Brian J. Hilton Associate Professor in International Business Strategy, Nottingham University Business School China Qualifications BA (Econ, Heriot-Watt University), BA (Math, Open University), Ph.D. (Econ, Edinburgh University) Contact Room 381, Admin Building 199 Taikang East Road Ningbo 315100 China +86 574 8818 0285 +86 574 8818 0125 brian.hilton@nottingham.edu.cn Biography Expertise summary Brian moved to China in 2006 as a key part of a developing global research agenda that requires knowledge and understanding of China, Chinese language and Chinese people in relationship to the inevitable role they have played and are playing in the socio-economic evolutionary development of our planet. He took up his current appointment at Nottingham University in 2007. This allows him to continue to develop his Chinese language skills and so establish the skills necessary for primary research in China. His main interest is in global socio-economic evolution as a perspective distinct from national economic development. He has ongoing research on the role the textile and garment industries plays in initiating and spreading socio-economic evolution. This empirical work is based on his theoretical work on the process of social evolution as it is rooted in more general ideas on evolutionary development developed by biologists and now increasingly embraced by others. During his period of employment at Cranfield Brian ran internationally focused executive training with a particularly strong emphasis on the introduction of finance and commercial accounting best practice into government particularly as effected through the use of public private partnerships that spanned national boundaries. In the period from 1998 2003 he was engaged in developing and running a UK MoD and DfID organized series of courses on Managing Defence in a Democratic Market Based Society in Sierra Leone, Uganda, Roumania, and Macedonia. In the same period separate from this he was funded to advise the Sierra Leone MoD on its staff development needs. Subsequent appointments were at the Oxford and the Australian National University. While still at Cranfield he became first a Visiting Fellow and then Associate Fellow of Templeton
College Oxford. He based much of his research there. At ANU he ran a study tour of Canada and the UK on such reforms for a group of senior Australian public servants. In the early 1990s Brian worked extensively for the EU and other funding bodies, e.g. OECD, INTAS and NATO, researching and assisting with transition first in Central Europe (Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and East Germany) and then in some of the countries in the Western part of the former Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). This work was focused on the role international joint ventures were playing in transition. He also provided consultancy on the setting up and organisation of public agencies aimed at these ends working for the UK MoD and others on the Costing and Estimating of Defence Procurement Projects and the evolution of defence procurement management. In the 1980s he was in the team that advised the EU Commission on the Dual Use Industries in the EU. He later worked on Military Conversion of the Soviet Aerospace industry in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia for NATO, the EU, UK and Russian Governments. In recent years his research and writing has moved away from international security related issues to more general international business topics, particularly globalization strategies and the great significance to those of cultural differences between East and West. Teaching Undergraduate Management Strategy International Business Strategy Postgraduate Master in International Business Research Recent publications Newman, A. Gunessee, S. and Hilton, B. The Applicability of Financial Theories of Capital Structure to the Chinese Cultural Context: A Study of Privately-Owned SMEs Accepted 2010 and Forthcoming in the International Small Business Journal Hilton, B. Responsible corporate philanthropy: an emergent alternative to corporate social responsibility? The case of accountable security. ALAR Journal Vol. 15 No 1 April 2009, pp38-48
Hilton, B., An Integral Perspective On The Political Economy Of "Big Change", World Futures, Issue 2, March 2007, pp. 127-136. Hilton, B., Choi, C. Knowledge Resources: Critical Systems Thinking, Viable System Model And Gifts, Systems Research and Behavioural Science, Nov. 2005, pp. 561-564. Chong J. C., Cheng P., Hilton, B., Russell, E. Knowledge Governance, Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 9 Issue:6 2005, pp. 67-75. Millar, Carla, Eldomiaty, Tarek, Choi, Chong, Hilton, Brian, Corporate Governance and Institutional Transparency in Emerging Markets, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 59, Numbers 1-2, June 2005, pp. 163-174(12). Cheng, P., Hilton, B., Choi, C. Knowledge and Developing Economics Development, September 2005, Volume 48, Number 3, pp. 87-92. Hilton, B., Choi, C.J., & Chen, S. The Ethics of Counterfeiting in the Fashion Industry: Quality, Credence and Profit Issues, Journal of Business Ethics, Dec 2004, Vol.55, Iss.4, p 343. Choi, C. J., Cheng, P. & Hilton, B. European Union: Economic Convergence Versus Social Mobility, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Vol. 95, No. 4, 2004, pp. 427-432. Choi, C., Hilton, B. and Millar, C. Global Corporate Governance. Global Business Review, Vol. 15, March 2002, pp. 140-15. "Defence Finance", Oxford Companion to Military History, 2002. Hilton B. J., Choi J. C., Millar C. Crisis and Recovery: The Relevance of the Path to Emergence of East Asian Capitalism, Global Business Review, 2:2 (2001). Hilton, B. J. "The Impact of Modern Commercial Production and Procurement Practices on Cost Estimating and Forecasting", Journal of Cost Analysis and Management, Vol. 12, No. 4, Fall 2000, pp. 1-14. Hilton, B. J. and Choi, J.C. "Quality, Counterfeits and Strategy in the Fashion Industry", Security Journal, Vol. 13, No 4, Autumn 2000, pp. 53-70. Choi C. J., Hilton B. J. Advantages of Groups in Market Transactions, Human Relations, Vol. 52, No. 12, December 1999, pp. 1563-1580. Hilton, B. J. and Gillibrand, A. Resource Accounting: Principles, Concepts and Practice The MoD Case, Public Money & Management, Vol. 18, April/June 1998, pp. 21-28. Hilton B. J., Rodchenko V. and Novak V. Economic Aspects of Conversion in Enterprises in the Defence Industrial Complex of the Ukraine, Ukrainian Journal of Economics and Management, Vol. 5, No 3, 1996, pp. 121-134.
