Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars: Recent Episodes
Academy of International Business (AIB)
Most of us read and extensively cite these top IB scholars. Their groundbreaking and seminal papers inspire us, and yet, many of us rarely get to know the “person” behind the scholarly accomplishments. These esteemed colleagues generously share with us how many different facets of their lives have influenced their work in these videos. These recordings are not about particular papers or specific empirical methods. Each has unique perspectives yet exhibit a shared ethos that centers on finding and solving substantive puzzles in IB.
These semi-structured interviews are in three parts. First, the guests talk about their journey on how they got into the profession, what else they could or would have pursued, their passions, interests, etc. Second, the scholars talk about promising IB topics, what is under-explored, not-well-understood, and over-emphasized topics. Third, the scholars share the best advice they received, their advice to young scholars on what to do and what not to do for a successful career. There is much value in learning from their experiences and hindsight. Each session is practically a ‘masterclass’ with these top minds in our field. I hope these dynamic segments will keep on inspiring new generations of scholars.
New conversations will be published every Thursday. Conversations are originally recorded as video, and can be seen at https://www.aib.world/frontline-ib/
Adamantios Diamantopoulos (Ph.D., D.Litt.) is Professorial Research Fellow at the Department of Marketing and International Business, University of Vienna, Austria. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Senior Fellow at the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schoeller Research Center, Germany. During 2004-2023, he held the Chair of International Marketing at the University of Vienna. During 2012-13, he was the “Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellow” at Harvard University, USA.
He is the author of 200+ papers with over 54,000 citations (h-index: 93; Google Scholar, November 2023) published, among others, in Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Service Research, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Retailing, MIS Quarterly, Organizational Research Methods, Psychological Methods, Information Systems Research, and British Journal of Management.
He ranks #8 worldwide in terms of citations among a total of 13,180 marketing scholars (Ioannidis, 2023) as well #1 in Austria and #94 worldwide in the 2022 Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in Business and Management (Research.com, 2022). He is the most prolific contributor to Journal of International Marketing (Donthu et al., 2021) and the recipient of four Hans B. Thorelli Awards. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, the British Academy of Management, and the European Marketing Academy. In 2019, he was awarded the JIBS Silver Medal and, in 2021, he received the Significant Contributions to Global Marketing award from the American Marketing Association.
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Franklin Allen is Professor of Finance and Economics and Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London and has held these positions since July 2014. In August 2019 he became the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in the Business School and in August 2020 the Vice-Dean (Research & Faculty) there. In September 2023 he became Interim Dean. He was on the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from September 1980 – June 2016. He now has Emeritus status there. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs, Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and Managing Editor of the Review of Finance.
He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society for Financial Studies, the Financial Intermediation Research Society and the Financial Management Association, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the British Academy. He received his doctorate from Oxford University.
Dr. Allen’s main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises. He is a co-author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth through thirteenth editions and with Alex Edmans as well of the fourteenth edition of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance.
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Dr. Alain Verbeke is a Professor of International Business Strategy and the McCaig Chair in Management at the University of Calgary. He also serves as the Alan M. Rugman Memorial Fellow at the University of Reading.
He is associated with the Solvay Business School (VUB) and has been a Visiting Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain and an Associate Fellow of Templeton College. He has served two full terms as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies – JIBS, during which time the journal’s citation impact (without self-cites) doubled.
Dr. Verbeke’s main contributions to the field of international business strategy include, inter alia:(1) making the critical distinction between location-bound and non-location bound firm-specific advantages of multinational enterprises; (2) the subsidiary specific advantage concept; (3) the bounded reliability concept; (4) the concept of bifurcation bias in family firms; (5) substantial work demonstrating the dominance of regional over global strategies.
Dr. Verbeke is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and the European International Business Academy (EIBA). He is also an active member in the Strategic Management Society (SMS). He was the recipient of the double Gold Medal awarded by the AIB for his intellectual contributions in JIBS and for his service to the journal. In 2023, the was bestowed with the AIB Exemplary Service Award for his role as Editor-in-Chief of JIBS.
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Karl P. Sauvant is Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University; Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School (where he teaches a seminar on FDI and public policy); Fellow, Academy of International Business; and Honorary Fellow, European International Business Academy. He is a national of Germany, married to Silvana F. da Silva, a national of Brazil.
Dr. Sauvant launched, in 2015, a proposal for an international support program to facilitate sustainable investment; structured discussions on a multilateral Investment Facilitation Framework for Development began in the WTO in 2018, and were upgraded to negotiations in 2020. He has advocated, since 2004, the establishment of an Advisory Center on International Investment Law, a proposal that was put on the agenda of the United Nations Commission on Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in October 2019. Since 1998, he has championed the establishment of a facility that helps developing countries negotiate large-scale contracts with international investors; the proposal was put on the G7 agenda in 2014, under the name of “CONNEX”, and was implemented by Germany in 2017, when it established the CONNEX Support Unit in Berlin. In January 2006, Sauvant established the Columbia Program on International Investment (today the CCSI), serving as its Executive Director until February 2012. As Chief of the Research Section of the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, he created the World Investment Report and was its lead author until 2004, at UNCTAD; he also founded the journal Transnational Corporations, serving as its editor until 2005.
Dr. Sauvant received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He joined the United Nations in 1973 and, as of 1975, has focused his work on matters related to FDI. He rose to Director of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD’s) Investment Division. He has published extensively on issues related to economic development and various aspects of foreign direct investment.
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Professor Christopher Bartlett is the Thomas D. Casserly Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He received a B.Econ. degree from the University of Queensland and both an MBA and DBA from Harvard University.
Prior to his academic career, he worked as a marketing manager with Alcoa in Australia, a management consultant in McKinsey's London office, and general manager of Baxter Laboratories' subsidiary in France.
He joined the faculty of Harvard Business School in 1979 where his research focused on the management challenges facing large, complex, global corporations. His eight books include (co-authored with the late Sumantra Ghoshal) Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution (named by the Financial Times as one of the 20th century’s 50 most influential business books) and The Individualized Corporation (named by Strategy + Business magazine as one of the best business books of the new millennium). Both books have been translated into more than ten languages.
He has authored or co-authored over 50 book chapters and articles and written over 100 case studies which collectively have sold more than seven million copies worldwide, making him the best-selling case author in the history of HBS.
During his three decades at HBS, he chaired the School’s General Management Unit, ran the International Senior Management Program, headed the Program for Global Leadership, and led the Humanitarian Leadership Program.
Professor Bartlett is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, and the Strategic Management Society. In 2001, the Academy Management’s International Division honoured him with its Distinguished Scholar Award.
He has served on the board of six public companies and five non-profits.
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Lemma W. Senbet is the William Mayer Chair Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland and a former ED/CEO of African Economic Research Consortium, the oldest and largest economic research and training network in Africa. Prior to Maryland and AERC, he held endowed chaired professorship at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Prof Senbet has achieved global recognition for his widely cited contributions to corporate finance, international finance, and finance in a public domain. He has received numerous recognitions for his impact on the profession. He has been elected twice as Director of the American Finance Association and is a past President of the Western Finance Association. In 2000, he was inducted into the Financial Economists Roundtable, a distinguished group of world-wide financial economists. In 2006, he was inducted Fellow of the Financial Management Association. In 2005, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia). In 2022 he was inducted AIB Fellow.
Prof Senbet has been editor and associate editor at over a dozen journals, including JF and JIBS. Moreover, hehas supervised numerous doctoral students and placed them at leading institutions. He has also advised World Bank, IMF, UN, and other agencies globally on financial sector reforms and development. He is a member of: Brookings AGI Distinguished Advisory Group; Advisory Panel of the G20 Compact with Africa; Independent Council of Economic Advisors (appointed by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia). Regarding his role in the US financial industry, Prof Senbet was a Director of Fortis Funds and has been an independent Director for the Hartford Funds.
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Jan-Erik Vahlne is an award-winning international business scholar whose distinctions include:
- Journal of International Business Studies, Decade Award, 1987 and 2019
- International Marketing Review, Best Paper Award 1990
- International Business Review, Best Paper Award 2012
Over the course of his career, Dr. Vahlne has served in variety of professional positions, including:
- 1978-83: Secretary, Governmental Committee on Foreign Direct Investment
- 1986-88: Associate Dean, Graduate School of Business, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
- 1988-1995: Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
- 1993-1995: President, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia
- 1996-2011: Professor, Gothenburg University
- 2011-Present: Professor Emeritus, Gothenburg University
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Ingmar Björkman is Rector (President) of Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Before joining Hanken, Björkman was Dean (2012-19) as well as Professor (2020-22) at Aalto University School of Business in Finland.
Ingmar’s research interests focus on people management issues in international organizations. Ingmar is a winner of the JIBS Decade Award (with D. Minbaeva, T. Pedersen, C. Fey & H-J. Park). His most recent article is: Zeng, R., Grøgaard, B. & Björkman, I (2023): Navigating MNE Control and Coordination: A Critical Review and Directions for Future Research. Journal of International Business Studies, doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00600-7. His latest book is Global Challenge: Managing People across Borders (fourth edition, 2023), co-authored with Vladimir Pucik, Paul Evans, and Günter Stahl.
Ingmar has received best/outstanding teacher awards in three different business schools across two continents and the International Educator (Dean) of the Year Award from the Academy of International Business (AIB) in 2019.
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Philip Kotler is the S. C. Johnson Distinguished Professor of International Marketing (Emeritus) at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He has been honored as one of the world’s leading marketing thinkers and has been called The Father of Modern Marketing. He received his M.A. degree in economics (1953) from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. degree in economics (1956) from the M.I.T.
He has received honorary degrees from 22 foreign universities. He is the author of Marketing Management, first published in 1967 and now in its 16th edition. Kotler has published over 90 books and 170 journal articles, including Confronting Capitalism, Democracy in Decline, and Advancing the Common Good. He has consulted IBM, Merck, GE, AT&T, Bank of America, Motorola, Ford, and others. He has spoken all over the world and runs the World Marketing Summits.
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Ilan Vertinsky is Vinod Sood Professor of International Business Studies, Strategy and Business Economics in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is also an associate of the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies and a former Distinguished Scholar in Residence of the Institute. He previously served as director of the Center for international Business studies, Associate director of the Institute Asian Research, director of the Maurice Young Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Research Centre and Director of the Forest Economics and Policy Analysis unit. He was also a member of the faculty of the Institute of Resource Ecology.
Ilan received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Business specializing in Operations Research. Prior to joining the faculty at UBC he served on the faculty of Northwestern University.
He has published over 300 refereed journal articles, book chapters and books. His publications include journals such as The Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of international Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Operations Research, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Marketing. His research awards include the University’s Killam Research prize, the Sauder’s Professional Research Excellence Prize, AGSM’s Outstanding Scholarship Award and the Seagram Senior Faculty Award. Ilan is a former area editor of The Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) and currently serves as a consulting editor of the journal.
Ilan’s current research focuses on the following areas: (1) transfers of knowledge in international joint ventures; (2) risk management and resilience development related to climate change, (3) competitive learning in domestic and cross- border alliances, patent litigation and innovation, and (4) the implications of the ongoing USA-China technology rivalry.
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Noel Capon is R.C. Kopf Professor of international Marketing, Columbia Business School, New York, Educated in England and the United States, Professor Capon holds both a B.Sc. Special, First Class Honors and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from University College, London University, a business diploma from Manchester Business School, and MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard and Columbia Business Schools, respectively.
In addition to Columbia Business School (Marketing Chair), Professor Capon served on the faculties at Harvard Business School, UCLA (Marketing Chair), INSEAD (France), and China European International Business School (CEIBS). Capon teaches on Columbia’s MBA, EMBA, and Executive Programs. Courses include Advanced Market Strategy, Strategic Sales Management, and Key/Strategic and Global Account Management.
Professor Capon has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and in excess of 40 books. Titles include The Marketing Mavens, Managing Marketing in the 21stCentury, Capon’s Marketing Framework, Capon’s Marketing Essentials, The Virgin Marketer, Sales Eats First, The Front-Line Sales Manager, Key Account Management and Planning, Managing Global Accounts. Local versions of Professor Capon’s books have been published in Asia Pacific, Brazil (Portuguese), China (Mandarin), Russia, Spanish Latin America (Spanish), Western Europe, Middle East. Professor Capon’s most recent book is Customers Win, Suppliers Win: Lessons from One of IBM’s Most Successful Strategic Account Managers.
Professor Capon founded and serves as board chair of Wessex Press, board chair of LunaCap Foundation, and is a longtime board member of the Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA).
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Glenn Hoetker joined Melbourne Business School in 2018. He completed his PhD in international business at the University of Michigan.
Prior to joining MBS, he was Dean’s Council Distinguished Scholar and Professor in the Department of Management of Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey school of business, where he also held a courtesy appointment in the Department of Supply Chain Management. He was also an affiliate professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and a Senior Sustainability Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, an affiliation he still holds. Prior to joining ASU, he spent 10 years at the University of Illinois, where he was a member of both the strategy and international business groups in the College of Business, with additional appointments in the College of Law and the Institute for Genomic Biology, where he was part of the BioBEL (Business, Economic and Legal Aspects of Biotechnology) research group.
He is an Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal and the Strategic Management Society’s new journal, Strategic Management Review. He serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Organization Science, Strategic Organization and Strategy Science.
His research, teaching and outreach interests are at the confluence of strategy, innovation, and globalization. Much of his recent work has explored these issues in the context of sustainability, particularly clean energy.
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Salvador Carmona is a professor of Accounting and Management Control at IE Business School-IE University, where he serves as Dean of Faculty and Rector, respectively. Salvador’s research focuses on the organizational and social aspects of accounting. More specifically, Salvador examines accounting and gender; the role of accountability in the development of modern nation states; and the role of accounting discourses in religious, non-profit organizations.
Salvador has published in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society; Journal of Business Ethics; Organization Studies; Management Accounting Research; Accounting and Business Research; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Abacus; European Journal of Operational Research; and International Journal of Operations and Production Management. A former editor of European Accounting Review and senior editor of Oxford Research Reviews, Salvador is on the editorial board of fourteen international journals.
He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Almeria and Aalto University and has been granted the Hourglass Award of the Academy of Accounting Historians and the Anthony G. Hopwood Award for Academic Leadership of the European Accounting Association.
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Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (Ph.D., MBS, Psy.) is Full Professor of Management, Head of the Masters in Sustainability, and Coordinator of Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability at Universidad EAFIT (Colombia). Maria Alejandra is a member of the global council of Sustainable Development Goal number 1 (SDG 1: End Poverty) of the World Government Summit (WGS) (2018-2020, 2021-2024). Alejandra was the Vice-President of Administration at the Academy of International Business (AIB) (2015-2018), the regional chapter chair for Latin America and the Caribbean (AIB-LAC) (2018-2021), and a board member of the AIB Shared Interest Group (SIG) on Emerging Markets from 2022. In addition, Alejandra is on the editorial team of the Journal of International Business Policy (JIBP), Area Editor of the Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management (CCSM) Journal, Associate Editor of Transnational Corporations; and Editor-in-Chief of the business journal AD-minister.
Prof. Gonzalez-Perez did her Ph.D. and Masters at the University of Galway in Ireland. Dr. Gonzalez-Perez has published 17 books, 79 academic peer-reviewed papers, and several book chapters on the internationalisation of emerging markets firms, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and international migration. She is a Forbes columnist and regular contributor to Latin American business media. Her research results have been presented at over 200 international academic conferences on all continents. She was also trained as a clinical psychologist at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Colombia. Maria-Alejandra has lived, studied, or worked in the UK, USA, Ireland, France, Spain, and Colombia and has traveled to 97 countries.
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Pavida Pananond is Professor of International Business at Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University, where she has been based upon completing her graduate studies at McGill University in Canada (MBA) and the University of Reading in England (PhD). Her main research interest is global strategy, particularly with reference to how companies in emerging markets develop and expand overseas. She also studies the governance of global industries and the upgrading of emerging market firms in global value chains.
Pavida has authored a host of academic articles, book chapters, books, and opinion editorials in media outlets such as Bangkok Post and Nikkei Asia. Her academic publications have appeared in California Management Review andGlobal Strategy Journal, among others. Her views have also been sought from international media including Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, Channel News Asia, and Financial Times. Pavida also serves as consultant for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and as editorial board member of several international academic journals, including Global Strategy Journal and Journal of International Business Policy.
Since 2017, she has been one of the Honorary Advisers to Asia New Zealand Foundation, an authority in helping New Zealanders build their knowledge and skills to thrive in Asia. In 2018, she was appointed ASEAN@50 Fellow by New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade to promote closer links between New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Her corporate role includes board membership of Precious Shipping Public Company Limited, Thailand’s leading dry bulk carrier. Pavida is a frequent speaker at national and international public forums and conferences.
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Asli M. Colpan is Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Graduate School of Management and Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University. She held the Alfred Chandler Visiting Scholar position at the Harvard Business School. Previously, she was also a visiting scholar at Harvard University and MIT, and visiting professor at Koc University’s College of Administrative Science and Economics.
Her research interests include corporate strategy, corporate governance, business history, and especially the evolution of large enterprises in developed and emerging economies. Her work has been published in such journals as Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, Journal of Business Ethics, Business History and Corporate Governance: An International Review. She is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010; Business Groups in the West: Origins, Evolution, and Resilience, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018; and Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, 2020.
She was awarded the Tachibana Prize for the most outstanding female scholar at Kyoto University. She is currently the Area Editor of Journal of International Business Studies and Senior Editor of Management and Organizational History. She also sits on the boards of Sumitomo Rubber Industries and NISSHA as an external director.
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Aida Hajro is Professor of International Business and Director of the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL), and a Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is also affiliated with the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development at the World Bank.
Aida’s general interest lies in sustainable development, with a focus on its social aspects, as embedded in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as No Poverty, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Decent Work, Reduced Inequalities, and several others. More specifically, her research addresses these topics by zooming in on the global phenomenon of migration.
Aida’s work has been published in journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Journal of World Business. It has been also recognized by several awards including the Academy of Management Review Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management IMD Robert H. Schaffer Award, and the British Academy of Management Award. Aida’s research has been profiled in a wide range of outlets, such as the World Economic Forum’s Agenda, World Bank Blog, and B the Change.
Aida has served on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management and Journal of World Business. She is also a co-founder of the “Migration, Business and Society” global network initiative.
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Ingo Walter has been based almost all of his professional career at New York University, in a hub-and-spoke strategy that included periods of residency at Insead, the University of Mannheim, the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, IESE in Spain, the University of Western Australia and others.
At NYU he chaired several academic departments, directed the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions for thirteen years, and served two four-year sentences as Vice Dean of Academic Affairs and more recently Dean of Faculty. For almost 20 years he held a co-appointment at INSEAD. Since 2015 he has been an active Professor Emeritus at Stern.
His early academic and consulting work focused on international trade policy, notably the impact of tariffs and non-tariff barriers on developing country trade and growth. This led to work on trade and the natural environment – how environmental policy developments can be built into the generally accepted models of global production in a book titled International Economics of Pollution (McMillan)1975) – and a Bellagio conference on international trade in recyclables. A bit later he focused on non-market constraints facing foreign direct investment in a co-authored volume Multinationals Under Fire (Wiley, 1980) which covered many of the ESG concerns widely discussed today.
The focus on trade and investment led him naturally to market-access issues in the financial services industry, and an effort to understand the structure, conduct and performance of its main functional pillars – commercial banking, securities, insurance and asset management – in all their complexity considered in Street Smarts (Harvard Business School Press, 1997).
The work had both firm-specific and public policy dimensions, including systemic and firm-specific risk control issues and problems that surfaced in the Global Financial Crisis. This included a major NYU faculty team effort on crisis forensics and remediation to achieve a sustainable balance between financial efficiency and stability. Most recently he has been engaged in a multi-disciplinary study of infrastructure finance, as well as extending his work on reputational risk.
Ingo has served on a number of boards, currently the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has advised various industrial and financial firms and government agencies.
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Jiatao (JT) Li is Chair Professor of Management, Lee Quo Wei Professor of Business, Director of the Center for Business Strategy and Innovation, and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He served as the Senior Associate Dean of the HKUST Business School from 2013 to July 2017; and Associate Dean (Faculty) from 2009 to 2013.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and an editor of the Journal of International BusinessStudies. His current research interests are in the areas of organizational learning, strategic alliances, corporate governance, innovation, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on issues related to global firms and those from emerging economies. His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. He also served as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal from 2009 to 2016. He is currently serving as a member of the editorial boards of leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Policy, Global Strategy Journal, and Long Range Planning, among others.
