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2015 JIBS Paper Development Workshop

The Twelfth Annual Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Paper Development Workshop (PDW) will be held at the Leela Palace Bangalore in Bengaluru, India from 9:00am to 3:00pm on Saturday, June 27, 2015, 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 Alexandra Vo 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 the 2015 JIBS PDW participants is given below. For more information about the 2015 JIBS 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/2015/ .

 

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Ali Ahi is a PhD candidate in the field of International Business at the School of Business and Management at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. His research concerns post-entry behavior of the firm in both advanced and emerging economies. Specifically, his research aims to understand the decision-making process behind entry mode change and combinations, with regard to the existing uncertainties in foreign markets. Currently, he is a visiting researcher at Manchester Business School. Parts of his work were presented at international conferences such as AIB-UKI, EIBA, and Mcgill and currently are under review at journals such as JWB.

 

João Albino Pimentel is a Ph.D. candidate in Strategy at HEC Paris and a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota. He is also a graduate of Nord-IB. His research revolves around non-market and international strategies. In his dissertation he examines how firm-specific and home-country-specific political resources influence firms' international strategy decisions such as location of international investments, resource commitment in foreign countries and global innovation. His work was awarded as the best COST-DTT Doctoral Proposal at the 2013 EIBA Conference in Bremen. He was also awarded the SMS SRF Doctoral Research Fund in 2014.

 

Erkko Autio is Chair in Technology Venturing and Director of the Doctoral Programme at Imperial College Business School, London. Previously, he was professor at Helsinki University of Technology (currently Aalto University); HEC Lausanne; and Visiting Professor at CERN. He was a founding coordination team member of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor GEM initiative and served in the board of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association. He is currently developing new approaches to profiling entrepreneurial ecosystems through the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index GEDI. His research focuses on high-growth entrepreneurship, new venture inter-national¬i¬sation, technology-based venturing, business model innovation, technology strategy and ecosystem strategies. His research has been published in, e.g., the Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Review; Strategic Management Journal; Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of International Business Studies; Strategic Organization, Research Policy; McKinsey Quarterly; Journal of Management Studies; Journal of Business Venturing; Small Business Economics, among others.

 

Guilherme Azevedo is Assistant Professor and Head of the Consulting Major at Audencia Nantes, in France. He holds a PhD in Strategy and Organization from McGill University and, during his postdoctoral studies, he completed visiting terms at MIT Sloan, HEC Montréal, and University of Cape Town. His research gravitates around the concepts of globalization and culture and includes studies on organizational cultures, anthropological perspectives of globalization, organizational ethnography, hybridization of cultures, social innovation, and business development in emerging economies. He has taught at undergraduate, MSc, and MBA programs in Brazil, Canada, and France.

 

Pragya Bhawsar is a Research Scholar with National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India. She is an Instrumentation Engineer and holds MBA in International Business. Her research interest includes Competitiveness, Industrial Clusters and Modes of Foreign Entry. Prior to registering for Doctoral Study, Pragya has worked as lecturer with Management Institutes. She has also served as an Academic Associate with Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She has published her research work with Sage, Emerald and others.

 

Allan Bird (Ph.D., University of Oregon) is the Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. He is also director of the school’s Global Leadership Initiative. He has authored, co-authored or edited nine books, 30 book chapters and 55 journal articles. His most recent book (with M.E. Mendenhall, J.S. Osland, G.R. Oddou, M.L. Maznevski, M. Stevens and G. Stahl) was Global Leadership: Research, Practice and Development (2nd Edition). It was a finalist for the University of San Diego’s Leadership Book of the Year Award and received the Award of Merit for Research Scholarship. His research interests focus on global leadership and effective management in intercultural contexts, with a particular emphasis on assessment and development. He is a US citizen and has lived and worked outside the US for more than 8 years, including in Japan, Thailand and Finland.

 

Moritz Botts is a PhD student in his final year at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, where he also works as a research assistant at the Department of International Management. His current research field is the conceptualization and measurement of psychic distance and institutional distance, with a focus on antecedents of subjective distance. He experiments with innovative teaching methods and is an intercultural trainer. Moritz has presented his work at past AIB, EIBA, and EURAM conferences. He has a Diplom (MA equivalent) in economics and management from Leibniz University Hanover, Germany.

