Associate Faculty
Email: N.Holden@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Nigel Holden entered the world of management education and research in 1981, when he embarked on his PhD at Manchester Business School after a career in exporting and trade promotion. He retired from full-time academic life in December 2010, having previously held professorships in cross-cultural management in the UK, Denmark and Germany, and retains visiting professorships in Austria, Denmark and Thailand. He was invited to join CIBUL as a Visiting Research Fellow in May 2011. He is widely travelled management educator and researcher and is in frequent demand as a keynote speaker at international conferences.
His fields of publication embrace cross-cultural management, knowledge management, international marketing, management change in Russia and East/Central Europe, marketing in Japan, management terminology in various languages, intercultural business communication, talent management and business history. In 2007 he helped to co-found the European Journal of International Management, of which he is an associate editor. In 2008 he was described by the International Journal of Cross Cultural Management as having ‘influenced a generation of scholars in Europe and North America with his work on knowledge management, and perhaps his alternative approach to the well-trodden paths of cross-national values research.’
He has co-authored management books on Japan (1994) and Russia (1998), and his acclaimed Cross-cultural management: A knowledge management perspective (2002) has appeared in Chinese and Russian versions. His latest book, co-authored with Martin Glisby, is Creating knowledge advantage: the tacit dimensions of international competition and cooperation. In 2009 he was an adviser to UNIDO and consultant to the IAEA on knowledge management issues and was invited in 2010 to join the Advisory Board Ikujiro Nonaka Centre for Knowledge Management at IESE Business School in Spain.