Paper Development Workshop 2013

The Tenth Annual Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Paper Development Workshop (PDW) will be held at the Hilton in Istanbul, Turkey from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, as part of the pre-conference program for the Academy of International Business (AIB) annual meetings. The PDW is the most extensive of the various JIBS outreach activities conducted by the JIBS editorial team. Organized by Petra Christmann, John Cantwell and Pallavi Shukla of Rutgers Business School, the PDW involves most of the JIBS editors and many board members, and is sponsored by the Academy of International Business (AIB) and D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

The list of PDW 2013 participants is given below. For more information about the PDW, please visit the JIBS PDW Program website. Note that this event is by invitation only! All participants must register for the AIB main conference in order to participate in the JIBS PDW. For more information and regular announcements, please refer to the AIB website: http://aib.msu.edu/events/2013/

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Ahmet Kirca is an Associate Professor of International Business and Marketing at the Broad College of Business, Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in International Business from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Dr. Kirca previously worked at the George Washington University, Washington, DC. He has published articles in a number of academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Management, Global Strategy Journal and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, among others. Dr. Kirca currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Academy of Marketing Science. He currently teaches global marketing and international business courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs at MSU. Professor Kirca had extensive work experience in textile and tourism industries before he joined academia.

 

Alexey V Semenov is a doctoral student at the John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University.  His interests center on theory of FDI and the MNE, liability of foreignness, internationalization, internalization, international strategies, and regionalization.  Specifically, he investigates the extent to which the alignment between the firm resources and the environmental factors within the host country affect the intensity of the LOF experienced by firms and how such alignments can aid MNEs in reconfiguring their international strategies and their choice of host countries to minimize the extent of their inherited disadvantage of foreignness.  Phone: (832) 860-7514; asemenov@slu.edu

 

Almasa Sarabi is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Human Resources Management and Asian Business at the Georg-August-University in Goettingen, Germany, where she is involved in teaching Global Project Management and HR Management courses for undergraduates. Her research interests are in the fields of leadership development, competency models, and talent management. Almasa’s academic background includes studies in Linguistics and Economics at the University of Hamburg in Germany (B.A. 2010), Cultural Studies at the Georg-August-University in Germany (M.A. 2012) as well as academic stays abroad at the Uppsala University in Sweden and Pune University in India.

 

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra is Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University. Before joining Northeastern he was a faculty member at the University of South Carolina and at the University of Minnesota, and visiting professor at Cornell University. Alvaro studies the internationalization of firms, with a special interest in developing-country multinationals. He also analyzes governance issues, with a special interest in corruption in international business. His research appears in leading academic journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Research Policy, and in several edited books. He is the reviewing editor of Journal of International Business Studies and serves on the editorial boards of other leading journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Global Strategy Journal, Organization Studies, and Journal of World Business. His geographical area of expertise is Latin America. He has done fieldwork in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico, Spain, and the US. Alvaro teaches courses on global strategy and sustainability at the undergraduate, masters, executive and Ph.D. levels. He received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and another from the University of Salamanca. For more information please visit www.cuervo-cazurra.com

 

Anna Ljung is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University and her dissertation work is in the field of international industrial marketing. The thesis concerns the impact of the socio-political dimension on Western MNCs in emerging markets, applying a business network perspective. Special focus is put on the areas of innovation, subsidiary strategy, market expansion and business relationships. A qualitative case study method is applied in the emerging markets Brazil and Argentina – markets very familiar to the author after having done several studies and worked in international firms in South America for eight years.

 

Prior to academia, Anthony Goerzen spent 15 years in management positions in small and multinational firms. Dr. Goerzen earned his PhD from the Ivey School of Business at the Western University. His thesis won the Udayan Rege Best Dissertation Award 2000-2002 and was selected into the final four of the European International Business Association’s Gunnar Hedlund Best Dissertation Award in 2002, the Academy of Management’s Barry Richman Best Dissertation Award in 2002, and was published by Palgrave Macmillan. Anthony Goerzen’s research interests center on the strategic management of firms competing in international markets with a focus on the organizational and performance effects of interfirm networks, alliances, and location. His research is published in  Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Management International Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, and The Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship as well as the Peking University Business Review and Ivey Business Journal. His research has been shortlisted for the Academy of Management’s Carolyn Dexter Award in 2007 and the Doug Nigh Award in 2005. He has written several book chapters and case studies some of which have been Ivey Publishing’s Top 10 Best Sellers. Further, Dr. Goerzen has received the Academy of International Business’ Best Conference Paper Award in 2002 and the Best Reviewer Award in 2003, the Best Reviewer Award from the Administrative Science Association of Canada in 2007, and the Best Reviewer Award from the Journal of International Business Studies in 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2013.

 

Arilova A. Randrianasolo is a PhD student at Saint Louis University in the international business and marketing program.  His research interests include bottom-of-the-pyramid (BOP) consumer research, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the liability of foreignness (LOF).  He has presented his research at the AIB Southeast conference in October 2012, where one of his papers was selected to be a finalist for best student paper; the American Marketing Association’s Winter Educator’s Conference in February 2013; and he will present research at the AIB annual conference in July 2013.  Furthermore, he has submitted research to the Journal of International Marketing, and will submit several papers to different journals in August 2013.  His expected graduation date is May 2015.

 

Native from France, Dr. Aurelia Durand has gained a two-year experience in business development for KPMG Consulting (in Strasbourg, France) before moving to Canada to complete her MBA and Ph.D. in Business Administration from Université Laval (Québec City, Canada). She pursued her doctoral research as a visiting student at the Faculty of Forestry of the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). From 2008 to 2011, she took a position as a full time Visiting Professor at the School of Business of Universidad Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and also taught a semester at Universidad Adolfo Ibanez (Santiago, Chile). Aurelia is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the International Business department at HEC Montréal (Canada).