 

Mary Yoko Brannen is the Jarislowsky East Asia (Japan) Chair of Cross-Cultural Management, Professor of International Business, and Research Director at the University of Victoria Gustavson School of Business. She is also JIBS Deputy Editor. Her 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. As a researcher, she is internationally recognized as an expert in ethnomethodology and qualitative studies of complex cultural organizational phenomena. Professor Brannen’s current research projects include research on knowledge sharing across distance and differentiated contexts, language strategies for global organizations, and understanding biculturals and people of mixed cultural origins as the new workplace demographic.

 

Tailan Chi is a Professor and Carl A. Scupin Faculty Fellow at University of Kansas Business School. His research conducts economic analysis under the constraints of information imperfections and potential cognitive biases and applies this approach to the study of international business. His current projects examine, inter alia, joint ventures as dynamic games under uncertainty, drivers of acquisitions by emerging economy firms in developed economies, and co-evolution of institutional reform and corporate governance in emerging economies. His research has been published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, and Global Strategy Journal. He has recently co-authored a major textbook, International Business (3rd ed., Routledge), with Oded Shenkar and Yadong Luo. He is a Consulting Editor at Journal of International Business Studies and serves on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals, including Strategic Management Journal and Journal of World Business.

 

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra is a Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University. He studies the internationalization of companies, with a special interest in emerging market multinationals. He also analyzes governance issues, with a special interest in corruption in international business. His seventy published research papers appear in leading academic journals, such as Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, and Strategic Management Journal, and in edited books. He coedited Understanding Multinationals from Emerging Markets. He is the reviewing editor of Journal of International Business Studies and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Management Division at the Academy of Management. He was awarded a Ph.D. from MIT and another from the University of Salamanca.

 

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 also serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of International Business Studies.

 

Harsh Dadhich is a doctoral candidate at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. His research investigates consumers' classification of foreign brands' origins and its subsequent effects on brand evaluations. In a separate study, he has examined the impact of projecting a local brand as a foreign brand on consumers’ perceptions towards the brand. He is also interested in research on heuristics and biases. His work has been presented at international and national conferences including Marketing Science Conference and Global Marketing Conference. He has also participated in several international doctoral colloquiums.

 

Gaaitzen de Vries is assistant professor at the University of Groningen. He received his PhD from the same university. He participates in various international programmes funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Department for International Development (DFID), and the European Commission in the areas of production fragmentation and structural change. He has been a consultant and advisor for various organisations including the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, the OECD, the Japanese Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry, the Overseas Development Institute and the ING. His research appeared in such journals as the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Economic Policy, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Regional Science.

 

Timothy Devinney (BSc CMU; MA, MBA, PhD Chicago) is Professor and University Leadership Chair at Leeds University Business School. 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 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, AIM (UK), an Alexander von Humboldt ReMy 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).

 

Douglas Dow's 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.

 

Matej Drev is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, where his research focuses on economics, policy, and management of technological innovation. He joined Georgia Tech after completing his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in 2013, where he was affiliated with the Heinz College and the interdisciplinary Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change research group. His dissertation work on innovation, firm performance, and cross-border economic activity received the William W. Cooper Award for Best Dissertation in Management at Carnegie Mellon University, while his research and teaching accomplishments have recently earned him the Faculty of the Year Award at Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy. Dr. Drev’s research has been published in leading scholarly journals, such as The Review of Economics and Statistics, and presented at conferences and invited seminars in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

 

Rian Drogendijk is an associate professor of International Business at the Department of Global Economics and Management at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and an associated researcher at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, in Sweden. Her research interests include the internationalization of (multinational) companies, knowledge transfer and communication in multinationals, and concepts and measurements of culture and distance in an international perspective. She has published in leading journals in the field of International Business including the Journal of International Business Studies, International Business Review and Management International Review. Rian is a member of the JIBS editorial review board and has been President of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), organizing its annual conference in Uppsala in 2014.

 

Jesper Edman is an Assistant Professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. His research primarily focuses on how multinational enterprise respond to conflicting institutional pressures of different country environments. Employing insights from organizational institutionalism and strategy, Edman’s previous work has focused on how MNE subsidiaries’ foreignness generates both advantages and liabilities in host country institutional settings. Edman’s work has appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of Management Studies, among others. Edman received his Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2009. He currently serves on the JIBS Editorial Review Board.