Globalisation and Convergence in the Entertainment Industry, Advances in Applied Business Strategies, American Academy of Management Annual, Vol. 4, July 1995, pp. 203-230. Client Base, Age and Competitive Strategy, Journal of Marketing Management, No 11, 1995, pp. 71 82. Choi C. J. and Hilton B. J. European versus Asian Competitiveness: An Application to High Technology, Gestion 2000, No 5, September - October 1994, pp. 11-24. Choi C. J., Hilton B. J. and Grint K. Achieving Co-operation: Contracts, Trust and Hostages, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, Vol. 5, No 3, September 1994, pp. 221-236. Choi C. J., Hilton B. J. and Kim I. S. Vietnam and China - Choosing Among Asian Models, World Competition, Vol. 17, No 3, March 1994, pp. 139-148. Hilton B. J. & Vu A. NATO and the Warsaw Pact: An Interactive Econometric Model, Defence Economics, Vol. 2, No 3, 1991, pp. 105-121. Hilton B. J. Defence Economics: A Survey, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 34, No 3, August 1987, pp. 306-314. Recent papers at Conferences, Workshops & Seminars Hilton, B. and McKenny, J. An Empirical Analysis of The Integration-Responsiveness Framework In Global Industries, Academy of International Business Conference, Rio de Janiero, 2010 Hilton, B. Systems of Belief More than Reality in Socio-economic Evolution Papers and Proceedings of 53rd ISSS Annual conference, Waterloo, Canada 2010 Hilton, B Hierarchy Theory and Socio-Environmental Ethics Papers and Proceedings of 53rd ISSS Annual conference, Brisbane 2009 Hilton, B. Entrepreneurial v Communal Ethics: China and Global Ethical Direction in the 21st Century, invited paper at Ashridge International Research Centre on Global Leadership, Global Ethics?, April 2009 Hilton, B. The McIntyre Conjecture and Social Evolution, International Society for the Systems Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, July 2008. Hilton, B, Responsible Corporate Society (RCS) as an Alternative to CSR: The Case of Security and Terrorism, International Sociological Association, Barcelona, Sep. 2008. Hilton, B. and Tannous K., Globalization: The Case of the Apparel Industry in Ningbo and Zhejiang, British Academy of Management, Harrogate, Sep. 2008.
Hilton, B. An Integral Perspective on the Political Economy of Big Change, Proceedings of the 48th Annual conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, edited by Allen, J. K. and Wilby, J. Asilomar, CA, USA, July 4 9, 2004. Hilton, B, Choi, C. & Chen, S. Socially Irresponsible Marketing: the counterfeiting Response: A Desk Research Analysis of counterfeiting in the High Fashion Industry, British Academy of Management Conference, St. Andrews, 29th Aug. 1st Sept. 2004. Cost Estimating and Forecasting in the New Era of Smart Procurement Hilton B. J., NATO, Paris, October 2001. Hilton, B. J. The Future of the Russian Aviation Industry, International Institute for Strategic Studies and the US National Intelligence Council Conference on the Globalisation of the Defence Industry, Saturday 4 November 2000. Public Sector Accountability, Audit and Governance: Is a Trade Off Really Avoidable Between Propriety and Value For Money? E.I.S.A.M, Zarogozza, 6-9 September 2000. Legacy Organisation Structures & Organisational Evolution during the Transition on the Russian Civil Aerospace Industry, Competitive Paper, European General Organisation Studies, Conference, Helsinki, July 2000. "Cost Engineering for the Future Business Environment", Hilton, B. J. and Williamson, A., Best Management Paper Prize, International Society for Parametric Analysis Conference at ESA, Noordwijk Holland, Papers and Proceedings, May 2000. "Multi-National Enterprises in Civil Aviation and their role in International Collaborative Relationships in Emergent Economies", Competitive Track Paper, UK Association for International Business Conference, Strathclyde University, April 14-15, 2000. "Cost Information for the Future Business Environment", Hilton, B. J. and Williamson, A. EPSRC Conference on Future Cost Estimating Requirements, Institute of Naval Architects, June 2000. Some Seminal Material A Systemic View of Post Cold War Transition, ISSS Bulletin, Spring 1997 - deals with the currently significant idea of joined up defence Valuing the MOD s Asset Base, Estates Gazette, July 1996, with Angela Gillibrand, pp. 131-133 - pointed to what are now emerging problems in capitalising defence equipment Preserving the Future, Accountancy, pp. 120-123, April 1987 - looked to a new defence industrial structure Indefensible?, Accountancy, p 123, October 1986 - advocated accruals accounts
The Cost-Effectiveness of Surface Vessels, Minutes of Evidence, House of Commons Select Committee on Defence, House of Commons, June 1988- advocated accrual Books The Global Way, Hilton, B. Trafford, Canada and UK, May 2007 The Global Silk Road: Globalization, Islam and the Creation and Distribution of Knowledge Using the INTERNET. Hilton, B. J. Choi, J. C. and Millar, C., Trafford, Canada and UK, Jan. 2006. Emergent Globalization Choi, J. C., Hilton, B. J. and Millar, C. Palgrave MacMillan, May 2004