 

Aziz Bakay graduated from department of Management at Bilkent University. He finished his masters in Finance at University of North Texas. In 2012, he completed the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in International Business Administration at Texas A&M International University.  His dissertation investigated the impact of interpersonal trust on behavioral and workplace outcomes in organizations. Currently, as assistant professor he is with the Department of Management in Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Gediz University in Turkey.

 

Bo Bernhard Nielsen holds a PhD in international business from Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark and is currently Professor of Strategic Management at the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization at CBS. His research is at the intersection of strategy and international business with a specific focus on strategic collaboration, firm internationalization, and knowledge management across borders. His work appears in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, Journal of Business Research, and Long Range Planning, among others. Professor Nielsen serves as Consulting Editor, JIBS.

 

Chengguang Li is an assistant professor and lecturer at the University of Paderborn, Germany. He received a PhD from the Technische Universität München, a M.Eng.in Manufacturing from MIT, and a M.Sc. from the Nanyang Technological University. His research interests so far include studies on cross-cultural management, institutional theory, and foreign location choice. Chengguang Li is born in China and holds a German citizenship.

 

Christopher Schlaegel is an Assistant Professor (International Business) in the School of Economics and Management at Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. In 2010 he obtained his doctoral degree from Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. He teaches primarily in the areas of international business, strategy, and entrepreneurship. His research focuses on areas in export performance, international entrepreneurship, and cultural intelligence.

 

Christopher Wheat, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers Business School in New Jersey, USA. Professor Wheat studies the role that social institutions play in shaping the founding processes and economic outcomes of entrepreneurial firms, particularly those in new and developing markets.  Specifically, he studies how social and economic conditions shape the decisions that firms make in entering new product markets and in presenting themselves to customers and investors.  He is also interested in advancing the use of social network methodologies in the pursuit of this research. 

 

Danchi Tan is Professor of International Business at the National Chengchi University, Taiwan. She obtained her PhD in international business from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Danchi Tan’s research focuses on strategies and growth of multinational enterprises. She has investigated the entry mode, timing, and location of foreign investors in host economies, and has examined the role of managerial resources in affecting the growth of multinational firms. Her recent research interests extend to studying how firms respond to external changes. Danchi Tan has published papers in outlets such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and other journals. She currently serves on editorial boards for Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, and Strategic Management Journal. She served as a track chair for the AIB conferences in Istanbul (2013). Danchi Tan can be reached at dctan@nccu.edu.tw.

 

Daniel C. Bello is the Board of Advisors Professor and Director of the Institute of International Business, and holds a joint appointment in the Marketing Department, in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). Previously, he was on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame and held management positions in the Product Development Group at Ford Motor Company.  His research interests include international relationship management and global supply chain strategy.  Recent projects focus on inter-organizational relationships in international, cross-border contexts including global alliances, business-to-business, and distribution channels such as exporter-importer settings.  He has published widely in professional journals such as Journal of Marketing, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, among others.  He co-edited the International Marketing volume in the Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing. Currently, he serves as Marketing Editor (2007-2013) of the Journal of International Business Studies, a scholarly journal published by the Academy of International Business.  Previously, he served as Editor-in-Chief (2003-2007) of the Journal of International Marketing, a scholarly journal focusing on international marketing and published by the American Marketing Association.  He also has served or serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, among others.  Dr. Bello holds BBA and MBA degrees from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. E-mail: dbello@gsu.edu

 

Daniela Bolzani is a PhD candidate in Business Administration at the University of Bologna, expected to defend her dissertation “Internationalization intentions: micro-foundations and psychological distance perceptions in immigrant and non-immigrant entrepreneurs” in June 2013. Her research interests are in the field of entrepreneurship, in particular regarding the individual-level determinants of entrepreneurship and decision-making processes, with a focus on international and immigrant entrepreneurship. She was visiting PhD student at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. Her works are presented at the BCERC and AIB conferences. In the past, Daniela worked for five years in the fields of management and international development in Europe and Africa.

 

David Reeb, PhD is at the National University of Singapore. Professor Reeb’s research focuses on corporate finance but also encompasses financial markets and delves into financial disclosure choices. Over the past several years, Professor Reeb’s work has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of International Business Studies.  This research has substantive impact, generating over 5,000 citations in other academic work according to Google Scholar and 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 currently serves as a Department Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies.

 

David C Thomas, PhD is Professor of International Business at the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of nine books including the forthcoming Essentials of International HRM: Managing People Globally (Sage Publications, with Mila Lazarova) and the best selling Cultural Intelligence: Living and Working Globally, (2009, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, with Kerr Inkson). His book Cross-Cultural Management Essential Concepts (2008, Sage Publications) was the winner of the R. Wayne Pace Human Resource Development book of the year award for 2008. In addition, he has recently edited (with Peter B. Smith and Mark Peterson) The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research from Sage Publications. His research on cross-cultural interactions in organizational settings has appeared in numerous journals. Dr Thomas is currently the Cross-Cultural Management Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of World Business, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management.

 

Desislava Dikova is Professor in International Business at Vienna University of Economics & Business. She earned her doctorate degree from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Executive Master in International and European relations from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and a Master of Science in International Economics from the Academy of Economics D.A.Tzenov, Bulgaria. Dikova has been a member of the editorial board of JIBS since 2007 and serves as a reviewer for multiple journals. For her outstanding work she has been awarded twice the AoM Best Reviewer Award (2007, 2009), the 2009 WAIB Emerald Award for Highly Commended Paper and the AoM International Management Best Paper Finalist in 2006 and 2008. Desislava Dikova’s research is focused on the international behavior of SMEs and MNEs, specifically their foreign market entry mode choices and subsequent performance of subsidiaries. Her research has been published in highly ranked international journals.

