Dr. Pei SUN is Professor and Chair of International Business at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), University of Manchester, UK. He received his BA (Economics) from Peking University, Beijing, China and his PhD in business economics and strategy from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, U.K. Before joining AMBS, he was a Professor of Economics and Strategy at the School of Management, Fudan University, China. His research interests include corporate governance and nonmarket strategy, with a particular focus on how foreign and domestic firms manage and exploit institutional complexity and changes in emerging economies. He is associate editor of British Journal Management and was senior editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2019-2021). He serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Perspectives, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of World Business. He has published papers in renowned academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Economics Letters, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and World Development. He is an editor of the Oxford Handbook of State Capitalism.