Faculty

Professor John Mathews

Professor in Management

BEcon (LSE), MEng, PhD (Imp Coll, London)

Teaching Areas

• Marketing & Strategic Management
• Innovation

Contact Details
Phone:  +61 2 9850 6082
Email:     john.mathews@mgsm.edu.au

Research Statement

Professor Mathews’ research focuses on the competitive dynamics of international business, the evolution of technologies and their strategic management, and the rise of new high technology industries, especially their creation in East Asia through strategies of technology leverage and the management of technology diffusion.  He researches the development of the institutional capacities of firms and governments in Asia-Pacific, the internationalisation processes of firms and the theoretical explanations for latecomer firms' success. His work has focused in the past several years on the emergence of the ‘green economy’ and the transition to renewable energies, and the institutional changes needed to provide industrial capitalism with genuine long-term sustainability.

Contribution to Management Education

Professor Mathews is currently the Eni Chair of Competitive Dynamics and Global Strategy at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, on leave from MGSM. He taught visiting programs at the National Graduate School of Management, ANU, Canberra; at the Stockholm School of Economics; at the Faculty of Business Administration at National University of Singapore, at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University; at the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, at the LUISS university in Rome, and in the EMBA program, Seoul.

Contribution to Management Practice

He has worked with UNIDO, UNCTAD, the World Bank, the ILO Asia-Pacific, the OECD and APEC.  In 2000/2001 he was a consultant to UNIDO on the preparation of the Industrial Development Report 2002. In 2005/06 Professor Mathews was an expert adviser to UNCTAD for the World Investment Report.  He was a special consultant to the World Bank in the preparation of a Country Economic Memorandum on Mauritius in 2005/06, with special responsibility for technology matters.

Media Topics

• China’s Energy Revolution
• Dynamics of International Business
• The Evolution and Strategic Management of Technologies
• High Technology Industries

 

