Dr Gang Liu earned his  PhD in knowledge and technology management and MSc in knowledge management from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

In 2007-2012, Dr Liu worked at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd and was responsible for sales and marketing related tasks of passive optical network products. In 2011, he was assigned to the Western European regional office, in Dusseldorf, Germany and had charge of passive optical network products market development projects of Western Europe. With collective efforts of his project teams, Huawei passive optical network products successfully entered the Western European markets, and Huawei becomes an important partner of well-known telecom operators in Western Europe for passive optical network project implementation, e.g., Telefonica de Espana, Italian Telecom. He also obtained the Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate.

Dr Liu’s research area covers knowledge management and organisational performance, innovation and entrepreneurship, and cross-cultural management. He has published several papers in the Journal of Business Research, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, and European Conference on Knowledge Management, etc. For more details: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-3656-1630

Representative publications

Liu, G., Tsui, E. and Kianto, A., (2021), ''Knowledge-friendly organisational culture and performance: A meta-analysis'', Journal of Business Research, 134, 738-753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.05.048.

Liu, G., Tsui, E., & Kianto, A. (2021). ''Revealing deeper relationships between knowledge management leadership and organisational performance: A meta-analytic study''. Knowledge Management Research & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/14778238.2021.1970492.

Liu, G., Tsui, E. and Kianto, A., (2020), ''A meta-analysis study on the relationship between strategic KM and firm performance'', in Garcia-Perez, A. and Simkin, L. (Eds.), 21st European Conference on Knowledge Management, 2–4 December 2020, Coventry, UK, pp. 477-483. DOI: 10.34190/EKM.20.045

Liu, G., Kianto, A. and Tsui, E., (2020), ''A comprehensive analysis of the importance of intellectual capital elements to support contemporary developments in Chinese firms '', de Pablos, P. O. and Edvinsson, L. (Eds.), Intellectual Capital in the Digital Economy, Routledge, London, UK, pp.62-73.

Liu, G., Tsui, E. and Kianto, A., (2018), ''The myth of the presence of chief knowledge officers'', in Bolisani, E., Maria, E. D. and Scarso, E. (Eds.), European Conference on Knowledge Management, 6 – 7 September 2018, Padua, Italy., pp. 1058-1063.