Professor Edmund Thompson
+44 (0) 1225 386473
PhD London School of Economics.
Job Title:
Professor of International Management
Subject Group:
Strategic and International Management
Key Research Interests:
International competitiveness and strategy, international political economy and socio-psychological environments
Research Interests
My main research interests cover (i) firm and national competitiveness, (ii) international business strategy, (iii) firm creation and entrepreneurship, and (iv) cross-cultural socio-psychological aspects of these.
PhD Supervision
I specifically seek PhD candidates who want to be career academics and who are eager to undertake and publish world-class research. I give preference to candidates with high scores in GRE and GMAT, but welcome enquiries from any well-qualified potential candidates interested in my various areas of research.
Publications
Refereed journal papers
Brown AD & Thompson ER. (Forthcoming) A Narrative Approach to Strategy-as-Practice, Business History
Thompson ER & Prenergast GP (2013) Belief in luck and luckiness: conceptual clarification and new measure validation. Personality and Individual Differences 54: 501-506 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.027
Prendergast GP & Thompson ER. (2013) Rational and irrational influences on lucky draw participation, International Journal of Advertising. 32(1):85-100
Thompson ER & Phua FTT. (2012) A Brief Index of Affective Job Satisfaction, Group & Organization Management. 37(3): 275-307. DOI: 10.1177/1059601111434201
Thompson ER. (2009) Individual entrepreneurial intent: construct clarification and development of an internationally reliable metric (pdf), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 33 (3): 669-694. DOI: 10.1111/J.1540-6520.2009.00321x
Prendergast G & Thompson ER. (2008) Sales promotion strategies and belief in luck. Psychology & Marketing, 25(11): 1043-1062. DOI: 10.1002/mar.20251
Thompson ER. (2008) Development and validation of an international English big-five mini-markers. Personality and Individual Differences. 45(6): 542–548. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.06.013
► older publications
Thompson ER (2007) Development and validation of an internationally reliable short-form of the positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS). Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38(2): 227-242. DOI: 10.1177/0022022106297301
Thompson ER & Phua FTT. (2005) Reliability among senior managers of the Marlowe-Crowne short-form social desirability scale. Journal of Business and Psychology, 19(4): 541-554. DOI: 10.1007/s10869-005-4524-4
Thompson ER & Phua FTT. (2005) Are national cultural traits applicable to senior firm managers?. British Journal of Management, 16(1): 59-68. DOI: N/A
Thompson ER. (2004) National competitiveness: A question of cost conditions or institutional circumstances? British Journal of Management, 15(3): 197-218. DOI: N/A
Poon JPH & Thompson ER. (2004) Convergence or differentiation? American and Japanese transnational corporations in the Asia-Pacific. Geoforum, 35(1): 111-125.
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2003.08.008
Thompson ER. (2004) National competitive advantage and the roles of economic and political freedom. Public Choice, 120(3-4): 401-437.DOI: 10.1023/B:PUCH.0000044294.44879.86
Thompson ER. (2004) The political economy of national competitiveness: ‘One country, two systems’ and Hong Kong's diminished international business reputation. Review of International Political Economy, 11(1): 62-97. DOI: 10.1080/0969229042000179767
Thompson ER. (2003) A grounded approach to identifying national competitive advantage: A preliminary exploration. Environment and Planning A, 35(4): 631-657. DOI: 10.1068/a35110
Poon JPH & Thompson ER. (2003) Developmental and quiescent subsidiaries in the Asia Pacific: Evidence from Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Sydney. Economic Geography, 79(2): 195-214. DOI: N/A
Thompson ER. (2003) Technology transfer to China by Hong Kong's cross-border garment firms. Developing Economies, 41(1): 88-111. DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1049.2003.tb00931.x
Thompson ER. (2003) The relative importance and effectiveness of business cases in Asia: Hong Kong MBA student perceptions by sex, age and educational background. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 23(1): 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/0218879030230102
Thompson ER. (2002) Clustering of foreign direct investment and enhanced technology transfer: evidence from Hong Kong garment firms in China. World Development, 30(5): 873-889. DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(02)00009-8
Thompson ER. (2002) Chinese perspectives on the important aspects of an MBA teacher. Journal of Management Education, 26(3): 229-258. DOI: 10.1177/10562902026003002
Thompson ER. (2002) Competitiveness concerns in Hong Kong: business fears and government incomprehension. The Pacific Review, 15(3): 443-467. DOI: 10.1080/09512740210152876
Poon JPH & Thompson ER. (2001) Effects of the Asian financial crisis for international capital. Geoforum, 32(1): 121-131. DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7185(00)00041-5
Thompson ER. (2001) Dangers of differential comprehensions of Hong Kong's competitive advantages: evidence from firms and public servants, The China Quarterly, 167(Sept): 706-723. DOI: 10.1017/S0009443901000390
Thompson ER. (2001) Financial sector multinational investment and reform in East Asia, American Asian Review, 14(1): 601-617.
Thompson ER. (2001) Key MBA programme attributes according to Chinese students: Do Western MBA models need to be changed for the world's largest future management education market? Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 21(2): 34-51. DOI: N/A
Thompson ER. (2001) Manufacturing foreign direct investment, Asian crisis, regulation and institutions. Journal of Asia Pacific Business, 3(4): 3-20. DOI: 10.1300/J098v03n04_02
Thompson ER. (2001) Multinational firm responses to an Asian-crisis comeback: Evidence from European transnationals. The Pacific Review, 14(2):105-123.
DOI: 10.1080/09512740110037389
Thompson ER & Poon JPH. (2001) Japanese and American internationalization strategies: Firm-level analysis in Southeast Asia Journal of Asian Business, 17(2): 15-3
