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Stephen Grainger

Stephen Grainger

Dr Stephen Grainger

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: (61 8)  6304 5230  
Mobile: 0402 938 177  
Facsimile: (61 8)  6304 5840  
Email: s.grainger@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.468  

 

Availability

  • By appointment

Current teaching

  • International Negotiation, Business in Asia

Background

Commencing his academic career in 1997, Dr Grainger specialises in Business in Asia and International Negotiation. He has lectured and conducted seminars at:

  • Edith Cowan University (from 2005 onwards);
  • The Yunnan University of Finance and Trade (People’s Republic of China);
  • Shanghai University of Electric Power (People’s Republic of China);
  • Trisakti University (Indonesia), the Gandhi Institute (Indonesia);
  • Australian College of Business and Technology (Sri Lanka);
  • Management Development Institute of Singapore (Singapore);
  • Singapore Management Academy (Singapore);
  • The Singapore Institute of Materials Management (Singapore);
  • University of Western Australia (Australia);
  • Curtin University of Technology (Australia); and
  • Notre Dame University (Australia). 

Responsibilities

  • Course Coordinator - International Business

Staff qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Organisation Guanxi in China);
  • Master of Business Administration; and
  • Bachelor of Applied Science (Mathematics).

Professional memberships

  • WA Chinese Chamber of Commerce; and
  • International Association of China Management Research.

Research

Research interests

  • Organisational guanxi in China;
  • The affect the evolving Chinese market economy is having on the significance of guanxi; and
  • The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Recent publications

Books

  • Grainger, S.(2010). Organisational Guanxi and State Owned Enterprises in South West China: Producing Organisational Guanxi at the Roaring Dragon Hotel, VDM Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

Book Chapters

  • Grainger, S. (2010). Hire It, Global Business Today by Hill, Cronk and Wickramasekera, McGraw Hill, Sydney.
  • Grainger, S. (2006). Guanxi at the Roaring Dragon Hotel, International Business: Challenges of Globalisation, Wild, Wild, Han and Rammal, pg 57-58, Pearson Education Australia. 
  • Grainger, S. (2004). Guanxi Neglect – the Demise of an International Management Contract, China in the New Era, edited by Bronwyn Coate, Robert Brooks, Ian Fraser & Lilai Xu, RMIT Business Press, Melbourne, Australia.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Grainger, S. (2012). The Privatization of China’s State Owned Enterprises: How is it affecting the production of Guanxi? International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, Vol. 10, Nos. 2/3, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
  • Grainger, S. (2012). China and Japan’s turbulent affair: Why must it continue? International Journal of Business Competition and Growth, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
  • Grainger, S. (2008). Differentiating Between Intra-organisational and Inter-organisational Guanxi, September, Journal of International Management, Singapore. 

Conference Papers

  • Grainger, S. (2012). The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) After Ten Years: Challenges Ahead and Possible Solutions, 2nd Annual International Conference on Business Strategy and Organizational Behaviour, Bali, Indonesia.
  • Grainger, S. (2010). How is producing Guanxi Changing as a Chinese State Owned Enterprise becomes Privatized?  IASK International Conference on Global Management, Oviedo, Spain.
  • Grainger, S. (2010). The Changing Antecedents of Producing Guanxi in a Chinese State Owned Enterprise: 1999-2007, Seminar, the Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.
  • Grainger, S. (2010). Privatizing China's State Owned Enterprises: How is it affecting the production of guanxi? Seminar at the Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
  • Grainger, S., Ogle., & A., Xian Dong. (2010). The Criteria for Selecting General Managers for Five Star Hotels in Beijing, ApacCHRIE conference, Phuket, Thailand.
  • Grainger, S. (2008). The How are the characteristics of guanxi in SOE evolving under the Chinese market economy: tracking the Roaring Dragon Hotel, south-west China, 1999-2007; Asia Pacific Journal of Management Conference, Taiwan.
  • Grainger, S. (2007). The Management changes as Chinese State Owned Enterprise adapt from planned to market economy condition, Australia New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Sydney.
  • Grainger, S. (2004). The Differentiating between inter-organisational and intra-organisational Guanxi; 16th Annual Conference of the Association for Chinese Economic Studies (Australia), University of Queensland.

Refereed Cases