publications

journal articles

• Wu, C. Y. & Mathews, J. (2012). Knowledge flows in the solar photovoltaic industry : insights from patenting by Taiwan, Korea, and China. Research Policy, 41(3), 524-540.
• Mathews, J. (2012). Reforming the international patent system. Review Of International Political Economy, 19(1), 169-180.
• Mathews, J.,Hu, M. C. & Wu, C. Y. (2011). Fast-follower industrial dynamics : the case of Taiwan's emergent solar photovoltaic industry. Industry and Innovation, 18(2), 177-202.
• Leung, M. & Mathews, J. (2011). Origins and dynamics of university spin-offs : the case of Hong Kong. International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems, 1(2), 175-201.
• Mathews, J., Tang, Y. & Tan, H. (2011). China's move to a circular economy as a development strategy. Asian Business & Management, 10(4), 463-484.
• Mathews, J. (2011). Naturalizing capitalism: the next great transformation. Futures, 43(8), 868-879.
• Mathews, J., Tan, H., Moore, M. & Bell, G. (2011). A conceptual lignocellulosic ‘feed+fuel’ biorefinery and its application to the linked biofuel and cattle raising industries in Brazil. Energy Policy, 39(9), 4932-4938.
• Mathews, J. (2011). China’s energy industrial revolution. L'industria, 32(2), 309-328.
• Mathews, J. & Tan, H. (2011). Progress towards a circular economy in China : the drivers (and inhibitors) of eco-industrial initiative. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 15(3), 435-457.
• Tan, H. &; Mathews, J. (2010). Cyclical industrial dynamics: The case of the global semiconductor industry. Technological Forecasting And Social Change, 77(2), 344-353.
• Tan, H.& Mathews, J. (2010). Identification and analysis of industry cycles. Journal Of Business Research, 63(5), 454-462.
• Mathews, J. (2010). Lachmannian Insights into Strategic Entrepreneurship: Resources, Activities and Routines in a Disequilibrium World. Organization Studies, 31(2), 219-244.
• Mathews, J., Kidney, S., Mallon, K. & Hughes, M. (2010). Mobilizing private finance to drive an energy industrial revolution. Energy Policy, 38(7), 3263-3265.
• Mathews, J. & Kidney, S. (2010). Climate bonds: Mobilizing private financing for carbon management. Carbon Management, 1(1), 9-13.
• Hu, M. C. & Mathews, J. (2009). Estimating the innovation effects of university-industry-government linkages:  the case of Taiwan. Journal of Management & Organization, 15(2), 138-154.
• Andersen, P., Mathews, J. & Rask, M. (2009). Integrating private transport into renewable energy policy: The strategy of creating intelligent recharging grids for electric vehicles. Energy Policy, 37(7), 2481-2486.
• Mathews, J. & Goldsztein, H. (2009). Capturing latecomer advantages in the adoption of biofuels: The case of Argentina. Energy Policy, 37(1), 326-337.
• Mathews, J. & Tan, H. (2009). Biofuels and indirect land use change effects: The debate continues. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 3(3), 305-317.
• Mathews, J. (2009). From the petroeconomy to the bioeconomy: Integrating bioenergy production with agricultural demands. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 3(6), 613-632.
• Mathews, J. (2009). China, India and Brazil: Tiger technologies, dragon multinationals and the building of national systems of economic learning. Asian Business & Management, 8(1), 5-32.
• Mathews, J. (2008). Biofuels, climate change and industrial development: can the tropical South build 2000 biorefineries in the next decade?. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 2(2), 103-125.
• Mathews, J. (2008). Carbon-negative biofuels. Energy Policy, 36(3), 940-945.
• Mathews, J. (2008). Towards a sustainably certifiable futures contract for biofuels. Energy Policy, 36(5), 1577-1583.
• Mathews, J. (2008). How carbon credits could drive the emergence of renewable energies. Energy Policy, 36(10), 3633-3639.
• Hu, M. C. & Mathews, J. (2008). China's national innovative capacity. Research Policy, 37(9), 1465-1479.
• Dodgson, M., Mathews, J., Kastelle, T. & Hu, M. C. (2008). The evolving nature of Taiwan's national innovation system: The case of biotechnology innovation networks. Research Policy, 37(3), 430-445.
• Mathews, J. (2008). Energizing industrial development. Transnational Corporations, 17(3), 59-83.
• Mathews, J. (2008). Opinion: is growing biofuel crops a crime against humanity?. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 2(2), 97-99.
• Mathews, J. (2007). Biofuels: What a Biopact between North and South could achieve. Energy Policy, 35(7), 3550-3570.
• Mathews, J. (2007). Seven steps to curb global warming. Energy Policy, 35(8), 4247-4259.
• Mathews, J. (2007). Latecomer strategies for catching-up: the cases of renewable energies and the LED programme. International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, 1(1), 34-42.
• Mathews, J. & Zander, I. (2007). The international entrepreneurial dynamics of accelerated internationalisation. Journal Of International Business Studies, 38(3), 387-403.
• Bonaglia, F., Goldstein, A. & Mathews, J. (2007). Accelerated internationalization by emerging markets' multinationals: The case of the white goods sector. Journal Of World Business, 42(4), 369-383.
• Mathews, J. & Hu, M. C. (2007). Enhancing the Role of Universities in Building National Innovative Capacity in Asia: The Case of Taiwan. World Development, 35(6), 1005-1020.
• Mathews, J. (2007). Can Renewable Energies be turned to a source of advantage by developing countries?. Revue De L'Energie, 58(576), 96-105.
• Mathews, J. (2007). Latecomer Strategies for Catching Up: Linkage, leverage, and learning. Development Outreach, January, 24-27.
• Mathews, J. (2006). Ricardian rents or Knightian profits? More on Australian insights on strategic Organization. Strategic Organization, 4(1), 97-108.
• Mathews, J. (2006). Responses to Professors Dunning and Narula. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23(2), 153-155.
• Mathews, J. (2006). Dragon multinationals: new players in 21st century globalization. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23(1), 5-27.
• Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. & Mathews, J. (2006). Free trade in mad cows: how to kill a beef industry. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 60(3), 376-399.
• Mathews, J. (2006). Catch-up Strategies and Latecomer Effect in Industrial Development. New Political Economy, 11(3), 313-335.
• Hu, M. & Mathews, J. (2005). National innovative capacity in East Asia. Research Policy, 34(9), 1322-1349.
• Mathews, J. (2005). Strategy and the Crystal Cycle. California Management Review, 47(2), 6-32.
• Wong, P. & Mathews, J. (2005). Competitive Strategies of Asian High Tech Firms: The Challenge of Late Industrialization. International Journal Of Technology Management, 29(1-2), 1-5.
• Mathews, J. & Wong, P. (2005). Letter. International Journal of Technology Management, 29(1/2), 1-5.
• Mathews, J. (2005). The Intellectual Roots of Latecomer Industrial Development. International Journal of Technology and Globalisation: economy, sustainability and security, 1(3-4), 433-450.

books

• Mathews, J. (2006). Strategizing, Disequilibrium, and Profit, USA:.Stanford University Press.

book chapters

• Hu, M. C. & Mathews, J. (2010). “Evolution of China's National Innovation System and Its Challenges in Technological Development”. In V. K. Narayanan & G. C. O'Connor (Eds.) Encyclopaedia of Technology and Innovation Management, (pp.293-308). UK: John Wiley & Sons.

conference papers

• Mathews, J. (2009). Energy flows and the process of industrialization. DRUID Society Summer Conference 2009. Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Mathews, J. & Tan, H. (2008). Strategic dimensions of cyclical industrial dynamics: A study of the semiconductor industry. The 25th DRUID Celebration Conference 2008. Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Tan, H. & Mathews, J. (2008). Strategic Capital Investment in a Highly Cyclical Industry: An Empirical Study. Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2008, Beijing, China.
• Mathews, J. & Goldsztein, H. (2007). Capturing Latecomer Advantages in the Argentinean Biofuels Industry. VI International PENSA Conference Sustainable Agri-food and Bioenergy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Mathews, J. (2006). A Strategic and  Evolutionary Perspective on Entrepreneurial Dynamics: Reconciling Schumpeter with Kirzner. Knowledge Innovation and Competitiveness: Dynamics of Firms, Networks, Regions and Institutions, Elisnore, Denmark.
• Mathews, J. (2006). Duality of the Activities - and Resource-Based Views of Strategic Management. 2006 Copenhagen Conference on Strategic Management, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Mathews, J. (2006). Rents vs. Profits: What are the appropriate goals of strategising?. 2006 Copenhagen Conference on Strategic Management, Copenhagen, Denmark.