 

Douglas Dow University: Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne. Research Interests: My primary research focus is on psychic distance, cultural distance, differences in language & religion, and other related forms of distance; and their interactions with various forms of international experience.  In terms on the application of these constructs, I have a particular interest in their impact on market selection, entry mode choice, establishment mode choice, and performance of both FDI and export ventures. In addition, I have an interest in the internationalization process and international entrepreneurship (Born Globals & INVs). In terms of methodology, I have a bias towards quantitative research, but within that I have used a variety of techniques ranging from structural equation modelling using survey data, to multiple regression, logistic regression and Cox proportional hazard applied to large scale panel data, and experimental designs using web-based surveys.

 

Elaine Farndale is Assistant Professor in Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the Pennsylvania State University, and is also affiliated to the Department of Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Elaine’s research includes: cross-national comparative human resource management (HRM); HRM in multinational corporations; HRM and firm performance; the roles of the HR department; HRM and employee engagement; and global talent management. She has published widely from her international collaborations in both the academic and practitioner press. Elaine completed her PhD at Cranfield School of Management (UK) in 2004, and worked previously as an HR specialist for several years.

 

 Eliane Choquette, originally from Canada, has been enrolled as a PhD student at the Department of Business Administration at Aarhus University in Denmark from October 2009 to January 2013. Her PhD research focused on firms’ export behavior and combined theories of International Business and International Trade, using Danish register data and applying micro-econometric techniques. She is still affiliated with Aarhus University as a Research Associate. Last December she has been awarded the SMG – Copenhagen Prize for the best paper written by a young researcher in International Business for her two submissions at the EIBA 2012 conference held in Brighton, UK.

 

Elizabeth C. Ravlin is on the faculty of the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research examines multicultural interactions, interpersonal and team processes, work values, and status influences in organizations. Her publications have appeared in such outlets as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. 

 

Eva Alfoldi is a Lecturer in International Business at Manchester Business School. She joined MBS in 2009 and holds a PhD in International Business and an MSc in International Finance from the University of Leeds, as well as a BSc in Economics from the University of Hull. Prior to embarking on her academic career, Dr Alfoldi worked as a financial analyst at J.P. Morgan in London. Her research interests include headquarters-subsidiary and inter-subsidiary relations in multinational enterprises; knowledge transfer; emerging market firms (with particular focus on China and Central and Eastern Europe); and qualitative methodologies in international business.

 

Flávia de Holanda Schmidt holds a PhD in Business Administration (2012), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where she also obtained her master’s degree. Since 2009, Flávia Schmidt is a researcher at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), a federal public foundation linked to the Strategic Affairs Secretariat of the Presidency of Brazil. At Ipea, Flávia develops her research at the Department of Sectoral Studies and Policies, Innovation, Regulation and Infrastructure. Her main areas of study are international business, industrial policy and business strategy.

 

Günter K. Stahl is Professor of International Management at WU Vienna and Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD. He received his PhD in business administration at Bayreuth University, Germany, and was a visiting professor at Duke University, Hitotsubashi University, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, among others. Günter’s research interests include corporate social responsibility, sustainability and ethics, and the implications for leadership and leadership development; the dynamics of trust within and between organizations; and the socio­cul­tural processes in teams, alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and how to manage people and culture effectively in those contexts.

 

Hae-Jung Hong is an assistant professor at Rouen Business School. Her research area includes roles of multicultural individuals (multiculturals) in organizations, multiculturalism, cross-cultural management, and international human resource management. Her paper on Roles of Multiculturals is forthcoming in Harvard Business Review in June (co-authoring with Yves DOZ).  Her research on Multiculturals’ Culture Work and its Influence on Their Work Performing was accepted by Organization Studies Summer workshop in May (later will be announced as a special issue, co-authoring Susan Schneider and Junko Takagi). And she has published a conceptual paper on Bicultural Competence and its Impact on Multicultural Team Effectiveness in International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management.

 

Haihua (Helen) Zhang is a Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University.  Her research focus is to explore culture’s impact upon business development. She is particularly interested in exploring Chinese cultural characteristics and their applications in both the academia   and industry sphere. Before commencing the studies Helen   has over 20 years experience in cross-cultural leadership and communication, management consulting, executive training and in management positions in Australia & the China region.

 

Hamid Mazloomi is assistant professor of Strategy and Innovation Management at ESC Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France. His research focuses on knowledge transfer and innovation through inter-firm relationships. He is a member of the Academy of Management (AOM) and the DRUID Society.

 

Hao Tan is a Senior Lecturer in International Business at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has previously published in Journal of World Business, Industrial and Corporate Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Industrial Ecology and Energy Policy, among others. His current research interest is in internationalization behaviors and performance of firms, with a focus on studying internationalization of emerging market multinationals from multiple perspectives including firm strategies, industrial dynamics, and geographic economics.

 

Hyun-Jung Lee (PhD, London School of Economics) is currently Lecturer in Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour, Department of Management, LSE, UK. Born in Seoul, South Korea, and trained as psychologist, Hyun-Jung’s research interests are on diversity and well-being, cultural intelligence, and, lately, cosmopolitanism. She has published articles in several academic journals and has taught many courses in psychology, organisational behaviour, organisational culture, and cross-cultural management for the executives and Master’s students over a decade in the UK and Asia. She has advised and trained various organisations including Samsung Electronics, LG Cables, Hyundai Motors, Standard Chartered Bank, and the Rolls-Royce amongst others.

 

Ieva Martinkenaite is a Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Strategy and Logistics at BI Norwegian Business School where she does research on knowledge transfer in MNCs, HQ-subsidiary relationships and post-acquisition integration processes in transition economies of the Baltic States (supervisor: Prof. Randi Lunnan). In 2011 she was a visiting fellow at Fox School of Business, Temple University (hosting by Prof. Ram Mudambi).  Ieva has published and presented her research in SMS, AOM and EIBA conferences among others. One of her co-authored papers has been nominated for the best PhD and Conference Paper Award in SMS 2010. Apart from her research activities Ieva has almost 10 years of teaching experience.

