Our Story

Since its inception as an idea, ICOIS has made great strides. At the time when automation was dominating the intellectual discourse, database systems were emerging assets, biotechnology was rising from the ashes, universities and industry were collaborating, and socio-economic well-being was re-entering the public discourse, ICOIS was taking its root in mission and mottos. It adopted the mission, motto, and mode of its parent organization: Melliorum Institute International (MII), and ICOIS has blended it in three core concepts: Mellifluous (mellow) in behaviour, Organic (or) in approach, and Premium (ium) in values.

 

(A Non-profit organisation of research and development)

What's Happening?

1990s
Research Centre on Bio-lubricants from Soyabeans Technology
2000s
Basic and Applied Research and Collaboration across disciplines and institutions.
2010s
Incorporated in China and Collaborated with and between Universities
2020s
Developed into Regional Centres: Singapore, the UK, China, Malaysia
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Our Team

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Allen, Mathew

Professor

Matthew M. C. Allen is a Professor of International Business and Strategy and Head of the Management Science and Entrepreneurship Group at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published in leading comparative and international business journals, such as the British Journal of Management, Socio-Economic Review, Sociology, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Human Resource Management. He has gained funding for his research from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. His research examines how different types of capitalism influence work and innovation.

Archibugi, Daniele

Professor and Director

Daniele Archibugi is a Research Director at the Italian National Research Council at IRPPS-CNR in Rome, and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College. He has graduated at Sapienza University of Rome with Federico Caffè and taken his D. Phil. at the Universities of Sussex where he worked with Christopher Freeman and Keith Pavitt. He works on the economics and policy of science, technology and on the political theory of international relations. His research focuses on how innovation is related to economic, social and political global developments. He has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, London School of Economics, Harvard, and Rome LUISS.  He has been appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Sussex and Honorary Member of the French Research Network on Innovation.

He has worked on the globalization of technology, the theory and measurement of innovation, the international division of competences in science and technology, and the impact of innovation on economic cycles. He has led and participated to several international projects on science and technology policy promoted by the European Commission and by other international organizations.

Cacciolatti, Luca

Cacciolatti, Luca

Luca Cacciolatti is a Reader in Organisations, Economy and Society at University of Westminster, London, UK.  He received a PhD in Entrepreneurial Marketing from University of Kent (England), funded by the Scottish Government. He engages externally as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing) since 2016 and University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学) since 2011. He is on the editorial (advisory) board of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, as well as Journal of Business Research. He is a member of Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM), a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (FRSS) and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) in the UK.

Chen, Colin W K

President and Professor of Sustainability Association

Colin W.K. Chen is the president of Sustainable Management Association (SMA), in Bangkok, Thailand. He graduated from National Taiwan University, and got the Master degree of Environmental Science, Doctor degree of Civil Engineering & in Industrial Economics at Jinan University. He has worked at Yuan Ze University, Feng Chia University, and Tamkang University, Taipei University of Technology, Chienhsing University, and Jingwen University. I served at the head of the department, director of institute, director of incubation center, and dean of research and development office. In the industry, he served at Systems Applications Inc. (SAI) and ICF-Kaiser Engineers in San Francisco, USA, and Applied Scientific Research (TNO) in Netherland.

He lectured at Kitakyushu University (Japan), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (China). He has led Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in Taiwan. His research includes IoT & big data application, intelligent computation, scientific education, circular economy, and sustainability management.

Crowther, David

Professor of CSR

David Crowther is expert in various fields: he is a specialist in business administration, a games theoretician and a psychologist while also a qualified accountant who had worked as an accountant, systems specialist and general manager in local government, industry and commerce for over 20 years. After a number of years in the financial services sector, including a spell as divisional managing director of a multinational during which he set up and ran a credit card scheme, he decided to leave the business world and become an academic. In 1994 he joined Aston University and there obtained a PhD in 1999 for research into corporate social performance. In 2001 he became the first Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility in the world. He now holds various positions as Professor as well as being visiting professor in various institutions. He gives advice as Chief Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics and has consulted extensively around the world.  At Ansted University he is also a member of the Board and President of the Sustainability Research Institute. He has consulted widely including to US Presidential candidates, UN, EU & governments. David has published more than 60 books and has also contributed several hundred articles to academic, business and professional journals and to edited book collections. He has also spoken widely at conferences and seminars worldwide and acted as a consultant to a wide range of government, professional and commercial organisations. In 2002 he founded Social Responsibility Journal and established the Social Responsibility Research Network, an international body which now has several thousand members, together with associated international conference series, journals and books series. In 2010 he established the Organisation Governance Network and conference series.  He is listed in Who’s Who in the World and various other directories. His research is into sustainability, governance and corporate social responsibility with a particular emphasis on the relationship between social, environmental and financial performance.

