SIBS Research Community Seminar – Professor Hao Tan

Title: How China’s Energy Transition Impacts its Firms’ International Expansion

Date: 23 April 2024

Time: 13:30-14:30

Location: NUBS.1.04

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How China’s Energy Transition Impacts its Firms’ International Expansion

Speaker:  Professor Hao Tan

Hao Tan is Professor in Management and Associate Dean (Education and Student Experiences) at the Nottingham University Business School China. Previously he served at various universities in Australia before joining the University of Nottingham Ningbo in January 2024. Dr. Tan’s research is primarily focused on energy and resource transitions, particularly within the context of China, and their global implications from a management research perspective. His work has appeared in Nature, Foreign Affairs, Journal of World Business, Management and Organization Review, among others. He is currently an Associate Editor of Technological Forecasting & Social Change and serves on the editorial review board of Management and Organization Review. He also frequently contributes to widely-read English and Chinese-language media platforms, such as the South China Morning Post, The Conversation, Financial Times Chinese, Lianhe Zaobao, Caijing, and China Dialogue. He is the author of the forthcoming book, “China’s International Energy Relations: The Impact of Transition from Fossil Fuels to Renewables”, due to be published by Cambridge University Press.

Abstract:

This study investigates the transformative shifts and the resultant new patterns of Chinese energy firms’ international activities amid the country’s ongoing energy transition and the global geopolitical changes. It employs the classic Ownership, Location, and Internalization (OLI) model and explores the shifts in Chinese energy firms’ global engagement through case studies on dynamics observed in three distinct sectors. This study reveals that China’s international energy relations are evolving in response to its domestic energy transition and the broader geopolitical shifts. While existing literature highlights the interdependency of national energy transitions, this study particularly underscores the pivotal role that energy firms, from both traditional fossil fuel and renewable industries, play in shaping these interdependencies.