BA (Monash University (Australia)), Master of Arts in Comparative Asian Studies (University of Hong Kong), PhD (Australian National University)
Emeritus Professor (Strategy and International Business)
Department: Strategy and International BusinessE-mail: Stephen.Morgan@nottingham.ac.ukLocation: C42 (South Building, Jubilee Campus)
Stephen Morgan is Professor of Chinese Economic History (Emeritus) who retired from the Department of Strategy and International Business of NUBS in October 2022 after 15 years at the University of Nottingham. He had joined the Department in 2020 on his return from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, where he had served as Dean of Social Sciences (2013-16), Associate Provost for Planning (2016-18) and the Executive Director of the Nottingham China Health Institute (2018-20). Most of his teaching has focused on Asia/China economic and business development, international business and strategic management.
Before going to the China campus, he was in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, which he joined in 2007 after 14 years at the University of Melbourne. Stephen has a PhD from the Research School of Pacific and Asia Studies at the Australian National University, a MA from the University of Hong Kong and a BA from Monash University, as well as graduate certificates from the Beijing Languages Institute (1982) in Chinese and from Nanjing University (1985) in Chinese history and economics.
In an earlier career he was a journalist, foreign correspondent and magazine and newspaper editor in Australia, China and Hong Kong, including the Far Eastern Economic Review (1987-90).
His research is cross-discipline focused mostly on China (see Research and Knowledge Exchange).
Areas of ExpertiseEconomic and business history of China
International business and strategic management related to China
Economic development, politics and society of contemporary China
Health and welfare in China
The following lists my publications from 2014 to the present day.
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His teaching is primary related to strategy and international business. He teaches into the tri-campus module on the silk roads: The Silk Road: cultural interactions and perceptions (CLAR3085 UNUK AUT2)(INTS2037 UNNC AUC1)(PHIR3035 UNMC AUM1)(23-24). This is taken by students on the UK, China and Malaysian campuses (about 120 or so last year). He delivers a lecture "Trade and Exchange between Southeast Asia and China from the Tenth to Eighteenth Century". The URL for the Moodle.
https://moodle.nottingham.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=145488
Stephen Morgan's research is multi-discipline. In economic history, his research includes pioneering the use of anthropometric methods to estimate long-run change in health and welfare in China extending back to the 18th century. He has also researched the transfer of managerial knowledge to China in the early 20th century and the integration of grain markets in the 18th century.
Research on contemporary China includes international business, strategic management, and the role of social networks in the organisation and management of Chinese firms. Another area related to anthropometric methods is focused on health and wellbeing of the Chinese population, especially children, including publishing on childhood obesity.
His most recent book, The Chinese Economy (Agenda, 2021), included a major focus on the constraints that will hold back innovation in China and in turn future economic growth.
Current projects include a study of child stunting and nutrition in China, economic relations between Southeast Asia and China from the 13th to the 18th centuries for an edited book on the history of the Silk Road, and a new book on technology and economic growth in contemporary China. He has also renewed his interest in the economic history and
development of Indonesia, which was the first Asian language he studied years ago, as well as business consulting on China and Indonesia.