Cyndy Yoshiko Shirata

Professor

Cindy Yoshiko Shirata boasts a remarkable career spanning academia, leadership, and advisory roles in various organizations after getting her PhD in 1999. She has taught in the field of Small and Medium Enterprise Management Consulting, served as the Council Chairman at the Road Tax Rating Council of Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau, contributing her expertise to tax-related matters. Cindy also plays an instrumental role on the board of directors of Growthix Capital Co., Ltd., where her insights into business management and strategy are highly valued. Her advisory positions at prominent organizations like Osaka Soda Co., Ltd. and Obihiro University of Animal Science and Technology showcase her commitment to fostering growth and innovation in diverse sectors. Additionally, her involvement as an Advisory Committee Member at the Asia-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues underscores her dedication to the broader academic and professional community.

She has dedicated over a quarter-century to educating students, teaching Ph.D. and MBA courses at esteemed institutions like the University of Tsukuba and Nihon University. Besides research and teaching, her leadership as the Secretary General of the Science Council of Asia, where she expanded the organization’s reach and promoted collaboration among Asian countries for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), demonstrates her global perspective and commitment to positive change. Furthermore, her historic appointment as the first female Chairperson of the Management Related Research Committee of the Science Council of Japan reflects her trailblazing spirit and dedication to advancing gender diversity in leadership roles. Her longstanding involvement in promoting gender diversity on corporate boards aligns with the evolving landscape of female representation in Japanese businesses. Cindy’s significant contributions to bankruptcy prediction modelling, with her SAF2002 model, had a meaningful impact on corporate rating agencies and national tax offices worldwide.

Froese, Fabian Jintae

Chair Professor of Human Resource Management and Asian Business

Fabian Jintae Froese is a Chair Professor of Human Resource Management and Asian Business at the University of Goettingen, Germany, and a Joint Appointment Professor of International Business at Yonsei University, South Korea. In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief of Asian Business & Management and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Resource Management. His areas of expertise are in human resource management and international management. His research has been published in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of World Business.

For his research, he has received numerous awards from e.g. Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, European Academy of Management, and raised more than 2 million USD in research funding. The International Journal of Human Resource Management ranked him as the 7th most prolific researcher worldwide in the area of expatriation. The German business newspaper Handelsblatt ranked him as one of the Top100 German-speaking business professors under 40 for research productivity.

He has written three books, more than 60 refereed journal articles, more than 20 book chapters, and more than 100 conference papers. His research has been published in leading scientific journals such as Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Resource Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of World Business and in practitioner journals such as Harvard Business Review. His most recent book on “Global Mobility and the Management of Expatriates” has been published by Cambridge University Press

Ghauri, Pervez N.

Professor

Pervez Ghauri completed his PhD at Uppsala University (Sweden) where he also taught for several years. After Uppsala, he joined Oslo Business School (later merged into Norwegian School of Management – BI), as Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) with main responsibility to develop an MBA programme. He thus started the first English speaking MBA and Executive MBA programmes in Nordic countries that were highly successful. After Oslo, he worked as Professor of Marketing and International Business at University of Groningen in Netherland, where he also served as Academic Dean for the last three years. After moving to UK, he served Manchester Business School and King’s College London as chaired professor of International Business, for several years. Currently, Pervez is Professor of International Business at University of Birmingham in United Kingdom.

Pervez is the founding Editor of International Business Review (IBR) and Consulting Editor for Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). He also served as Editor (Europe) for Journal of World Business (JWB) for the period 2007-2014. Pervez is a Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) and the Academy of International Business (AIB), where he was also Vice President between 2008 and 2010. Over the years he has captured several major research fundings totaling more than £6 million, from European Commission, ESRC, British Council, Riksbanken Jubliumsfond, Soderbergs Research foundations and Handelsbanken research foundations in Sweden.

