Dean Xu

4.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
28 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Dean Xu is a scholar working on Accounting, Strategy and Management and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Dean Xu has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Accounting, 15 papers in Strategy and Management and 8 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Dean Xu's work include Corporate Finance and Governance (17 papers), International Business and FDI (11 papers) and Family Business Performance and Succession (6 papers). Dean Xu is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Finance and Governance (17 papers), International Business and FDI (11 papers) and Family Business Performance and Succession (6 papers). Dean Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Hong Kong. Dean Xu's co-authors include Oded Shenkar, Kevin Zheng Zhou, Klaus E. Meyer, Jane Lu, Sea‐Jin Chang, Fei Du, Paul W. Beamish, Yigang Pan, Phillip Phan and Yiyi Su and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.

In The Last Decade

Dean Xu

26 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Institutional Distance and the Multinational Enterprise

2002 687 citations Dean Xu et al. profile →
Note: Institutional Distance and The Multinational Enterprise

2002 637 citations Dean Xu et al. profile →
Deviant versus Aspirational Risk Taking: The Effects of Performance Feedback on Bribery Expenditure and R&D Intensity

2018 323 citations Dean Xu, Kevin Zheng Zhou et al. Academy of Management Journal profile →
Linking Theory and Context: ‘Strategy Research in Emerging Economies’ after Wright et al. (2005)

2012 305 citations Dean Xu, Klaus E. Meyer Journal of Management Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dean Xu China	21	2.8k	1.8k	709	668	437	28	3.6k
Daphne W. Yiu Hong Kong	25	2.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	941 1.3×	763 1.1×	426 1.0×	43	4.2k
William P. Wan United States	20	2.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	678 1.0×	708 1.1×	221 0.5×	29	3.4k
Sunny Li Sun United States	29	2.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	676 1.0×	800 1.2×	408 0.9×	85	4.1k
Sumit K. Kundu United States	31	3.4k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	999 1.4×	806 1.2×	625 1.4×	70	4.4k
Jaideep Anand United States	30	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	451 0.6×	916 1.4×	282 0.6×	45	3.5k
Chung Ming Lau Hong Kong	7	3.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	821 1.2×	418 1.0×	8	4.7k
Mario Kafouros United Kingdom	30	2.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	448 0.6×	1.3k 2.0×	715 1.6×	59	3.9k
Trevor Buck United Kingdom	32	2.5k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	862 1.2×	1.0k 1.6×	600 1.4×	116	4.5k
Mats Forsgren Sweden	30	3.7k 1.3×	963 0.5×	977 1.4×	701 1.0×	392 0.9×	90	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Dean Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dean Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dean Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dean Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dean Xu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dean Xu. Dean Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Dean, Helen Wei Hu, & László Tihanyi. (2025). Political promotion of CEOs of state-controlled firms in China: A state capitalism view. The Leadership Quarterly. 36(5). 101908–101908. 1 indexed citations

Jin, Peng, et al.. (2025). A CEEMDAN-GNN-transformer hybrid model for air quality index forecasting: a case study of Chang’an town, Dongguan, China. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 13.

Xu, Dean, et al.. (2023). Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms. Journal of International Business Studies. 54(7). 1332–1350. 10 indexed citations

Cui, Lin, et al.. (2023). Social Comparison Inside Business Groups and Strategic Change: Evidence from Group‐affiliated Chinese Firms. Journal of Management Studies. 61(8). 3533–3565. 5 indexed citations

Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Kui Wang, Dean Xu, & En Xie. (2022). Drinking poison to quench thirst: Does bribery foster firm performance in China?. Journal of Business Research. 147. 505–517. 23 indexed citations

Zeng, Yuping & Dean Xu. (2020). Liability of Foreignness and the Constitutive Legitimation of Foreign Firms in a Host Country. Journal of World Business. 55(5). 101111–101111. 17 indexed citations

Zeng, Yuping & Dean Xu. (2019). The effect of foreign firms’ population density on exit likelihood in a host country. Management Decision. 59(1). 32–50. 5 indexed citations

Xu, Dean, et al.. (2018). Ownership structure and the use of non-family executives in family-dominated Chinese listed firms: An institutional logics perspective. Asia Pacific Journal of Management. 36(3). 797–820. 20 indexed citations

Xu, Dean, Kevin Zheng Zhou, & Fei Du. (2018). Deviant versus Aspirational Risk Taking: The Effects of Performance Feedback on Bribery Expenditure and R&D Intensity. Academy of Management Journal. 62(4). 1226–1251. 323 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Dean, Jane Lu, & Qian Gu. (2014). Organizational Forms and Multi-population Dynamics. Administrative Science Quarterly. 59(3). 517–547. 109 indexed citations

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Xu, Dean & Klaus E. Meyer. (2012). Linking Theory and Context: ‘Strategy Research in Emerging Economies’ after Wright et al. (2005). Journal of Management Studies. 50(7). 1322–1346. 305 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Kevin Zheng & Dean Xu. (2012). How foreign firms curtail local supplier opportunism in China: Detailed contracts, centralized control, and relational governance. Journal of International Business Studies. 43(7). 677–692. 225 indexed citations

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Liang, Feng Helen & Dean Xu. (2011). Knowledge network and innovation activities by MNC subsidiaries: The effects of internal and external knowledge resources. 13. 388–393. 1 indexed citations

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Kim, Tae‐Yop, Andrew Delios, & Dean Xu. (2010). Organizational geography, experiential learning and subsidiary exit: Japanese foreign expansions in China, 1979-2001. Journal of Economic Geography. 10(4). 579–597. 59 indexed citations

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Xu, Dean, Changhui Zhou, & Phillip Phan. (2009). A real options perspective on sequential acquisitions in China. Journal of International Business Studies. 41(1). 166–174. 50 indexed citations

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Delios, Andrew, Dean Xu, & Paul W. Beamish. (2008). Within-country product diversification and foreign subsidiary performance. Journal of International Business Studies. 39(4). 706–724. 65 indexed citations

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Su, Yiyi, Dean Xu, & Phillip Phan. (2008). Principal—Principal Conflict in the Governance of the Chinese Public Corporation. Management and Organization Review. 4(1). 17–38. 170 indexed citations

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Xu, Dean & Jane Lu. (2007). Technological knowledge, product relatedness, and parent control: The effect on IJV survival. Journal of Business Research. 60(11). 1166–1176. 37 indexed citations

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Xu, Dean, et al.. (2005). Performance of domestic and foreign-invested enterprises in China. Journal of World Business. 41(3). 261–274. 56 indexed citations

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Xu, Dean, Yigang Pan, & Paul W. Beamish. (2004). The effect of regulative and normative distances on MNE ownership and expatriate strategies. 44(3). 285–307. 251 indexed citations

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