 

Majid Eghbali-Zarch is an assistant professor at Memorial University in Canada. His research interest spans broadly across international business and strategy. In particular, he studies the interaction between locations-bound institutions and the evolution and dynamics of multinational enterprise (MNE). Some related phenomena include distance and country borders, as well as national, subnational, and supranational units of analysis. Investigating repetitive and/or routinized strategic decisions of MNEs is his other area of interest. Majid is also interested in having interaction with practitioners and managers, teaching through case method and writing educational cases.

 

Carolyn P. Egri is the William J.A. Rowe EMBA Alumni Professor, and professor of management and organization studies at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University. Dr. Egri has published extensively on international management, cross-cultural values and ethics, and corporate environmental and social responsibility. Her research has been published in top tier journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. Dr. Egri is a former Associate Editor, Essays, Dialogues, and Interviews for Academy of Management Learning & Education, has co-edited four journal special issues, and currently serves on seven editorial boards including the Journal of International Business Studies. She has been chair of the Academy of Management's Organizations and the Natural Environment interest group, a director of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, and chair of adjudication committees for t he Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

 

Di Fan (Ph.D Monash, CPA) is a senior lecturer in strategy and process management in the Department of Management in the Deakin Business School at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. His current research interest includes, International Business Strategies, MNEs from emerging markets and Chinese Management. His publications appear in journals, such as Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Safety Research and Asia-Pacific Business Review etc.

 

 

Susan Feinberg’s academic research focuses on how changes in countries’ economic and policy environments affect the location and operating decisions of firms. Much of her research has examined the intra-firm trade of U.S. multinational firms and recently, politically connected firms. Feinberg’s research has been published in diverse journals including the Academy of Management Journal, American Economic Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Canadian Journal of Economics and Journal of Industrial Economics. She has presented her work at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the International Trade Commission, the United States Department of Commerce, the United States Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Institute for International Economics, and the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. Susan is a past VP-Admin of the AIB and was the Program Chair of the 2012 AIB meetings in Washington, D.C. Prior to earning her PhD at the University of Minnesota, she worked in advertising in France for several years.

 

Johann Fortwengel is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Management at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), where he also obtained his PhD in 2014. His research is comparative in nature and looks at practice transfer as international business phenomenon. Johann holds a Double Master’s degree from the University of Freiburg (Germany) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Constance (Germany). During his undergraduate and graduate studies, Johann has spent time at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), the Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), and the University of South Carolina (USA).

 

Sarada Devi Gadepalli is a doctoral student in Strategic Management at IIM Calcutta. My research interests include, base of the pyramid (BoP) strategies of firms, diversification, and the role of corporate headquarters. I have had ten years of managerial experience in prominent IT firms in India. I did my MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University and B Tech from IIT Kanpur.

 

Ajai Gaur is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business at Rutgers Business School. He is serving as a senior editor at the Journal of World Business and Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and as a guest editor for special issues of Journal of Management Studies and Journal of World Business. At present, Ajai is working on understanding the strategic adaptation of emerging economy firms during institutional transition. Ajai has also worked on issues related to institutional distance between different governance environments, MNCs' ownership strategies, staffing strategies and entry mode choice in international investments. Empirically, he has examined firms based in Australia, China, Germany, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK and USA. Some of his research has appeared in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business and Management International Review among several others.

 

Jean-François Hennart holds positions at the University of Pavia and at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, and is Extramural Fellow at Tilburg University CentER. His research focuses on the comparative study of international economic institutions such as multinational firms from both developed and emerging countries, born globals, joint ventures and hybrids, modes of foreign market entry, and the internationalization of family firms. His Theory of Multinational Enterprise (1982) pioneered the application of transaction cost theory to international business. He is consulting editor for JIBS, Fellow of AIB and EIBA, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Vaasa. In 2012 the International Management Division of the Academy of Management named him the Booz&Co/Strategy+Business Eminent Scholar in International Management. His highly cited work has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Management International Review, and other top journals.

 

Mia Hsiao-Wen Ho is an Assistant Professor of International Business at College of Management in Yuan Ze University in Taiwan. Mia completed her PhD at King’s College London in the UK (2012) and her research focuses on the co-evolution of international strategic alliances, cross-border knowledge transfer and learning processes, and the internationalization strategies of emerging market multinationals.