 

Igor Kalinic is Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). He earned his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Padova with focus on International Entrepreneurship. He has been a visiting scholar at King’s College London (UK), at Darden School of Business (University of Virginia, USA), and more recently at the University of Uppsala (Sweden), University of Pavia (Italy) and Turku School of Economics (Finland). Before moving to the Netherlands, he has been a researcher at the University of Padova. He has been involved on a number of EU funded research projects. He has published in International Business Review, Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, and is one of the authors of the book Problems of Recognition In Making Erasmus. His research interests are related to the SMEs’ internationalization with a specific focus on internationalization process, organizational impacts and entrepreneurial decision-making.

 

Ilya RP Cuypers is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He received his PhD in strategic management and international business from Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His current research focuses on the governance, dynamics and performance implications of acquisitions, alliances and joint ventures. He can be reached at ilyacuypers@smu.edu.sg.

 

 

Izzet Sidki Darendeli holds a BA in Management and MSc in International Affairs and Public Policy Management from Bilkent University, Turkey. He is currently a PhD Candidate at Temple University Fox School of Business Strategic Management Department. Before joining the PhD program at Temple, he worked for TTNET/Turk Telekom Turkey as Project Specialist and Turkish Ministry of Transportation as Assistant European Union Expert. His research interests are; Knowledge Transfer, and Governance with a focus on Service Industry, Internationalization Process of Emerging Country Multinationals, MNE Political Strategies and Entrepreneurship.

 

Jane E. Salk is an Associate Professor of Strategy and International Business at the University of Texas at Dallas.  Last year she was a Visiting Scholar at MIT, where here interest in teams and the arts intersected to focus learning and leveraging of creativity in large, diverse Animation and Video Game teams.  She has published widely on Learning and on Joint Venture Teams in Publications including the Journal of International Business Studies, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Organization Science   as well as JIBS.

 

Jaeyong Song received his Ph.D. at the Wharton School. Before joining Seoul National University (SNU), he was a professor at Columbia and Yonsei. He serves as vice president of Korea Academy Society of Business Administration (KASBA) and president of Association of Korean Management Scholars. He won best dissertation Awards from Academy of Management and European International Business Association.  He won Chazen Teaching Innovation Award at Columbia Business School, SNU Teaching Award, and the best performing professor award from Yonsei University. He received the best paper awards from KASBA, Korean Academy of Management, and Korean Academy of International business. His papers were published in Management Science, Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, and Research Policy. He serves as an editorial board member of Journal of International Business Studies, Long Range Planning, and Global Strategy Journal.

 

Jean-Claude Cosset is a professor of international finance and Director of the Research Office at HEC Montréal. He attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Finance. His main research and teaching interests are international financial management and international financial markets. His current research focuses on the performance and the corporate governance of newly privatized firms and the decision of firms to cross-list. His articles have appeared in leading scientific reviews in accounting, economics, finance and international business such as the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of International Business Studies. Jean-Claude Cosset has been on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of International Business Studies, the scientific review of the Academy of International Business for many years (1987-2002; 2005-2007; 2009-2013).

 

Jean-François Hennart is a consultant to the University of Pavia, Professor in Strategy and International Business at Queen’s University Management School, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University, and Extramural Scholar at Tilburg University Center. His research focuses on the comparative study of international economic institutions such as multinational firms and their contractual alternatives, joint ventures and alliances, and modes of foreign market entry. His Theory of Multinational Enterprise pioneered the application of transaction cost theory to international business. He is consulting editor for JIBS and Fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the European International Business Academy. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Vaasa. His highly cited work has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, the Strategic Management Journal, the Global Strategy Journal, Management International Review, Management Science, Organization Science, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and the Journal of Retailing, among others.

 

Jean J. Boddewyn is Emeritus Professor of Marketing and International Business in the Zicklin School of Business of Baruch College, City University of New York, where he taught from 1973 to 2006 after teaching at New York University (1964-1973) and the University of Portland, OR (1957-1964). He holds a Commercial Engineer degree from the University of Louvain (Belgium), a MBA from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Washington (Seattle). His current research interests center on reciprocity as a mode of entry, international business political behavior, public affairs, the regulation and self-regulation of advertising around the world, international business strategy and MNE theory.

 

 John Cantwell is Professor of International Business at Rutgers University, Newark, USA. He was previously Professor of International Economics at the University of Reading, UK. His research focuses on technological innovation and multinational corporations. He has been Program Chair of the Academy of International Business (AIB), President of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), and he is an elected AIB Fellow and EIBA Fellow. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies. He has so far published 12 books, over 65 articles in refereed academic journals, and over 80 chapters in edited collections.

 

 Jörg Zimmermann holds a Ph.D. degree in strategy, international management and entrepreneurship. Currently, he is working for the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. His research work focuses on issues like decision making, knowledge gathering and deployment, innovation and entrepreneurship in an international context. Hence, he also collected some practical experience while working as a management consultant for ventures in China, South Africa and Germany.

 

Josh Bendickson is a PhD Candidate at Louisiana State University in the Rucks Department of Management. With diverse research interests including strategy, IB and entrepreneurship, Josh has presented manuscripts at various conferences over the past few years including but not limited to AIB, AOM, SMA, and USASBE. The two manuscripts he will be presenting at AIB 2013 include “Implications of Managerial Personality, Trust and Procedural Justice Perceptions on International Interorganizational Cooperation” and “The Location Choice of Cross-border Acquisitions by Emerging Market Multinationals.” In addition to these pursuits, Josh was recently published in the Journal of Management History.

 

Katrin Muehlfeld received her Ph.D. from the University of Muenster, Germany. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University’s School of Economics, the Netherlands and has also been affiliated previously with the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), Tilburg University and University of Groningen (both: the Netherlands), and the University of Antwerpen (Belgium). Her current research interests include behavioral decision-making and learning (especially cognitive, affective, biobehavioral, and personality influences; team processes; and the influence of formal and informal institutions such as culture and language); organization theory and design (especially organizational learning and diversity); and firm strategy (especially strategic change, M&As, and the impact of international institutional environments). Her work has been published among others in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Media Economics, and Managerial and Decision Economics.  