He served as Vice President and Program Chair of the 2018 Academy of International Business annual conference in Minneapolis. Earlier in his career, JT worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Hong Kong.
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Anthony Goerzen is the D.R. Sobey Professor of International Business at Smith School of Business of Queen’s University. Prior to academia, Anthony Goerzen spent 15 years in management positions in both small firms and MNCs. His research interests relate to the behaviour and performance of MNEs with a focus on location strategy, cooperative strategies (e.g., JVs, alliances, and networks) as well as social and environmental issue management within the context of global value chains. His research is published in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Management International Review, Journal of International Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Peking University Business Review, Ivey Business Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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Professor Maria Tereza Fleury is a full-time professor in the area of International Strategy, director of FGV SP, and of the Center for International Competitiveness, FGV. She is a Fellow at the Academy of International Business and President of AIB. She was previously dean of FGV EAESP – School of Administration of São Paulo at the Getulio Vargas Foundation and FEA- School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of São Paulo.
She is a member of international councils: Instituto de Empresas, Madrid, Tshinghua Latin America Center, among others. She was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, UK, Sussex University, UK, IDE, Japan, and a professor at ESSEC, France.
In the past, she was the director of ANPAD, BALAS, a member of the CNP Advisory Committee, FAPESP, FAPESP, editor of RAUSP; currently, she is a member of the editorial board of the Journal International Business Policy, International Business Studies, and RAE. She published more than one hundred articles and 25 books.
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Edward A. Snyder is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management. His research and teaching are focused on industrial organization, antitrust economics, law and economics, and financial institutions. His recent research includes work on antitrust policy and enforcement as well as on the development of major digital platforms. He teaches Economic Analysis of High-Tech Industries, a course that applies industrial organization concepts and valuation frameworks to high-tech industries in China, EU, and US.
During Snyder’s tenure as dean of the school from 2011 to 2019, the school developed the first global network of top business schools, introduced its Master of Advanced Management degree for graduates of the Global Network for Advanced Management, introduced its Master of Management Studies degree with tracks in Asset Management, Systematic Risk, and Global Business and Society, and broadened its MBA for Executives program.
Snyder began his professional career as an economist with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. He earned a PhD in Economics and an MA in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. He began his academic career at the University of Michigan where he developed programs in Central Europe, China, India, and Russia.
Prior to coming to Yale in 2011, Snyder was the Dean and George Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Robert J. Weiner is professor of international business, public policy & public administration, and international affairs, at the George Washington University School of Business, Washington DC. He serves concurrently as Director of the Master of Science in International Business (MSIB) program. He has been a member of the Editorial Board, Area Editor (Energy, Environment & Natural Resources), and Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS).
Prof. Weiner’s research interests and projects focus on economic, financial, and managerial aspects of energy, including resource nationalism & political risk; oil, transparency, & corruption; petroleum fiscal vulnerability; dynamics of energy crises; foreign investment; oil speculation and market turbulence; and privatization & the behavior of state-owned enterprises in the world petroleum market.
Prof. Weiner served twice as Chairman of the GW Department of International Business, building its research-oriented faculty and national ranking. He was a research fellow in the International Energy Program, JFK School, Harvard University and consultant to companies, NGOs, IGOs, and governments. Before joining the professoriat, he was an energy and environment consultant at ICF Inc.
Prof. Weiner testified before the U.S. Congress (Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy, and Trade of the House Small Business Committee, 2011), and U.K. Parliament, Commons Treasury Select Committee, Panel on Regulation of Oil Markets (2008). He served as an eminent person on commodities for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2003).Prof. Weiner received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics, and Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in Business Economics, all from Harvard University. He has coauthored four books and many articles, focusing on natural resources, especially petroleum.
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Dr. Bird has served as President of The Kozai Group, Inc. since 2001. He is also Senior Professor at the Goa Institute of Management in Goa, India. From 2009 to 2019 he was the Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, Dr. Bird was the Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies and also served as Director of the International Business Institute and Director of the International MBA program in the College of Business at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has previously been a Visiting Professor at Rikkyo University in Japan, Columbia University, Monterey Institute for International Studies, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Finland, Osaka International University and Japan’s National Self Defense Academy. He has also served on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication. He teaches courses in global leadership development, intercultural management, international negotiations, and intercultural and global leadership assessment.
He has authored, co-authored, or edited nine books, over 40 book chapters, and more than 60 journal articles. His most recent book (with M.E. Mendenhall, J.S. Osland, G.R. Oddou, M.L. Maznevski, M. Stevens, and G. Stahl) Global Leadership: Research, practice, and development (3nd Edition) was published in 2019. The second edition won an Award of Merit for Research Scholarship and was a finalist for the University of San Diego’s Leadership Book of the Year Award in 2013.
His articles have appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management, International Studies of Management and Organization, International Journal of Intercultural Research, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Advances in International and Comparative Management, and Advances in Research on the Sociology of Organizations.
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David A. Griffith is Professor of Marketing, the holder of the Hallie Vanderhider Chair in Business, and Associate Director of Research of the Center for International Business Studies, in Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. In 2022, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
David’s research focuses on the areas of strategy, global marketing, innovation, and international business. He has published over 125 articles, in outlets including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, etc. He is ranked among the most productive and impactful scholars in the international marketing discipline. He is the recipient of the 2021 S. Tamer Cavusgil Award, the 2021 Louis W. Stern Award, the 2019 Significant Contributions to Global Marketing Award presented by the AMA Global Marketing Special Interest Group, a two-time recipient of the Hans B. Thorelli Award (2018, 2015), as well as a two-time recipient of the AMA Global Marketing Special Interest Group’s Excellence in Research Award (2018, 2014). In 2019 he was awarded a Silver Medal by the Academy of International Business for his contributions to the Journal of International Business Studies.
David is serving as Editor for Global Marketing at the Journal of International Business Studies (2023-2025). He also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Marketing. Prior to these editorial roles, he served two terms as the Editor-in-Chief of the AMA’s Journal of International Marketing (2008-2010, 2011-2013).
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Roger Strange is Professor of International Business at the University of Sussex Business School, United Kingdom. His current research focuses on four main areas of International Business: the reasons for, and the implications of, the growing trend towards the externalization of production in global value chains; the effects of corporate governance factors on foreign direct investment decisions; the determinants of MNE subsidiary location; and the impact of new digital technologies on international business theory and practice.
He is the author/editor of fourteen books, and over one hundred journal articles and book chapters. Roger is the co-Editor-in-Chief of International Business Review, a former President of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), and an EIBA Fellow. He is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Business Policy, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Asia Pacific Business Review, and the Journal of Management & Governance.
He has been a consultant to UNCTAD on several World Investment Reports and to the World Bank on the forthcoming Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2021-2022.
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Stephanie Decker is a professor of strategy at the University of Birmingham Business School. Previously she worked at the University of Bristol, Aston Business School, and the University of Liverpool Management School. She is currently joint editor-in-chief for Business History and serves on the editorial board of Organization Studies, Accounting History, and Journal of International Business Studies.She is also co-Vice-Chair for Research & Publication at the British Academy of Management.
As a historian working at a management school, most of Decker’s research is concerned with the connection between the social sciences and history, specifically organization studies and history. She is interested in how to theorize from historical research and in developing archival and historical methods for organization studies. Her historical research focuses on the history of organizations, entrepreneurs and the wider political economy in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Bodo B. Schlegelmilch heads the Institute for International Marketing Management at WU Vienna and is Chair of AMBA [Association of MBAs] and BGA [Business Graduates Association]. He was Founding Dean of the WU Executive Academy and initiated the Vienna Executive MBA, leading it into the Financial Times Top 50 ranking.
Starting at Deutsche Bank and Procter & Gamble, he continued at the Universities of Edinburgh and California, Berkeley. Professorships at the University of Wales (British Rail Chair of Marketing) and Thunderbird School of Global Management (Head of Marketing Section) followed. To date, he taught in 31 countries on six continents.
Bodo received awards and fellowships from the Academy of International Business, Academy of Marketing Science, American Marketing Association and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He serves on advisory boards of European and Asian universities, and holds guest professorships in China, Fiji, Thailand, UK and USA.
His research spans from international marketing strategy to CSR, and appeared in leading journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. In addition to some 150 journal papers, he published 15 books in English, Mandarin and German.
Bodo served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Marketing and on editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, AMS-Review and other top journals.
Initially educated in Germany, he obtained two doctorates (in International Marketing Strategy and CSR) from the University of Manchester and an honorary Ph.D. from Thammasat University (Thailand).
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Shige Makino is Professor at Faculty of Economics/Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan, and Emeritus Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received LLB and MBA degrees from Keio University, and PhD from Ivey Business School, Western University.
Shige’s current research focuses on strategies and performance of multinational corporations. He is especially interested in exploring non-economic based motivations on economic activities and their performance consequences in international business. His research has appeared in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal, among others.
Shige served as a Vice President of the Academy of International Business (Program) and a President of the Association of Japanese Business Studies. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Global Strategy Journal, a Consulting Editor of Journal of International Business Studies, and an editorial and advisory board member in a number of local and international journals. He has received several major research awards and honors, including the JIBS Gold Medal (2019) and the International Business Review (IBR) Best Journal Paper of the Year Award (2020).
He teaches strategic management and business models at undergraduate, masters and PhD levels and received many teaching awards at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, including the Vice Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award (the University’s top teaching award) and the Teaching Excellence Award (the Business School’s top teaching award).
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Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research interests span from corporate governance and financial development to political economy and the economic effects of culture. He has published extensively in the major economics and financial journals. He also wrote two best-selling books: Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) with Raghu Rajan, and A Capitalism for the People (2012). In 2014 he served as President of the American Finance Association. In July 2015 he became the Director of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago. Since January 2018, he has co-hosted the podcast Capitalisn’t, which explores how capitalism can go wrong and what we can do to fix it. Born in Italy, Zingales carries with him a civic passion and the belief that economists should not just interpret the world, they should change it for the better. Commenting on his method of teaching on a few very important lessons rather than a myriad of details, Zingales says, “Twenty years from now they might have forgotten all the details of my course, but hopefully they will not have forgotten the way of thinking.” Zingales received a bachelor’s degree in economics summa cum laude from Università Bocconi in Italy in 1987 and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.
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Wayne F. Cascio is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Business School of the University of Colorado Denver, where he served as a member of the management faculty from 1981 to 2020. A former area and consulting editor of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), he has published more than 200 articles and book chapters, and 33 books, including Managing Human Resources: Productivity, Quality of Work Life, Profits (12th ed., 2022), Investing in People (3rd ed., 2019 with J. Boudreau and A. Fink), and Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed., 2019 with H. Aguinis).
In 2016, by a vote of 90 countries, he received the George Petitpas [Lifetime Achievement] Award from the World Federation of People Management Associations. In 2020 he received the inaugural Ulrich Impact Award from the HR Division of the Academy of Management for his research that links theory to practical applications, and he was also inducted into the Australian HR Institute’s Hall of Fame. In 2022 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Colorado Board of Regents for his service to the state and to the nation.
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Pasha Mahmood is a Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School where he studies and works with multinational firms and local enterprises on their emerging market strategies. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s international panel of experts, acting as the co-curator for the ASEAN Transformation Map. Pasha obtained his B.A. in Economics from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Prior to joining academia, he had worked as a management consultant for Gemini in Chicago. From 2012 to 2015, Pasha was a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the IMD Business School in Switzerland. He has also held several Visiting Professor appointments at universities such as Waseda and Hitotsubashi in Japan, and St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Pasha’s work looks at the interface between innovation and strategy in the context of emerging markets. He won the Haynes Prize by the Academy of International Business (AIB). In 2014, Pasha also won the Aspen Award by the Aspen Institute for promoting sustainable business models in his research and teaching. His recent case on bKash, a fintech firm in Bangladesh, won the bestselling case award in 2021 from Ivey Publications.
Pasha’s research has been published at leading management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Management Science, Organization Science, Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal, etc. He has also served as an Area Editor for JIBS from 2010-2013 and as a Senior Editor for the Management Organization Review from 2013-2015.
Literature, history, coffee, and train rides are some of his passions. It is the opportunity to be useful to his students and colleagues that excites Pasha the most about his job as a business school professor.
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Esther Tippmann is Professor of Strategy, Leadership and Change at NUI Galway, Ireland. Before joining NUI Galway, she was a faculty member at University College Dublin and Research Fellow at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France.
Esther’s research and teaching interests revolve around the strategic challenges of internationally operating organizations. She has worked closely with several scaling firms and multinational corporations in Ireland, France, U.K. and the U.S. on case studies and research projects. She has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review, among others.
Her research received several honours, including awards and nominations from the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business and Strategic Management Society. Esther currently serves as Senior Editor for the Journal of World Business and on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies and Long Range Planning.
She held a Marie-Curie Fellowship, funded by the European Commission and Irish Research Council. Esther has taught in the areas of Strategic Management, Global Strategy, International Business, and Qualitative Research across all levels, including executives, in Ireland, Germany and France.
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Günter K. Stahl is Professor of International Management, Head of the Institute of Global Business and Sustainability, and Director of the Centre for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility (STaR) at WU Vienna. Prior to joining WU, he served for nine years on the faculty of INSEAD. He is an Academic Fellow of the Centre for International HRM at Judge Business School, Fellow of the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University, and was a visiting professor at Duke University, the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Hitotsubashi University, among others.
Günter’s research interests include the drivers of corporate responsibility and sustainability, grand societal challenges and their implications for management, the changing nature of global work, and purpose-driven corporations and their leaders. His research has been published in leading academic journals, profiled in a wide range of media outlets including the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, and been recognized by prestigious awards including the Carolyn Dexter Award of the Academy of Management, the JIBS/ Palgrave Macmillan 2020 Decade Award, the SAGE Award for the most significant contribution to advance leadership and organizational studies, and the Academy of Management Best Paper Award in International Ethics and Social Responsibility. Günter is also an accomplished teacher who has won numerous Outstanding Teacher and Program Director awards, including six-time winner of the CEMS Course of the Year Award. He has been involved in consulting and executive teaching for a variety of industrial and professional services companies, as well as for organizations in the non-profit sector such as Transparency International.
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Paul Almeida is dean and William R. Berkley Chair at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he champions business as a force to serve the common good. During his tenure as dean, Almeida has focused on leveraging the school’s greatest strengths — its location in the global capital city of Washington, D.C., its ability to create interdisciplinary programs in collaboration with Georgetown’s other renowned schools, and the university’s rich Jesuit tradition and values.
Almeida’s research focuses on innovation, knowledge management, alliances, and informal collaborations across organizations and countries. He has published in, and served on, the editorial boards of several leading journals. Almeida also previously was chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management. He has received the Georgetown’s Faculty Research Award and the Dean’s Service Award, and the Academy of Management’s (International Business Division) Outstanding Educator Award.
Almeida has taught students at all levels at Georgetown McDonough in the areas of strategy, international business, technology, and knowledge management. He has won the Joseph LeMoine Award for Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, Best Professor Award for Executive Programs at Georgetown University, and is a seven-time winner of the Best Professor Award for Georgetown’s Executive MBA program.
Almeida received a Ph.D. in international business and strategy and an M.A. in applied economics and managerial science from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a PGDM (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management, and a B.E. in electrical engineering from the University of Poona, India.
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Steve Werner (PhD from University of Florida, USA) is the JPMorgan Chase Professor of International Business in the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He also serves as Chair of the Department of Management and Leadership. His research interests include International HRM, compensation, and FDI. His academic work has appeared in Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Journal of Business Research among others. Steve is the co-author of Managing Human Resources, 12th Edition (2018, Oxford University Press) and Managing Human Resources in the Oil and Gas Industry (2016, Pennwell Publishers). He is the editor of Managing Human Resources in North America (2007, Routledge) and the co-editor of Global Compensation (2008, Routledge).
Steve was recognized by the AIB as a JIBS silver medal winner in 2019 and won the University of Houston’s Global Faculty Award in 2020 for his contributions to fostering globalization through research, teaching, and service.
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Dr. Crystal Jiang has over two decades of business and university experience. She is currently a Professor of Management at Bryant University. In addition to her role as an Executive Board Member of the Academy of International Business U.S. Northeast Chapter, she also serves as Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, Guest Editor of the Journal of International Management, Multinational Business Review, and the past Caucus Committee Chair for the Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Conference (2018-2019).
Dr. Jiang is Lego® Series Play® (LSP) facilitator with certificate in facilitating and designing LSP workshops for business, organizational, team and personal development.
Crystal’s research has published in journals such as the Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, among others. She earned her Ph.D. in International Business from the Temple University.
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Gautam Ahuja is a Professor of Management and Organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He has also served at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan from 2001 to 2017, and at The University of Texas at Austin (1996-2001), and as Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (2014-2015).
Ahuja’s research interests include competitive analysis, technology and innovation, globalization, and the use of inter-organizational arrangements such as mergers, acquisitions, and alliances in these contexts. His research on these issues has received several global awards, including TIM Distinguished Scholar for lifetime achievement, the highest award given by the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management (2019), Schendel Best Paper Award from the Strategic Management Society (2016), SMS Knowledge & Innovation Best Paper Award (2015),and the SIEE-EBS Best Paper Award for the best paper on innovation management (2013). He was also felicitated as an SMS Foundations Scholar (2016) for his contributions in the field of strategy and innovation by the Innovation and Knowledge group of the Strategic Management Society. At the invitation of the Indian Government, he delivered the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Oration (2011), the formal speech on the occasion of Pravasi Divas, the festival to celebrate the achievements of the Indian diaspora (non-resident Indians). Other honors include Lectio Magistralis, Luiss University, Rome; the Il Sigillum Magnum Medal from the University of Bologna in Italy, the world’s oldest continuously functioning university; the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2008 from the Ross School; and the Senior Faculty Research Award for sustained “path-breaking research as a thought-leader in the field of strategy” in 2010, also from the Ross School. Other global research awards include the TIM Best Paper Award for Technology and Innovation Management (2003), the Sage-Pondy and West Publishing Awards for outstanding research in Organization Theory (1998), the Free Press Award for Best Dissertation in Strategic Management (1997), all from the Academy of Management; and the College on Organization Science Best Dissertation Award (1995) from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Ahuja’s research has been cited more than 23,000 times by other scholars and various federal and international bodies such as the EPA, OECD, and UNEP. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science, one of the premier journals in the field, and has also served as Associate Editor for Management Science and as a Senior Editor for Organization Science and Strategy Science. He served as the Co-chairperson (2001-04) and Chairperson (2004-2013) of the Strategy Area at Ross. For several years through this period, the Strategy Area was ranked in the top three departments (including number one) globally by the Financial Times. He has also served as the Division Chair for the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management. As a doctoral advisor, he has trained many students who are now faculty at some of the best institutions across the world.
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Yongsun Paik is a Professor of International Business and Management, Director of the Center for International Business Education (CIBE), and the Center for Asian Business at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, California. Before he joined LMU in 1991, he served as a country economist at the Export-Import Bank of Korea and as a researcher at the Ministry of Finance between 1979 and 1984. Yongsun has a Ph.D. in International Business from University of Washington, Seattle, and M.A. in Latin American Studies from University of Texas, Austin.
His primary research interests focus on international human resource management, business ethics, and Asian Pacific business studies. He has coauthored Global Business: Connecting Theory to Reality (Routledge, 2017), Managing a Global Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities in International Human Resource Management (Routledge, 2015), and coedited “Changing Face of Korean Management” (Routledge, 2009). His articles appear in such top journals as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Journal of International Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Management and Organization Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Inquiry among others.
He has received best paper awards and nominations at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of International Business and Academy of Management. He is LMU’s 2021 recipient of the Rains Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Works, the highest faculty honor. He serves as an editorial board member of Journal of World Business, Thunderbird International Business Review, and International Studies of Management and Organization.
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Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business, Goizueta Business School, Emory University. He is globally known for his scholarly contributions in consumer behavior, relationship marketing, competitive strategy, and geopolitical analysis. Over 50 years of experience in teaching and research at University of Southern California, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia University, MIT, and Emory.
Dr. Sheth is a recipient of the 2020 Padma Bhushan Award for literature and education, one of the highest civilian awards given by the Government of India. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB); the Association of Consumer Research (ACR); the American Psychological Association (APA); and the American Marketing Association (AMA). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) and the International Engineering Consortium. He is the recipient of all four top awards given by the American Marketing Association (AMA). Professor Sheth has been advisor to numerous corporations all over the world. He has authored or coauthored more than three hundred papers and numerous books.