 

David Kallás holds a doctoral degree from EAESP-FGV on Strategy, a master degree in Business Policy from FEA/USP and graduation in administration from Sao Paulo University. He has also attended specialization courses at Stockholm University. Since 1998, works as a consultant in strategy, business processes and performance management. Is a professor at Insper and Executive Director of Anefac, Brazilian Finance, Administration and Accounting Executives Association. Is co-author and co-organizer of the book "Gestão da Estratégia: Experiências e Lições de empresas Brasileiras" (Elsevier, 2005) and co-author of "MBA Executivo" (Saraiva, 2008).

 

Komal Kiran Kalra is a first year PhD student in the field of International Management & Organization at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business at University of Victoria, Canada. My research concerns cross-cultural management, specifically subnational variations and regional cultural heterogeneity in emerging economies. Prior to starting my PhD, I worked as a Research Fellow at Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India. I also gained some industry experience through my tenure at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. I hold a Masters in Management degree from IE Business School, Spain and Bachelors degree from University of Delhi, India.

 

Palitha Konara is a Lecturer in International Business at the University of Huddersfield Business School, UK where he convenes an MSc in International Business Management and an MSc in International Business with Financial Services. He holds a PhD from the University of York and a Master of Research Degree in International Business from the Lancaster University. His main research areas of interest are determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) with special focus on language, human capital and institutions; impact of FDI on host economies; language issues in international business; institutional distance and subsidiary performance; and foreign divestment.

 

Marcus M Larsen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization at the Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on the organizational design of offshoring and emerging economy multinationals. His work has appeared in the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, and the Global Strategy Journal, among others. His dissertation won the Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award and the Barry Richman Best Dissertation Award, both in 2014.

 

Forest Jizhong Li is a PhD candidate in the School of Management of Curtin Business School at the Curtin University in Australia. His research centres on the management issues within Chinese multinational enterprise (MNEs). He studies how firms manage their relationships during their implementation stage of foreign direct investment, and how these relationships impact on firm performance.

 

 

Ana Lisboa is an Associate Professor of Marketing of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and a research member of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development. She has a PhD degree in Marketing from the University Institute of Lisbon, a MSc degree in Marketing from the Catholic University of Portugal and a first degree in Management from the University of Coimbra. Her work has been published in Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research and International Marketing Review. She serves as a reviewer for Journal of International Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research and International Marketing Review.

 

Kristiina Mäkelä (PhD) is Associate Professor and Head of the International Business unit at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki. Her research focuses on people-related issues in multinational corporations, including those concerning boundary spanning, knowledge sharing, social capital, interpersonal interaction, and HRM. Her work has appeared in Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Journal of Managerial Psychology, and International Journal of Human Resource Management among others. In terms of academic service, Kristiina is on the review board of Journal of International Business Studies, the Finland Ambassador of Academy of Management HR Division, and the Head of the Nordic Research School in International Business (NORD-IB); and she also teaches regularly in Finland, Austria, Singapore, and Iran.

 

Irina Mihailova (previously Jormanainen) is a Director of International Business Master Program at Aalto University Business School. She obtained her doctoral degree in International Business in 2010 from Aalto University and has received the Honor Recognition. Irina’s research belongs to the field of emerging markets with the focus on internationalization strategies, competitiveness of local firms, learning through JVs and institutional development. Other research interests cover areas of internationalization of firms from online sectors, international entrepreneurship and qualitative methods. Her work has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Critical Perspectives in International Business, and Journal of East-West Business among others.

 

Michael J. Mol is a Professor of Strategic and International Management in the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization at Copenhagen Business School. He has worked and studied or been a visiting scholar at ten universities in six countries. His research focuses on the strategic management of larger firms, with particular interests in innovation, especially management innovation and open innovation, sourcing strategy, especially offshoring and outsourcing, and strategy in Africa. He tackles these issues from a variety of theoretical and methodical angles. His numerous publications have appeared in among others Strategic Management Journal and Academy of Management Review where he won the best article award. He has (co-)authored four books. He serves on the editorial boards of seven academic journals including Journal of International Business Studies. Michael is a Dutch national and holds a PhD from RSM Erasmus University.

 

Susan M. Mudambi is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, and is the PhD Advisor for Marketing. Her research addresses marketing strategy and international business, with expertise in customer and supplier relationship strategy, and the roles of technology and social media. She has a secondary appointment in Management Information Systems. Her research is well-cited, with more than 1900 Google Scholar citations. She has published in numerous journals, including: MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Economic Geography, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of International Management, and Journal of Product and Brand Management. She has extensive teaching experience in undergraduate, MBA, executive and doctoral programs. Her managerial experience includes Bell+Howell and IBM, and work as a lobbyist and analyst. She earned a BA from Miami University, a M.S. from Cornell University and a PhD from the University of Warwick.

