Dr Wei-Ping Wu

Dr Wu has been doing research on business and management in China and international business in the past 30 years. He is an elected full member of the Institute of Export, London, UK.

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Background

Prior to joining Anglia Ruskin University, Dr Wu had worked with University of International Business & Economics, China; Sheffield Hallam University, UK; University of Hull, UK; Lingnan University, Hong Kong; and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong in full-time capacity. Dr Wu also worked in part-time or visiting capacity with Ulster University, UK and University of Nottingham, Ningbo Campus, China. He was director, Institute of Pacific Asia Studies, University of Hull; coordinator, Curtin-Lingnan DBA programme; and director, DBA programme, Hong Kong Baptist University. His research has appeared in such ABS 4 journals as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of World Business.

Research interests

• Marketing such as consumer marketing and industrial marketing
• International business such as market entry and knowledge transfer in JVs.
• Organizational behaviour such as Leader and member exchange and industrial relations climate
• Cross cultural management
• Strategic management such as dynamic capabilities and performance; business networks and performance

Areas of research supervision

• An Empirical Study of Firm Performance and Synergy Creation in Hong Kong: A Network Approach (DBA)
• Social capital and Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms (DBA)
• Linking Foreign Parent-Transferred Knowledge with Performance Superiority (PhD)
• Information Sharing, Operational Capabilities and Firm Performance (PhD)
• Absorptive Capacity and Performance: The Moderating Roles of Socialization and Intra-Information Sharing (DBA)
• Absorptive Capacity, Marketing Capabilities and Performance of Social Enterprises (PhD)
• The Effect of Product Diversification on Firm Performance in an Emerging Economy: A Perspective of Sub-National Institutions (PhD)
• The Impact of Leadership Styles on Innovation and Firm performance: Taking Small-Medium Enterprises in China as an Example (DBA)
• Entrepreneurial Training and Entrepreneurial Intentions (DBA)
• High Commitment Work Practice and Turnover Intention (DBA)
• Leadership, Innovation Capability, and SME's Product Innovation Performance: The Moderating Roles of Reward Philosophy and Entrepreneurial Culture (DBA)
• Short-term Orientation and Performance (DBA)
• Social Media Marketing on Facebook: The Role of Construal Level (DBA)
• Absorptive Capacity, Incremental Innovative Capability and Performance: The Moderating Roles of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Transactional Leadership (PhD)
• Political Propaganda on both Social Media and Mainstream Media, and its Impact on Business Decision-making
• The Moderating Role of Organizational Culture in the Relationship Between Digital Transformation and Logistics Performance

Qualifications

• BA in International Trade, University of International Business & Economics, China
• MA in International Trade, University of International Business & Economics, China
• PhD, Business and Management, Ulster University, UK

Selected recent publications

Chung, K., Zhang, JF. And Wu, W-P (2025). Unlocking innovation in SMEs with a contingent approach: How does leadership ambidexterity promote organizational ambidexterity and innovation performance? Industrial Marketing Management, 131, 227-240. ABS 3

Sun, Y., Tekleab, A., Cheung, M., and Wu, W-P (2023). The Contingent Roles of Market Turbulence and Organizational Innovativeness on the Relationships among Interfirm Trust, Formal Contracts, Interfirm Knowledge Sharing and Firm performance. Journal of Knowledge Management, 27 (5), 1436-1457. ABS2

Bai, Y, Wu, W-P* and MFY Cheung (2019). How Personality Traits, Employee Incompetence, and Consumer Similarity Influence Shoplifting Behaviour. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 36 (3), 379-392. *Corresponding author ABS1

Zhang, JF., Wu, W-P and Chan, R (2018) Leveraging Channel Management Capability for Knowledge Transfer in International Joint Ventures in an Emerging Market: A Moderated Mediation model, Industrial Marketing Management, 75, 173-183. ABS3

Zhang, JF and Wu, W-P (2017) Leveraging Internal Resources and External Business Networks for New Product Success: Dynamic Capabilities Perspective, Industrial Marketing Management, 61, 170-181. ABS 3

Cheung, F.Y. M. and Wu, W-P. (2014). Leader-member Exchange and the Industrial Relations Climate: The Mediating Role of Participatory Management in China, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 52 (2), 255-275. ABS2

Zhang, JF and Wu, W-P (2013). Social Capital and New Product Development Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Sensing Capability in Chinese High-tech Firms. Journal of World Business, 48 (4), 539-548. ABS4

Cheung, F.Y. M., Wu, W-P and Wong, ML (2013). Supervisor-subordinate Kankei, Job Satisfaction and Work Outcomes in Japanese Firms, International Journal of Cross-cultural Management, 13 (3), 265-278. ABS1

Cheung, F.Y. M. and Wu, W-P (2012). Leader-member Exchange and Employee Work Outcomes in Chinese Firms: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction, Asia Pacific Business Review, 18 (1): 65-81. ABS2

Cheung, F.Y. M. and Wu, W-P (2011). Participatory Management and Employee Work Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 49:344-364. ABS2

Cheung, F.Y. M., Wu, W-P, Chan, Allan K.K. and Wong, May (2009). Supervisor-subordinate Guanxi and Employee Work Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction, Journal of Business Ethics, 88:77-89. ABS3

Wu, W-P (2008). Dimensions of Social Capital and Firm Competitiveness Improvement: The Mediating Role of Information Sharing, Journal of Management Studies, 45 (1): 122-146. ABS4

Wu, W-P, Chan, T.S. and Lau, H. (2008). Does Consumers' Personal Reciprocity Affect Future Purchase Intentions, Journal of Marketing Management, 24 (3/4): 345-360. ABS2

Zhou L., Wu, W-P and Luo, X. (2007). Internationalization and the Performance of Born-Global SMEs: The Mediating Role of Social Networks, Journal of International Business Studies, 38 (4): 673-690. ABS4*

Wu, W-P and Leung, A. (2005). Does a Micro-Macro Link Exist between Managerial Value of Reciprocity, Social Capital and Firm Performance? The Case of SMEs in China, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 22 (3): 445 -463. ABS3

Wu, W-P and Choi, W.L. (2004). Transaction Cost, Social Capital and Firms' Synergy Creation in Chinese Business Networks: An Integrative Approach, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 21 (3): 325 -343. ABS3

Wu, W-P and Lee, D. Y. (2001). Participative Management and Industrial Relations Climate: A Study of Chinese, Japanese and US Firms in Taiwan, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 12 (5): 827-844. ABS3