Dr. Sheth is the Founder of Center for Telecommunications Management (CTM) at University of Southern California (USC), Founder and Chairman of India, China, and America (ICA) Institute which analyzes the trilateral relationship and its impact on geopolitics, security, trade, and investment, and the Founder and Chairman of the Academy of Indian Marketing (AIM) which supports research and scholarship among Indian scholars in marketing and management. He and his wife, Madhu Sheth, have established the Sheth Family Foundation to support several charities in India and in the United States and the Madhuri and Jagdish Sheth Foundation to support scholars and scholarship in the field of marketing. The Sheth Foundation supports the AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium, hosted annually by different universities.
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Robert Salomon is a Professor of International Management and the NEC Faculty Fellow at NYU Stern School of Business, where he also serves as Vice Dean and Dean for Executive Programs.
Robert is an award-winning scholar and educator who has been teaching and conducting research on globalization and global strategy for nearly 20 years. He has been recognized as an outstanding educator and has received more than 10 commendations for “Excellence in Teaching” at NYU Stern. He was nominated for NYU Stern Professor of the Year, awarded the NYU Stern Faculty Leadership Award, and was named a NYU Stern Faculty Scholar in recognition of his outstanding teaching and dedication to student mentorship. He was named a “Favorite Business School Professor” in Poets and Quants and has been described in The Wall Street Journal as an educator who provides “brilliant distilled advice on business strategy.”
In addition to being a leading educator, Robert is also an award-winning management researcher. In 2019, the Academy of International Business awarded him the Silver Medal for exceptional intellectual contributions to the field of international business. He received the Emerald Citations of Excellence Award in 2015. He won the 2006 IABS Best Article Award, the 2003 Haynes Prize, the 2003 Newman Award, and the 2002 Richman Prize. He was nominated for the Farmer Award; was a finalist for the Gunnar Hedlund Medal; and was runner-up in the 2001 INFORMS Dissertation Competition. Members of the International Division of AOM recognized him as a “Thought Leader” in 2013, and again in 2019.
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Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki is Professor and Chair of International Business at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is also Visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, UK. Emmanuella serves as Associate Editor at the British Journal of Management and as Senior Editor at Management and Organization Review. In 2021, she received the prestigious JIBS Decade Award for her co-authored paper entitled “Theorising from Case Studies: Towards a Pluralist Future for International Business Research”.
Her research interests refer to case study research in IB; SME and family firm internationalization and international entrepreneurship. She also seeks to understand and problematize the role of time, context and space in IB theorizing. She has published in highly ranked academic journals including the Academy of Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business and Journal of Management Studies. Emmanuella is passionate about qualitative research and is actively training and mentoring IB scholars worldwide. She further studies History of Art and is keen to explore the interface of art and IB.
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Luis R. Gomez-Mejia is a Regents University Professor, a Council of 100 Distinguished Professor, and Weatherup/Overby Chair of Management at WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. Gomez-Mejia, who has been named in several studies as one of the top management scholars in the world, has published more than 350 articles and 15 books in various management areas.
He has received many international awards, including Doctor Honoris Causa at Carlos III University (Madrid), World Educator Award at Oxford University (United Kingdom), Doctor Honoris Causa at Jonkopings University (Sweden), Ray and Milan Siegfried Gold Medallion Award from University of Notre Dame (USA), Benton Cocanougher Chair from Texas A & M University (USA) and several major research awards from the Academy of Management. He is in the Hall of Fame of the Academy of Management, with only 20 members elected for this honor out of 20,000 Academy of Management members.
His publications have consistently appeared in the top management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Decision Sciences, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of Management, among others. He is consistently ranked in the top 1 % most highly cited scholar in Business and Economics in the Web of Science (Clariviate). His recent research interests concern factors that influence strategic decision making . His research has been cited approximately 46,000 times in Google and he is currently cited in the literature more than 400 times per month.
He received his PhD from University of Minnesota, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He has held academic positions at University of Minnesota, University of Florida, University of Colorado, Arizona State University, Texas A & M University, University of Notre Dame, Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), and Universidad IE (Madrid). He was the founder of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management and elected president for three consecutive three-year terms.
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Usha Haley (PhD, NYU) is Barton Distinguished Chair in International Business, Professor, and Director/Center for International Business Advancement at Wichita State University. She chairs the World Trade Council of Wichita.
Her research focuses on FDI, trade, international strategy, emerging markets, business-government relations, innovation and broader research impacts. She has over 322 publications/presentations including 27 academic journal articles (in Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, California Management Review, and Harvard Business Review, among others), and 8 books, two on international best-seller lists. Research grants include from the National Science Foundation (sole Principal Investigator) for international technology development.
Usha’s regulatory influence (over 40 times) includes testimony before the US Senate on Shuanghui’s takeover of Smithfield Foods, the most important case on FDI in a decade; to the USCC; and, twice before the Committee on Ways and Means, including federal legislation, the Non- market Economy Trade Remedy Act incorporated into US regulation (HR 1229). Her research forms the basis of 3 pieces of EU anti-dumping regulation and the US ITA’s countervailing duties against China. Her expertise has been profiled over 600 times in media including NYT, WSJ, FT, Economist, Washington Post, and NPR Marketplace.
Awards/recognitions include the Academy of Management’s Practice Impact Award and for Truly Outstanding Leadership and Service; the Economist’s Thought Leader on emerging markets; Emerald Publishing’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Asia Pacific business; American Made Hero for supporting US manufacturing; the Glorious India Award for contributions by Indian diaspora; and, University Lecturer of the Year.
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Jan Selmer is Professor Emeritus, affiliated with the Department of Management at Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark. He received his PhD from the School of Business, Stockholm University, Sweden and he now resides in Stockholm. His research interest lies in cross-cultural management with a special focus on global employees, mainly investigating expatriates and associated issues. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Mobility (Emerald), the only academic journal to consistently and exclusively focus on global mobility and the management of global employees. His academic production includes ten books and more than two hundred scholarly journal articles, book chapters and research reports. His book, Expatriate Management: New Ideas for International Business, published in 1995 by Quorum Books, has become a classic text about the topic. More recently, he became the co-editor of the Research Handbook of Expatriates, the first of its kind, published in 2017 by Edward Elgar.
For more than two decades, Jan Selmer was an expatriate academic working most of the time at universities in Southeast Asia, first in Singapore and then staying 15 years in Hong Kong. This experience has been a fundamental influence on his research interests as well as providing an acid test of the practical value of expatriate research. Recently, he has become interested in the future of global mobility and expatriation in the light of the rapid development of virtual communication and coordination technologies. In 2021 he founded a research consortium consisting of six leading scholars dedicated to undertake and disseminate academic research on virtual global mobility (VGM).
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Kaz Asakawa is Professor of Global Innovation Management at Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University, Japan. Kaz received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from INSEAD, France, his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his BA summa cum laude in Political Economy from Waseda University, Japan. His research interest lies in the areas of global innovation and global R&D management of multinational corporations. His research appeared in many major scholarly journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, and Journal of World Business. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2015. He was elected Vice President Program of AIB in 2021.
Kaz served as an Associate Editor of Global Strategy Journal and a Senior Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He is a consulting editor of Journal of International Management, and he serves on the editorial board of many scholarly journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Research Policy.
Kaz served as a Track Chair and a Teaching Roundtable Chair at AIB, an AIB Japan Chapter Chair, and a Chair of the Temple AIB Best Paper Award Selection Committee. He served as President of Japan Academy of Multinational Enterprises (AMNE). He was appointed a Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan.
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Anne S. Tsui is Motorola Professor of International Management Emerita at the Arizona State University, Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Peking University and Fudan University, China. Previously, she was on the faculty of Duke University, University of California, Irvine, and the Founding Head of the Management Department at the Business School of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Her research interests include executive leadership, employment relationship, demographic diversity, income inequality, and international management especially in the Chinese context. She has a strong commitment to doctoral education and a strong advocate of responsible social science research in business. She has received numerous awards for her research and service, including the best paper awards from AMJ, ASQ, and JOM, the Center for Creative Leadership Applied Leadership Research Award, the University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement Award, the AoM Distinguished Service Contribution Award, and the IACMR Lifetime Contribution Award. She is the recipient of the Women in the Academy of International Business 2021 Woman of the Year Award.
She is the 67th President and Fellow of the Academy of Management, 14th Editor the Academy of Management Journal, Founding President of the International Association for Chinese Management Research and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Management and Organization Review. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. In 2015, she co-founded the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (www.rrbm.network), an inter-disciplinary, global, grassroots movement to advance both the credibility and the usefulness of research for both business and society in the service of a better world. In 2022, she was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Tsui received her BA in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, MA in Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and PhD in Management from the University of California, Los Angeles. In May 2015, she received an Honorary Doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
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Christine M. Chan is a Professor of Management and Strategy at University of Hong Kong. She is currently Associate Dean (Outreach and Global Engagement) and was Assistant Dean (EMBA, MBA, and Tpg programmes) from 2013 to 2018. Her research analyzes the influences of institutions on multinational enterprises’ foreign market entry strategies and performance in developed and emerging economies. She teaches in HKU MBA Programme, HKU/Fudan University EMBA Programme and HKU/Peking University EMBA Programme. She also teaches executive education programs.
She was the Senior Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management from 2012 to 2019 and serves on the Editorial Review Board of Global Strategy Journal. She has published in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Business Research. She has presented her papers at the Academy of Management Conference, Academy of International Business Conference, and Asia Academy of Management Conference.
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Throughout his career, Professor Yves Doz has endeavored to act as a valuable bridge between management practice and academic research. He began his professional life working on international helicopter development programs, then moved into academia, first at HEC, then Harvard Business School, and joining the faculty of INSEAD in 1980. As a public acknowledgement of his bridging role, Professor Doz was the first recipient of the CK Prahalad Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award, by the Strategic Management Society in 2011.
The “red-thread” in his research, teaching and consulting work over the decades, is a concern with helping companies reach good strategic decisions when facing contradictory demands: For example, local vs. global pressures in multinational firms, collaboration vs competition between alliance partners, dispersed knowledge search vs co-location in fostering innovation, and strategic commitment vs. agility in fast-changing industries.
Professor Doz has been at the forefront of conceptualizing and proposing a number of widely adopted management practices over the years, from his early work on reconciling global integration and local responsiveness in multinational companies with CK Prahalad to his conceptualization of the enablers of Strategic Agility. Professor Doz has co-authored several books, most recently: Ringtone: Exploring the Rise and Fall of Nokia in Mobile Phones, which won the much coveted George S. Terry Award from the Academy of Management “for best book on management” in 2018. He is also the author of numerous articles, both academic and managerial.
He has advised to the top management of many companies, been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences, and has taught at business schools around the world including Stanford GSB, Seoul National University and both Aoyama and Keio in Japan at. At INSEAD he created and for many years directed a senior executive seminar on strategic alliances and has taught numerous company-specific programs.
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Professor Attila Yaprak is a Professor of Marketing and International Business and Director, Doctoral Programs at the Ilitch Business School at Wayne State University. He teaches MBA and doctoral program courses in international business, international marketing, and marketing theory and strategy. His research has appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Marketing, International Marketing Review, International Business Review, and Political Psychology. He has served as an associate editor at the Journal of Business Research and on the editorial review boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, the International Business Review and International Marketing Review, among many other journals. He has been listed among the most prolific contributors to international business and international marketing journals.
Dr. Yaprak is a winner of several teaching awards, including the Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award given by the Academy of Marketing Science and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Wayne State University. He has taught at, or has had research visits to, business schools in Austria, England, France, Finland, Germany, Spain, and Turkey. He has also taught at the University of Michigan, and Michigan State, and in faculty development programs at S. Carolina, Memphis, and Georgia State. His consulting work for the World Trade Organization has taken him to China, Nepal, the Philippines, and Thailand.
Dr. Yaprak is the current Historian and has served as the Executive Secretary of the Academy of International Business. He has served on funded research review panels in the United States, Canada, and Israel. Dr. Yaprak earned BS and MBA degrees at Indiana University (1971 and 1973) and a PhD degree at Georgia State University (1978).
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Fiona Moore is Professor of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She received her doctorate from Oxford University, where she studied at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, in 2002.
Her research on identity in German multinational corporations has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies among others. She has written a monograph, Transnational Business Cultures, on German expatriates in the City of London, with a second monograph on Taiwanese elite labour migrants in London and Toronto published in 2021, entitled Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World. Her current research focuses on ways of developing ethnography as a method for studying international businesses.
She is also a multi-award-nominated science fiction author. More information is available at www.fiona-moore.com.
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Dan Li is the L. Leslie Waters Chair and Professor of International Business at the Kelley Business School, Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Management from Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching focus on global strategy, particularly in the areas of international strategic alliances, and institutional influences on activities of both established multinational enterprises and international new ventures. Dan’s work has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Venturing, Management International Review, among others. She served as the Editor-in-Chief of Business Horizons and an Associate Editor and Special Issue Editor of Global Strategy Journal. She has also served on the editorial review boards of many journals, including the Academy of Management Journal and Journal of International Business Studies.
Dan has been a longtime and active AIB member, serving as Track Chair/Co-Chair for the AIB annual conferences in Istanbul (2013) and in Minneapolis (2018), and on the Local Arrangements Committee for the AIB conference in Indianapolis (2007). She has also co-chaired doctoral consortia, organized panels/PDWs, and served as a panelist for many AIB events over the years. Being on the executive board of the Women in AIB (WAIB), Dan served WAIB in various roles including faculty-at-large and secretary-treasurer, between 2007 and 2015.
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Sergio G. Lazzarini (PhD, 2002, Washington University in St. Louis) is the Chafi Haddad Professor of Management at Insper Institute of Education and Research. He does research on how public and private actors interact and organize their activities to improve economic and social performance. He is founder of Insper Metricis, a center for the study of impact measurement and investing. Sergio has held visiting positions at Harvard University (2010, 2012), University of St Gallen (2009), HEC Paris (2014), Insead (2015), Brandeis (2016), Imperial College (2017), and the University of Utah (2019), and is currently visiting the University of Toronto. His research has received several prizes including the Glueck Best
Paper Award of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management (2003), Best Presentation Prize of the Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Rio (2011), and Distinguished Paper Award of the Strategy Division (Cooperative Strategy Track)of the Academy of Management (2020). Sergio also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the Academy of Management (2008-2010) and as a board member of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics (2009-2011), and is currently Associate Editor of the Global Strategy Journal.
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Gary Knight is a professor of international business and resides near Portland, Oregon, USA. He has co-authored several books, including two textbooks on international business. He has won teaching awards and led many study abroad programs, in international business. He has been a keynote speaker or invited speaker at some 35 conferences or universities worldwide.
Gary has provided significant service to the Academy of International Business (AIB), including Vice President; Chair of the AIB US-West chapter; inaugural chair of the ‘SMEs, Entrepreneurship, and Born Global’ track of the AIB annual conference; and chair of the AIB annual dissertation award.
Gary’s research emphasizes ‘born globals’, international entrepreneurship, internationalization, and technology’s role in international business. He has authored more than 100 refereed articles in journals and conference proceedings, including Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), International Business Review, Journal of World Business, and others. His co-authored article on born global firms won the 2014 JIBS Decade Award. Gary is ranked one of the top cited scholars in international business and international marketing in various rankings.
Prior to academia, Gary was an executive in international business, focusing on Europe, Japan, and Mexico. He has provided expert testimony on international business at the U.S. House of Representatives. Gary earned his Bachelors at Washington State University, his MBA at the University of Washington, and PhD at Michigan State University. He also attended the University of Paris in France and Sophia University in Japan.
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René Belderbos is full professor of Strategy at KU Leuven (Belgium) and part-time professor of International Corporate Strategy at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT (The Netherlands). He received a doctoral degree in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on innovation strategies and international business strategies of multinational firms, including real option theory in international business, location strategies, global knowledge sourcing, top management teams and internationalization, international R&D collaboration, intellectual property rights and innovation, and knowledge spillovers.
He has published widely in economics and management journals such as the European Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research Policy, World Development, the Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Regional Studies, and Environment and Planning, among others.
His work has received more than 10000 citations and he is on the Stanford University list of most cited scholars in the business and economics domain. He is an associate editor of the Global Strategy Journal, an editorial board member of the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS,) and serves as consulting editor to JIBS. He has been consultant to the European Commission, the OECD, the Flemish, Belgian and Dutch governments, and the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP, Japan).
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Ulf Andersson (PhD, Uppsala University) is Professor at Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden and Adjunct Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway. He has extensive international experience from research, teaching, and academic community service. Ulf has held professorial positions at Uppsala University and Copenhagen Business School and visiting positions at, among others, Leeds University Business School (UKJ), Bocconi (Italy) and KU Leuven (Belgium).
Ulf is Senior Editor of Journal of World Business (2017 –) and formerly an Area Editor of Journal of International Business Studies (2011 – 2016). He is a member of the editorial boards of, among others, International Business Review, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Studies & Transnational Corporations Journal.
Ulf has researched the HQ – Subsidiary relation with a particular focus on subsidiary embeddedness in external networks, subsidiary influence, knowledge governance, and subsidiary strategy and evolution. His research is published in books and journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, California management Review, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Organization Studies, and International Business Review. In 2010 he published the book (w/U. Holm) Managing the Contemporary Multinational: The Role of Headquarters.
Ulf has served in various roles in AIB (particularly the chapters WE and UK&I), EIBA, and SMS. He is a founding member of the Nord-IB PhD school. He was elected Fellow of AIB in 2016 and Fellow of EIBA 2021.
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Mila Lazarova (Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Canada) is a Professor of International Business. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Workforce Management and her research interests include global careers, organizational career development and mobility practices; career impact of global assignments; and HR issues related to integration of skilled migrants.
Mila has published in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Organizational Science, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Management Journal. She is a Consulting Editor at Journal of World Business and sits on several other editorial boards.
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Currently, Raj Aggarwal is with the Kent State University Foundation serving as a member of its Board of Directors. In addition to a mechanical engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA and a PhD in Business from Kent State University, Raj is also a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. Dr. Aggarwal is a graduate of Leadership Cleveland, class of 2004 and is an experienced academic, executive, and board member. His career includes successful stints both in business and academia.
He serves on or has served on business boards that include (until change of control) Manco/Henkle DIY Inc. (Duck, LePage, and Loctite brands) for a quarter century, Ancora Trust/Mutual Funds and Maxxus Investments, also for a quarter century. He has also served on the boards of the Flood Company (CWF and Penetrol Brands) and ERC Inc. He has worked at Dana Corporation (International Finance) and Owens-Illinois Inc. (International Strategy), and been a consultant to the UN, the World Bank, and Fortune 100 companies and Commercial Banks. His non-profit board service includes the Kent State University Foundation, Goodwill Industries, Financial Executives Research Foundation, Hawken School, and the Cleveland Council on World Affairs.
He has won many awards for his teaching and scholarly work. He is included in the Nature/Stanford University list of the top 2% scientists globally in Finance and Economics and has been cited and quoted over 9000 times by other scholars (h index of 50). He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and has been a Fulbright Research Scholar and the editor in chief of scholarly journals. He has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the SEC, and the Comptroller of the Currency. Aggarwal is also widely quoted in the local, national, and international print and broadcast media.
He has been the business dean at the University of Akron and an Endowed Chaired Professor at three Universities, John Carroll University, the University of Akron, Kent State University. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Michigan, South Carolina, University of Hawaii, and overseas at Lund (Sweden), IUJ (Japan), Trinity College (Ireland), Griffith (Australia), and NUS (Singapore). He was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship and a Larosier Award for the best international finance essay at the World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Prague.
He has been elected or appointed to many leadership positions serving as President or Vice President of the Eastern Finance Association, Financial Management Association, Academy of International Business, Financial Executives Research Foundation, and Financial Executives International's Northeast Ohio Chapter. He has served as the Editor in Chief for Corporate Finance Review, FMA's Financial Practice and Education, Journal of Teaching International Business, and the Finance and Accounting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. In addition, he serves or has served as Associate Editor for many scholarly journals.
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Garry D. Bruton is a Professor of Management at the Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University. His research interests are at the intersection of entrepreneurship, international business, and strategy. He has published over 100 articles in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. In addition, he has co-authored three textbooks.
He is currently an Associate Editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Previously he was also President of the Asia Academy of Management and former General Editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives and Journal of Management Studies.
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Daniel M. Shapiro (PhD, Cornell) is Professor of Global Business Strategy at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University; co-editor, Multinational Business Review; and co-director Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies. He has worked for forty years as an educator, researcher, and academic administrator, most recently he was Dean of the Beedie School of Business. As an academic, he has published five books and monographs and some 100 scholarly articles on international business and strategy, corporate ownership and governance, foreign investment and MNEs, industrial structure, and various aspects of public policy.
