bruce stening has been a professor at bimba since 2008 and between 2008 and 2014 was the vlerick international dean.prior to joining bimba, he was for over thirteen years a professor in the australian national university in canberra where he was (at different times) the executive director of the national graduate school of management and the associate dean (research) in the college of business and economics.
organizational behavior
phd, university of new south wales, australia, 1979
articles in refereed journals with impact
t.q. liu and bruce w. stening, ‘the contextualization and de-contextualization of confucian morality: making confucianism relevant to china’s contemporary challenges in business ethics’, asia pacific journal of management, in press - doi 10.1007/s10490-015-9415-2.
christopher nailer, bruce w. stening and marina y. zhang, ‘in researching emerging markets, anthropology often trumps statistics’, international journal of market research, 57 (6), 2015, pp. 855-876.
fuming jiang, lixian liu and bruce w. stening, do foreign firms in china incur a liability of foreignness?the local chinese firms’ perspective.thunderbird international business review, 56 (6), 2014, pp. 501-518.
yang s. stening b.2013. mao meets the market: reconciling ideology and pragmatism in china. management international review, 53(3): 419-448.
stening b. jiang f.2013. do indigenous firms incur a liability of localness when operating in their home market? the case of china. journal of world business, 48(4 (october)): 478-489.
yang s. stening b.2012. cultural and ideological roots of materialism in china. social indicators research, 108(3): 441-452.
elliott g. jiang f. redding g. stening b.2010. the chinese business environment in the next decade: report from a delphi study. asian business & management, 9(4): 459-480.
skubik d. stening b.2009. what's in a credo? a critique of the academy of management's code of ethical conduct and code of ethics. journal of business ethics, 85(4): 515-525.
stening b. skubik d.2007. do international management researchers need a code of ethics?. management international review, 47(1): 103-126.
articles in other (un)refereed journals
cui l. jiang f. stening b.2011. the entry mode decision of chinese outward fdi: firm resources, industry conditions, and institutional forces. thunderbird international business review, 53(4): 483-499.
stening b. zhang m.2007. methodological problems confronted when conducting management research in china. international journal of cross cultural management, 7(1): 121-142.
abbott g. stening b. atkins p. grant a.2006. coaching expatriate managers for success: adding value beyond training and mentoring. asia pacific journal of human resources, 44(3): 295-317.
stening b.2006. cultural intelligence: put it (high) on the asian hrm agenda. research and practice in human resource management, 14(2): 74-84.
book chapters
zhang x. stening b.2013. post-acquisition integration: a two-level framework. (pp. 75-111).
stening b.w. zhang m.2011. challenges confronting higher education in china. in: zoltan s. higher education in hungary and the world: tendencies and potentialities (pp. 56-69).
abbott g. stening b.2009. coaching expatriate executives: working in context across the affective, behavioral and cognitive domains. in: moral m. abbott g. routledge companion to international business coaching (pp. 181-202).
zhang m. stening b.2010. china 2.0: the transformation of an emerging superpower…and the new opportunities. wiley.
jiang f. stening b.2006. the chinese business environment: an annotated bibliography. edward elgar publishing.