Professor John A. Mathews holds the Chair of Strategic Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney.  He has been a member of the Faculty at Macquarie since June 1998, where he teaches courses in Strategic Management, Competition and Strategy in Asia-Pacific, and Global Strategic Management, in Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong. He served as Director of Research at MGSM from 2000 to 2004  responsibility for doctoral students in the PhD and DBA programs.

Professor Mathews holds a PhD from Imperial College, London, in cybernetics theory; and earned a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics and MSc from Imperial College. Prior to taking up an academic appointment at the University of New South Wales in 1990, he worked in industry and government for the State of Victoria, on industry development strategies. He has taught visiting programs at the National Graduate School of Management, ANU, Canberra; at the Stockholm School of Economics; at the Faculty of Business Administration at National University of Singapore, at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University; at the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, at the LUISS university in Rome, and in the EMBA program, Seoul.

Professor Mathews' research interests focus on the competitive dynamics of international business, the evolution of technologies and their strategic management, and the rise of new high technology industries. In particular he has studied the creation of new high technology industries in East Asia through strategies of technology leverage and the management of technology diffusion; the development of the institutional capacities of firms and governments in Asia-Pacific; the internationalization processes of firms, particularly the accelerated internationalization of firms from emerging markets utilizing innovative strategies and organizational forms; and the theoretical explanation for latecomer firms' success in terms of management and organizational theory (such as through an extension of the resource-based view of the firm). His current research focuses on cyclical industrial dynamics and its links with strategy - as in the Flat Panel Display industry and the semiconductor industry. He has published papers on these topics in leading scholarly journals including California Management Review (in 1997, 1999 and 2005); Academy of Management Executive; Organizational Dynamics; Cambridge Journal of Economics; Journal of World Business; International Journal of Technology Management, and in 2002, Research Policy (in 2002 and 2005), Asia-Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Strategic Organisation and Industrial and Corporate Change.

Professor Mathews has had three major research monographs published in the period 2000 to 2006. The first was a major a major research study published worldwide by Cambridge University Press in January 2000, co-authored with Professor Dong-Sung Cho of Seoul National University, entitled: Tiger Technology: The Creation of a Semiconductor Industry in East Asia. He had a companion book published early in 2002 by Oxford University Press, New York, on strategies of internationalisation from the periphery, entitled Dragon Multinational: A New Model of Global Growth. The third book, which complements these two, is titled Strategizing, Disequilibrium and Profit, published in June 2006 by Stanford University Press. It is a theoretical exploration of what strategy should look like when it is concerned with challenger firms and how they break into new industries.

Professor Mathews was worldwide coordinating editor of the journal Industry and Innovation, published by Taylor & Francis, for the decade 1994 to 2004. He is now honorary founding editor, after handing over responsibility to a group of scholars at Copenhagen Business School. Link: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13662716.asp He is an Associate Editor of the journals Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Journal of World Business.

Professor Mathews has worked with major international agencies, including UNIDO, UNCTAD, the World Bank, the ILO Asia-Pacific, the OECD and APEC. In 2000/2001 he was a consultant to UNIDO on the preparation of the Industrial Development Report 2002, and in 2005/06 he is an expert adviser to UNCTAD for the World Investment Report. He was a special consultant to the World Bank in the preparation of a Country Economic Memorandum on Mauritius in 2005/06, with special responsibility for technology matters. (Click for report)

Recently Professor Mathews co-authored two books with Linda Weiss & Elizabeth Thurbon, titled 'National Insecurity' (Allen and Unwin 2007) and 'How to Kill a Country' (Allen and Unwin 2004) respectively, which look at Australia's international trade treaties with the USA, especially the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the USA.