His research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business and International Journal of Industrial Organization, among others. His articles have been cited over 11,000 times and have won several awards, including the Barclays Global Investors Canada Ltd. Research Award and the Mike Peng best paper award in Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
In 1995 and again in 2002 he was awarded the TD Canada Trust Teaching Award, and in 2014 was named the Academy of International Business (AIB) Educator of the Year. He has been visiting professor at McGill University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Rotterdam School of Management, Monash University, and CEIBS. As an administrator, he was Dean of the Beedie School of Business where he successfully developed a strategic position for the school, raised the money to name it, and led it through successful accreditation rounds with AACSB and EQUIS.
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Len J. Treviño is the SBA Communications Distinguished Professor in International Business and Director of International Business Programs in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University. He received his Ph.D. degree in international business and strategic management from Indiana University Bloomington. Prof. Treviño’s research focuses on the multinational enterprise, foreign direct investment, institutional theory, internationalization process theory, cross cultural management, gender, diversity and inclusion, and COVID-19. His work has been published in Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Business Policy, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, and Academy of Management Learning & Education, among other outlets.
Dr. Treviño has been a long-time member of AIB and he contributes regularly to AIB’s conferences. In addition, he has held various positions at such organizations as Whirlpool Corporation, Leo Burnett Advertising, and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He serves as an Editorial Board member at Journal of World Business and was an Associate Editor at Cross Cultural and Strategic Management.
Prof. Treviño current research is focused on resolving some of society’s grand challenges, including gender inequality, immigration, sustainable investment, and curbing the spread of COVID-19 and future pandemics. He has taught international business and strategic management classes at universities in Spain, Norway, Ukraine, Thailand, Argentina, Peru, and Chile. Dr. Treviño has also given presentations and consulted on international business issues around the globe.
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Hildy Teegen is USC Education Foundation Chaired Professor in International Business and former Executive Director of the Folks Center for International Business after serving six years as the Dean of the Moore School of Business, all at the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining UofSC in September 2007, she was founding director of The George Washington University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Teegen also held a joint appointment at GW as Professor of International Business at the School of Business and Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School.
Dr. Teegen is a member of the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Management, and was a member of the Continuous Improvement Review Committee and of the Globalization of Business Education task force of the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business and co-author of the Globalization of Management Education report of the AACSB. She served for six years on the Sustainability Advisory Panel of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group (through 2020). She was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at ESAN University in Lima, Peru in 2013.
Her research concerns how businesses, governments and non-governmental organizations negotiate partnerships for business and societal success. She is a former director for the corporate boards of Cox Industries and Premo Ventures and for the Center for International Private Enterprise (Washington, D.C.). Dr. Teegen is a Liberty Fellow (SC), a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and was inducted into the Young Presidents Organization in 2010.
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Peter Williamson is Professor of International Management at the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School and Fellow of Jesus College.
Peter divides his time between teaching, research and consulting on leadership, multinationals (with a special interest in emerging market firms), M&A, and business ecosystem innovation and serving as non-executive director of several companies spanning financial services through whisky to green energy and digital transformation. He has held professorships at London Business School, Harvard Business School and INSEAD (in Fontainebleau and Singapore). Formerly with Merrill Lynch and The Boston Consulting Group, he earned his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University.
Peter has also been visiting China regularly since 1983, assisting numerous multinationals, Chinese joint ventures and Chinese companies venturing abroad.
Peter’s ten books include: Ecosystem Edge: Sustaining Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption; The Competitive Advantage of Emerging Market Multinationals; Dragons at Your Door; Winning in Asia; and From Global to Metanational.
His more than 60 other articles include “Ecosystem Advantage: How to successfully harness the power of partners”, one of the ten most cited articles in California Management Review. Other recent articles include: “The New Mission for Multinationals”, “Accelerated Innovation”, “Strategies for Competing in a Changed China” and “Is Your Innovation Process Global?” (all in the MIT-Sloan Management Review) — The latter received a Sloan-PwC Award honouring those articles that have contributed most to the enhancement of management practice; “How China Re-Set Its Global Acquisition Agenda”, “China’s Hidden Dragons” (all in Harvard Business Review).
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For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed, having also completed five years as the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Business Administration at the Yale School of Management and two years as a professor at Columbia Business School. The winner of the 50th Anniversary McKinsey Award for the best article in the Harvard Business Review in 2008, and a Harvard Business Review best-selling author, he is an expert on corporate strategy and global competition, and is the author of the recent books International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Choices; Corporate Strategy (with Cynthia Montgomery); and Corporate Headquarters (with Michael Goold and David Young).
As the author of over thirty articles and book chapters, his work has been frequently published in the Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and in many books including Managing the Multibusiness Company, International Competitiveness, and Beyond Free Trade. The over one hundred cases and articles he has authored have sold nearly 2.5 million copies, with over 14,000 citations.
David Collis received an M.A. (1976) with a Double First from Cambridge University where he was the Wrenbury Scholar of the University. He graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School, MBA (1978), and received a Ph.D. (1986) in Business Economics at Harvard University where he was a Dean’s Doctoral Fellow. From 1978 to 1982 he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in London.
He is currently a consultant to several major U.S. corporations, and on the Board of Directors of Cambridge in America, the Board of Trustees of the Hult International Business School, and the Advisory Boards of Vivaldi Partners, Muzzy Lane and formerly of Walter Scott, PICIS, Ocean Spray, and WebCT. He is also the cofounder of the elearning company E-Edge, and the advisory firm Ludlow Partners.
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Harry Sapienza is Professor Emeritus at the Carlson School of Business, University of Minnesota. Harry grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. He played drums in a rock band while in high school, received an undergraduate degree in literature from the University of Maryland and a Master’s in mediaeval literature from Boston College.
After teaching English for 10 years in the Boston area, Harry returned to the University of Maryland to obtain a Master’s and a PhD in Business. He spent ten years at the University of South Carolina, one year at the London Business School, and 20 years at the University of Minnesota, including a sabbatical in Sevilla, Spain.
His early scholarship examined relationships between entrepreneurs and investors in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Inspired by emerging research on “born global” firms, he developed an interest in the internationalization of entrepreneurial ventures. This work utilizes knowledge and learning theories to study the effects of early internationalization on the growth and the learning trajectories of entrepreneurial firms.
Harry has published over 60 papers with colleagues from across the U.S., Finland, England, Canada, Belgium, Spain, and other countries. His greatest joys as an academician have been mentoring doctoral students and enjoying friendships with colleagues and co-authors all over the world.
Harry and his wife live in Portland, Oregon, where his daughter (Julianna), son-in-law (Eric) and granddaughter (Lelea) also reside. Harry teaches the occasional poetry class, plays bridge competitively, is an avid baseball fan and a lover of blues and R&B music.
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Ajai Gaur is a Professor of Strategy and International Business in the Department of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University. He is also an affiliate faculty member with the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University. He completed his Ph.D. in 2007 at the National University of Singapore.
Ajai is an AIB Fellow. He has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Business since 2019 and a consulting editor at the Journal of International Business Studies since 2017. Previously, he served as a senior editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2014-2018), a senior editor of the Journal of World Business (2014-2018), and the President of the Asia Academy of Management for two terms from 2015 to 2019.
Ajai is an author or co-author in more than 75 journal articles, case studies, and book chapters. In his research, Ajai studies the distinct institutional influences on firms’ geographic and product growth strategies in diverse institutional contexts. A related focus of his research is to study institutional influences on various firm-level governance mechanisms and their strategic and performance consequences. Empirically, he has examined firms based in Australia, China, Germany, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, and the USA.
Ajai has been an eight-time winner and nineteen-time finalist or nominee for various awards based on scholarship. He has won both the Richard N. Farmer Best Dissertation Award (in 2008) and SAMS/AIB Best Dissertation Proposal Award (in 2006). In the 2014 AIB conference, he won the Temple/AIB Best Paper Award.
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Helen De Cieri is a Professor of Management at Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. She has held previous appointments and visiting positions at universities in several countries. Helen’s current research activities combine her interests in international HRM and workplace health and safety. Helen’s recent research projects include studies of how employers and their HR teams can design innovative solutions to non-routine issues, to support employees’ wellbeing and respond to new demands. Current research projects include designing and evaluating interventions to address psychosocial hazards and to foster thriving at work. Helen’s publications include a textbook on HRM in Australia and articles in academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Human Resource Management, and Safety Science. Helen is an Associate Editor for Human Resource Management Review and serves on several editorial boards including Journal of International Business Studies. Helen has received recognition with several awards for her research. She currently serves as an elected member of the Academy of Management’s HR Division Executive Committee.
Over her career, Helen has taught HRM and international HRM courses to undergraduate and masters students as well as supervising more than 20 doctoral students. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and practitioner forums. In addition to her academic activities, Helen has contributed to gender equality initiatives in many organizations, for which she received the Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s award for social inclusion in 2010.
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Agnieszka Chidlow is Professor of International Business at the University of Birmingham in the UK and one of the co-founders of the Academy of International Business-Shared Interest Group.
Agnieszka is interested in examining the internationalization processes and location strategies of firms. In addition to that she is also interested in methodological issues with a specific focus on using survey “big” data as well as the application of both responsible qualitative and quantitative methods in the international business scholarship and practice. In her work she not only studies how decision-makers undertake their investment and organizational preferences in different national and international markets at supra-national, national and sub-national levels but also what type of data they use to make such decisions to maximize their returns. By blending theoretical lenses and business models from international business, economic geography, management and strategy fields with computer sciences and data analytics she aims to help and assist businesses, governmental organizations, charities, policy makers and individuals to better understand how to optimize decisions using credible, rigorous and trustworthy data to achieve higher returns and socially responsible outcomes.
Agnieszka’s work has been published in the leading peer reviewed academic outlets such as, for example, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Management International Review, Journal of International Business Policy. She is a Working Board Member of the Responsible Research in Business and Management network, an assessor for the Accreditation of MBAs, a Senior Editor of International Business Review and a member of numerous editorial boards of nationally and internationally recognised journals. She is recognised as an impact capacity builder and a promoter of innovative knowledge exchange activities promoting responsible and impactful scholarship.
Before joining the University of Birmingham, she held various positions at numerous higher education institutions in Europe, America and Asia.
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Ronaldo Parente is the Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar in International Business and Professor of Strategy at Florida International University. His research focus is on the overlap between strategy and international management, with special attention on emerging economies, strategic decisions with regards to innovation ecosystems, the sharing economy, knowledge transfer, global supply chains, and multinationals’ internationalization strategies in the context of platform business and digital industries. Dr. Parente’s research has appeared in many leading academic journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Management, International Business Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Knowledge Management, and Industrial and Corporate Change, among others.
Dr. Parente is currently one of the VPs of the Ibero-American Academy of Management, a senior editor for the International Journal of Emerging Markets and an associate editor for the Cross-Cultural Strategic Management Journal. He also serves on the Editorial Review Board of JIBS, GSJ, TIBR, JWB, and JIM. Dr. Parente served as an elected board member for the European International Business Association (EIBA) for six years. He also served two three-year leadership position with SMS’s Global Strategy Interest Group and the Teaching Community. He chaired and organized two SMS Special Conferences in Brazil: the 2018 SMS Conference in Sao Paulo and the 2011 SMS Conference in Rio de Janeiro.
On the professional side, Dr. Parente has more than 25 years of work experience and has worked for, managed, and consulted with several private and public institutions in Brazil, the United States, and Bulgaria. Dr. Parente has experience designing and teaching programs for C-level executives in Brazil, Colombia, and United States.
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Snejina Michailova (born in Bulgaria, PhD from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) joined The University of Auckland, New Zealand, as a Professor of International Business in 2005. Her research interests include people in multinational enterprises, knowledge processes, talent management, and modern slavery. Her academic work has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, AIB Insights, California Management Review, Global Strategy Journal, International Business Review, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Long Range Planning, Management International Review, Management Learning, Management and Organization Review, Organizational Dynamics, Organization Studies, R&D Management, Technovation, and others.
Snejina has co-authored Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies (Emerald, 2019). She has co-edited The Routledge Companion on Cross-Cultural Management (Routledge, 2015), Research Handbook on Women in International Management (Edward Elgar, 2014), Knowledge Governance (Oxford University Press, 2010), Human Resource Management in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2008) and Research Methodologies in Non-Western Contexts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
She served as Editor Europe for Journal of World Business (2001-2007) and as Co-Editor-in-Chief of critical perspectives on international business (2017-2019). She is currently Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Management. She serves as Associate Dean (Research) at The University of Auckland Business School, a role she took in 2018.
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Grazia D. Santangelo is professor of Strategic and International Management at Copenhagen Business School and visiting professor at Henley Business School (UK). She earned her PhD in Economics at the University of Reading (UK) and, before joining Copenhagen Business School, held a Jean Monnet Chair in International Business at the University of Catania (Italy). She researches across the fields of international business, global strategy, and innovation. Her current research focuses on how firms deal with ethical issues and strategize about their intangibles around the globe; the evolution of firms’ internationalization process; and the nexus between institutions, and firms’ cross-border strategy. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Economic Geography and Research Policy, and has been recognized by a number of international awards.
She is Reviewing Editor of Journal of International Business Studies and a member of the editorial review board of Academy of Management Review. She also served as associated editor of Journal of International Management and Industry and Innovation.
Grazia D. Santangelo is a Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), and elected member of the Executive Board of the Academy of Management (AOM) International Management (IM) division. She is Division Program Chair for AOM 2022. She served as Chair of the Research Committee of the AOM IM Division, representative-at-large of the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society and as former EIBA president.
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Prof. Ursula F. Ott is Professor of International Business and Director of the Centre for International Business Strategy and Decisions (CIBSD) at Nottingham Business School, UK. She has a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Vienna and was afterwards in academic positions at the University of Vienna, London School of Economics as Schrödinger Fellow, Loughborough University and Kingston University London, as Director of the Centre for Experimental Research in International Business (CERIB).
Her research combines game theoretical reasoning of interactive decision-making in applications of bargaining, signaling and agency theory with organizational and cultural problems in international business. Her theoretical insights are tested with experienced negotiators and managers in experiments and also analyzed with configurational analysis (fsQCA).
Her research has been published in top journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, and as research monographs/books on international joint ventures and international negotiations. She is the recipient of Best Paper Awards at leading international conferences in International Business and Global Innovation and Knowledge. Her research projects received funding of the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Engineering, Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She is on the AIB Research Methods SIG Board as Vice-President of Webinars after receiving the Best Research Methods Paper Award in 2019. Her research has an impact in industry and politics (Integration/Migration and Brexit Negotiations).
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Mitchell P. Koza is Distinguished Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick. He has previously served as Vice Dean of Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick and Dean of the Rutgers School of Business-Camden. While Dean, the Rutgers-Camden MBA achieved a ranking of top 15 nationally in the field of Global Management, in a survey conducted by The Princeton Review and later published in Entrepreneurship magazine.
Koza has been elected to the Quality of Markets Committee of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey; served as committee member for the Best Paper Prize for the Strategic Management Society and NJBIZ awards to the New Jersey business community; and Chaired several reaccreditation visiting committees for the AACSB. For many years he delivered a weekly business report for WHYY-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate in Philadelphia. Koza is Founding Co-Chair of the Strategic Management Society Interest Group on Global Strategy, and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).
Prior to joining Rutgers School of Business, Koza spent eighteen years as an expatriate. Most recently, he was Professor of International Strategy and Director General (CEO) of INSEAD-Cedep, in Fontainebleau, France. He spent 4 years at Cranfield School of Management (UK) where he held the Chair in International Strategy and was Founding Director of the Centre for International Business, and, previously, eleven years at INSEAD as a faculty member. Prior to his move to Europe he held appointments at UCLA, Yale, and Chicago.
Koza’s award winning research, cases, and commentary have explored issues of producing cooperation in international strategic management, and have been published in the major academic and practitioner outlets, including, but not limited to, the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, The Financial Times, Global Strategy Journal, Organization Studies, and Les Echos, and have been translated into eight languages. He is noted as a leading scholar in Who’s Who in Management Sciences. Koza was educated at the University of Chicago (PH.D.), Harvard University (ED.M.) and Queens College, CUNY (B.A.). Koza maintains advisory relationships with several of the world’s most successful companies.
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Mansour Javidan is Garvin Distinguished Professor and Director of Najafi Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University. He received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota.
Mansour was recently recognized as among the top 100 most influential (i.e., top 0.6%) authors in Organization Behavior in the world. He is also recognized as among the top 2% most cited scientists in the field of business and management in the world. His article on global leadership recently received the Decade’s Best Paper Award (2006- 2016) by the Academy of Management Perspectives. He has published in Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Leadership Quarterly, Management International Review, among others.
Mansour is Past President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness, globeproject.com) research program. He is currently the Project Director and Principal Co-Investigator of GLOBE 2020, working with a team of 472 researchers studying culture change, leadership ideals, and trust dynamics in over 140 countries. The project has received close to $1.5 million in funding.
Mansour has offered executive development programs and conducted consulting projects in over 30 countries. His clients include NASA, Abbott Labs, Accenture, U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Marshals Service, Aditya Birla, Alstom, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Statoil, BAE Systems, Bank Mandiri, BP, Cisco, Johnsosn & Johnson, Chevron, Telcom Indonesia, ExxonMobil, Commerzbank, Dell Computers, Scotiabank, Metlife, Europharma, Merck, Dow Chemical, Huawai, McCormick, and SABIC.
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Jane Lu is Chair Professor and Head of Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong. She received her MBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and Ph.D. from the Ivey School of Business, Western University. She started her academic career at National University of Singapore where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
She served as James Riady Chair Professor in Asian Business and Economics and Director of the Centre for Asian Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne (2013-2017), and Parkland Chair Professor of Strategy and Director of the Centre for Emerging Market Studies at CEIBS (2017-2019), prior to joining CityU.
Jane’s research centers on the intersection between organization theory and strategy with a focus on international strategy and non-market strategy. Her earlier research investigates broad level issues that underlie the international strategy of a firm, as well as specific strategic questions, such as how to make a successful foreign entry into a country, or how to manage successfully in a foreign country. Her recent research continues this line of research but with a focus on emerging market firms and their non-market strategies.
Her work has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management and Journal of International Business Studies, and other leading journals. She served as Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2016-2018). She is currently a Senior Editor of Journal of World Business and a Consulting Editor of Journal of International Business Studies.
Jane has been involved with the IB scholarly community for many years. She served on Doctoral and Junior Faculty Consortia at AIB and AOM conferences for years, AIB’s Haynes Prize Award committee for three years and chaired it in the fourth year. She also served as track chair in AIB conferences (2013 and 2021).
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Maurizio Zollo is professor of strategy and sustainability, head of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship and Scientific Director of the Leonardo Centre on Business for Society at Imperial College Business School. He is also founder and chairman of the GOLDEN (Global Organizational Learning and Development Network) for Impact Foundation.
His research currently involves the active engagement of corporations in the design and execution of field experiments focused on innovation-oriented or sustainability-oriented organizational change challenges. It also involves international institutions including the UN, EU, OECD, World Bank and WEF in developing policy implications to support and stimulate private sector efforts in these areas.
The author of over 50 publications, cited about 20,000 times in scientific articles, including the fourth most cited article on Organization Science to date and the first article showing neauroscientific correlates (fMRI) of strategic decisions on SMJ.
A past Editor-in-Chief of Organization & Environment (IF grew from 2,6 to 8,5) and of the European Management Review, he helped establish and develop the Academy of Business in Society, as well as the Stakeholder Strategy division of the Strategic Management Society, for which he also chaired the Innovation and Knowledge and the Behavioral Strategy interest groups.
Before joining Imperial College in 2019, Prof. Zollo served for a decade on the faculty of Bocconi University, and of INSEAD for the previous decade. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Sloan School of Management of MIT since 2012. He holds a PhD in management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a laurea degree in monetary economics from Bocconi University. Prior to his academic career, he was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. and investment banker at Merrill Lynch in New York.
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Esteban García-Canal is Professor of Management and International Business at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where he is the Director of IUDE Business School and holds the Chair in Business Growth and Internationalization. He received his PhD in Economics and Business from the University of Oviedo, after completing the PhD coursework at the University of Navarra, of whose Institute of Business and Humanism he is a member.
His research interests are focused on the confluence between organizational economics, corporate strategy, and international business. Author of more than 90 articles published in leading economics, management, and international business journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Research Policy, Organization Studies, Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Studies, Harvard Business Review, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics, Management International Review, Business History, International Business Review, Industry and Innovation, R&D Management or Long Range Planning, among others. His most recent books are The New Multinationals and Emerging Markets Rule, coauthored with Mauro Guillén. He currently is or has been a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review, Global Strategy Journal, Management Research, BRQ Business Research Quarterly, or Universia Business Review.