Pervez has published more than 30 books including the best seller, Research Methods in Business Studies, now in 5th edition with Cambridge University Press. He has published more than 100 articles in top level journals such as, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, British Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, Long Range Planning and International Marketing Review. Over the years he has guest edited several of these top-level journals.  Pervez has also been consulting and running executive training programmes with several companies such as BP, Ericsson and Airbus Industries.

Hodgson, Geoffrey

Emeritus Professor in Management

Geoffrey M. Hodgson is Emeritus Professor in Management at Loughborough University London in the UK. His books include Liberal Solidarity (2021), Is There a Future for Heterodox Economics? (2019), Is Socialism Feasible? (2019), Wrong Turnings (2018), Conceptualizing Capitalism (2015), From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities (2013), Darwin’s Conjecture (2010, with Thorbjørn Knudsen) and several others. He has also published widely in the academic journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Institutional Economics and Secretary of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR).

Huo, Chunhui

Professor and VP

Chunhui Huo is a professor of business management at Liaoning University, and Director of Strategy and Innovation Management Research Centre. He is vice president of the university. He received his PhD at Liaoning University, post-doctoral at Fudan University, visiting scholarship at Stanford University, the University of Southern California, Kansai University and Victoria University. His research interests lie in the field of strategic management, innovation management and marketing management. His research has appeared in International Business Review, Business Process Management Journal, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Chinese Management Studies, and several SSCI publications. He has reviewed for major management journals. He has hosted National Social Science Fund Projects and more than twenty provincial projects. He has gained sixteen research awards for the first and second prizes at both the provincial and city level.

He is elected to the Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program (youth talents), the Liaoning Provincial Talent Plan (hundred-level), Excellent Talent Support Plan (first level), Liaoning Provincial Outstanding Young Teacher, and excellent postgraduate students’ supervisor of Shenyang city, Shenyang ‘May 4th Youth Medal’, ‘Top-ten’ Best-Rated Teachers at Liaoning University. He has served as the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Institute of Business Administration, the Director of Higher Business Education Branch of China Association of Higher Education. He Chairman of Liaoning Youth Federation of Overseas Chinese, the Vice Chairman of Postdoctoral Alumni at Fudan University, and the Executive Director of its Liaoning branch.

Ishtiaq Pasha Mahmood

Professor

Pasha Mahmood is a Professor at the NUS Business School where he studies and works with business groups and start-ups on navigating emerging markets. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s panel of experts and an Advisor for the SDI Academy in Singapore. Pasha obtained his B.A. in Economics from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Prior to joining academia, Pasha had worked as an analyst for the MAC Group (Gemini) in Chicago and Levitan & Associates (LAI) in Boston. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Professor at the IMD Business School in Lausanne. Pasha has served as an Area Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) from 2010-2013 and as a Senior Editor for the Management Organization Review (MOR) from 2013-2015. He won the Haynes Prize by the Academy of International Business (AIB) in 2002 and the Aspen Faculty Pioneer Award given by the Aspen Institute in 2014. Pasha’s recent case on bKash, a mobile payment platform from Bangladesh that has attracted more accounts than there are bank accounts in the country, has won the bestselling case award in 2021 from Ivey Publications. Literature, history, cappuccino, and train rides are some of his many weaknesses.

Jebsen, Simon

Associate Professor

Simon Jebsen is an Associate Professor for Management at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg. He is Editor-in-Chief of management revue – Socio-Economic Studies, a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary European social science journal publishing both qualitative and quantitative work, as well as purely theoretical papers that advance management and sociology research. His areas of expertise are in human resource management and entrepreneurship. He is currently focussing on employee voice and its interplay between leadership and organizational outcomes (e.g., innovation). His research has been published in journals such as Personnel Review, Management and Organisation Review, Competitiveness Review, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research.

Lee, Kuen

Distinguished Professor

Keun Lee is Distinguished Professor of Seoul National University (economics), and Head of the Center for Comparative Economic Studies. He is also the Vice-chairman of the National Economic Advisory Council, which is a key advisory body for the President of Korea (Chairman of the Council). He is a Fellow of the CIFAR (Canada) program on Innovation, Equity and Prosperity, and founding director of the Center for Economic Catch-up.

