The Institute of Modern Management (IMM)

[History]
　　 The Institute of Modern Management (hereinafter referred to as “IMM”), installed at the Business School of Nankai University, is an integrated research organization in management combing teaching and research activities and focuses on research-oriented activities. IMM is known as the academic research center of Business School of Nankai University.
　　IMM was founded in October 1997, and has a number of research centers and research teams, which mainly engages in the researches related to “Corporate Governance”, “Service Management”, “Network Organization and Governance”, “Research on the Enterprise Network Strategy and its Competitive Edge under the New Economic Background”, “Integrated Marketing Communication Research”, “Nonprofit Organizations”, “Modern Logistics”, “High-tech Enterprises Research”, “Leadership and Organizational Change” and other advanced researches in management theory. Through “Modern Management Institute Research Paper”, IMM spreads the institute’s pioneering research results more comprehensively, and participates in the editing activities of “Nankai Business Review”, a famous academic journal in Management Science.
　　Since the foundation of the institute, IMM, for the purpose to develop the management school with Nankai University's own characteristics, and serve for the modern management of Chinese enterprises, develops research resources and network home and abroad and actively executes the applied research to transfer the research fruits of management and management techniques to the enterprises and helps them to modernize management by organizing the specialists and scholars in multiple academic areas, absorbing the scholars from famous universities and entrepreneurs home and abroad to visit and study.
　　The basic scientific research activities include: Basic Management Theoretic Research and Applicable Research, as well as the consulting services for the enterprises.
[Training Objectives and Features]
　　The long-term objectives of IMM are: by striving to organize and coordinate the research strengths in management and its related subjects, develop the global resources for research and academic network, make the Institute of Modern Management as the best Research Center of Management in China as well as the powerful research institute in the world and to become the backbone in the school of management with Chinese characteristics.
[Cultivation for Students]
　　IMM processes a strong scientific research and teaching team consisted mainly of young and middle-aged teachers as the backbone in modern management. At present, the institute has fifteen full-time teachers, of whom seven are professors (including five doctor supervisors), eight associated professors. Moreover, among the full-time teachers, fourteen people have achieved the doctor degree, accounting for 93% of the total number of the teachers. Among them, three are overseas doctors, one is a foreign expert and six are post-doctors. Some teachers are the Members of the Discipline Accreditation Group of the State Council Academic Degree Commission, Members of the Teaching Advising Commission for Business Administration of Higher
Education of the Ministry of Education, Reviewers of the National Natural Science Foundation, and the President of Tianjin Management Association. The institute has also established a long relationship with some famous foreign universities, employs some overseas scholars and experts as the visiting professors.
[Research Interests and Academic Achievements]
　　IMM, with an advanced teaching and research conditions, has a rich power in scientific research and yielded fruitful results. It has taken on many important projects, such as the longitudinal issues, including the project of “National Natural Science Fund”, the project of “National Social Science Fund”, the project of “Philosophy and Social Science Grand Research Foundation for Ministry of Education of China”, the project of “Excellent Young Teachers Program” Supported by National Education Commission, the “project for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars” sponsored by the State Education Commission, and many horizontal issues related to society and enterprises. The institute has published many papers and monographs in the important core journals home and abroad as well as many valuable research reports. Researchers and the research results are awarded respectively for “the First Prize for the National College of Humanities and Social Science Research” by the Ministry of Education, “Outstanding Achievements of the Social Sciences” by Tianjin Municipal Government, and “Economic and Science Works” by Sun Yefang Foundation of Economics, and many other academic awards.
[Introduction of Core Academic Teaching Staff]
　　Professor Weian Li,
Born in January 1957, with a doctor degree in Economics and a doctor degree in Business Administration;
Special Professor of “Cheung Kong Scholars’ program”;
Professor and Doctor Supervisor;
Dean of Business School of Nankai University;
Director of Research Institute of Modern Management of Nankai University;
Director of Research Center of Corporate Governance, Nankai University;
Editor-in-chief of Nankai Business Review.
Email：liweian@public.tpt.tj.cn
Homepage：http://www.cg.org.cn
[Foreign Exchange]
　　After the foundation of the research institute, the international exchange activities are performed frequently. In detail, the experts, scholars and famous entrepreneurs from many countries, such as the U.S.A., Britain, Japan, Korea, Finland, Bangladesh as well as many districts, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan have been successively invited to visit the research institute and carry on joint research, give lectures or engage in the academic exchanges.
Meanwhile, in line with the principle of "Please come in and walk out", full-time researchers of the research institute have been to the Untied States, Japan, Korea, Finland, Thailand as well as Taiwan , Hong Kong and Macao to carry on various academic exchange activities.

Contact us:
Email:nkimm@nankai.edu.cn
Tel:+86-22-23501314