He has been President of the International Management Division of the Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa (ACEDE) and coordinator of the Economics and Management Division of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Research Grants Council) in Spain.
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Stephen Tallman is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Richmond. He holds a PhD in international business and strategic management from UCLA, and has been on the faculty of the University of Hawaii, the University of Utah, the Cranfield School of Management, and a visitor at SDA Bocconi, HKUST, Copenhagen Business School, and other business schools worldwide.
His research interests include global strategic management, alliance strategies, geographic clusters, knowledge strategies, and organizational learning. He has authored or edited five books and has published in Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Global Strategy Journal, and other peer-reviewed journals.
He chaired the International Management Division of the Academy of Management, co-founded the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and chaired the Global Strategy track for the AIB Annual Conference twice. He is the founding and past Co-Editor of Global Strategy Journal (2010-2016) and has been an Associate Editor for SMJ and a Consulting Editor for JIBS. He was a Western Academy of Management Ascendent Scholar and is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the Strategic Management Society. He recently entered the phased retirement program at UR.
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Stefanie Ann Lenway is Dean of the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis and St. Paul. At the Opus College, Stefanie has launched the Center for Innovation in the Business of Health Care, which facilitates research and dialogue across verticals in the health care value chain with the aim to drive innovation to reduce health care costs. The Opus College also continues to build on its strengths in entrepreneurship through the activities of the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship and in Principled Leadership through the Melrose the Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership.
Prior to her career in academic leadership, Stefanie was a Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Her teaching focused on Corporate Strategy and International Business primarily at the graduate level.
Innovation and technology disruption comprised the core of her research, which culminated with the publication by Stanford University Press, the book, Managing New Industry Creation, coauthored with Tom Murtha and Jeff Hart. This book tracks the evolution of the development of the thin film transistor (flat panel display) industry from inception to when it began to replace the cathode ray tube in televisions.
Stefanie has served on the boards of AACSB, the Academy of Management, and the Academy of international Business where she also served a term as President.
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Eric W. K. Tsang received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Before joining academia, he worked as corporate banker at HSBC in Hong Kong. He is the Dallas World Salute Distinguished Professor at the Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, and is an AIB fellow.
Dr. Tsang’s research interests include foreign direct investment, strategic alliances, organizational learning, entrepreneurship, and philosophical analysis of methodological issues. He has published in top-tiered journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, MIS Quarterly, Marketing Science, and Strategic Management Journal. He has served on the editorial boards of most major IB journals − Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, Journal of World Business and Management International Review − in addition to other management journals.
Besides being an IB researcher, Dr. Tsang is a leading scholar in applying philosophy to solve methodological problems related to assumption, explanation, generalization, ontology, replication, and theory testing. Some of these research results were included in his book The Philosophy of Management Research (Routledge, 2017). His 2016 Academy of Management Review article “A Realist Perspective of Entrepreneurship: Opportunities as Propensities” (with Stratos Ramoglou) contributes to the debate about the ontological nature of entrepreneurial opportunities.
Dr. Tsang’s publications have been well cited and have made significant contributions to the IB and other literatures. For example, his article “Social Capital, Networks, and Knowledge Transfer” (with Andrew Inkpen) won the 2015 Academy of Management Review Decade Award.
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Professor David M. Reeb holds the Mr. and Mrs. Lin Jo Yan Professorship. He serves as a fellow of the Academy of International Business and Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). Dr. Reeb’s academic research centers on organizational structure, firm financing, and international business.
His articles appear in a wide variety of outlets, including the Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Finance, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, the American Economic Review, and Journal of International Business Studies.
This research generates numerous citations (19,000 Google Scholar and 6,000+ on Web of Science), including one of the most highly cited finance papers of all time. It has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Inc Magazine, SmartMoney, MSNBC, and several major newspapers and business magazines in the US, Canada, and Australia. He has also been interviewed on CNN and Bloomberg TV and previously served two terms as an Area Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies.
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José de la Torre is the Chair and Co-Founder of the EMBA Consortium for Global Business Innovation and a professor at the Bologna Business School, Italy. Until 2010 he was the J.K. Batten Professor in Strategy (now Emeritus) and served as the Founding Dean of the Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University. Previously he served on the faculty at UCLA’s Anderson School, INSEAD (France), and Georgia State University, and held visiting appointments at INCAE (Central America), U. del Valle (Colombia), U. Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile), Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), Theseus (France), and Georgetown University.
José is the author of 70 books and articles and more than 30 case studies in the fields of international business and strategy. He has written on the management of multinational firms, the relationship between corporate strategy and government policy and on foreign investment in developing countries. Recent articles deal with the structure and efficiency of multi-country operations, the management of corporate alliances, the determinants of trust in inter-corporate collaborations, the operations of multinational and local companies in Latin America, the international expansion of family-owned firms, and the importance of Global Citizenship. His publications have appeared in the J. of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, California Management Review, Management Research, European Management Review, Management International Review, Global Strategy Journal, J. of World Business, Strategic Management Review and other leading professional journals.
De la Torre earned a doctorate from the Harvard Business School and degrees in engineering and business from the Pennsylvania State University. He has been a director of international companies based in Mexico, India and Florida and served on the International Advisory Boards of business schools in France, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Uruguay, and Cyprus. He is a Fellow of the AIB, the International Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society and the Business Association for Latin American Studies and was named Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Academy of Management in 2013. He served as President of EIBA (1981-82) and AIB (1998-2000) and is a member of the Global Support Network for Ashoka.
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Eleanor Westney is Sloan Fellows Professor of Strategy and International Management Emerita at MIT Sloan School of Management, where she taught for twenty-five years. After completing a B.A. and an M.A. in Sociology and Japanese studies at the University of Toronto, she received a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1978 from Princeton University, and began her teaching career in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. In 1982 she joined the International Management group of the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. From 2007 to 2014 she was the Scotiabank Professor of International Business and Professor of Organization Studies at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.
Her first book, Imitation and Innovation: The Adoption of Western Organizational Forms in Meiji Japan (Harvard University Press, 1987), explored the patterns of cross-border organizational learning, a theme that has continued to be a major focus of her interests. With Sumantra Ghoshal, she edited Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation (Macmillan, 1993; second edition 2005).
She has written extensively on the organization of multinational corporations, on Japanese MNCs, and on the internationalization of research and development. She has been a visiting researcher at Hitotsubashi University and the University of Tokyo in Japan, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business since 1997, Chair of the International Management division of the Academy of Management, and Dean of the AIB Fellows from 2008 to 2011.
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Ben Gomes-Casseres has worked on partnership strategies for thirty years, as a researcher, teacher, and advisor. He is the Peter A. Petri Professor of Business and Society at Brandeis University, where he directs the Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship and teaches courses on alliances and acquisitions, strategy, and innovation. At Brandeis, he has helped build the business programs and faculty of the International Business School and has twice received the Excellence in Teaching Award.
Ben began his academic career as a student and then professor at Harvard Business School, working on international strategy, and in particular on the use of joint ventures in international business. Before that, he worked as an economist at the World Bank. Ben received the Journal of International Business Studies Decade Award in 2000. His work has also appeared in Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Strategic Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The New York Times, and in other journals and periodicals.
His book Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations (Harvard Business Press, 2015) won the Silver Medal from Axiom and was a finalist at Thinkers50. He has two popular online courses on LinkedIn Learning, on “Strategic Partnerships” and on “Ecosystems and Platforms.”
Ben is a speaker and advisor to global companies seeking to create value through partnerships and ecosystems. He holds a DBA from Harvard, an MPA from Princeton, and a BA Brandeis. A native of Curaçao, he speaks four languages.
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Robert E. Hoskisson is the George R. Brown Emeritus Chair of Strategic Management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. Dr. Hoskisson received his Ph.D. from the University of California-Irvine. His research topics focus on corporate governance, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate and international diversification, and cooperative strategy. He has taught courses in corporate and international strategic management, and strategy consulting. He has co-authored over 30 books, including a recent book entitled Understanding and Managing Strategic Governance.
Dr. Hoskisson has served on several editorial boards for such publications as the Strategic Management Journal (Associate Editor), Academy of Management Journal (Consulting Editor), Journal of International Business Studies (Consulting Editor), Journal of Management (Associate Editor), and Organization Science. His research has appeared in over 130 publications, including the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Perspective, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, California Management Review, and Journal of World Business.
Dr. Hoskisson is a fellow of the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society. He completed three years of service as a Representative-at-Large on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. He also served as President of the Strategic Management Society, and served on the Executive Committee of its Board of Directors for six years as well as another six years as a director prior to serving on the Executive Committee.
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Dr. April Knill is the SunTrust Associate Professor of Finance and Courtesy Professor of Law at Florida State University. Before joining Florida State University, she was a consultant for the Development Research Group at the World Bank in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Knill currently serves as a Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies and an Associate Editor at Global Finance Journal.
Her research interests include corporate finance, international finance, venture capital, and the intersection between law, finance and politics. Professor Knill has published in journals such as Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Financial Management and Journal of Comparative Economics, among others.
Her research has received numerous awards including the Dean’s Emerging Scholar Award and the CIBER/FMA Award for the Best Dissertation in International Finance. Professor Knill has served as a Guest Editor at both Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Corporate Finance and has recently been elected by her peers to be the Vice President of Programs for the Eastern Finance Association.
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Chris Pitelis is the Head of International Business Division and Professor of International Business and Sustainable Competitiveness, University of Leeds and Life Fellow, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the Cambridge-founded Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), part of a registered Charity that he also Chairs. He has served as the inaugural Head (Dean) of Brunel Business School, Brunel University London, Dean of the College of Business, Abu Dhabi University, President of the Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Head of the Strategy and International Management group at Bath University, Director of Studies in the Economics, the Management and Manufacturing Engineering Tripos at Queens’ College, Cambridge and International Expect of the European Commission Networking for Innovation (NETWIN) program on innovation clusters.
He is also an Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, a member of the Cambridge Political Economy Society and the literary executor of the collected papers of Edith Penrose. He has researched and published in books and in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, The Leadership Quarterly, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Business History Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Regional Studies, and served at the editorial boards of among others Organization Science and Organization Studies.
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Professor of International Business at the UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia, Peter Liesch has a Bachelor of Business degree majoring in Economics, Postgraduate Diploma in Agricultural Economics, Masters degree in Economics majoring in Agricultural Economics, and a Ph.D in Economics from The University of Queensland. His research interests are in firm internationalization processes and international business operations in their entirety.
Peter Liesch has published textbooks in international business with Dowling, Gray and Hill. (2009). International Business, Asia-Pacific Edition, McGraw-Hill; and with Hill, Hult, Wickramasekera and Mackenzie. (2017). Global Business: Asia-Pacific Perspective, McGraw-Hill. He has co-edited Special Issues with the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of World Business, Management International Review, and the Journal of Business Research.
He is currently an Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, he has been a Senior Editor of the Journal of World Business and the Australian Journal of Management, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Management.
His journal publications appear in the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, International Business Review, Industrial Marketing Management and many other journals. He was awarded a Fiftieth Anniversary Silver Medal for publications in JIBS, 2019.
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Vikas Kumar is Head of Discipline and Professor in the Discipline of International Business at the University of Sydney Business School. His previous appointments were at Bocconi University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, and as Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Dunning Fellow at University of Reading. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of International Management (JIM), and has previously served as Senior and Reviewing Editor at Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM) and as Associate Editor at Cross Cultural and Strategic Management (CCSM). He was the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Asia Business Studies (JABS) in 2019.
Vikas is interested in studying the internationalization strategies employed by firms from emerging markets such as India and China. His research involves understanding the unique aspects of the institutional and cultural context of emerging markets and the influence context has on firm strategies. Vikas was co-chair for the Sydney SMS Special Conference in 2014, program chair of the Australia New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA) Conference in 2016 and co-program chair for the Asia Academy of Management (AAOM) Conference in 2017. He is founding director of the Emerging Markets Research Group at the University of Sydney Business School. In a 2016 article published in the Journal of International Management, Vikas was ranked among the top 15 authors based on impact in the field of ’emerging market firm internationalization’. Vikas has co-edited a book on ‘Global outsourcing and offshoring’ published by Cambridge University Press and on ‘Emerging Market Firms’ published by Emerald.
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Andrew Inkpen is the Seward Chair in Global Strategy at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University. He has a B. Commerce. degree from St. Mary’s University and MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Ivey Business School. Prior to entering academe, Dr. Inkpen worked in public accounting and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Canada. He has taught at Temple University, Ivey Business School, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and has been a visiting professor at European Business School.
He has published in various journals including Academy of Management Review, California Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Organizational Dynamics, Organization Science, Decision Sciences, and Organization Studies. He has written more than 50 teaching cases and is director of the Thunderbird Case Series. He is on the editorial boards of several journals including Organization Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of International Management, and Management and Organization Review. He is a co-author of The Global Oil and Gas Industry: Management, Strategy, and Finance (Pennwell) and Global Strategy: Value Creation and Advantage in the International Arena (Oxford). He has won awards for his research, teaching, and case writing.
He has been involved in many Executive Education programs for companies such as Exxon Mobil, Ericsson, Pfizer, CEMEX, Kuwait Petroleum, Alcatel, Brasil Telecom, Airbus, General Motors, LG Electronics, Teleflex, Goodyear, DENSO, Cisco Systems, Solar Turbines, McDonald’s, TRW, Volvo Penta, Textron, Vitro, Rockwell, KLA-Tencor, SK, Caremark, Baker Hughes, Smith International, TNK-BP, and RasGas.
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Tomas M. Hult, PhD, is a worldwide thought leader in international marketing, marketing strategy, customer satisfaction, supply chain management, and international business. He regularly speaks at high-profile events (e.g., United Nations, World Investment Forum, European Commission) and publishes influential opinion articles (e.g., The Hill, Time, Fortune, World Economic Forum, Dinero).
Dr. Hult is a member of the Expert Networks of the World Economic Forum and United Nations / UNCTAD’s World Investment Forum, and he is also part of the Expert Team at the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Dr. Hult has been featured on “Talks at Google” and per Google Scholar, he is among the world’s top-cited business academicians.
Dr. Hult was recognized in 2016 as the Academy of Marketing Science / CUTCO-Vector Distinguished Marketing Educator for his scholarly career achievements. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business. In 2019, he was recognized with the John H. Dunning AIB Service Award for outstanding service to AIB – as the longest serving Executive Director in AIB’s history (2004-2019).
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Arjen van Witteloostuijn is Professor of Business and Economics at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and Dean of the VU School of Business and Economics in the Netherlands, as well as Research Professor in Business, Economics and Governance at the University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School in Belgium. In the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, he was affiliated with the University of Groningen, University Maastricht, Tilburg University and Utrecht University (all four the Netherlands), and Cardiff University and Durham University (both in the United Kingdom), and he visited New York University (the US) and Warwick Business School (the UK). He holds degrees in Business, Economics and Psychology.
He is (former) member of the editorial board of, e.g., the, Academy Management Journal, Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management, British Journal of Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies and Strategic Organization. He was/is member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Dutch Parliament and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), and Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB).
He has published widely in such international journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Accounting, Organizations & Society, American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, British Journal of Political Science, Economica, Industrial Relations, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Management Science, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Personality and Individual Differences, Public Administration Review, and Strategic Management Journal. He strongly believes in work that crosses multiple disciplines.
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Saul Estrin is a Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy and was the founding Head of the new Department of Management at LSE. He was formerly a Professor of Economics, and Associate Dean (Faculty and Research), at London Business School, where he served in 2001 as Acting Dean. He also held the Adecco Professorship of Business and Society at London Business School and was the Research Director of its Centre for New and Emerging Markets. At LSE he is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Economic Performance.
His research covers a range of subjects in international business and entrepreneurship, especially with reference to emerging and transition economies. He has analysed issues including the relative performance of state owned and private firms; FDI entry mode; the impact of business group affiliation on internationalisation; and emerging market multinationals. Much of his research interest has been with contextualising MNE performance, especially with respect to institutions, both formal and informal. Most of his work is empirical, drawing on both archival data and surveys that he has been involved in collecting.
He also has considerable practitioner experience. He was a non-executive Board member of Barings Asset Management, Emerging Markets Trust and a member of the Academic Panel of the UK postal regulator, Postcomm.
Saul has been a visiting Professor at Stanford University, Michigan Business School, Cornell University and the European University Institute. He is an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford as well as the IZA, Bonn and a Fellow of the AIB.
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Professor Daphne Yiu is the Rath Chair in Strategic Management at the Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma. She was born in Hong Kong and a tenured professor in Hong Kong. Her scholarly pursuit focuses on examining how organizations make choices of organizational form, corporate and international strategy, as well as corporate governance mechanisms in relation to the institutionalization process, particularly in emerging and transition economies.
Her publications appeared in a number of top tier journals in international business and management. Professor Yiu was elected as the President of Asia Academy of Management, a Fellow of Asia Academy of Management, and Representatives-at-Large at the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society.
She is currently serving as an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Journal, and was Senior Editor at Journal of World Business, Senior Editor at Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Editor at Corporate Governance: An International Review. She is, or has been, a member of the editorial review board of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, among others.
She was a recipient of AMJ Outstanding Reviewer Award, publications with top downloads, best conference paper awards, and teaching awards. She also has extensive administrative and organizing experience by serving as department chairperson, associate director of research centers, and conference organizer. She has given keynote speeches and consulting advice to academic and professional associations, think tanks and organizations.
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Anoop Madhok is a Professor of Strategy and the Distinguished Scotiabank Professor in International Business & Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. He received his PhD from McGill University, Montreal and an MA in International Economics and Development from Johns Hopkins University. Earlier he was a Full Professor at the University of Utah and at Vrije University, Amsterdam (part-time). Additionally, he has held Visiting Professorships and research scholar positions at a number of institutions around the world, such as Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Melbourne and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, among others.
Professor Madhok’s work spans strategy and international business. His research interests include multinational firm strategy, interfirm collaboration, and economic organization and firm boundaries. His current research focus is on digital platforms and ecosystems, where he is examining issues to do with their design and governance. His work has regularly been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, among others, and has been recognized with prominent awards, such as Journal of International Business Studies Best Paper of the Decade Award (2005), the Global Strategy Journal Best Paper Award (2019), as well as Best Paper or Finalist in a number of prestigious international conferences. Additionally, he received the McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management Distinguished PhD Alumnus Award in 2009 and was also identified as one of the top contributors worldwide in international strategy research.
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Nicolai J. Foss is a Professor of Strategy at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, CBS, Honorary Adjunct Professor, Department of Marketing & Management, Southern Denmark University, and External Chair, Danish Institute for Advanced Studies, 2020-2025.
Trained as an economist at the Copenhagen University (M.Sc.,1989), Foss his received his PhD degree from the Copenhagen Business School in 1993, where he was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, before he moved to Bocconi University 1 September 2016. From 2016-2019 he was the Rodolfo Debenedetti Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Bocconi University, Milano. He has held part-time and visiting professorships at several universities.
Foss has served as a panel member of the European Research Council and on the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society. He is a member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society.
Encompassing 227 journal articles, 102 book chapters and 26 books (edited as well as monographs), his work has been published in the leading journals in management. He has published books with leading publishers, such as Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. Many of his papers have been reprinted in research handbooks, and several of his articles and books are translated into Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. His google scholar citations are above 40k, and his H-index is 101. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He was listed as the “best Danish economist” by the newspaper, Børsen, in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
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Keith D. Brouthers is Professor of Business Strategy at King’s Business School, King’s College London and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. Professor Brouthers specializes in international strategic management, and he is the recipient of the JIBS Decade Award in 2012 as well as a JIBS 50-year anniversary award for scholarship in 2019.
His current research interests include entry and establishment mode choice, export channel selection, and the digital economy.
Professor Brouthers’ research has been published in leading academic journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
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Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. Professor Jones earned his B.A. and Ph.D degrees at Cambridge University, and holds an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School and an honorary Ph.D degree from the University of Helsinki. He has taught in Britain, the Netherlands and the United States, and has held Visiting Professorships in Colombia and Japan. Professor Jones is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Professor Jones researches the history of globalization and global business, the ecological and social responsibility of business, and the business history of emerging markets. Among his books on these themes are British Multinational Banking 1830-1990 (1993), Merchants to Multinationals (2000), Renewing Unilever (2005), Multinationals and Global Capitalism (2005), Beauty Imagined. A History of the Global Beauty Industry (2010), and Profits and Sustainability. A History of Green Entrepreneurship (2017). He has published extensively in both history journals, including Business History Review and Economic History Review, and management journals, including Journal of International Business Studies and Strategic Management Journal.
