Dr Eun Sun Godwin

Dr Eun Sun Godwin is a lecturer and the Master's course leader in International Business at the University of Wolverhampton Business School. She was a fully-funded PhD student at University of Wolverhampton Business School and completed her PhD in 2016. The title of her PhD thesis was 'Determinants of Emerging Market Foreign Direct Investment into the UK' and its theoretical framework consisted of traditional International Business and FDI theories supplemented with Institutional theory, particularly New Institutional Economics. 

Her main research interest is in FDI at both firm level and macroeconomic level as well as MNE strategy and management. Her current, on-going research projects include those on interaction between MNEs and SMEs on sustainability issues, corporate governance issues of MNEs in weak/poor institutional context, an interdisciplinary project on impact of IIA on FDI and ERAS project below.  

Summary of the project:

Road to co-learning and co-growth: exploration of knowledge creation and transfer process in Emergent Market post-acquisition

This ERAS project proposes exploring the effectiveness of knowledge creation, sharing and transfer in Emerging Market (EM) Multi-national Enterprises (MNEs') post-acquisition processes in the West Midlands region  by focusing on the manufacturing industry.

The scope of research will incorporate 'bottom-up' process of knowledge creation/sharing, which has been relatively neglected in organisation studies, as this investigation can provide meaningful implications to EM acquirers to become a successful 'partner' or 'co-learner' 

This study will address the research question from a historical approach responding to calls from scholars for 'bridging the gap' between 'history' and 'organisation/international business' studies. Considering the rich history of industrial development in the region (both ups and downs) and also the 'process' nature of the project, an historical approach will provide an appropriate methodology to explore interactions between any external and the internal/narrative discourse on knowledge creation/sharing at the organisational level.