Jonathan Brookfield
Jonathan Brookfield
Address:
The Fletcher School
Tufts University
160 Packard Ave
Medford, MA 02155
Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business
Education
BS, Yale University
M.Phil, Cambridge University
PhD, The Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania
Professional Activities
Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, Management Department (2002-2006); Has taught at National Chengchi University, Department of Business Administration, and served as both a teaching and research assistant at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Member, Academy of Management and Academy of International Business; Editorial review board, Asia Pacific Journal of Management; Has served as an ad hoc reviewer for a variety of journals including: Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning and Strategy & Leadership.
Courses
Fall 2009
- EIB B231 - International Business Strategy and Operations
- EIB B234 - Seminar on Strategic Management in Privatizing and Deregulating Industries
Spring 2010
- EIB B230 - Strategy and Policy for Competitive Advantage
- EIB B272m - The Political Economy and Business Environments of Greater China
Research Interests
International Business, Strategic Management, Comparative Political Economy, Political Risk, Industrial Organization, Business Groups, Firm Boundaries, Industrial Districts, Chinese Business Organization, Interfirm Networks, and the Asian Business Environment.
Selected Publications
- “Firm Clustering and Specialization: A Study of Taiwan’s Machine Tool Industry,” Small Business Economics, 405-422 (2008).
- “Taiwan's Bicycle Industry A-Team Battles Chinese Competition with Innovation and Cooperation,” (co-author) Strategy & Leadership, 14-19 (2008).
- “Location as a Political Strategy: Political Risk and Foreign Ventures in the PRC,” (co-author) in H. Li (ed.) Growth of New Technology Ventures in China’s Emerging Market, 221-239 (2006).
- “The Internationalization of an Industrial System and the Replication Dilemma: Building Supplier Networks in Mainland China,” (co-author) Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 355-380 (2005).
- “Supplier Networks in Taiwan’s Machine Tool Industry,” (co-author) Journal of Asian Business, 15-40 (2001).
- “Rings, Stars, and Tiers: Organizational Networks and Their Dynamics in Taiwan’s Machine Tool Industry,” (co-author) Long Range Planning, 322-348 (2000).
- “The Evolution of Japanese Subcontracting,”(co-author) Sloan Management Review, 89-101 (1997).
- "The Network Structure of Big Business in Taiwan" (appendix
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