The Abstract of the Report:

Qualitative research methods have advantages in construction theory, and it’s of great significance to construct management theory with Chinese characteristics. However, multiple research paradigms and unstandardized research designs make scholars rarely use this method for scientific research. The presenter has been engaged in the popularization and promotion of qualitative research methods and the research of related methodology for a long time. In this lecture, the speaker will give a brief introduction to the development of qualitative research in international business research, and discuss the challenges that qualitative research methods may encounter in the publication of qualitative research papers in the field of international business. Finally, as the Deputy editor of MOR, the speaker will introduce the future development direction and related plans of MOR.

Reporter: Dr. WEI Tian, Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Business Administration, School of Management, Shanghai Pujiang Scholar, and Young Scholar of Zhongying of Fudan University.

He received the doctoral degree in management from Cambridge University, and the master and bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University. As the first author and corresponding author, he has published many papers in Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, International Business Review, Management and Organization Review and Management World. Currently, he will be the Deputy Editor of Management and Organization Review, the Associate Editor of Asian Case Research Journal and the field editor of Foreign Economics and Management. He has won several awards for best papers from the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM), the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting (AIB), and the China Business Management Case and Qualitative Research Forum. His academic thoughts have been recognized by David J. Teece (the proponent of dynamic capability theory), Peter J. Buckley and many other academic leaders. He has been highly praised by local governments and many multinational companies, and has been reported by many well-known media at home and abroad. (For example: Forbes, EFE, etc.). He is or has presided over a number of national, provincial, and corporate horizontal topics. At the same time, he was selected as the third batch of "Excellent Talents Program" of Fudan University. He was selected as the "Good Teacher in My Mind" for the 2017 undergraduate (college) graduate of Fudan University, and the top ten instructors for postgraduate students of Fudan University in 2013 and 2019.