 

Ke Rong is a lecturer in strategy at the business school of Bournemouth University. Ke got the PhD degree from University of Cambridge and obtained Bachelor degree in Tsinghua University. His research interests include business ecosystems, frugal innovation, and strategic emerging industries and emerging economies.

 

 

Kendall Roth is Senior Associate Dean for International Programs and Partnerships at the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina.  He holds the J. Willis Cantey Chair of International Business and Economics and is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He received his Ph.D. in International Business from the University of South Carolina in 1986 and has been on the faculty of Moore School since that time. He teaches global strategic management at the master’s level and doctoral seminars in international business theory, international management, and cultural frameworks and methods. He has received the Alfred G. Smith Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Roth’s current research focuses on institutional and sociocultural approaches to understanding organization practices and routines within multinational enterprises. His interests include cultural frameworks from a methodological perspective, and applied to understanding behaviors within the multinational context.  Dr. Roth’s research has been published in numerous academic journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal.  He is a member of the Board of Senior Consulting Editors for Journal of International Business Studies and also serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal and Global Strategy Journal. He has been involved in the Academy of Management, serving in roles such as a member of the Research Committee in the International Management Division, and chairing the AMJ Best Paper Committee. He has also been active in the Academy of International Business, as the chair of the Richard Farmer Dissertation Award Committee and as a member of the AIB Best Paper Award Committee.  

 

Kristin Brandl is a PhD fellow at the Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School. She was visiting researcher at the Department of Strategic Management, Fox School of Business/Temple University in 2012. Her PhD research focuses on how knowledge-intensive and value-adding services can effectively be offshored. Furthermore, she is interested in the catch-up process of emerging market firms. She held various research and teaching positions at Warwick Business School, Johannes Kepler University Linz, and Copenhagen Business School and has presented her work at several conferences, such as the AIB and AOM annual meetings in 2012.

 

Lilian Ng is the Hans G. Storr Professor of International Finance at the Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Ng taught at several distinguished universities, including the University of Texas-Austin, M.I.T., University of Southern California, and University of California-Irvine. She is the Co-Editor of the Review of Development Finance, Associate Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, and is also on the Editorial Review Board of Journal of International Business Studies. Her research interests include empirical asset pricing and international financial markets. She has published extensively in leading financial, economic, and international journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, and Management Science. Her research has also been featured in the practitioner and popular press, namely CFA Digest, the New York Times, and the Straits Times and Business Times (Singapore).

 

Lin Yuan is an Assistant Professor of Management at University of Macau. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Strategy and Policy from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie at the intersection of strategy and international business, including the process and the determinants of internationalization strategy of MNCs and entrepreneurial firms. Her current lines of research focused on interdisciplinary studies. At present, she is working on the impact of firm’s social identity and financial market timing in the process of internationalization.

 

Mariko Sakakibara is Professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).  Professor Sakakibara received her Ph.D. in Business Economics and MBA at Harvard University.  She received her Master of Engineering from the University of Tokyo, and Bachelor of Engineering from Kyoto University.  She joined the UCLA faculty in 1994. Professor Sakakibara focuses her research on alliances, innovation, entrepreneurship, and multinational corporate strategy. Her research has been published in leading journals in economics and management including the American Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.  Her book entitled Can Japan Compete?, co-authored with Michael E. Porter and Hirotaka Takeuchi (Macmillan, 2000), was selected as one of the “Books of the Year” in 2000 by The Economist.  She is Area Editor of JIBS.

 

Mark F. Peterson is Professor of International Management at Florida Atlantic University and holds the Hofstede Chair in Cultural Diversity at Maastricht University. His principal interests are in questions of how culture and international relations affect the way organizations should be managed. He has held Fulbright Chairs in Japan (Osaka University, 1986) and Canada (MacMaster University, 2008). He has held the Gen. John R. Galvin Chair at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2003). He has published over 100 articles and chapters as well as several books. The articles have appeared in major management and international management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, and Organization Science.

 

Mary Yoko Brannen, Ph.D. is the Jarislowsky East Asia (Japan) Chair of Cross-Cultural Management at the University of Victoria Gustavson School of Business and Visiting Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. She received her M.B.A. with emphasis in International Business and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior with a minor in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, the Haas Business School at the University of California at Berkeley, Smith College, and Stanford University in the United States; Keio Business School in Tokyo, Japan, and Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Professor Brannen’s expertise in multinational affairs is evident in her research, consulting, teaching, and personal background. Born and raised in Japan, having studied in France and Spain, and having worked as a cross-cultural consultant for over 25 years to various Fortune 100 companies, she brings a multi-faceted, deep knowledge of today’s complex cultural business environment.   

 

Mattia Bianchi is a Docent (untenured associate professor) at the Department of Management & Organization of the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, where I am currently in a tenure track. I hold a Ph.D. in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where I also worked as lecturer in Business Administration. I also have an International Diploma in Management from Imperial College London, UK. During my studies I have visited different universities including University of Calgary, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, with which I still collaborate as Affiliated External Professor. My main research areas include open innovation, technology licensing and internationalization of R&D. The outcomes of this research have been published, among the others, in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Technovation. In my free time, I love skiing and playing tennis, reading, watching movies and good food! www.mattiabianchi.com

 

Mirko Benischke is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Auckland. He has received his Master in international business from the University of Auckland and his Diploma in Business Administration from the Cooperative State University Lörrach, Germany. His research interests include global strategy, neoinstitutional theory and agency theory. In particular, he is interested in the effect of the institutional environment on MNC behavior. He has participated and presented at various international conferences including the Academy of International Business Annual Conference in Washington, DC and the Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference in Prague.

