ProfessorHans Hendrischke

Hans has been a pioneer of qualitative research on China’s emerging private enterprise sector, conducting hundreds of interviews with Chinese entrepreneurs. His findings have been published in leading academic journals and in a co-edited volume with Barbara Krug, China's Economy in the 21st Century: Enterprise and Business Behaviour.

His research has evolved from institutional analysis—focusing on informal and formal institutions, government–enterprise interaction, and the institutional infrastructure of China’s decentralised local governance—to more recent theoretical approaches in new state capitalism. In particular, he examines how domestic forms of entrepreneurship and country-specific advantages are projected into foreign host markets by Chinese multinational enterprises.

In his engaged research, Hans has led the Business School’s long-term strategic research partnership with KPMG Australia, which has produced over twenty annual and special industry reports in the Demystifying Chinese Investment in Australia series since 2011. In addition, the Business School’s China Research Network has published thought-leadership reports on Australia–China business with corporate partners including the Business Council of Australia, the Australia-China Business Council, National Australia Bank, and Westpac and has received support from the Australia–China Council and National Foundation for Australia China Relations.