Professor Jones established and co-directs the Creating Emerging Markets oral history project at Harvard Business School. This project conducts lengthy interviews with the most impactful business leaders in Africa, Asia and Latin America over the last four decades. The transcripts and video materials are fully accessible online for research and teaching purposes.
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Rosalie L. Tung is Professor of International Business at Simon Fraser University (Canada). She holds the Ming and Stella Wong Chaired Professorship. Prof. Tung has served as the 2017-2020 Dean of the Fellows, Academy of International Business; 2015-2016 President of the Academy of International Business; the 2003-2004 President of the Academy of Management. Rosalie has been inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and a Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research.
In 2021, she was awarded the John H. Dunning Academy of International Business President’s Award. In the same year, she was selected as the recipient of the 2021 Academy of Management, International Management Division Eminent Scholar Award. She is also one of sixteen International Business scholars to be awarded a Gold Medal for “most substantive contributions” in the Journal of International Business Studies, the premier journal in International Business, in that journal’s first 50 years (1970-2019) of publication. Rosalie was also selected as the recipient of the 2019 Academy of Management’s Distinguished Service award, an Academy-wide award; and in 2020 she was awarded the Academy of Management, International Management Division Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award.
Rosalie is the author or editor of eleven books and many articles. She has also served on the editorial boards of many journals.
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Dr. Axèle Giroud is Professor of International Business and Head of the Comparative and International Business Group at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (U.K.). She is Visiting Professor with the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and Rennes Business School (France). She previously held positions with Bradford University (U.K.), and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Dr. Giroud has published widely, including books, academic articles in top journals (e.g. Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Management International Review, World Development), and policy reports for major organisations, such as DFID, the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation, the World Bank, the ASEAN Secretariat, and the United Nations.
Dr. Giroud currently serves as Area Editor for Journal of International Business Policy (JIBP), and Senior Editor for International Business Review (IBR). She sits on the editorial boards of several journals, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Competitiveness Review, International Journal of Emerging Markets, and Asian Business & Management.
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Dr. Tailan Chi is Richard C. Notebaert Distinguished Professor of International Business & Global Studies the Lubar School of Business at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Kansas. He received his B.E. from the University of International Business & Economics, Beijing, China, his MBA from University of San Francisco, and his MA in economics and PhD in business administration from the University of Washington.
Dr. Chi’s research conducts economic analysis under the constraints of information imperfections and cognitive limitations and applies this approach to the study of international business and strategy. He is a pioneer in integrating the concepts of the resource-based view into a property rights framework to understand alternative organizational modes for pooling complementary assets from different firms. He is also a major contributor to the application of the real options approach to the analysis of interfirm collaboration. He has published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Management Science. He has co-authored a major textbook, International Business (4th ed., Routledge), with Drs. Oded Shenkar and Yadong Luo.
Dr. Chi is an Area Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies, and serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of World Business and Global Strategy Journal. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
Dr. Chi has taught a large variety of international business courses at multiple institutions around the world. Before entering academia, he worked as a business negotiator for a major Chinese trading company.
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Birgitte Grøgaard holds a PhD from the Norwegian Business School BI, an MBA from University of Colorado at Boulder and a BA in Political Science from Vanderbilt University. Birgitte teaches courses in the Strategy and Global Management program, including: strategic management, international strategic management and strategic management in the global energy industry.
Prior to her PhD studies, Birgitte held various commercial positions in Norway’s largest oil and gas company Statoil. Her experience from working with headquarter-subsidiary relations in international exploration and production has particularly influenced her subsequent research focus. Birgitte also worked as a management consultant for Gemini Consulting, primarily targeting strategic challenges in multinationals. Birgitte has published/forthcoming work in the Journal of International Business Studies, International Business Review, International Studies of Management and Organization, and the Edward Elgar Handbook of Research on International Strategic Management. She has also presented her research at conferences such as the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, Strategic Management Society, and European Academy of International Business.
Dr. Grøgaard’s research interests regarding energy include: international strategies and subsidiary roles; energy firms; firms’ international strategies and subsidiary roles and subsequent performance consequences; and environmental influences on subsidiary roles and industry effects on firm strategies.
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Dr. Jennifer Oetzel is a Professor in the Kogod School of Business at American University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Business Strategy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching broadly focuses on the competitive implications of social, economic, and environmental sustainability challenges. More specifically, she studies how multinational enterprises (MNEs) can reduce business risk at its source rather than trying to avoid or react to risks as they occur. By adopting strategies aimed at peacebuilding, managers may not only reduce investment risk but also contribute to stability and prosperity in the communities where they operate and gain a competitive advantage by doing so. Prof. Oetzel’s research has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the Journal of International Business Policy (JIBP), Strategic Management Journal (SMJ), Organization Science, among numerous other outlets.
Prof. Oetzel has been a longtime member of AIB and has served in a variety of capacities over the years. Most recently, she was invited to serve on the Ethics Review Committee. She has also served as Co-Track Chair three times (for the 2009, 2018 and 2020 AIB meetings) and co-organized the 2016 Doctoral Consortium at the AIB Meeting in New Orleans. Prof. Oetzel was a member of the Alan M. Rugman Young Scholar Award Committee from 2014 – 2017. She chaired the committee in 2017. Currently, she serves as an Editorial Board Member for five journals including SMJ, JIBS, and JIBP and she was Associate Editor at Business & Society. She won Best Reviewer Awards from JIBS in 2018 and JIBP in 2020.
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Robert Grosse is Professor of International Business and Director for Latin America at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, Arizona. He joined the University in August of 1994, and rejoined in 2016. He was Director of Leadership Development at Standard Bank in South Africa during 2006-9, Dean of the graduate business school, EGADE, at Monterrey Tec in Mexico after that, and then Dean of the business school at American University of Sharjah in the UAE before returning to Thunderbird.
He holds a B.A. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, both in international economics. He has taught international finance and global strategy as a full-time faculty member in the MBA programs at Thunderbird, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, and at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain). He has also taught in many universities throughout Latin America.
Professor Grosse is a leading author on international business and on business in emerging markets. He edited the Oxford Handbook on Management in Emerging Markets (Oxford, 2019) with Klaus Meyer. His book on Emerging Markets: Strategies for Competing in the Global Value Chain was published in 2016 by Kogan Page. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the Business Association for Latin American Studies. He was President of the Business Association of Latin American Studies in 2005-6 and President of the Academy of International Business during 2012-14.
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Elizabeth is the Chair of International Business, at the University of Liverpool and has previously held appointments at the Universities of Melbourne and New South Wales, in Australia.
Working at the intersection of strategy, international business (IB) and health care management, her research currently focuses on individual cognition and decision-making, in three specific areas: (1) the nature of expertise and judgement in strategy; (2) the impact of distance on MNE strategy; and (3) corruption. She is also involved in health care management projects, on topics including the delivery of primary health care in Tibet, COVID-19, big data and epigenetics, vaccine choice, cancer treatment, and Hepatitis B transmission in migrant worker communities. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of World Business, and has previously served on the board of Human Relations. Her research has been published in leading IB and strategy journals, and a host of specialist medical journals, and she has been a Visiting Professor at the Business School of Nanjing University, in China.
Elizabeth has provided consulting advice on corporate strategy to the senior executive teams and boards of large, multinational companies and to entrepreneurial start-ups, as well as specialist policy advice to Australian and Chinese government departments and authorities.
Elizabeth is a Non-Executive Director of Blum Health Ltd, a software technology company, and the Treasurer and a Trustee of St George’s Hall Charitable Trust, which is responsible for the historical preservation and stewardship of the iconic, Grade 1 listed building in the centre of Liverpool.
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Dr. Newburry is Chair of the Department of International Business and the Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business at Florida International University. Bill is also a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Nanyang Business School Center for Emerging Markets. He earned his PhD from New York University, co-majoring in international business and management. His research focuses on how multinational corporations manage and relate to subsidiaries and other local stakeholders when they invest in foreign countries, with an emphasis on reputation issues.
Bill was elected an Academy of International Business Fellow in 2020. He is currently serving a five-year term on the Academy of Management International Management Division Executive Committee (2019-2024). He also serves as President of the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE), as Series Editor for Research in Global Strategic Management and as Associate Editor of AIB Insights. Bill served as President/Chapter Chair of the Academy of International Business Latin America (AIB-LAT) Chapter (2012-2018). He previously chaired the Strategic Management Society Global Strategy Interest Group (2008-2009).
Bill has published 45+ articles in top-tier journals, along with another 20 chapters in edited books. He recently co-authored Building Strategic Capabilities in Emerging Markets (2020, Cambridge University Press), and has co-authored/edited four additional books. He serves on the Senior Advisory Board of Review of International Business and Strategy, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Thunderbird International Business Review, and Cross Cultural and Strategic Management.
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Paul M. Vaaler is the John and Bruce Mooty Chair in Law & Business, a joint appointment to the University of Minnesota’s Law School and Carlson School of Management. He previously served on faculties at Tufts University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Paul has also held visiting appointments at Harvard University where he was a Research Fellow, at Oxford University where he was the Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor of Business and Development, and at the University of Pretoria where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Paul’s scholarly and related practice-oriented publications address issues at the intersection of international business, law, and politics: understanding long-term performance stability trends and their competition (antitrust) policy implications for firms in the US; understanding how migrants from developing countries remit money and ideas to fund, found and grow new businesses in developing countries with poor legal infrastructure; understanding how elections change the attractiveness of new democracies for lending and investment.
Paul currently serves the profession as an editorial board member for the Global Strategy Journal, as a senior editor for the Journal of International Business Policy, as a consulting editor for the Journal of World Business, and as co-editor-in-chief of the Social Science Research Network Global Business Issues electronic journal. He currently serves the Academy of International Business (AIB) as chair the AIB Ethics Review Committee. Paul serves the broader community as an executive educator, consultant, and media commentator. More recently, he consulted for the World Bank and US federal judiciary on migrant remittance trends.
Paul received his B.A. in History from Carleton College, his M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. More information about Paul is available here.
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Prof. Zeynep Aycan holds Koc Holding Chair in Management and Strategy at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. She has dual-appointment in the Department of Psychology and Faculty of Management. She is the founder and academic director of the Leadership Lab. Aycan received her Ph.D. from Queen’s University, Canada and conducted postdoctoral studies at McGill University. Her research interests include the impact of culture on HRM practices, leadership, and work-life balance.
Aycan published 5 books and numerous book chapters and research articles published in journals including Journal of Applied Psychology;Annual Review of Psychology; Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior; Human Relations; Journal of International Business Studies. Her book Management and Organizations in Cross-Cultural Context (Sage Inc., 2014) received two awards: Best Leadership Book of the Year Award from Chartered Management Institute (London) and American Psychological Association Ursula Gielens Book Award.
Other awards Aycan received in recognitions of her work include TUBITAK Science Award (the highest distinction in Turkey), Academy of Management Caroline Dexter Award, World Economic Forum Outstanding Young Scientist Award. Aycan was a visiting scholar to Harvard University, Aston University (UK), ESCP-EAP European School of Management Oxford (UK), Bordeaux University (France), Tartu School of Management (Estonia), and Renmin University of China. She is the Fellow of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and Association for Psychological Sciences (APS). She is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Workforce Strategy, Simon Fraser University.
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Joan E. Ricart, Fellow of the SMS and EURAM, is the Carl Schrøder Professor of Strategic Management at the IESE Business School, University of Navarra. In this school, he has also Director of the Doctoral Program (1995-2006), Associate Dean for Research (2001-2006), and Associate Director for Faculty and Research (2006-2014) and Chairman of the Strategic Management Department (1993-2016).
He was the Founding president of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). He has been President of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), and Vice-president of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management. He was the academic director of the EIASM and member of the research committee of the EFMD.
Joan E. Ricart holds a Ph.D in Managerial Economics, Northwestern University; Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; and Ph.D. in Economics and Business Administration, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Joan E. Ricart has a wide and recognized international experience as lecturer. Throughout his career, he has been visiting Professor in many Business Schools around the world: IPADE (Mexico); IAE (Argentina); IDE (Ecuador); UNISA (South Africa). He has also supervised several doctoral theses and research projects.
He has published several books and articles in leading journals as Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Econometric or Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is co-academic director of IESE Cities in Motion and academic director of the UN center of excellence of PPP for Cities. His current work focuses on cities, business models, offshoring, and sustainability.
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Desislava Dikova is Professor of International Business at WU Wien/ Vienna University of Economics & Business, head of the Competence Center for Emerging Markets and CEE at WU and an entrepreneur. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of East West Business (Taylor Francis), senior editor of European Management Review (Wiley), editor of Journal of International Management (Elsevier), a member of the editorial boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Management and Organization Review and others.
Her research has been published in highly ranked international journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Business Research, and others.
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Pierre Dussauge is a Professor of Strategic Management at HEC Paris. He is a graduate of the HEC Paris “Grande Ecole” (Masters in Management) program and earned a PhD. in management science from the Paris-Dauphine University. He was a visiting professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the Ross Business School of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1991 to 2003. He has also held visiting positions at Insead (Fontainebleau), at IESE (Barcelona, Spain), at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), at Tsinghua University (Beijing), at INCAE (Costa Rica), at the Stockholm School of Economics, etc. He is the recipient of various teaching awards.
Pierre Dussauge is the author or co-author of many articles published in academic or practitioner-oriented journals, notably the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Group Decision and Negotiation, Global Strategy Journal, International Studies in Management and Organization, Long Range Planning, European Management Journal, Defense Economics, the Financial Times, etc. Pierre is also the author of many book chapters and of several books in the field of strategic management, notably State-Owned Multinationals, J. Wiley & Sons, 1987; Strategic Technology Management, J. Wiley & Sons, 1992; Cooperative Strategy, J. Wiley & Sons, 1999; Strategor, Dunod, 2019. His research has dealt with global strategy, with a particular focus on global strategic alliances formed by competing firms.
In addition to his academic work, Pierre Dussauge has been a consultant or a management educator with a number of firms in Europe, in the US and in Asia.
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Juan Alcacer is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor Alcacer’s research and course development interests are in strategy, growth and innovation. His recent research focuses on growth and exit strategies, strategies to cope with major shifts in the environment (such as Brexit) and strategic decision-making under geopolitical and technological uncertainty. His early research examines location strategies, outsourcing, management of value chains across countries and global supplier-buyer relationships. He also studies cluster-based innovation and global intellectual property (IP) issues, with emphasis on the patent systems across countries. He has published his research in the American Journal of Sociology, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy and Journal of International Business.
Professor Alcacer received a PhD in International Business and Strategy from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He also received a MA in Economics from University of Michigan, an MBA from IESA and a Computer Engineering degree from the Universidad Simon Bolivar. He joined HBS in 2007 and has taught the required MBA strategy course, an elective on Global Strategy and PhD courses in Strategy and International Business. Within HBS Executive Education, he teaches in open-enrollment programs and chairs custom programs on competitive advantage, global strategic management, and corporate-level strategy. Before HBS, Prof. Alcacer was part of the Faculty of the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he received the Teacher of the Year Award in 2003.
Professor Alcacer is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society, has served on numerous boards of academic journals and is an associate editor of Management Science. He has worked with many corporations on consulting and field-based projects.
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Felipe Monteiro is a Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy and the Academic Director of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) at INSEAD. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Before joining INSEAD, he was a standing faculty member at The Wharton School. Prior to that, he taught at the London School of Economics (LSE) and worked as a Senior Researcher at the Harvard Business School’s Latin American Research.
His research, which was published in top journals (Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, among others), focuses on global open innovation and the role of boundary spanners in multinational corporations. Professor Monteiro received important awards from the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business and the Strategic Management Society. He received six times INSEAD Deans’ Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching and four times Wharton’s “Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” Teaching Award. He is also a prolific and award-winning case writer. Felipe consults and gives talks for companies and governments worldwide. His new textbook on Global Strategy (co-authored with Philippe Lasserre) will be published in 2022.
Professor Monteiro obtained his Ph.D. in Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He also has a LL.B. (JD equivalent) degree, cum laude, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a M.Sc. in Business Administration from COPPEAD/UFRJ, Brazil and a MRes in Business Studies from London Business School.
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Cristina B. Gibson is Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Management in the Applied Behavioral Science group at Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business, Pepperdine University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, American Psychological Association, and Academy of Social Science Australia.
Cristina is an expert on inclusion, technology-enabled collaboration and innovation, and corporate-community partnerships. She works at the nexus of organizational science, international management, and cross-cultural psychology. Her work gives voice to those with differing approaches, perspectives and knowledge, and provides evidence regarding practical techniques for acknowledging, celebrating and bridging differences that coincide with ethnicity, national culture, functional disciplines, and value systems.
Cristina also addresses the manner in which culture, organizational structures, and technology serve as key influences on shared use of information and knowledge, and she has demonstrated that such processes are critical for subsequent behavioral and organizational outcomes, including innovation and collaboration. Dispelling conventional assumptions that collaborative phenomena operate the same way across contexts, her work identifies intercultural variations, impacts of geographical dispersion, and technology factors that are important in gaining a full understanding of how to increase the effectiveness of collaborations.
Cristina strives for real world impact. For three consecutive years she has been awarded the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Distinction, indicating that she is among the top 1% in the world in terms of impact in the fields of Economic and Business based on citation counts. This award is an honor reserved for only 95 academics in this discipline across the world.
Cristina’s other work has informed organizational policy, structure, training and development agendas improving operational efficiency, innovation, resource allocation, and well-being, in non-profits, entrepreneurial firms, and large multinationals such as IBM, HP, Oracle, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, British Aerospace, Alcoa, Qantas and Westpac, across 30 countries.
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Paula Caligiuri is a D’Amore-McKim School of Business Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University. She is a work psychologist dedicated to helping companies, business teams, and executives become effective in today’s complex global environment.
Researching in the areas of expatriate management, global leadership development, and cultural agility, Paula has authored or co-authored several articles and books – including Cultural Agility: Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals and Build Your Cultural Agility. Her research is published in international business, human resource management, and psychology journals, including Journal of International Business, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and International Journal of Intercultural Relations. She has served as an International HRM Area Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies and as a Senior Editor for the Journal of World Business.
Through TASCA Global, Paula works extensively with leading organizations and universities on the development of individuals’ culturally agility. She has been a frequent expert guest on CNN and CNN International and is an instructor for a LinkedIn Learning course entitled Managing Globally. Paula holds a Ph.D. from Penn State University in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and is a Fellow in both the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of International Business.
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Born in Canada with degrees in economics from three Canadian universities, Lorraine Eden joined the Management Department at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas in 1995. She now holds the title of Professor Emerita of Management and a joint appointment as Research Professor of Law in the TAMU School of Law. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Eden held positions as a tenured professor in the Economics departments at Mount St. Vincent and Brock universities and the School of International Affairs at Carleton University.
Eden’s research lies at the intersection of economics, international business, and public policy. Core areas are: transfer pricing (the pricing of related party transactions); strategies and structures of multinational enterprises (MNEs); and shocks and responses (how policy and technology shocks affect firm strategies and structures). She is considered one of the founders of the field of transfer pricing economics and is best known for her transfer pricing publications. Her research, which appears in more than 200 scholarly publications, includes books such as Taxing Multinationals (1998), Multinationals in North America (1994), Retrospectives on Public Finance (1991), Multinationals and Transfer Pricing (1985, 2017), The Economics of Transfer Pricing (2019), and Research Methods in International Business (2020). Her current research focuses on transfer pricing and the strategies and structures of MNEs in the digital economy.
Over her career, Eden taught economics and international business courses to thousands of undergraduate, masters and PhD students, and chaired several PhD dissertations at Texas A&M. She started and ran the Transfer Pricing Aggies program at Texas A&M from 2007 to 2019; her former students now work all over the world in this field. She has also taught transfer pricing courses for the US and Canadian governments. Eden currently guest lectures on transfer pricing in the TAMU School of Law.
For many years, Eden’s professional service home has been the Academy of International Business (AIB). She was elected to two terms on the AIB Executive Board, including AIB President 2017-2018. She was also 2008-2010 Editor-in-Chief of AIB’s Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the top-ranked international business journal, after many years as a JIBS Area Editor. In 2004, she was elected an AIB Fellow; in 2012, she received the AIB President’s Award; and in 2016, WAIB (Women in the AIB) awarded her its inaugural Woman of the Year award. In 2019, she received JIBS 50th Anniversary Gold Medals for Scholarship and Scholarly Service. Currently, she is the 2020-2023 Dean of the AIB Fellows.
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Dana Minbaeva is a Professor of Strategic and Global Human Resource Management at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, and the Vice-President for International Affairs at Copenhagen Business School. Her research on strategic international HRM has appeared in such top international journals as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, and many others.
