IAN WOOZLEY

Introduction:

Ian is researching subsidiary initiative and entrepreneurship in the multinational enterprise (MNE) and its influence on group evolution. He is doing this through qualitative research at several inter-linked subsidiaries of the same MNE group and aggregating this data to the group level. Ian is doing his research at Asian, American and European subsidiaries of a large Japanese electronics manufacturing division that fits the profile of the modern ‘global factory’. The research sheds light on the role of subsidiary influence and interaction in the coordination of the global factory.

Fluent in Japanese, Ian lived and worked in Japan for 5 years, managing and integrating expatriate employees in Japanese workplaces. He qualified academically and professionally in human resources at Warwick Business School. Ian has advanced training in Japanese language, politics and economics as well as in his chosen field of International Business. Ian is also researching the interaction of MNE subsidiaries with their host locations, pursuing this work in MNEs and at public sector organisations including investment promotion agencies and the United Nations.

Keywords:
Foreign Direct Investment; Global Factory; Subunit Evolution; Internal Political Economy; Location Advantages; Regional Development.

Supervisors:
Peter Buckley, Mario Kafouros, Peter Matanle, Sierk Horn.

Start Date: October, 2008. Full time.

Academic Positions and Awards:
• White Rose Research Scholar, National Institute of Japanese Studies and White Rose East Asia Centre, University of Leeds, 2008-2011.
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School, New Jersey, USA, 2010-2011.
• Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Award, 2011.
• Visiting Scholar, Nordic Advanced Research School of International Business (Helsinki, Copenhagen, Uppsala, Stockholm, Oslo), 2009-2010.
• Northern Leadership Academy Doctoral Research Fellow, 2009-2010.

Teaching Positions:
Graduate Teaching Assistant on the following courses:
• ‘International Business’, Department of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School, New Jersey, USA.
• ‘Principals of Management’, Department of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School, New Jersey, USA.
• ‘Contemporary Industrial Relations’, Leeds University Business School, Leeds.
• ‘Economic Institutions: Industry’, Leeds University Business School, Leeds.
• ‘Economic Institutions: Labour’, Leeds University Business School, Leeds.

Previous Degrees:
MA Advanced Japanese Studies (University of Sheffield).
MA Industrial Relations and Personnel Management (Warwick Business School).
Graduate Member, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Conference Papers:
• ‘Players in the Evolutionary Game: The Internal Political Economy of a Restructuring Multinational Enterprise Division’. Academy of International Business, June 2011, Nagoya, Japan.
• ‘Host Country Institutional Capital and Subsidiary Evolution in the Multinational Enterprise’. Academy of International Business, June 2011, Nagoya, Japan.
• ‘Location Advantages and Innovation in MNE Subsidiaries’. Norwegian School of Management, May 2011, Oslo, Norway.
•  ‘Location Advantages and Subsidiary Evolution: An Institutional Perspective’.
European International Business Academy, December 2009, Valencia, Spain.
• ‘Leveraging Institutional Capital in Japanese MNE Subsidiaries’ Northern Leadership Academy Doctoral Fellows Conference, October 2009, Leeds.