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Department
Département
Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Strategy
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
Competitive Strategy
Technological Innovation
Business History
Biography
Biographie
Peiran Su (PhD, University College Dublin) is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Audencia Business School, France. Prior to this appointment he held academic positions in Ireland, Denmark, and the UK. Su’s research focuses on competitive strategy, technological innovation and business history. His papers appear in the field’s leading outlets such as Accounting History, Enterprise and Society, Strategic Management Journal, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, among others. Su has taught from undergraduate to doctoral levels and supervised/examined PhD/DBA theses. He currently teaches Strategic Management course in the master programme.
Diplomas
Doctorate, Business administration, Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
University College Dublin, Dublin
(2012)
Experiences
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategy
Oxford Brookes University , Oxford
2018 - 2022
Publications
Published
DING Y. Y., MCKINSTRY S., SU P., (2025). Organisational Improvisation, Architectural ‘Piggybacking’ and Masonic Networking in the International Settlement, Shanghai: Building an Anglican Cathedral, 1864-1869.
Enterprise and Society, 26 (1), 332-354
DING Y. Y., MCKINSTRY S., SU P., (2025). From accountability by imperial decree to the minute disclosure of international trade: Hart’s accounting system for China’s maritime customs, 1861–c1880’s.
Accounting History, 30 (4), 575-597
XIONG J., YAN J., SU P., BONANNI C., LI Q., (2023). Knowledge management practices by middle managers to attain organizational ambidexterity.
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 35 (12), 1635-1648
ARNDT F., GALVIN P., JANSEN R. J. G., LUCAS G. J. M., SU P., (2022). Dynamic capabilities: New ideas, microfoundations, and criticism.
Journal Of Management and Organization, 28 (3), 423–428
DING Y. Y., MCKINSTRY S., SU P., KININMONTH K., (2020). Comprehending the relationship between a company and its accountants, 1894–1967: Evaluating and accommodating Foucauldian and other perspectives.
Accounting History, 25 (3), 448-467
SU P., SHYAMOL M., (2019). A. F. Craig & Co. Ltd. of Paisley c.1950-1970: A strategy-focused narrative.
Scottish Business and Industrial History, 32 (2), 72-93
SU P., WANG L., YAN J., (2018). How users’ Internet experience affects the adoption of mobile payment: a mediation model.
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 30 (2), 186–197
BERGH D. D., AGUINIS H., HEAVEY C., KETCHEN D. J., BOYD B. K., SU P., LAU C. L. L., (2016). Using meta-analytic structural equation modeling to advance strategic management research: Guidelines and an empirical illustration via the strategic leadership-performance relationship.
Strategic Management Journal, 37 (3), 477–497
REN S., SU P., (2015). Open innovation and intellectual property strategy: the catch-up processes of two Chinese pharmaceutical firms.
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 27 (10), 1159-1175
SU P., MCNAMARA P., (2012). Exploration and exploitation within and across intra-organisational domains and their reactions to firm-level failure.
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 24 (2), 129-149
SU, P., DEKKERS, R., LEKKERKERK, L. J. (2024). Toward a research instrument for firm behaviour in the dichotomy dynamic versus myopic national innovation systems: Reflections from a systems perspective. European Perspectives on Innovation Management (pp. 93-129). Springer.
SU, P. (2014). Simulation of Knowledge Intensive Processes (1 ed.). In Ezendu Ariwa (Ed.), Green Technology Applications for Enterprise and Academic Innovation (pp. 265-275). IGI Global.
SU, P. (2014). Sustaining Competitiveness in the Economic Recession: Exploration and Exploitation in Two Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in a Developing Economy (1 ed.). In Uriel Stettner, Barak S. Aharonson, Terry L. Amburgey (Eds.), Exploration and Exploitation in Early Stage Ventures and SMEs (pp. 237-262). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
SU P., (2023). The perceived value of higher education in developed countries: an application of Bourdieu's theory in China.
DING Y. Y., SU P., (2021). Dynamic Capabilities of Cowan & Sons, Papermakers, Penicuik, 1779-1965.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021 (1)
Professional conference
SU P., DING Y. Y., (2025). Dodwell & Co. Ltd., merchants and shipping agents, 1858-1973.
SU P., DING Y. Y., (2025). UK’s Export Credits Guarantee Department, 1919-1973.
SU P., DING Y. Y., LIU C., (2025). Navigating the Challenges of Cultured Meat: Strategies Employed by Firms, Strategic Management Society (SMS) Special.
SU P., DING Y. Y., (2024). Understanding business longevity in a changing environment: Dynamic capabilities in Cowan & Sons.
SU P., DING Y. Y., (2024). The role of failure and firm performance in achieving organizational ambidexterity.
Scientific activities
Reviewer for an academic journal
Transactions on Engineering Management
2022
Accounting History
2020
Journal of Management and Organization
2019
Journal of Strategy and Management
2014
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
2012
International Small Business Journal
2011
Guest Editor of an academic journal
Journal of Management & Organization
2020
Awards and honors
Understanding historical strategic changes in industrial enterprises in Paisley, c.1850-1980, 2020
Learning from an international comparison of innovation practices at market-niche dominant SMEs, 2019
The process of ageing: Understanding firm longevity and historical strategic changes in A. F. Craig & Co. Ltd., c.1880-c.1980, 2017
University Recognition, 2017
FAW Group Corporation: 1953-2013, 2014
Otto Monsteds Fund, 2013
EDAMBA Thesis Competition Finalist, 2013
EURAM Best Paper in Strategic Management, 2011
EURAM Best Conference Paper Finalist, 2011
UCD Ad Astra Research Scholarship, 2007
Doctoral supervision
Since 2023 H. MOUBAYED : Unleashing Effective Collaboration: Overcoming Personal Beliefs and Fostering Neutrality in Diverse Work Environments.
Since 2023 L. MOODLEY : Speak up culture.
Since 2020 : Learning from failure: The impact of knowledge management capability and risk of failure.
(2019) : Impact of board structure and board resource on firm’s performance: Evidence from Pakistan.
(2019) : An investigation of the role of transformational leadership behaviours: A case study on Sainsbury’s.
(2018) : The decline of A. F. Craig & Co. Ltd.: A longitudinal case study of the firm’s last decades.
(2023) : What are the factors determining antecedents of strategy tools used in SMEs operating in B2B?.
(2022) : Success factors of storytelling commercials.
(2021) : An assessment of the private house builders performance in the UK from 2010 to 2020: a study of four cases.
(2020) : Understanding player’s purchase intention in free-to-play mobile games perspectives of consumption values and game identification.
(2019) : Value and barriers of applying building information modelling (BIM) technology in green buildings.
(2019) : The effect of business model design on firm performance: An empirical analysis based on fast-moving consumer goods distributors in China.
(2018) : Exploring the impact of EPC project management model on project execution in the Chinese industry: A cross case analysis.
(2018) : The economic consequence of state leader visit to listed firms in China: Over investment, profit manipulation, favorable policy and firm performance.
(2017) : The impact of microblog opinion leaders on consumer behavior under negative WOM circumstances.
(2016) : China's venture capital syndication and investment performance.
(2016) : Research on business model of international telecom operators from the perspective of value net: Comparative case studies.
(2013) : Determinants of the adoption of mobile payment in China's 3G market.
(2013) : Corporate governance and firm performance: Board of directors and large shareholders.