 

Yoko Naito is a junior associate professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Political Science and Economics Department of Business Administration at Tokai University, and an adjunct researcher at the Institute for Transnational Human Resource Management at Waseda University, Japan. She obtained her Ph. D. in 2013 and was awarded the Ohtsuka memorial Award in 2014 from Hokkaido University. Her research interests are IHRM in the case of Japanese organizations, with a focus on repatriates’ management about their knowledge sharing/transfer, socialization/adjustment, and career effectiveness. Before she joined academia, she worked in the manufacturing and banking industries.

 

Rishika Nayyar is an Assistant Professor in Commerce at PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India. She holds a postgraduate degree in Commerce from the Delhi School of Economics and is a Junior Research Fellow under a program sponsored by the University Grants Commission. Her research interests range across various facets of firm internationalisation- motives of FDI, entry mode choice and different facets of born global firms and international entrepreneurship. Her latest publication is on the cultural determinants of alliance outcomes in the context of Indo- Japanese JVs, forthcoming from Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor and Francis Ltd.

 

Camilla Nellemann is a Danish PhD fellow at Rikkyo University in Tokyo funded by the Japanese government. She is in the final stage of writing her dissertation on the adaptation of Japan's nuclear industry to institutional change following the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Alongside her studies she supplies market research to Danish companies operating in Japan and translates business meetings between Danish and Japanese partners. Before pursuing an academic career she has worked abroad in Russia for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has been deployed to Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan by the Danish Defense.

 

William Newburry is an Associate Department Chair and the SunTrust Bank Professor at Florida International University in the Department of Management and International Business. Before joining FIU in 2007, Dr. Newburry was employed at Rutgers Business School in the Department of Management and Global Business. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from New York University's Stern School of Business. Professor Newburry's research interests focus on how multinational corporations manage and relate to subsidiaries and other local stakeholders when they invest overseas, with a particular emphasis on corporate reputation-related issues. Prof. Newburry has published 30+ papers in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals and twelve in scholarly books. He has co-edited two books and is currently co-authoring a third book focusing on operational challenges facing emerging market multinationals. He is the Series Editor of Research in Global Strategic Management, and the President/Chapter Chair of the Academy of International Business Latin America Chapter (AIB-LAT).

 

Rekha Nicholson is a senior lecturer in international management at the University of the West of England. She obtained her PhD in economics and management from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy. Her research interests are strategy and business in emerging economies and the economics of innovation. She has published in Research Policy, International Business Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, International Journal of the Economics of Business, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics and Industry and Innovation.

 

 

Bo Bernhard Nielsen holds a PhD in international business from Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark and is Professor of Business Strategy at the International Business Discipline at University of Sydney. His research is at the intersection of strategy and international business with a specific focus on multilevel issues pertaining to strategic collaboration, firm internationalization, and strategic decision-making across borders. Professor Nielsen has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and his work appears in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, InternationalPhilipp Paulus is a PhD student and research assistant at the Department of Management and Human Resources at the University of Trier, Germany. His PhD dissertation concerns International Human Resource Management with a particular focus on international staffing and expatriate management. His further research interests include language influences on decisional behavior both on an individual and a group level. Business Review, Journal of International Management, Journal of Business Research, and Long Range Planning, among others. Professor Nielsen serves as Consulting Editor, JIBS and is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Management and Journal of Trust Research.

 

Niina Nummela is a Professor of International Business at the Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku. Her areas of expertise include international entrepreneurship, cross-border acquisitions, and research methods. She has published widely in academic journals, including International Business Review, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Industrial Marketing Management, European Journal of Marketing, and International Small Business Journal, among others. She has also contributed to several internationally published books, and edited a book for Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) entitled International Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (2010).

 

Philipp Paulus is a PhD student and research assistant at the Department of Management and Human Resources at the University of Trier, Germany. His PhD dissertation concerns International Human Resource Management with a particular focus on international staffing and expatriate management. His further research interests include language influences on decisional behavior both on an individual and a group level.

