinese global cities, namely Beijing and Shanghai.

Tingli Liu is an associate professor at the Beijing University of Technology, China. She earned a master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, and she received her PhD in Business Management from Renmin University of China. She worked at Beijing Union University before joining the Beijing University of Technology in 2009. Her professional interests focus on corporate governance and earnings quality. She has published more than 40 academic articles and 3 academic books.

Songling Yang is Head of the Finance Department at the Beijing University of Technology. He earned his PhD from Renmin University of China in 2002. Now, he is the PhD tutor at the School of Economics and Management at the Beijing University of Technology. His professional interests include shareholder relationships, performance evaluation, and capital control. He has presented widely and published numerous articles as well as two academic books.

Qianqian Shi is a postgraduate student studying for her master's degree in Business Administration at the Beijing University of Technology, China. She received her Bachelor of Administration degree in Engineering Management from Qingdao Technological University of China. Her professional interests include shareholder relationships and earnings quality. She has published three academic articles, and in 2014 she developed software called Shareholder Relationship Analysis software.

Yanfei Zhu is studying for her master's degree in Construction Economics and Management at the Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology. She is researching real estate investment management, especially housing price rigidity based on tacit collusion between real estate companies. In 2012, she received her bachelor's degree in Engineering Management from the Henan University of Technology.

Miao Jiang completed his undergraduate study in engineering management at the Anhui Architecture & Industry Institute in 2010 and received his Associate Constructor certificate in 2011. He then worked as a construction engineer at Nanjing Newtown Wanlong Real Estate Company Ltd., where he was responsible for site construction supervision. In 2012 and 2013, he interned at Chinese Construction Steel Structure Company as an associate technician and at Tianzheng Property Appraisal Consulting Firm as an associate surveyor. He received his master's degree in Construction Economics and Management from the Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology in 2013.

Pengying Bai is studying for her master's degree in Land Resources Management at the Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology. Her interests are strategy management in real estate companies and land use sustainability appraisal on Chinese towns and villages. She received her bachelor's degree in English from Xi'an Eurasia University in 2011.

Ertao Wang completed his undergraduate degree in engineering management at Nanyang Industrial Institute in 2010. He received his Associate Constructor certificate in 2011 and worked as a construction engineer at Xi'an Gemdale Real Estate Company, where he was in charge of the overall quality of and schedules for construction projects. He received his master's degree in Industrial Engineering under Construction Economics and Management from the Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, and he published a paper titled "Research on Core Competitiveness of Real Estate Enterprise Based on Factor Analysis and Clustering Analysis" in Applied Mechanics and Materials in 2013.

Linyan Yang is a professor at the School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University. She received her MS and PhD degrees in economics from Xi'an Jiaotong University as well. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta (Canada), Gunma University (Japan), and the University of Maryland (USA). She has hosted and was involved in two provincial research projects, and she was also the major participant in several projects under the National Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China. Her papers have been published in Systems Engineering, Forecasting, Modern Economic Science, Science of Science and Management of S. & T., and others. When she is not working, she likes to play tennis, read books, and travel around the world.

Qi Cheng received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Industrial Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University. He currently works in a Chinese commercial bank.

Shimeng Tong graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor's degree in finance in 2013. He presented a paper at the 10th EBES (Eurasia Business and Economics Society) Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. He currently works for a hedge fund company in Manhattan and the China Foreign Exchange Trade System in Shanghai. His professional interests include advertising, mass communication, and marketing.

Rui Gao (Ray Rui Gao) is a postgraduate student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, pursuing his master's degree in accounting. Previously, he received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Xi'an Jiaotong University. His research interests include corporate governance, financial information, and accounting information systems.

Yuanyuan Wu is an associate professor at the Business School of Jiangnan University in China. She received both her master's degree and PhD in historical geography from Fudan University. She was a visiting scholar at King's College London from 2014 to 2015. Her professional interests include cultural tourism, heritage marketing, and business history. She has published more than 30 articles as well as 2 academic books.

Jinwei Zhu is a professor and Deputy Dean at the Business School of Jiangnan University in China. He received his master's degree in economics from Fudan University and his Doctor of Commerce and Management degree from Hitotsubashi University in Japan. His professional interests include multinational company management, cross-culture management, and entrepreneurship. He has published 40 articles and 3 academic books.

Fiona Henderson is a senior lecturer in Academic Language and Learning (ALL) & Coordinator of Academic Support and Development at Victoria University in Australia. She was a co-researcher and author of VU's national grant Improving Language and Learning Support for Offshore Students in 2005. She received a Carrick Citation in 2007, a Victoria University College Award in 2011, and a Victoria University Award in 2012. She was a senior team member for the highly successful Academic Literacy Project (funded by a VU Teaching and Learning Grant), which was the pilot project for the national project Investigating the efficacy of culturally specific academic literacy resources for Chinese students, for which she was the chief investigator. She has led VU's eight annual Teaching and Learning conferences with Chinese partner institutions in China. Her PhD research investigated employability skills from the perspective of...