Dr Guy S. Liu obtained his PhD at Oxford University, and specialized in economics of industry with a particular interest to China’s enterprise reform. He is a senior lecturer at Brunel University and adjunct professor of Sichuan University in China. He also lectures the Chinese economy and industry for visiting MBA/EMBA program at Oxford University. His research papers have been published widely in internationally leading journals such as the Economic Journal, Journal of Industrial Economics, and Journal of Comparative Economics, World Development etc. He has pursued his research on Chinese enterprise reform since 1989 and is an author of two books: ‘Economic Reform and Chinese State-owned Manufacturing Enterprises 1980-87’ (1996), and ‘Exit the dragon? Privatization and state controls in China’ (2005). He has been invited as a guest editor for special issues on China’s economy and enterprise reform in a number of Journals including China Economic Review, Economics of Planning and Corporate Governance –An International Review, and an editor as well for Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (Taylor & Francis). He has also been involved in policy-advisory work on Chinese enterprise reform for both British and Chinese government. He is a regular commentator on China's economic and business affairs for the BBC.
刘芍佳教授在1997年获牛津大学经济学博士, 主要研究产业组织经济学的企业理论, 产业发展与结构调整, 企业竞争力及产权制度与法人治理结构. 目前, 在英国布鲁耐尔大学获终身教位,任高级讲师; 同时, 在牛津大学兼职授课,给各国的EMBA培训课程讲授企业发展与中国经济;2003年被四川大学工商学院特聘为兼职博导教授. 刘教授对中国的国有企业改革进行了持续而深入的研究,其诸多研究成果在国际重要期刊公开发表,同时,在国内的国家一级核心学术期刊<管理世界>, <经济研究>也发表论文多篇. 其中“产权与企业绩效”(1998) 一文被评为当年中国最佳7篇经济论文之一. 他出版的重要著作包括：《八十年代的中国国有企业改革》(牛津大学出版社, 1994)、《退潮的巨龙: 私有化与国家控股》(BLACKWELL出版社,2005). 他还被许多国际期刊邀聘为有关中国经济问题的特刊主编,包括今年为<法人治理结构国际综述>期刊主编的 ‘中英法人治理结构比较’特刊等.他还是英国出版的<中国经济与工商管理>期刊的编辑. 另外, 刘教授还为中国和英国有关政府部门承担中国企业改革方面的政策顾问工作. 05年5月,他为世界银行和国务院发展研究中心完成一份有关中国企业私有化的调查报告,其内容受到国资委的高度重视和媒体的广泛报告. 他还是许多国际媒体对中国经济问题评论的常邀评论员,包括BBC,美国亚洲之音,法国国际广播电台,英国金融时报等.
电子邮件联系网址: Guy.Liu@Brunel.ac.uk
Publications
Edited book
Exit the dragon? Privatization and state control in China, with Stephen Green, 2005, Blackwell, ISBN 1-4051-2644-2.
Book
Economic reform and Chinese state-owned manufacturing enterprises 1980-87, with D.Hay, D.Morris, Y.Yao, 1994, Clarendon Press Oxford, ISBN 0-19-828845-X.
Special issues edited (as an invited guest editor) for journals
Comparative corporate governance: the experience between China and the UK, Corporate Governance—An International Review, 2005
China's two decades of economic reform, Economics of Planning, 2001.
China's new horizon: challenges and opportunities from WTO membership, China Economic Review, 2001.
Chapters in books
‘State-dominated corporate governance system in transition: the case of China’, in Handbook on International Corporate Governance: Country Analyses, edited by Christine Mallin, 2006, Edward Elgar.
‘The rise and fall of China’s corporate dragon: Kelon and its old and new owners’, in Handbook on International Corporate Governance: Country Analyses, edited by Christine Mallin, 2006, Edward Elgar.
‘Identifying ultimate controlling shareholders in Chinese public corporations: an empirical survey’, in Economy and Business in China: Now and Future edited by A.MacBean and D.Brown, 2005, Routledge Curzon
‘Ownership and control of Chinese public corporations: a state-dominated corporate governance system’, in Corporate Governance: Accountability, Enterprise and International Comparisons edited by Kevin Keasey, Steve Thompson and Mike Wright, January 2005, John Wiley, Chichester.
Articles in English peer-reviewed journals
‘What motivates and constrains politicians to privatize? The case of China’, with S. Pei & Wing T. Woo, Economics Letters, 2007.
‘Triggering the Chinese-style privatisation: motives and constraints’, with Pei Sun & Wing T. Woo, World Development, December, 2006.
‘Openness and efficiency of Malaysia, India and China relative to the world economy: a comparative study’, with X.Liu and Y. Wei, Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 2006.
‘The class of shareholding and its impacts on corporate performance: a case of state shareholding composition in Chinese public companies’, with Pei Sun, Corporate Governance – An International Review, 2005, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 46-60.
