Hans Hendrischke
Hans Hendrischke is professor of Chinese business and management at the University of Sydney Business School. He leads the Business School’s China Research Network and chairs the Business and Economics Cluster of the University’s China Studies Centre.
Educated at universities in Germany, Taiwan and Japan, Professor Hendrischke did his postgraduate research at the Contemporary China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He speaks and writes fluent Chinese and is a frequent commentator on China business and Australia China business relations in national and international media. His team reports with KPMG on Demystifying Chinese Investment in Australia receive wide international coverage.
Professor Hendrischke lived in China from 1979 working for the diplomatic service and in the finance industry. In his academic career he was director of the Centre for Chinese Political Economy at Macquarie University, co-director of the UNSW-UTS Centre for Research on Provincial China and head of school at UNSW, and director of the University of Sydney Confucius Institute.
Professor Hendrischke’s main research interests are the emergence of China’s private enterprise sector and more recently the global expansion of Chinese enterprise activity, including their investment in Australia and the wider region. The focus of his teaching and PhD supervision is on business institutions from an enterprise perspective and the embeddedness of Chinese entrepreneurship in formal and informal institutions.