Professor Minbaeva published around 50 articles in international peer reviewed journals, numerous book chapters and reports. She received several national and international awards to research achievements, including the prestigious 2013 JIBS Decade Award.
Professor Minbaeva has extensive editorial experience and currently serves as Journal of International Business Studies’ Area Editor. She is also on the Editorial Boards for top international journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, among others.
Professor Minbaeva is actively involved in the MBA and executive teaching at CBS and other European business schools. Previously, she has taught in Kazakhstan, Russia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Finland and Germany as well as having held visiting research positions in the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada.
Dana Minbaeva is the founder and the director of the Human Capital Analytics Group at CBS.
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Dr. Sharon Alvarez is the Thomas W. Olofson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh.
She previously served as the Walter Koch Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, and, prior to that Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management and the Academic Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University.
A Max Planck Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Systems Research, Alvarez has been a visiting professor at Sun-Yet-Sen University in China, the University of Alberta, and the University of Utah. Her current research includes entrepreneurship theory of opportunities, firm, and market emergence.
Elected to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management in 2020, Professor Alvarez is currently Vice President Elect and Program Chair and will serve as President in 2023; she is Past Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management and was the 2015 Denver Program Chair for the Strategic Management Society as well as Representative at Large for the SMS Entrepreneurship Interest Group.
She is associate editor for the Academy of Management Review and past associate editor for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Her work has been published in a multitude of journals and outlets, including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, and Human Resource Management Journal.
The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research and teaching, Professor Alvarez’s paper (with Barney) “Discovery and Creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action” won the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division 2019 Foundational Paper Award as well as the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Best Paper Award; her paper (with Barney) “Forming and Exploiting Opportunities: The Implications of Discovery and Creation Processes for Entrepreneurial and Organizational Research” was the runner-up for the INFORMS award; and her paper (with Barney) “How Entrepreneurs Organize under Conditions of Uncertainty” won the Journal of Management Best Paper Award. Her work in the Journal of Management is the 27th most cited article in the last 50 years; she has currently close to 13,000 citations overall. To this day, the paper “Discovery and Creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action” is the most cited paper in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
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Jonathan Doh is Associate Dean of Research and Global Engagement, Rammrath Chair in International Business, Co-Faculty Director of the Center for Global Leadership, and Professor of Management at the Villanova School of Business. He teaches and does research at the intersection of international business, strategic management, and corporate sustainability. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in Europe and Asia, and is an occasional executive faculty member at the Wharton School. Previously, he was on the faculty of American and Georgetown Universities and a trade official with the U.S. Department of Commerce, with responsibilities related to NAFTA.
Jonathan has published more than 90 refereed articles, 40 chapters, a dozen teaching cases, and nine books. Recent articles appear in AMR, AMP, AMLE, BEQ, JIBS, JOM, JMS, MISQ, OS, and SMJ. His books include Globalization and NGOs (with Hildy Teegen, Praeger, 2003), Handbook on Responsible Leadership and Governance in Global Business (with Steve Stumpf, Elgar, 2005), Multinationals and Development (with Alan Rugman, Yale, 2007), NGOs and Corporations: Conflict and Collaboration (with Michael Yaziji, Cambridge, 2009), Aligning for Advantage: Competitive: Strategies for the Political and Social Arenas (with Thomas Lawton and Tazeeb Rajwani, Oxford, 2014), and he is co-author of International Management: Culture, Strategy, and Behavior (with Fred Luthans, McGraw-Hill/Irwin), now in its 11th edition.
He has presented more than 100 papers at international conferences, and served AOM, AIB, and SMS in numerous capacities, including Chair of AOM’s Organizations and the Natural Environment Division. He has served as Associate Editor and Special Issue Editor of several journals, including JIBS, was Editor- in-Chief of Journal of World Business from 2014-2018, and is currently General Editor of the Journal of Management Studies. He was ranked the 12th most prolific IB scholar for the period 2001-2009 (Lahiri & Kumar, 2012) and among the top one percent of scholars in business and management globally (325 out of 36,319). His cases, simulations, and articles are used at leading business schools. He holds a Ph.D. in strategic and international management from George Washington. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2021, only a handful of scholars to serve as both AOM and AIB Fellows.
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Masaaki “Mike” Kotabe has a joint appointment at the Graduate School of Business and Finance, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan and at the Shidler College of Business at University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Previously, he held the Washburn Chair Professorship at the Fox School of Business at Temple University in 1998-2021, and the Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial Endowed Fellow and Professorship in Marketing and International Business at the University of Texas at Austin in 1990-98. Dr. Kotabe also served as President of the Academy of International Business in 2016-7.
He has written over 150 scholarly publications in such journals as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Journal. He has also published more than 20 books, including Global Sourcing Strategy (1992), Anticompetitive Practices in Japan (1996), MERCOSUR and Beyond (1996), Market Revolution in Latin America (2001), Emerging Issues in International Business Research (2002), Global Supply Chain Management (2006), and Global Marketing Management, 8th ed. (2020).
Dr. Kotabe was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 1998 and a Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies in 2017, for his significant contribution to international business research and education. He has been recognized as one of the most prolific and influential researchers in international business / marketing / strategic management in a number of circles. Most recently, he received a Gold Medalist award from the Academy of International Business as one of the most published researchers in the world over the Past 50 Years in the Journal of International Business Studies in 2019.
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Ravi Ramamurti is University Distinguished Professor of International Business & Strategy and Founding Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern U.
Ravi obtained his BSc (Physics) from Delhi University, his MBA from IIM-A, where he graduated at the top of his class, and his DBA from HBS.
Besides Northeastern U, Ravi has been a visiting professor at HBS, Wharton School, MIT-Sloan, Fletcher School, CEIBS-Shanghai, and IMD-Switzerland. Prior to academia, Ravi worked in the Indian Planning Commission and as executive assistant to the CEO of a large Indian SOE, and as a UN Adviser to Bangladesh and South Korea.
Ravi works on strategy and innovation in emerging markets. He was elected as an AIB Fellow in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including three published by Cambridge University Press and one by HBR Press. He was elected in 2007 to the Executive Committee of the IM Division of AOM. In 2017, The Globals (London) named him the “most innovative thinker on strategy and innovation in emerging markets.” He is a six-time winner of the ADL Prize for teaching.
Ravi’s article “Reverse innovation, emerging markets, and global strategy,” won the 2012 EBS prize and the inaugural GSJ prize for Best Article. His article on “What is really different about emerging market multinationals?” is the most cited article in GSJ. Ravi also published “Delivering world class health care, affordably,” in HBR (Nov 2013) “Transforming health care from the ground up,” HBR (July-August 2018), and several others in HBR Online, including two on reverse innovation to fight COVID-19. He coauthored the book, Reverse innovation in health care (HBR Press, 2018).
Ravi has done research and consulting in more than 20 emerging economies. He has been an adviser to the UN, USAID, Fulbright, World Bank, and The Economist group., and to more than two dozen companies. He is frequently quoted in the business press.
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Pervez Ghauri completed his PhD at Uppsala University (Sweden) where he also taught for several years. After Uppsala, he joined Oslo Business School (later merged into Norwegian School of Management – BI), as Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) with main responsibility to develop an MBA program. He thus started the first English speaking MBA and Executive MBA programs in Nordic countries that were highly successful.
After Oslo, he worked as Professor of Marketing and International Business at University of Groningen Netherland, where he also served as Academic Dean for that last three years. After moving to UK, he served Manchester Business School and King’s College London as chaired professor of International Business, for several years. Currently, Pervez is Professor of International Business at University of Birmingham (UK).
Pervez is the founding Editor of International Business Review (IBR) and Consulting Editor for Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). He also served as Editor (Europe) for Journal of World Business (JWB) for the period 2007-2014. Pervez is a Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) and the Academy of International Business (AIB), where he was also Vice President between 2008 and 2010.
Pervez has published more than 30 books including the best seller, Research Methods in Business Studies, now in 5th edition with Cambridge University Press. He has also published more than 100 articles in top level International Business and International Marketing journals. Pervez has also been consulting and running executive training programs with several companies such as, BP, Ericsson and Airbus Industries.
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Tina C. Ambos is Professor of International Management and the Director of the i2i Hub for Intrapreneurship and Innovation at the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM) of the University of Geneva. She is a also a member of the Expert Network at the World Economic Form.
Before joining the University of Geneva, Tina was a professor at the University of Sussex and the management faculty’s Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange. Earlier she held the chair of the Department of International Management at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria), as well as positions at WU Vienna, the University of Edinburgh and London Business School. She received a Venia Docendi (Habilitation) and a Ph.D. from WU Vienna as well as a MA in Philosophy from the University of Vienna.
Her research and teaching interests include global strategic management and innovation in the context of multinational corporations, technology start-ups and international (non-for-profit) organizations. She has published widely in the academic journals and is a regular speaker at international conferences and practitioner forums as well as leading executive programs.
Tina currently serves as the Chair of the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. She has been Associate Editor for Long Range Planning, is a member of the Consulting Editors Board of the Journal of International Business Studies and on several other editorial review boards.
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Andrew Delios is Professor and Vice-Dean, MSc Programs at NUS Business School. He was Head of the Department of Strategy and Policy for 8 years. His research looks at strategy and global competition in emerging economies. Andrew has authored six books and more than 100 journal articles, case studies and book chapters. He has been an Editor for several leading journals. From 2011-2013, Andrew served as the President of the Asia Academy of Management. He became a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. in 1998 at the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University.
Andrew has lived in Asia for more than 25 years. He has worked in Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, Vietnam and the United States. At NUS, he has taught in numerous programs, including executive education and EMBA programs. He has taught Strategy and International Business at Hong Kong Baptist University for their DBA program, for the EMBA program for Chinese University of Hong Kong, for the EHL-CEIBS HEMBA program and for Tsinghua’s EMBA program, among others.
He has done consulting and educational engagements with organizations such as DBS, OCBC and SIAEC (Singapore), BCA Bank and PT Wijaya Karya (Indonesia), Awba Group (Myanmar), Thai Beverages and PTT (Thailand), Bank of China, and Aditya Birla (India). He was an owner and director in Belgarath Investments Ltd., an international franchising company in Asia, with such brands as Chili’s, Subway and Sarpino’s Pizza. He is currently engaged with a start-up in the retail and property sectors in Vietnam.
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Subi Rangan received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard University. His current work explores how enterprises may better integrate performance and progress, and how scholars may help evolve the paradigm and practice of capitalism. In 2013 he initiated the Society for Progress, a fellowship of eminent philosophers, social scientists, and business leaders. Their first work was published as Performance & Progress: Essays on Capitalism, Business, and Society (Oxford University Press, 2015). Their second book is entitled Capitalism Beyond Mutuality? (Oxford, 2018).
In other research Subi explores the political sociology of discrimination of foreign transnational firms and these firms’ non-market strategies. In 1998 he won the Academy of International Business’ Eldridge Haynes Prize for the best original work in international business. In 1995 that academy awarded their Best Dissertation Award to his doctoral thesis. In 2010 his research won the Emerald award for Top 50 papers in management. His articles appear in the Administrative Science Quarterly; Academy of Management Review; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity; Journal of International Business Studies; Strategic Management Journal; Sloan Management Review; and Harvard Business Review. Subi is coauthor of two other books: Manager in the International Economy, and A Prism on Globalization. He was associate editor of the Academy of Management Review; and chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals.
He is a member of the board of trustees of Fundacao Dom Cabral, a leading business school in Brazil; and member of the board of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. He directs INSEAD’s top executive seminar AVIRA: Awareness, Vision, Imagination, Role, and Action. In 2018 he launched the Integrating Performance & Progress (IPP) executive seminar that he co-teaches with philosophers. Subi is a multiple-time recipient of the Outstanding Teacher award and Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Teaching. He is married and has a daughter and son.
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Sea-Jin Chang is a Lim Kim San Chair Professor of Business Administration, National University of Singapore and also a Techno-SK Chair Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (joint appointment). He received his BA and MA in economics from Seoul National University, and Ph.D. in strategic management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He was previously a faculty member at the Stern School, New York University and Korea University, and also had visiting appointments at Stanford, INSEAD, London Business School, and Hitotsubashi University. Professor Chang is primarily interested in the management of diversified multinational firms.
His current research focuses on understanding the process of creating operating synergies among diversified lines of business and building a strong local organization after foreign entry. His other research interests include organizational learning, corporate growth through joint ventures and acquisitions, foreign direct investment and comparative management studies of Japan, Korea, and China. His book, Sony vs. Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics’ Giants Battle for Global Supremacy (Wiley, 2008) compares and contrasts these two firms’ global strategy. His other books include The Rise and Fall of Chaebols: Financial Crisis and Transformation of Korean Business Groups (Cambridge, 2003) and Business Groups in East Asia: Crisis, Restructuring and New Growth (Oxford, 2006), and Multinationals in China: Entry Strategies, Competition, and Performance (Oxford, 2013). He previously served as an Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, and an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal.
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Anne-Wil is Professor of International Management at Middlesex University London, and a visiting Professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her research interests include international HRM, HQ-subsidiary relationships, language in international business, the international research process, and the quality and impact of academic research. She has published more than 85 refereed journal articles and several books, including a best-selling textbook in IHRM. More than a dozen of her articles have won research awards or distinctions.
Anne-Wil’s publications have been cited more than 10,000 times in journals listed in the Social Science Citation Index and more than 21,000 times in Google Scholar for a h-index of 66. Since 2007 she has been listed in the top 1% most cited academics in Economics/Business worldwide. Anne-Wil is or has been on the editorial board of 16 journals, including most IB journals and a range of HRM/management journals.
Since 1999 she has maintained a website about her research, resources for academic publishing, the assessment of research and journal quality, and free software to conduct citation analysis – Publish or Perish – used by over a million academics, librarians, students, government officials, and consultants. Anne-Wil is one of the founding members of CYGNA, a network of more than 300 female scholars. She also has an active blog, posting in these areas: Academia Behind the Scenes, Academic Etiquette, Research Focus, and Publish or Perish tips and is active on social media, sharing resources on LinkedIn and tweeting as @AWHarzing about international business, bibliometrics and gender in academia.
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Vijay Govindarajan (VG) is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. VG is the Coxe Distinguished Professor (a Dartmouth-wide faculty chair) at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a former Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. VG is a Faculty Partner at Mach49, a Silicon Valley incubator. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He worked with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt to write, “How GE is Disrupting Itself”, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article that pioneered the concept of reverse innovation – any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world. HBR picked reverse innovation as one of the Great Moments in Management in the Last Century. VG is a NYT and WSJ Best Selling author and a two-time winner of the prestigious McKinsey Award for the best article published in HBR.
VG was named by Thinkers 50 as a Top 3 Management Thinker in the world and received the Breakthrough Innovation Award in 2011. VG was inducted into Thinkers 50 Management Thinkers Hall of Fame and was given the Distinguished Achievement Award for most contributions to the understanding of innovation in 2019. VG has been a select few who have received Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards in two different categories.
Govindarajan has been identified as a leading management thinker by influential publications including: Outstanding Faculty, named by Business Week in its Guide to Best B-Schools; Top Ten Business School Professor in Corporate Executive Education, named by Business Week; Top Five Most Respected Executive Coach on Strategy, rated by Forbes; Rising Super Star, cited by The Economist; Outstanding Teacher of the Year, voted by MBA students.
The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research, Govindarajan was inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, and ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for research in strategy. One of his papers was recognized as one of the ten most-often cited articles in the entire 50-year history of Academy of Management Journal.
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Arvind Parkhe is a Professor of Strategy and International Business at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Prior to joining Temple in 2003, he was on the faculty of the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University [Bloomington], 1989-2003. He holds a B.Tech. from IIT-Bombay [India], MBA from Georgia State University, and Ph.D. from Temple University. He is the recipient of numerous research, teaching, and service excellence awards.
In research, he has published articles on strategic alliances in all of the top journals in management, strategy, and international business, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of International Business Studies. He is an impactful, highly-cited author. He has served as a guest editor of AMR [2006] and Journal of International Management [2007]. His research excellence awards include AIB Best Dissertation Award [1990], JIBS Decade Award [2001], and several best paper awards at national and international conferences.
In teaching, he was recognized as outstanding faculty at the Ph.D. level [Indiana University’s Doctoral Student Association Distinguished Teaching Award, 1997], Masters level [2006, 2012, 2017], and Undergraduate level [1994, 2000, 2004]. He has chaired several Ph.D. dissertations.
In service, he was elected Vice President of the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education [2014] and served as Managing Director of the Fox MBA Programs [2005-2010]. From 2010 to 2020, he was Chair of the Strategic Management Department. He received the Musser Outstanding Service Award [2012] and Temple University’s Faculty Service Excellence Award [2012].
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Torben Pedersen is professor of International Business at the Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, and was previously professor at Copenhagen Business School. His research interests are in the interface between strategy and international management and he has published over 100 articles and books concerning the managerial and strategic aspects of globalization.
His research has appeared in prominent journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Science. In addition, he has written more than 25 teaching cases published at case clearing houses. He has more than 19.000 google scholar citations and an H-index of 61 (as of 10/3-2021).
He was Vice-President for AIB (2008-2010) and Program chair in 2009 for the AIB conference in San Diego. He was also Vice Chairman of EIBA from 2007-2010. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business, Strategic Management Society, and European International Business Association. He is founding editor of Global Strategy Journal and serves on numerous editorial boards. He has directed a number of research projects and is currently one of the leaders of the Manufacturing Academy of Denmark focusing of issues of digitalization and sustainability. His latest book written for a practitioner audience is entitled: Data-Driven Innovation: Why the Data-Driven Model Will be Key to Future Success.
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Lilac Nachum’s current research interests include global supply chains and value creation in a global world, emerging market MNEs, and the relationship between firms, society and governments as they shape the international strategies of firms. Her research in these areas and others appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, and the Journal of International Business Studies, among others, and was awarded several recognitions, most recently the AIB 2017 Best Paper Award of the Research Method Division. Her book on value creation and distribution in global supply chains will be published by Edward Elgar in 2021.
Lilac is a Fulbright Scholar to Africa in 2021-22. At various periods, she has served on the editorial boards of the leading journals in strategy and international business, as a board member and a consulting editor. She has held visiting positions at universities around the world and consulted with firms and governments on issues related to globalization and multinational companies. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
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Klaus Meyer is a Professor of International Business at Ivey Business School, London, Ontario, Canada. Until 2017, he spend six years at China Europe International Business School, where he was the Philips Chair and Professor of Strategy and International Business. Previously he has also been full-time faculty member at Copenhagen Business School, the University of Bath, England and University of Reading, England, and held visiting appointments at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and at National Cheng-chi University, Taipei.
Professor Meyer is a leading scholar in the field of international business conducting research on the strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs), especially foreign entry strategies, in emerging economies, especially Eastern Europe and East Asia. A central theme of his research is the influence of local contexts on the strategies and operations of MNEs operating in emerging economies. His theoretical contributions apply and in particular institution-based theories in the realm of international business. Recent work is investigating the strategies of MNEs originating from emerging economies, in particular China, and how their origins shape their international growth strategies.
Professor Meyer has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) in 2013 and in 2015 he received the JIBS Decade award for the most influential paper published a decade ago. In 2012-2014, he was the Vice President of the AIB, and in this function he chaired the 2014 AIB conference held in Vancouver. Since 2016, he serves as an area editor for the Journal of International Business Studies.
He has published over 80 articles in leading scholarly journals, in particular in Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Management Studies, and he published eight books, including the textbook International Business (with Mike Peng, published by Cengage Learning, 3rd ed., 2019) and the Oxford Handbook of Management in Emerging Markets (co-edited with Rob Grosse, OUP, 2019). Prof. Meyer holds an MSc from the University of Göttingen and a PhD from London Business School.
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Ravi Madhavan is a Professor of Business Administration and the Alcoa Foundation International Faculty Fellow at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1996, and served on the faculty of Business Administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 1995 to 2001. Prior to his Ph.D., he spent eight years as a manager in the information technology industry, gaining experience in consulting and leadership roles.
Ravi’s research and teaching interests focus on alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions and venture capital as strategic avenues to growth, innovation and the development of complex capabilities. In particular, he is interested in how networks function as carrier waves of capability diffusion in strategic industries – e.g., a current project tracks the evolution of systems integration capabilities through a comparative case study of China’s investments in the nuclear power and large commercial aircraft sectors. Ravi has published papers in premier journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Marketing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Strategic Management Journal. He has also served as Director of the International Business Center at the University of Pittsburgh and as Executive Director and Editor of the working paper series at the Industry Studies Association. Ravi’s research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the POSCO Research Institute, among others
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Gabriel Robertstad Garcia Benito (PhD, NHH Norwegian School of Economics) is Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway: www.bi.edu. He has extensive international experience from research, teaching, and academic community service. He has held visiting positions at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Melbourne (Australia), Henley Business School/University of Reading (UK) and University of Valencia (Spain).
