Professor Arie Lewin from Duke University Visited SPA
On May 14, 2015, invited by Dean Fan Libo of School of Public Administration, Professor Arie Lewin on strategy and international business from Duke University of the U.S. visited the School and gave a fresh and special workshop to the lectures of the School. The workshop was hosted by Zou Weikang, a lecture of the School, and he extended warm greetings to Professor Arie Lewin’s visit.
The workshop theme was “improving China’s innovation ability to avoid middle-income trap”. First, Professor Arie Lewin made speech on “whether China will fall in the middle-income trap”, then he introduced his new book < The Globalization of Knowledge Creation and Innovation of Emerging Economies >, which would be published soon. Later, representative lecturers had an in-depth discussion and exchanges with Professor Arie Lewin on a few important topics. At last, Professor Arie Lewin invited lectures to contribute to <Management and Organization Review>, a periodical under the editorship of Professor Arie Lewin.
Attendees at the workshop exchanged different ideas, which helped attended understand different research area and explored new cooperation space. Dean Fan Libo has always attached a lot attention to international exchanges and lecturers training, and that’s why he invited reputed professor to the School, which has improved international exchanges of the School into a higher level.
Professor Arie Lewin is a professor on strategy and international business of Duke University. He was elected as a researcher of Academy of International Business. At the annual meeting of 2008, Department of Organization Management and Theory of Academy of Management awarded the first Joanne Martin Pioneer Award to Professor Arie Lewin. He was once the visiting professor of IESE Business School of Spain (2005-2008) and Erasmus Rotterdam School of Management (1998- ) and senior researcher of Institute of Management Research of Erasmus University. He was the chief editor of <Journal of International Business Studies> (2002-2007), the founder as well as chief editor of magazine <Organization science>, and founder of the highly praised “Winter Conference of Organization Science” (1994-2010). Currently, his research and studies focus on policy upgrading, organizations’ adaptation for service purchasing in global business and emerging restructuring of organizations.
Professor Arie Lewin is the primary researcher of Offshore Research Network project, which is an international project founded for many years, involving areas such as companies during the globalization of organizations, business functions, programs and services for tracking company policies, and planning, administration and technics related to the globalization of business functions. His present researching projects are mainly focusing on the globalization of innovation, new organization forms and the emerging global service supplying industry.