 

Mona Makhija's research stresses the role of knowledge in international business.  Her work shows how institutional variations across national contexts create differing demands for knowledge, in turn affecting firm organization, strategies, and ultimately, managerial behavior.  This approach, which she has advanced with theoretical and empirical work, stresses the connection between context and knowledge flows.  She has drawn on this approach to study institutional environments, political risk, the structure and evolution of global industries, and knowledge management within the multinational firm.  Much of her work utilizes primary data on managers, teams and firms from around the world, including Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia.  Her work has appeared in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Advances in International Management. Professor Makhija is also an area editor for Journal of International Business Studies.

 

Niccolò Pisani holds a Ph.D. in Management from IESE Business School and an MSc in Economics and Management from Pompeu Fabra University. He is currently a postdoctoral research associate at IESE Business School, working together with Joan Enric Ricart and Pankaj Ghemawat on research projects in the international management domain. Starting from September 2013, he will be Assistant Professor of International Management at the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. His research is mainly focused on the international strategies of multinational companies, and part of his investigation is dedicated to the recent phenomenon of business process offshoring and the related global relocation of service and higher-skilled activities. He has presented his works in leading international conferences and published his research in the Journal of Management as well as in a book that he coauthored, edited by BBVA Foundation.

 

Olivier Bertrand is an associate professor of strategy at SKEMA Business School and the academic director of the SKEMA PhD program in management. His research interests center on Mergers and Acquisitions, Multinationals, International Trade, Emerging Countries (in particular Russia) or for instance Innovation. His articles are published in academic journals in management (Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal) and economics (such as the Canadian Journal of Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Journal of Comparative Economics or Journal of Economics and Management Strategy). He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Prior to his position at SKEMA business school, he was an assistant professor at the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole (Toulouse School of Economics) from 2005 to 2008. He worked at the Graduate School of Management (GSOM) of St Petersburg University (Russia) from 2008 to 2011. He directed the PhD program over the period 2009-2011.

 

Orhun Guldiken is a Ph.D. student in strategic management and international business at Old Dominion University. His research interests include corporate governance, cross-national perspectives on corruption, and organizational change. He is a member of Academy of International Business, Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society where he presented his academic work. He holds an MBA in Finance from Ball State University and B.A. in Business Administration from Istanbul University in Turkey.

 

 

Paula Caligiuri is the D’Amore-McKim Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA (pcaligiuri@gmail.com), where she researches and teaches in the area cultural agility and global leadership development.  She works extensively with leading organizations across a wide range of industries, including private sector, military, and non-profit organizations. She has written several articles and books including, Cultural Agility:  Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals (2012).  She is the current HR Area Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies, is a research fellow with the E&Y Institute for Emerging Market Studies and is a frequent expert guest on CNN and CNN International covering career and management-related topics.  She holds a Ph.D. from Penn State University in industrial and organizational psychology.

 

Petra Christmann is Associate Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School.  Prior to joining Rutgers in 2004 she was on the faculty of the Darden School at the University of Virginia for seven years.  She received a Ph.D. in with a dual major in Strategy and International Business from the Anderson School at UCLA, a graduate degree in International Economic Policy Research from the Kiel Institute of Works Economics in Kiel, Germany and a Diplom-Kaufmann  (Business) degree from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany.  Petra teaches courses in business strategy, international management, and international political economy for undergraduate, graduate, and executive audiences.  Petra has also acted as dissertation committee chair and dissertation committee member for several doctoral students at the Darden School and at Rutgers University.  Petra is a leading researcher in the area of firms’ environmental and sustainability strategies in a global context. She has looked at the determinants of firm self-regulation of environmental conduct, the efficacy of international certifiable standards such as ISO 14001 as tools for firm self-regulation, and the link between responsible environmental strategies and firm performance. Petra’s research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, and Business Ethics Quarterly as well as in practitioner journals such as the Academy of Management Executive. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies, and is currently the Organizer of the Journal of International Business Studies Paper Development Workshops.  She has served on the Teaching Committee for the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management and on the Program Committee for the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division at the Academy of Management. 

 

Quyen T.K. Nguyen is a Lecturer in International Business and Strategy at Henley Business School, the University of Reading, the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on multinational subsidiary strategy and subsidiary performance, parent-subsidiary relationship in financial management and management accounting, multinational subsidiary and development. Her Ph.D thesis “British multinationals in South East Asia: Strategy, subsidiaries and performance” was awarded the Michael Z. Brooke Prize for Best Doctoral Paper at the 39th Academy of International Business, The United Kingdom and Ireland Chapter Annual Conference (Liverpool, 2012). Her Ph.D thesis is among the four finalists for the Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award Presentation (Istanbul, 2013). She has published in British Journal of Management, Management International Review (MIR), Multinational Business Review (MBR) and edited volume. Before joining academia, she had 13-year professional and managerial experience in accounting, finance and business administration. She worked for German, New Zealand and the United States multinational subsidiaries in South East Asia and in Canada.

 

Raina M. Rutti, Ph.D. joined Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco in January 2013 to expand her international experiences and seek international venues for research in the areas of cultural intelligence, leadership, diversity issues, interpersonal interactions, and entrepreneurship. Her most recent research explores cultural intelligence and leadership in the context of Moroccan culture, expanding her previous works. As Assistant Professor of Management, she teaches Principles of Management and Entrepreneurship. Her initiatives in the teaching and learning arena stress the inclusion of current research and experiential learning in the classroom. Raina obtained her Ph.D emphasizing Organizational Behavior from the University of South Carolina.

 

Rapeeporn Rungsithong is currently a third-year PhD student at the Strategic International Management Group, School of Management, University of Bath. Her PhD research aims to apply relational view and social capital theory to international strategic alliance of MNEs subsidiaries in an emerging economy. She also reviewed manuscripts for AIB conference 2011, British Academy Management conference 2012, Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM) and Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) under the supervisory of Prof. Klaus E. Meyer, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and Dr. Anthony S. Roath, School of Management, University of Bath.