‘Comparative corporate governance: the experience between China and the United Kingdom’, Corporate Governance - An International Review, 2005, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1 – 5.
‘The dual pricing and consumption behaviour in China 1983-1995’, The Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, April, 2003.
‘How will ownership in China's industrial sector evolve with WTO accession?' with Wing T. Woo, China Economic Review, Vol. 12, 2001, pp. 137-161.
‘China's new horizon: Challenges and opportunities from WTO Members' with Xiaming Liu et al., China Economic Review, Vol. 12, 2001, pp. 103-106.
‘China's WTO accession and the impact on its large manufacturing enterprises' Contemporary China Series, No. 30, January 2001, pp. 1-62.
‘A two-decade economic reform in China’, Economics of Planning, with G.Garino, Vol. 34, No. 1-2, 2001, pp. 1-4.
‘Competition or Privatisation: a lesson learnt from China’s Enterprise Reform’, Economics of Planning, with G. Garino, Vol. 34, No. 1-2, 2001, pp. 37-51.
‘Cost behaviour of Chinese state-owned manufacturing firms in the 80s’ with D.Hay, International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 12, 1, 1998, pp. 25-37.
‘When does a firm go to grow by takeover?’, with D.Hay, the Oxford Bulletin of Statistics and Economics, Vol. 60, No. 2, 1998, pp. 143-164.
‘The investment behaviour of firms in an oligopolistic setting’, with D.Hay, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. XLVI, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-99.
‘The efficiency of firms: What difference does competition make?’ with D.Hay, The Economic Journal, Vol. 107, May 1997, pp. 597-617.
‘The efficiency impact of Chinese industrial reform in the 1980s’ with Z.Liu, Journal of Comparative Economics, No. 23, December 1996, pp. 237-255.
Articles in Chinese journals
‘The effective ownership control verse actual ownership control, and its implication to performance’, Journal of Financial and Economic Research, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, November, 2004.
‘The board structure and its impacts on performance: a case of Chinese companies’, The Management World, the Development Centre of the State Council of China, Sept. 2004.
‘The ultimate ownership and firm performance’, the Economic Research, China Academy of Social Science, July 2003.
‘Value creation versus profits: What does it differ? --- A theory and its application to Chinese quoted companies’, China Academy of Social Science, the Economic Research, June 2002.
‘The value of state-owned assets and reforming the state asset management system’, Research Journal for State-Owned Property, Ministry of Finance, China, February 2000.
‘Developing an efficient exit system for failed enterprises in the economy: a key issue of the enterprise eeform in China’, Modern Enterprise Herald, The Development Centre of the State Council, China, January 2000.
‘Corporate governance and enterprise performance’, Enterprise Management, The Development Centre of the State Council, China, September 1998.
‘What goods is a PC software? --- a policy recommendation for property right protection and product development’, Economic Science, Peking University, Vol. 110, No. 6, 1998.
‘Is China able to develop a nationally unified social security system?’, Strategy and Management, Beijing, No. 12, 1998.
‘The dual behaviour of Chinese state-owned enterprises in the transition’, with X.Liu, the Economic Research, China Academy of Social Science, November 1998.
‘The Property Right and Firm Performance’, the Economic Research, China Academy of Social Science, August 1998. (This paper was awarded one of China's seven best articles in economics in 1998.)
‘Chinese firms go to overseas by acquisition’ Journal of Social Science, Shanghai Academy of Social Science, No. 5, July 1994.
Advisory and consultant activities for governments and industries
Project leader and advisor to China Power International PLC, for a research project on Strategies for International Business Development – takeover & mergers in West, in which the project is financed by the company in 2006. (中国电力企业购并发展与国际化战略调研课题)
A research advisor to the Development Centre of the State Council of China, for a research project on China’s privatisation and enterprise restructuring, in which the project is financed by the World Bank, 03/2004-2005. (国务院发展研究中心企业研究所: 企业改制与绩效)
A mid-term reviewer to Department for International Development of the British Government, for China’s State-owned Enterprise Reform Project funded by British Government, October 2001.
An adviser to Training Division of Economic Committee of Shanghai Municipal Government, for executive and senior government officials training in the UK, 2001.
An adviser to the Senior-Official Management Division of Jilin Provincial Government, for its executive management-training program at Middlesex-Brunel Universities, 2000.
An adviser to Department for General Management of State Assets at Ministry of Finance of China, for the reform project of State Asset Management System, in which the project was financed jointly by the UNDP and the Ministry, 1999-2000.
A business adviser to Oxford-Cambridge International Ltd, for executive management education in the UK, 1997-2001.
An adviser to Simens Ltd (UK), for a merger project with a Chinese company, WendeLei Ltd., Sept – Oct 1998.