Gabriel is Co-Editor of Global Strategy Journal and Consulting Editor of Journal of International Business Studies, and a member of the Editorial Boards of, among others, Academy of Management Perspectives, International Business Review, Journal of World Business, Management and Organization Review, and Management International Review.
Gabriel has studied the internationalization dynamics of businesses for three decades, with a focus on the governance, strategy and organization of multinational enterprises, headquarter-subsidiary relationships, and foreign operation mode decisions. His research has appeared in many books and journals, including Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Management Studies. His books include Foreign Operation Methods (w/L. Welch and B. Petersen, 2018, 2nd edition), and Multinationals on the Periphery (w/R. Narula, 2007).
Gabriel was President of EIBA (European International Business Academy) in 2005, and member of its Board from 1997 to 2007, and has served in various roles in AIB and Strategic Management Society. He organized the 2005 EIBA Conference and was Co-Chair of the 2018 Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Oslo. He was elected Fellow of AIB in 2015, and Fellow of EIBA in 2017.
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Helena Barnard completed her PhD at Rutgers University, and then returned to South Africa. She has been working at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), the Johannesburg-based business school of the University of Pretoria since then, and is a full professor and director of the doctoral program there.
She is interested in how knowledge (and with it technology, organizational practices and innovation) moves between more and less developed countries, particularly in Africa. She researches both organizational mechanisms (notably emerging multinationals and internet-enabled businesses) and individual mechanisms such as scientific collaborations, doctoral training and the diaspora. She has published in the Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Journal of World Business and others.
She was the 2018-2019 Dunning Fellow at University of Reading, and was VP (Administration) for the AIB from 2017 to 2020. She is an editor at the Journal of International Business Policy (JIBP), AIB Insights and the Africa Journal of Management. As special issue editor, she co-edited an issue on migration and international business with Vaaler, Mudambi and Deeds for JIBP (2019). She is leading a special issue for Management and Organization Review on Chinese investment in Africa with Ado, Manning, Ping and Witt and is supporting a special issue on gender and entrepreneurship in Africa for the Journal of African Business with Chrystostome and Ika.
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Mauro F. Guillén is one of the most original thinkers at the Wharton School, where he holds the Zandman Professorship in International Management and teaches in its flagship Advanced Management Program and many other courses for executives, MBAs, and undergraduates. An expert on global market trends, he is a sought-after speaker and consultant. He combines his training as a sociologist at Yale and as a business economist in his native Spain to methodically identify and quantify the most promising opportunities at the intersection of demographic, economic, and technological developments. His online classes on Coursera and edX have attracted over 100,000 participants from around the world. He has won multiple teaching awards at Wharton, where his presentation on global market trends has become a permanent feature of over fifty executive education programs annually.
His research, teaching, and speaking incorporates both numerical assessments of trends and illuminating examples from business, politics, and everyday life. He shows in accessible terms that one can accurately forecast trends by systematically following the babies and following the money into the future. His research has earned him many distinctions, including Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim fellowships, a membership in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and prizes from the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, the Social Science History Association, and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. He is an elected member of the Sociological Research Association and the Macro Organizational Behavior Society, and a winner of the Aspen Institute’s Faculty Pioneer Award.
His research, op-eds, and commentary have been featured in numerous outlets, from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to The Economist, and the Financial Times. He has appeared on radio and TV shows such as NPR’s Marketplace and Radio Times, CNBC’s Mad Money and Squawk Box, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS. He is a seasoned public speaker at conferences, conventions, forums, and corporate events organized by industry associations and Fortune 500 companies. He serves or has served on several advisory groups, boards of directors, and nonprofit boards of trustees.
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George Yip is Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Imperial College Business School. He has also received the following professional titles and distinctions: Distinguished Visiting Professor at D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University; Fellow of the Academy of International Business; Thinkers50 Hall of Fame; Editorial Advisory Boards Member of California Management Review and MIT Sloan Management Review; Chair of Research Advisory Committee of SKEMA Business School (France).
His previous academic positions include Professor of Strategy and Co-Director of the Centre on China Innovation at China Europe International Business School; Dean of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; and Harvard, Georgetown (visiting), UCLA, Stanford (visiting), Oxford (visiting), Cambridge Judge (Beckwith Professor of Marketing and Strategy), London Business School (Professor and Associate Dean, MBA), and Lead Senior Fellow of the UK’s Advanced Institute of Management Research. His previous business positions include VP and Director of Research & Innovation at Capgemini Consulting, senior manager at Price Waterhouse (USA), manager at Unilever, and various boards. He has authored an co-authored a number of texts, including Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Change Makers and Underdogs: Lessons From China’s Innovators (2019), China’s Next Strategic Advantage: From Imitation to Innovation (2016), Strategic Transformation (2013), Managing Global Customers (2007), Asian Advantage: Key Strategies for Winning in the Asia-Pacific Region (1998), and Total Global Strategy (1992 and 2012). In total, he has over 100 publications and 12,000 citations.
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Africa Ariño is Professor of Strategic Management at IESE Business School, University of Navarra (Spain), where she holds the Joaquim Molins Figueras Chair of Strategic Alliances. She received her Ph.D. in Management from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). At IESE, she has served as Deputy Dean for Faculty, Head of the Strategic Management Department, and Director of the Ph.D. Program. Currently President of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), she was elected Fellow of the SMS in 2015.
Africa’s research focuses on the governance and management of interorganizational relationships, particularly on strategic alliance design and dynamics, and it has been published in leading journals including Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. She was a founding Associate Editor of Global Strategy Journal, and of Academy of Management Discoveries, and served in that position at the European Management Review. A current member of the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal, in the past she served on the boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, and Journal of Management Studies, among others. Africa served in the Executive Committee of the Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management (2008–2010), and on the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society (2011–2013; 2014–2016). She was the Chair of the 2014 Annual International Conference of the SMS. That same year she was Visiting Professor at Lagos Business School, Lagos, Nigeria, and at Strathmore Business School, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Dr. Kwok is Research Professor of International Business at the University of South Carolina. From 1996-2017, he was a Distinguished Business Partnership Foundation Fellow and Professor in the International Business Department. He received a Ph.D. degree with a major in International Business from the University of Texas at Austin. His research concentrates on international finance and international business education. He is one of the pioneers conducting interdisciplinary research on how national culture influences various financial practices around the world. His articles appear in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Academy of Management Journal, Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics and so forth. His academic papers have received a number of research awards, including the Moskowitz Prize, given by the Center for Responsible Business, University of California at Berkeley. A research note published in JIBS in 2017 ranks Dr. Kwok as #4 worldwide among the most published authors in the Journal of International Business Studies, the flagship journal of the Academy of International Business, during the period of 1970-2016. In June 2019 at the 50th Anniversary of the Journal of International Business Studies, Dr. Kwok was given the Golden Award for being one of the most published authors in the Journal of International Business Studies.
Dr. Kwok was the President of the Academy of International Business from August 2018 – January 2020. He was the AIB Vice President-Administration in 1995-1996. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He has served on various journal editorial boards, including the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies. Dr. Kwok has been teaching various international finance and China business courses at both master and doctoral levels at the University of South Carolina since Fall, 1984. Besides teaching at the University of South Carolina, he has been consistently invited as a visiting professor at universities around the world, including the Peking University (Beijing University, PRC), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, PRC), Jiaotong University (Shanghai, PRC), Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (Austria), and the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM, Mexico). Through the years, he has received numerous teaching awards from different universities in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
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Julian Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of International Business, and the (American) Academy of Management. He has PhD and MBA degrees in Business from the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University, Canada, and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Durham, UK. He was awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Stockholm School of Economics in 2009 and Copenhagen Business School in 2018.
Professor Birkinshaw has published widely on the strategy of multinational enterprises, and in particular on HQ-subsidiary relationships, ambidexterity, management innovation and the role of the corporate HQ. His research has been published in top journals such as JIBS, AMJ, AMR and SMJ. He is also the author of fifteen books, including Mindtools for Managers (2018), Fast/Forward (2017), Becoming a Better Boss (2013), Reinventing Management (2010), Giant Steps in Management (2007), Inventuring: Why Big Companies Must Think Small (2003), and Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm (2001).
Professor Birkinshaw is currently ranked as one of the “Thinkers 50” top thought leaders in the field of Management. He is regularly quoted in international media outlets, including CNN, BBC, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, Bloomberg Business Week and The Times. He is a regular keynote speaker and a consultant to many large companies, such as BP, Dell Technologies, Roche, Tata Group, BMW, Unilever, Enel, and Orsted.
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Timothy Devinney (BSc CMU; MA, MBA, PhD Chicago) is Chair and Professor of International Business at Alliance Manchester Business School. He is also the Director of the DBA programme and the A/Dean (International). He has held positions at U. Chicago, Vanderbilt, UCLA and Australian Graduate School of Management and the University of Leeds and been a visitor at many other universities across the globe. He has published 12+ books and 100+ articles in leading journals. He served as an editor and associate editor of a number of journals and book series and sits on the ERB of more than a dozen journals. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts, Academy of International Business, the European International Business Academy, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Awardee and Fellow. He has served on the executive of a number of academic associations (AOM, SMS, EIBA, ANZAM) as well as university, corporate and charity boards. He regularly consults with major corporations across the globe.
More information is available on his academic profile page and a longer list of publications and presentations can be found here. He also maintains a blog which includes a number of public press articles.
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Paul Beamish is Director of the International Business Institute at the Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Canada. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of over 60 books, 140 refereed articles and 150 published teaching cases. His books are in the areas of International Management, Strategic Management, and International Joint Ventures. His articles have appeared in AMR, AMJ, SMJ, JIBS, and elsewhere. He has received best research awards from AOM, AIB, and ASAC. In 2017, he received the PWC Eminent Scholar in International Management Award from the AOM. There are over 36,000 Google Scholar citations to his research. He served as Editor-in-Chief of JIBS from 1993-97, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and past Dean of the Fellows of the AIB.
Beamish has supervised 34 PhD dissertations: over a third have won major international recognitions. In total, 22 of his cases have won awards. His cases have been translated into one or more languages 160 times. Over 3.5 million copies of his cases have been studied worldwide. In 2012, he received the International Management Outstanding Educator Award from the AOM.
In 2010, he established the 39 Country Initiative. It allows universities in the world’s 39 poorest countries to use Ivey cases at no cost. To date over 2,000 professors from these countries have registered for access, and hundreds of thousands of copies have been used for free by their students.
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Elizabeth L. Rose is Chair and Professor of International Business at the University of Leeds, and Adjunct Professor of Business Policy and Strategy at the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur. She has held academic appointments in the U.S., New Zealand, and Finland.
Beth’s research addresses various aspects of how firms internationalize and compete across borders. Working at the intersection of international business, international entrepreneurship, and strategy, she is especially interested in the internationalization activities of firms from emerging markets – particularly smaller firms.
She is an AIB Fellow, and was named the WAIB Woman of the Year in 2019. Currently, she is co-editor of Academy of Management Collections.
Beth has held leadership roles in several academic professional organizations. In the AIB, she served as Vice President for Administration, working closely with AIB chapters around the globe, and was the founding chair of the Australia and New Zealand Chapter (now AIB-Oceania). She has also been President of both the Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA) and the Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS), and Chair of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Global Strategy Interest Group and the Academy of Management (AOM) International Management Division. She is Vice President of the Board of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM).
A dual citizen of New Zealand and the US, Beth completed her education in the U.S., doing her undergraduate work in Civil Engineering at Princeton University and earning her PhD in Statistics and Management Science from the University of Michigan.
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Rajneesh Narula is the John H. Dunning Chair of International Business Regulation at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. His research and consulting have focused on the role of multinational firms in development, innovation and industrial policy, R&D alliances and outsourcing. He has published over a 100 articles and chapters in books on these themes. He is currently an Editor of Journal of International Business Studies and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Industrial Business and Economics.
He holds honorary appointments at United Nations University-MERIT, Norwegian School of Business, Oxford University, Simon Frasier University, and the University of Urbino. Prof. Narula was Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Development Research from 2009-2013, and Editor-in-Chief of Multinational Business Review from 2014-2016. In 2017, he was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). The honour is in recognition of his Services to Business Research. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (FRSA) in 2015.
He is a regular commentator on business and economics issues on BBC World News, Sky News, TRT World, CGTN, as well as a variety of print and online publications. He regularly acts as a consultant and advisor to the European Commission, UNIDO, UNCTAD and the OECD, World Bank, as well as a variety of other international organisations, governments and consulting firms. He has previously held full-time appointments at the University of Oslo, Maastricht University and Copenhagen Business School.
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Jay Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and holds the Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the Eccles School of Business at The University of Utah. Professor Barney’s research focuses on the relationship between firm resources and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage.
He has published over 100 articles and seven books. He has been on the editorial boards at the Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management Journal, has been Associate Editor at the Journal of Management, senior editor at Organization Science, Co-Editor at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and served as the editor-in-chief of the leading theory journal in the field of management, the Academy of Management Review.
Professor Barney has been elected as a Fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society and has won the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award (Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, 2005). In 2010, he won the Academy of Management Scholarly Contributions Award—generally seen as the most prestigious award for research achievement in the field of management. In 2017, he won the Eccles School of Management outstanding research award, followed by the Penrose Award for Pathbreaking Management Research (European Academy of Management, 2019), the CK Prahalad Scholar-Practitioner Award (Strategic Management Society, 2019), the Foundational Paper Award (Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, 2019), the John Fayerweather Eminent Scholar Award (Academy of International Business, 2020), and the Distinguished Scholarship Award (Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management, 2020).
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Shaker A. Zahra is Robert E. Buuck Chair of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management, the University of Minnesota. He has served as the department chair (9 years), Director of the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship (10 years), and the Academic Co-Director of Carlson Ventures Enterprises. He also served as the Founding Co-Director of the Center for Integrative Leadership at University of Minnesota. Previously, Shaker was Paul T. Babson Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College and Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at Georgia State University. He has been a visiting or guest professor at several universities in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Shaker has also held the 3TU Chair in International Entrepreneurship at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Shaker’s research centers on corporate and international entrepreneurship, dynamic capabilities in science and technology global industries. He is also interested in social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in family firms operating in technology industries.
Shaker studies industry emergence and its consequences for entrepreneurship. His research also explores the evolution and sources of novelty in companies’ strategic choices and their implications for firm heterogeneity. This research contributes to the knowledge, organizational learning, and the dynamic capabilities’ theoretical perspectives– especially in young entrepreneurial and established companies in technology-based global markets.
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Nicole Coviello is Professor of Marketing and the Lazaridis Chair of International Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. Previously, she was the Research Director of the Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises. Nicole’s other academic appointments have been in New Zealand (University of Auckland; University of Waikato), Canada (University of Calgary) and Finland (University of Turku).
Nicole’s research intersects international business, marketing strategy, and entrepreneurship. She has multiple publications in the top journals of all three of these disciplines, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Marketing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Journal of Business Venturing. Nicole is also co-editor of the Handbook of Measures for International Entrepreneurship Research (with Helena Yli-Renko).
In 2018, an international study showed Nicole to have four of the most influential publications in International Marketing- more than any other scholar in the world. In 2020, she was ranked as one of the top 1% of Business and Management scholars in the world.
Nicole holds a PhD in Marketing and International Business (University of Auckland), an MSc in Technology Management (University of Saskatchewan) and a BComm Hons Marketing (University of Saskatchewan). In 2010, she also received an honorary doctorate from the Turku School of Economics for her work in building the field of International Entrepreneurship. She is Associate Editor at the Journal of Business Venturing, Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies, and she sits on numerous other editorial boards.
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Dr. Sumit K. Kundu is a Professor and James K. Batten Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business in the College of Business, Florida International University. He is the Associate Dean for International in the College of Business.
Dr. Kundu has taught several international business courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Florida International University, Saint Louis University, State University of New York, Northeastern University, and Rutgers University. His extensive international experience includes teaching at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), City University of Hong Kong (China), Saint Louis University Madrid Campus (Spain), and the Indian Institute of Management. He currently serves as the faculty director for the Colleges Executive MBA program and is the Ph.D. coordinator for the department of Management and International Business. Dr. Kundu has been the recipient of several teaching awards namely, Best Professor in Professional MBA program (2010), Best Professor in International MBA program (2007), Best Professor award in Masters in International Business program (2012, 2011, 2006), Outstanding Teacher in Executive MBA program (2004), and Best Course award in Masters in International Business program (2012). Dr. Kundu was named Outstanding Graduate Teacher of the Year (2003), Teacher of the Year for Executive Masters in International Business program (2003), and Teacher of the Year for the full-time MBA program (2003) at Saint Louis University.
Presently Dr. Kundu serves as a Consulting Editor for Journal of International Busines Studies, Associate Editor for Journal of Business Research and Associate Editor for Journal of International Management. Dr. Kundu sits on the editorial board of several journals, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Management International Review, Global Strategy Journal, Thunderbird International Business Review, and Journal of Teaching in International Business.
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Charles Dhanaraj is Evelyn & Jay G. Piccinati Endowed Chair in Teaching Excellence, professor and chair of the Department of Management at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver.
Dhanaraj previously served at Temple University, where he was the H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest Professor of Strategy at Fox School of Business, executive director of the Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (EDBA) Program, and the founding director of the Translational Research Center, Dhanaraj has previously served at IMD Switzerland, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Western University Ivey Business School (Canada) and Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore). He has also been a visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Indian School of Business (India), Foundation Dom Cabral (Brazil) and Kellogg School of Management (U.S.A.).
Dhanaraj has published in several top journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal. He has also written over 50 teaching cases, several of which have received international awards.
Dhanaraj serves on the editorial boards of several major academic journals. He has served as a deputy editor at Cross Cultural Strategic Management and a guest editor at Leadership Quarterly and Management International Review. In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), a distinction held by elite researchers for outstanding contributions to scholarly development in international business.
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Donald R. Lessard is the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and Professor of Systems Engineering, Emeritus, at MIT. He advises companies, governments and universities and continues his research on global strategic management and large-scale (infrastructure and energy) project management.
Lessard joined the MIT faculty in 1973 after three years at Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School. At MIT, he has taught international financial management and global strategy, and has led numerous academic and executive programs. He served as Deputy Dean of the Sloan School with responsibilities for research, international programs, and executive education. He was co-chair of the MIT Energy Education Task Force that launched the Institute-wide undergraduate energy minor, for which he was recognized as Class of 1960 Professor. He also was the founding faculty director of the MIT Executive MBA, and pioneered its signature GO-Lab.
A leader in international management education, Lessard has served as President of the Academy of International Business and Dean of the Fellows of the Academy. In 2014 he received the Pathfinder Award from the Engineering Projects Organization Society for his lifetime contributions to the field.
Lessard has led major consulting assignments with firms, banks, and government agencies throughout the world. He currently is a founding advisor to Promethean Energy Corporation, a member of the Advisory Board of 4DPath, and a senior advisor to the Brattle Group. He also is a member of the expert group on resource management of the UNCE.
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Farok J. Contractor is “Distinguished Professor of Management and Global Business” at Rutgers Business School, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), and author of ten books and over 150 scholarly articles. He holds a Ph.D. (Managerial Science and Applied Economics) and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, as well as two engineering degrees M.S. (Michigan), and B.S.E. (Bombay). He is on the Board of the Academy of International Business, a worldwide association of 3,500 academics and consultants as President-Elect (2020 – 2021) and President (2021 – 2022).
Farok Contractor’s research focuses on key issues in International Business, such as corporate alliances, emerging markets, outsourcing and offshoring, valuation of intangible assets, the technology transfer process, licensing, and foreign direct investment. His papers and books have been cited more than 13,800 times, and he is among the top-ranked contributors of scholarly papers in the field. Farok has chaired or been on the supervisory committees of 19 doctoral dissertations. He is the recipient of a Silver Medal for the number of contributions to Journal of International Business Studies (one ot the top-5 management journals) and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indian Academy of Management.
He has taught at the Wharton School, Copenhagen Business School, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Nanyang Technological University, Indian Institutes of Management (IIM – Ahmedabad and Calcutta), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, XLRI (India), Rutgers business programs in Beijing and Shanghai, Lubin School of Business, and EDHEC in France, and conducted executive seminars on four continents. He served Rutgers as Department Chair, CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research) Research Director, Ph.D. program coordinator, and other key school and university initiatives.
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