 

Rebecca Piekkari is Professor of International Business at the Aalto University, School of Business (formerly Helsinki School of Economics) in Finland. She has published on qualitative research methods, particularly on the use of case studies in international business, in the Journal of International Business Studies, International Journal of Management Reviews, and Organizational Research Methods. Her most recent book entitled ‘Rethinking the Case Study in International Business and Management Research’ was co-edited with Catherine Welch and published by Edward Elgar in May 2011. She is currently guest-editing a special issue for the Journal of International Business Studies on the role of language in international business research together with Mary Yoko Brannen and Susanne Tietze.

 

Sakari Sipola is a Doctoral Candidate at Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Finland. He is currently finalizing PhD research that focuses on understanding high-growth entrepreneurship from a startup ecosystem perspective. In the research Sipola compares Finland to Israel and Silicon Valley and studies reasons behind the lack of high-growth firms in Finland. His teaching includes the Business Design course offered in the MBA program that is chosen best by the students on several years.

 

Sandro Cabral is a tenured Associate Professor of Operations and Strategy at the School of Management at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. Sandro is interested in understanding the dynamics of public and private relationships with a special attention to the organization of public services. He is particularly attracted in the study of the boundaries of public and private organizations and his research is placed somewhere between Strategic Management and Public Administration fields. His research has appeared in journals such as Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Public Choice and Long Range Planning. He wants to dialogue with an International Business crowd and this why he applied for this workshop. Next Fall Sandro will have a Fulbright Visiting Professor position at NYU-Wagner.

 

Shantala Samant began her doctoral education at the Department of Management, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech in Fall 2011. Her primary research interest is in the area of business strategy with a focus on international strategy. The phenomena she is interested in examining includes learning and innovation, technology management, and internationalization in the context of emerging economies. Shantala has taught international business and international finance courses at the undergraduate level. She is a member of the Academy of International Business and the Academy of Management.

 

Shih-Fen Chen is the William Shurniak Professor in International Business at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. He earned his BBA from National Cheng Kung University, MBA from Michigan State University, and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chen teaches Global Strategy at Ivey and conducts case teaching/writing workshops for Ivey’s Asian Management Institute. Prior to joining Ivey, he was on the faculty of Brandeis University and Kansas State University, and taught executive training courses in the US and Asia. He held several executive positions in business before returning to school to pursue a PhD. His research interests cover foreign investment, entry mode choice, global banding, and offshore outsourcing. He has published five articles in the Journal of International Business Studies (four of them sole-authored). His other work has also been published in the Strategic Management Journal, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Retailing, and Journal of Business Research.

 

Sibin Wu is an Associate Professor of management at the University of Texas-Pan American. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Business Administration. His current research interests include strategic decision making, international entrepreneurship, and behaviors of nascent entrepreneurs. He has presented his research at several national and international prestigious conferences, including the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business conferences. His works have appeared on journals such as the Academy of Management Journal and Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.

 

Sid Gray is Professor of International Business at the University of Sydney. His research interests include internationalization processes and business performance, the effectiveness of cross-cultural and expatriate management, the global convergence of accounting standards, and international corporate governance and transparency. He is the author/co-author of more than 200 publications including papers in leading journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Relations, and Journal of Accounting Research.  Sid was formerly a professor at the Universities of Glasgow, Warwick, and New South Wales and has also been a visiting professor at many schools including the University of Amsterdam, Stockholm School of Economics, National University of Singapore, University of Malaya, Kwansei Gakuin University and University of Hawaii.  Sid is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

 

Sorin Krammer is an Assistant Professor in International Economics and Business at Groningen University. Following his Ph.D. in Economics (2009) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate at MIT Sloan and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford SIEPR. His research focuses on the determinants and deterrents of innovation across firms, industries and nations, blending in elements from both management and economics. He has previously published in journals such as Research Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Journal of International Trade and Economic Development.

 

Sungjin Hong is a lecturer (assistant professor) in management at Queen’s University Belfast. He joined Queen’s University Management School after he earned Ph.D. in international management studies (Major: strategic management) from the University of Texas at Dallas. Before pursuing academic career, he worked in telecommunications industry over five years in South Korea. He has published in international refereed journals including Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Journal of World Business. He has also served as an ad-hoc reviewer for various management journals such as Journal of Management Studies. His research interests include organizational learning from failure experiences, nonmarket strategies in transition economies and business groups in emerging economies.

 

Susan Feinberg is currently an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business at Temple University. She has published widely in economics journals, management journals and IB journals.  She recently served as Program Chair for the 2012 Academy of International Business Meetings in Washington, DC and is an active member of the Academy of Management.  Susan’s research focuses on the activities of Multinational Corporations (MNCs), in particular, trade within MNCs and the location of various activities within global firms.  She is also interested in the strategies of politically connected firms and institutional change.

 

Tailan Chi is at present a Professor at the University of Kansas, and also served as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a B.E. from the University of International Business & Economics, Beijing, China, an M.B.A. from University of San Francisco, and an M.A. in economics and a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Washington. He is currently a Consulting Editor at the JIBS, and serves on the editorial boards of SMJ and JWB. His research primarily investigates the organizational modes that firms use to gain access to complementary resources, from such efficiency-based perspectives as the new institutional economics, resource-based view and real option theory. He has published in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science and Strategic Management Journal.

 

Tao Bai is a PhD candidate at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. His current research interests include international strategic intent of firms, entry mode choice, and location choice, with a particular focus on the Chinese firms’ outward FDI. He will be a post-doc research fellow at University of Hong Kong after graduation in August 2013. He can be reached at baitao2010@gmail.com

 

Tatiana Lukoianova (M.A., Ph.D.) has multidisciplinary research interests at the intersection of International Business and International Relations focusing on the issues of political risks and the role of international governmental institutions. The implications of interstate political relations for international business are central to her research. Specifically, she seeks to identify conditions under which international politics influences strategies and performance of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and facilitates foreign direct investment (FDI). Her work has appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies and the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2013 Academy of Management Meeting. She earned her M.A. degree in Economics and Ph.D. in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University.