 

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 published over 120 articles and chapters as well as several books. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. He has recently joined David Thomas in completing a third edition of Cross Cultural Management: Essential Concepts (Sage Press, 2015), is co-editing with Mikael Soendergaard a focused issue of the Management International Review about boundaries around cultural groups and is editing a four-volume book set about Culture throughout the social sciences for Sage Press. Specific topics in his writings include methods in cross cultural research, the role different parties play in decision making in organizations throughout the world, the effects that culture has on the role stresses that managers experience, the way immigrant entrepreneur communities operate, and the way that intercultural relationships in multicultural teams and across hierarchical levels should function.

 

Anu Phene is Grub Distinguished Scholar and Professor of International Business at the School of Business at George Washington University. Before joining GW, she was an associate professor of strategy at the University of Utah. She received her Ph.D. in international management from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research focuses on knowledge creation and transfer, geographic boundaries of knowledge, multinational firm and subsidiary evolution and governance mechanisms. She has authored publications in Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management and Management International Review.. She has received the 2014 Trachtenberg Teaching Award at George Washington University, the 2010 GW School of Business Teaching Excellence Award and the 2006 Brady Superior Teaching Award at the University of Utah.

 

Jonas Puck is Professor and Head of the Department of Global Business and Trade at WU Vienna. Before joining WU he held positions at Nuremberg University, University of New South Wales, Bradford University, and UIBE Beijing. His current research interests are dynamic and longitudinal perspectives on internationalization, non-market strategies in an international environment and financial aspects in international strategy. Jonas serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Long Range Planning, and European Management Journal. He is the author of five books, numerous book chapters, and papers in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Human Resource Management, among others.

 

David Reeb is a Professor of Finance and holds the Mr. and Mrs. Lin Jo Yan Professorship in Banking and Finance at the National University of Singapore. He also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER) and as the Director of Business Doctoral Programs. Over the past several years, his work has appeared in the most influential academic journals in accounting, finance, law, and management. This research generates thousands of citations (7500+ Google Scholar) and makes him one of the most prominently cited scholars in the world on family controlled firms.

 

Becky Reuber is Professor of Strategic Management at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the growth strategies of entrepreneurial organizations, with a focus on internationalization and opportunity creation. She is Area Editor for International Entrepreneurship at the Journal of International Business Studies and is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. She served as Associate Editor of Family Business Review from 2008-2014 and is currently on the journal’s Advisory Board. She is a co-investigator on a $1.95 SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant that has funded the development of the ie-scholars network.

 

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 masters 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 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 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.

 

Deusdedit Rwehumbiza is a PhD student at Leipzig University, Germany. He received his master’s degree in International Trade from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Rwehumbiza has done various assignments related to teaching and learning, particularly in quantitative techniques for business decisions, business research methods and development economics. He has additionally, participated in the provision of international trade, entrepreneurship and business management advisory services in association with various individuals and organizations within and outside Tanzania. His research interests include economics of commodity production and trade; business and trade negotiations; preferential trading arrangements; and internationalization of companies from emerging economies.

 

Manjula Salimath is Associate Professor of Management, at the College of Business, University of North Texas. She holds dual doctorates (Ph.D. in Business, Washington State University, and Ph.D. in Psychology, Bangalore University). She is the president of the Southwest Academy of Management, an affiliate of the Academy of Management. Her research is published in Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Decision, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Thunderbird International Business Review, besides several encyclopedias and books. Her current research interests are in the field of entrepreneurship, international business, strategic management, sustainability, social and technological innovation and ethics.

 

Dr. Settles is an A in the Department of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School and was Fulbright Scholar in Russia during the 2005-2006 academic years. Previously he was an Instructor at Nevada State College, a Professor of Corporate Governance and Strategic Management and the Deputy Director of the Corporate Governance Center at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. Dr. Settles’ research focuses on emerging market multinationals and management practices in emerging market firms with a specialization in Russian firms. Dr. Settles’ research has been published and is forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal for Human Resource Management, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, and International Studies of Management and Organization.

 

Jaeyong Song is AMOREPACIFIC professor at Seoul National University. He received his Ph.D. at Wharton. He was a professor at Columbia and Yonsei. He won best dissertation Awards from Academy of Management and European International Business Association. He won Chazen Teaching Innovation Award at Columbia Business School, KASBA Best Researcher Award, and SNU Teaching Award. 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 area editor of Journal of International Business Studies.

 

Ali Taleb, PhD, is a tenured assistant professor of strategy and global management at MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada. Before joining MacEwan, he has taught business policy, corporate strategy, and international business at Concordia University, HEC Montreal, and McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Taleb’s research focuses on how firms internationalize and compete globally with particular interest in emerging market multinationals. His research work and teaching philosophy are rooted in many years of practical business experience in senior management capacity as well as in management consultancy across Europe and North America.

