I am Professor of International Business at the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL). I am interested in the relationship and interaction between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and institutions. This interest has evolved into a research strand on Chinese and emerging market MNEs (EMNEs) and one on sustainability and ethics. I am associate editor of Transnational Corporations and on the editorial review boards of Journal of International Business Policy, Management and Organization Review, and Asia Business & Management. I am interested in the relationship and interaction between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and institutions. This interest has evolved into a research strand on Chinese and emerging market MNEs (EMNEs) and one on sustainability/ethics. My research on Chinese MNEs has investigated how their internationalisation is affected and influenced by home and host country institutions. This includes, for example, how they respond to risk. This research stream has expanded recently to consider global samples of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and privately owned enterprises (POEs). I have used this to investigate with L Jeremy Clegg and Janja A Tardios (King's College) how the internationalisation of state-owned enterprises is influenced by the home country political set-up. Ultimately, this body of resaerch relates to questions about the international competitiveness of mainland Chinese companies and their motivation for overseas investments. I have published work related to this research in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Economic Geography, Management International Review, International Business Review, and Multinational Business Review and the books Determinants of Chinese Outward Direct Investment and Chinese Outward Direct Investment (with Peter J Buckley). The research strand on international business and sustainability/ethics has been supported by funding from the British Academy and DfiD and the Sino-British Fellowship Trust (SBFT). The former funded an interdisciplinary research project with Matthew Davis, Mark Sumner, Louise Waite and Divya Singhal (Goa Institute of Management, India) on how businesses have responded to the UK Modern Slavery Act and the obligation to increase transparency on modern slavery in their global supply chains. The SBFT funded research investigated climate change stratgies of MNEs in China. I have published work related to this research in Journal of Cleaner Production and Asia Business & Management.