Matthew Allen

Matthew M. C. Allen is Professor of International Business at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, where he is International Business Knowledge Platform Lead.

His research examines the strategies of multinational companies and how they build competitive advantage across different locations, with particular attention to corporate governance and the management of employees. His fields are comparative capitalisms, international business, international management and comparative HRM.

He has published in the Journal of International Business Studies, the British Journal of Management, Sociology, Socio-Economic Review and the International Journal of Human Resource Management, and sits on the editorial board of the last. He previously held professorships and headships of department at Bangor University and Essex Business School, and was a senior lecturer at Alliance Manchester Business School.