He is the winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize for his monograph on Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up (2013 Cambridge Univ. Press), as well as the 2019 Kapp Prize from the EAEPE, for his article on national innovation systems. He is also an editor of Research Policy, and an associate editor of Industrial and Corporate Change. He served as the President of the International Schumpeter Society (2016-18), a member of the Committee for Development Policy of UN (2013-18), a council member of the World Economic Forum (2016-19).and the President of the Korean International Economic Association (2020), He obtained Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. One of his most cited articles is a paper on Korea’s Technological Catch-up published in Research Policy, with 1,450 citations (Google Scholar). His H-index is 48, with about 127 papers with more than 10 citations. He has a new book, China’s Technological Leapfrogging and Economic Catch-up, from Oxford Univ. Press (2021).

Liu, Xielin

Professor

Xielin LIU is a professor in School of Economics and Management, Director of Research Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He got his BSc from Peking University in 1982, his master degree from Chinese Academy of Science in 1985 and his Phd in 1994 from Tsinghua University. His working experience is as this: Research fellow in Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development, Ministry of Science and Technology (1996-2006). Professor in Tsinghua University from 1985-1991,1994-1996. Professor: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2006-now.

His research areas mainly cover innovation management and policy, innovation ecosystem, regional and national innovation system. He has published a lot of papers in Research Policy, Technovation, Journal of Management Studies and International Journal of Technology Management, Science and Public Policy. He served as editor for Research Policy and other journals. He has published many books in English: Catch-up and Radical Innovation in Chinese State-owned Enterprise (Edward Elgar, 2021), Regional Innovation Index of China:2017(2018, Springer), Environmental Innovation in China (WIT,2012) and Innovation, Technology Policy and Regional Development with Tim Turpin (Edward Elgar, 2003).

Malik, Tariq H.

Professor of Management & Innovation Studies

Tariq H. Malik is a Professor of Management & Innovation Studies, Liaoning University, China. He received his PhD from University of London, UK. He is the founder of ICOIS and its parent organisation (Melliorium). He is one of the founding and life member of WINIR and honorary professor at multiple institutions for socio-economic development. He writes on a variety of topics, theories and practice in academia, industries, and policies. He advocates for integrating Science and Art (humanities). Composition of music is science; delivery is an art. Either alone is incomplete. Technology is science; adoption is art. Either alone is incomplete.

Nielsen, Klaus

Professor of Institutional Economics

Klaus Nielsen is Professor of Institutional Economics at the Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London where he is a member of Birkbeck Sport Business Centre. He teaches research methods, innovation, business in the European Union and economics of sport. His current research areas include varieties of capitalism, innovation, social capital, elite sports and the economics of sports. He has coordinated several research projects about Danish elite sports, sports participation and economic aspects of sport. His work has been published in several books and in journals like International Studies of Management and Organization, Journal of Economic Issues and European Sport Management Quarterly.

Oh, Ingyu

Professor

Ingyu Oh is Professor of Organizational Studies, International Business and Cultural Industries at Kansai Gaidai University, Japan. Before coming to Japan in 2018, he had taught at Korea University, Bristol Business School, Middle East Technical University, UC Berkeley, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, University of Waikato and University of Oregon. He was the ex-President of World Association for Hallyu Studies and the Editor of Culture and Empathy. He is the Managing Editor of Asia Pacific Business Review.

His research focuses on corporate governance, institutional approach to motivation, efficiency, knowledge management and innovation in complex organizations. His recent research focuses on K-pop and K-drama industries using psychological and institutional approaches to the question of postcolonial pop culture.

He has published 12+ books and over 60 referred articles in journals like Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, Comparative Sociology, Asian Business and Management, Third World Quarterly, Asia Pacific Business Review and Monthly Review. He and his team have received research funding that totals more than $2.5 million.

Puusa, Anu

Professor

Anu Puusa is a Professor in Management and the Deputy Head of Department at the Business School of the University of Eastern Finland and a Docent of Management and Co-operatives at LUT School of Business and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology. Her research interest areas are co-operatives, (namely their dual nature, co-operative governance and management), organization change, organizational identity and work-community skills (OCB). Puusa has published 4 textbooks and numerous journal articles. She is an awarded teacher and a TED TALK speaker (http://go.ted.com/anupuusa ) with several positions of trust in the cooperative sector.

