Dr Honglan Yu

PhD, FHEA

Management School

Lecturer in International Entrepreneurship

honglan.yu@sheffield.ac.uk

Sheffield University Management School

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Dr Honglan Yu
Management School
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL

Profile: Honglan is a Lecturer in International Entrepreneurship within the Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business (ES&IB) group at the Sheffield University Management School. His research interests lie in antecedents, processes and outcomes of organisational learning during SMEs’ internationalisation.

Qualifications

PhD - University of Glasgow
MSc International Business and Emerging Markets - University of Edinburgh

Research interests: Honglan's research lies at the intersection of international business, entrepreneurship and organisational learning. He mainly explores how and why small firms learn differently after experiencing foreign market exits and the performance implications of their learning. His works have been published in Journal of International Management, Journal of Business Research and Technovation amongst others.

Publications

Journal articles

Adams K, Attah-Boakye R, Yu H, Chu I & Mali D (2024) African Continental Free Trade Area and Regional Trade in ICT and Digital Technologies. Journal of International Management, 101156-101156.
Zhou Q, Yu H, Adams K, Attah-Boakye R & Johansson J (2024) The impacts and outcomes of sustainable servitisation: A systematic literature review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 447, 141334-141334.
Attah-Boakye R, Adams K, Hernandez-Perdomo E, Yu H & Johansson J (2023) Resource re-orchestration and firm survival in crisis periods: The role of business models of technology MNEs during COVID-19. Technovation, 125, 102769-102769.
Adams K, Attah-Boakye R, Yu H, Johansson J & Njoya ET (2023) Female board representation and coupled open innovation: Evidence from emerging market multinational enterprises. Technovation, 124, 102749-102749.
Adams K, Attah-Boakye R, Yu H, Chu I & Ishaque M (2023) Competence and enterprise of management as drivers of early foreign listing of medium-sized emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) from Africa. Journal of Business Research, 158, 113660-113660.
Yu H, Fletcher M & Buck T (2022) Managing digital transformation during re-internationalization: Trajectories and implications for performance. Journal of International Management, 28(4), 100947-100947.
Attah‐Boakye R, Adams K, Yu H & Koukpaki ASF (2022) Eco‐environmental footprint and value chains of technology multinational enterprises operating in emerging economies. Strategic Change, 31(1), 99-116.
Zhou Q, Yu H, Adams K, Attah‐Boakye R & Johansson J () Uncovering the impact of digital technologies on strategising: Evidence from a systematic literature review. International Journal of Management Reviews.
Attah-Boakye R, Adams K, Yu H, Daffyd M & Hyoungjoo L () Growing old, but paying back: Understanding how age influences corporate social innovation depth and breadth of multinationals in weak institutional contexts. Management International Review.

Research group

Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business (ES & IB)

Teaching activities

MGT380 New Venture Creation (Undergraduate)
MGT1604 European Business (Postgraduate)

PhD Supervision: Honglan is supervising and accepting PhD researchers in areas related to international business and entrepreneurship.