 

Tian Wei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration. She joined the faculty of the School of Management, Fudan University in 2012, just after earning her Ph.D. in Management (2011) from University of Cambridge. Her degrees also include an M.S. (2007) in Control Science and Engineering and a B.S. (Honors, 2005) in Management Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University. Her research areas cover mergers and acquisitions, international business, and technology management. She has three papers under review at 1st or 2nd review at Journal of International Management, Long Range Planning, Asia Pacific Journal of Management and two other journal papers in an advanced stage of preparation.

 

Timothy Devinney (BSc CMU; MA, MBA, PhD Chicago) is Professor of Strategy at UTS. He has held positions at the Chicago, Vanderbilt, UCLA and Australian Graduate School of Management and been a visitor at many other universities. He has published 10 books and more than 90 articles in leading journals including Management Science, The Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science and the Strategic Management Journal.  He is a fellow of the AIB, ANZAM, and the AIM (UK) and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Awardee and Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow.  He is Past-Chair of the Int Mgt Division of the AOM and Chair of the Global Strategy IG of the Strategic Management Society.  He is currently on the editorial board of over 12 of the leading journals, Director of the SSRN international management network, and Co-Editor of AOM Perspectives and Advances in International Management (Emerald).

 

Ulf Andersson is Professor of Strategy and International Management at the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School, Professor II at BI Norwegian Business School, and Editor of Journal of International Business Studies.  He was Professor of International Business at Uppsala University (2004 – 2008), where he also earned his Doctoral degree (1997).  His research focuses on subsidiary development, knowledge governance and transfer, network theory, strategy and management of the MNC. Ulf’s research is published in, among others, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Management International Review and Organization Studies.

 

Victor Z. Chen is Assistant Professor of International Management at The Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches global business at both undergraduate and MBA levels. He studies the co-evolution of corporate strategy and institutions, with an ongoing track toward a generic co-evolutionary theory of the social-ecological system. He is also Global Coordinator of Emerging Market Global Players (EMGP) project, a global research network at the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, a joint center of Columbia Law School and The Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is a Canadian citizen.

 

 Vladislav Maksimov is currently a second year doctoral student in International Business and Strategic Management at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. He is a native of Bulgaria, where he earned a Bachelor in Business Administration from Sofia University. He obtained an MBA degree from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and later went on to pursue a doctoral degree. His research focuses on emerging markets and the wealth of new insights that come from research in these contexts. He is working on multiple projects related to emerging market multinationals, strategies of emerging market firms, competition, cooperation, and corporate social responsibility.

 

Wei He is currently an Assistant Professor in Management and Strategy at Purdue University North Central, Indiana. He came to PNC in Fall 2012, after earning his Ph.D. in Business Administration at Florida International University. Before coming to the US, he received his first master degree in Hospitality Management from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, and completed his second master degree in Information Systems at University of Leeds, UK. Prior to joining FIU, he worked in two international hotel companies in the UK and China respectively. As a faculty member at PNC, Dr. He teaches courses on strategic management and business analytics at both undergraduate and graduate level in the College of Business. He is currently engages in research on topics in relation to strategic inter-firm relationship management, internationalization of emerging multinationals, and global knowledge management for service firms.

 

William Newburry is an Associate Professor and the SunTrust Bank Professor at Florida International University. His research interests focus on how multinational corporations manage and relate to both internal and external local stakeholders. He has published 25+ articles in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies (JMS), Management International Review, and the Journal of International Management, among others. He currently serves on the editorial boards of JIBS, JMS, the Global Strategy Journal and Thunderbird International Business Review. Bill is currently President/Chapter Chair of the Academy of International Business Latin America Chapter. He previously served as Global Strategy Interest Group Chair for the Strategic Management Society. Before joining FIU, Dr. Newburry was an Assistant Professor at Rutgers Business School. He earned his Ph.D. in 2000 from New York University’s Stern School of Business, with co-majors in international business and management.

 

Zhenzhen Xie is a PhD candidate in the Department of Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include the cross-border merg­ers and acquisitions conducted by multinational corporations from emerging economies, the research and development strategies of multinational corporations in emerging economies, the impact of internationalization on the innovativeness of indigenous firms, corporate governance, and the expatriate strategy of multi­national corporations. Her research has appeared in European Management Review.

 

Ziliang Deng (PhD Nottingham, 2009) is an Assistant Professor of International Business at Renmin University of China and an Associate at the Centre for Comparative and International Business Research (CIBER), University of Manchester. His research interests mainly include international new ventures, institutional environment, exporter survival, knowledge management in IB. His recent papers appear in journals including International Business Review, Thunderbird International Business Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Asian Business & Management, Journal of Policy Modeling, and Journal of International Trade & Economic Development. He published a monograph with Routledge titled “Foreign Direct Investment in China: Spillover Effects on Domestic Enterprises” in 2011.

Anne Hoekman is Managing Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, responsible for managing the journal’s peer review and publication processes, along with its social media platform. She also manages the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and previously was editorial assistant for a peer-reviewed English studies journal and for an academic book publisher. She has a degree in English and art history and is involved with the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors as a resources committee member.

 

Pallavi Shukla is Editorial Assistant for the Journal of International Business Studies, and a PhD Candidate in the Department of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School in Newark, New Jersey. Her current research examines the contribution of migrant workers on the foreign direct investment patterns of multinational companies. She is also interested in studying the role of skilled foreign-born workers in influencing the knowledge sourcing strategies of multinational firms. Before joining the PhD program at Rutgers University, Pallavi has worked in the US financial services industry for over a decade.