Schramm, Ronald

Professor

Ron Schramm has been conducting research related to China since the early 1990s and is currently Professor emeritus, teaching part-time at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is the author of The Chinese Macroeconomy and Financial System: A US Perspective (Routledge). He was on the faculty of IBSS in Suzhou as an Associate Professor (2013-2016), creating and directing its Economics PhD program. Before IBSS he had been on the faculty of Columbia Business School for over 27 years. He also served as Finance Editor for the International Journal of Emerging Markets. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Harvard University (with honors) and Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and PhD in Economics from Columbia University. Schramm was a Fulbright Scholar at UIBE in Beijing and held visiting faculty positions at HKST in Hong Kong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and CEIBS Shanghai. He was at the IMF for 3 years as an Economist working on debt workouts for African economies.

Xiang, Tao

Associate Professor

Tao Xiang is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University in Shenyang, China. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from K. U. Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include agricultural economics and environmental economics. He has been visiting Scholar at FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation) of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. He has published several papers on journals such as International Business Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Agricultural Economics and others.

Xue, Xiaolong

Leaders in research on megaproject management

Xiaolong Xue  is a Professor and Dean of Guangzhou University Business School. He is one of the leaders in research on megaproject management, emerging IT technologies (UAV, BIM, Internet of Things), adoption and management, towards sustainability. He has received his PhD from Harbin Institute of Technology, and he was professor & Associate Dean prior to current position. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin between 2008 to 2009 and Hong Kong Polytechnic University between 2009 to 2011. He was also a senior visiting scholar at Stanford University. In other engagements, he is the secretary of Committee of Modernization Management in the Chinese Construction Industry Association.

He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Engineering Management (in Chinese). He has led and participated in multiple research projects of the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, Social Science Foundation, and the State Commission of Science Technology of China. He has published more than 100 research papers. He received the awards of New Century Excellent Talents in University Ministry of Education.

Yu, Peili

Professor, Doctoral Supervisor and Associate Dean of the School of Business Administration

Peili Yu is a professor, doctoral supervisor and associate dean of the School of Business Administration in Northeastern University. Executive director of Liaoning Quality Development Institution, which is the think tank base jointly built by Liaoning Market Supervision Administration and Northeastern University. She focuses on industrial innovation and high-quality economic development for a long time. She is also an excellent review expert of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and National Social Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

She is a standing director of China Association of Industrial Economics, an expert of Northeast China Revitalization Research Institute, a member of Liaoning Provincial Government Advisory Committee and Liaoning CPPCC. She has presided over the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China, and completed a number of entrusted scientific research projects of state Grid, Baosteel, Liaoning Electric Power and other enterprises, and undertaken a number of provincial and municipal scientific research projects. In 2020, she presided over and completed the effectiveness evaluation and countermeasures study of the implementation Strategy of Strong Quality province in Liaoning Province. In 2012, she presided over the quality improvement action evaluation study of Shenyang City.

She has published more than 50 papers and 5 books in academic journals in domestic and overseas. She was selected as one of the thousand talents in Liaoning Province. A number of her research achievements have won provincial and municipal awards. In 2016, she was interviewed by CCTV News network.

Zhang, Jing

Associate Professor

Dr. Jing Zhang is an associate professor in Department of Management, Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University in the US. She serves as the College Doctoral Program Director. Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore, master’s, and bachelor’s degree from Renmin University of China. She has worked for Iowa State University, City University London and Lancaster University in England and Legend Co. in Beijing, China. Dr. Zhang’s primary research interests deal with technological innovation, knowledge management and entrepreneurship. She has several dozens of refereed publications in journals such as “Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice”, “Journal of Business Venturing”, “Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal”, “Journal of Management”, “Journal of Management Studies”, and “Research Policy” to name a few. Her current research projects focus on venture capital investment in China and worldwide.

Zhao, Yanzhi

President of Shenyang University

Yanzhi Zhoa is the president of Shenyang University, Liaoning Province, and he is a committee member of Commission on Chinese-foreign Cooperation in Education, and the secretary-general of Chinese-foreign Joint Institutes Committee. His main research interests are in the areas of organization mode and management structure of university, development strategy and policy of transnational education, financial administration of private universities. He has hosted more than 60 research projects, high-quality articles and academic monographs. One of his projects is reviewed and acknowledged by the Prime Minister Keqiang Li and the Vice Prime Minister Yandong Liu.

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