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Dr Ha-Phuong Luong

Lecturer in International Business and Strategy

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Specialisms

  • Firm internationalization, 
  • Business clusters, 
  • Institutional dynamics (i.e., institutional escapism), 
  • FDI

Location

Room 143, Henley Business School, Whiteknights Campus

Dr Ha-Phuong Luong is a Lecturer in International Business and Strategy at Henley Business School, developing a strong research profile in International Business and Strategy. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a Visting Fellow at Aston University.

Qualifications

PhD in Economics from Aston University.

Research focus

Ha-Phuong's research pipeline covers inter-disciplinary and innovative topics related to firm internationalisation, business clusters, economic geography, MNEs, FDI, and taxation. Recently, I started to diversify my research interests to some topics such as political economy of globalisation, innovation, knowledge transfer, environmental development and industrial concentration. 

Ha-Phuong possesses specialist knowledge in the discipline of econometrics and statistics to work with massive datasets that include over millions of observations. She has a strong background in using panel data and advanced skills in data management.

Academy of International Business UKI Chapter (AIB-UKI), Surrey, 24/04/2025 - 26/04/2025

Academy of Management (AoM), Copenhagen, 25/0725 - 29/07/2025

Grant: Tax haven use and Industrial Concentration by Multinational Firms (2022-2025)

I am a Research Associate of the project. The insights of this project will provide a new and important contribution to the debate on declining competition across the globe and its links to tax haven adoption. It will also have important policy implications in terms of antitrust and changes to the international corporate tax system. Much recent attention in the competition policy literature has focused on the behaviour of the prominent high-tech firms; GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon), including recognition that they often avoid taxes. However, we will develop a much broader and original perspective on how widespread tax avoidance is and provide new empirical evidence on the effect this has on industrial concentration and competition

Prof. Chris Jones (Aston University)

Dr. Matt Olczak (Aston University)

Prof. Yama Temouri (Kedges Business School)