 

Kun Tan is currently an Associate Professor at Newhuadu Business School Minjiang University - an emerging school founded by a Chinese entrepreneur and his foundation in 2010. Previously he held several management positions in fortune 500 companies in China. He teaches strategic management, corporate governance, and business case studies etc. His research focuses on the internationalization of emerging market multinationals. Kun Tan received his PhD in International Studies from Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies at Waseda University in Japan, and Master of Management and Bachelor of Engineering both from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China.

 

 

Piotr Trąpczyński is assistant professor at the Department of International Competitiveness, Poznan University of Economics and MBA lecturer. He gained his PhD degree from the Poznań University of Economics, as well as M.Sc. from the City University of London, Dipl.-Kfm and Master degrees of the ESCP Europe in Berlin and Paris. His research interests include internationalization into and from emerging and transition economies (with focus on the CEE), FDI performance, firm competitiveness, as well as mixed-method research. He is author and co-author of related publications in international books and journals. Piotr is co-founder and vice-chair of AIB-CEE Chapter.

 

Ari Van Assche is associate professor and chair of the International Business department at HEC Montreal, as well as research fellow at the research centers CIRANO and IRPP. He holds a BA and an MA in Chinese Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a PhD in Economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His research focuses on the organization of global value chains and their implication for trade and competition policies. On this topic, he has published widely in academic journals and has consulted for various Canadian and international governmental organizations including DFATD, Transport Canada, Industry Canada, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.

 

Juan Wang, a Ph.D candidate from East China University of Science and Technology, located at Shanghai, China, with Haifeng Yan as my supervisor. I have been a visiting scholar to Indiana University Bloomington for a year from September 2013 to August 2014, invited by Dan Li and Jeffery Covin. I am interested in international business and emerging market firms. I am working on the inward effects of internationalization to firms from emerging markets, such as easier access to inbound resources, or higher reputation enhanced by OFDI. It’s my deepest hope that I would one day publish a paper on JIBS.

 

 

Professor Witt teaches and researches international business at INSEAD and is an Associate in Research at Harvard's Reischauer Institute. His research explores how business and management vary by society and how firms respond to these differences. His publications include four major books, including The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems (2014, Oxford U. Press, with G. Redding). His papers have appeared or are forthcoming in leading publications, including Asian Business & Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Management and Organization Review, Socio-Economic Review, and Strategic Management Journal. He is the General Editor of Asian Business & Management and a Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review. Professor Witt holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University and an A.B. from Stanford University. He has lived in China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the United States.

 

Rama Shankar Yadav’s main areas of interests are Corporate Social Responsibility, Spirituality and Brand Personality and their impact on employee behavior and business. He worked for two years as Assistant Manager (Talent Management) in Tata Motors Ltd. India. He has published in refereed journals and participated in various national and international conferences on Management and Psychology. He did his Master’s in Psychology from Banaras Hindu University, India. He was also the topper in B.A (Psychology) in Banaras Hindu University in 2008.

 

Haifeng Yan is a professor in international business in the school of business at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Shanghai. He also is a visiting professor in Kelley school of business at Indiana University, USA (2007-2008) and School of Business at Hong Kong Baptist University (2011). Dr. YAN is the member of Academy of Management(AOM) and initiative member of International Association of Chinese Management Research(IACMR).Professor YAN is the associate dean of the school of business at ECUST, the director of Institute of Management and Organization Research (IMOR) at present. He is the supervisor of doctoral student as well.

 

Yi Yang a PhD candidate student majoring in International Business (IB) at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Having born and raised in China, I am very interested in IB topics that are closely related to China and the emerging countries. I am currently working on International Human Resource Management, Cultural Cross-Vergence, and Micro Organizational Behaviors (empowerment, turnover, etc.) based on the Chinese context. My papers have been presented on several international conferences, such as AIB and AOM.

 

 

Mary Zellmer-Bruhn (University of Minnesota). Area Scope: Meso level theory and research in MNEs; organization behavior and theory; multi-level research. Manuscripts that address collaboration and learning in multinational organizations; management and organizing processes, structures and designs, contextual influences on individuals and groups; interpersonal processes such social exchange and networks; group/team characteristics such as diversity and global distributed teamwork; processes such knowledge sharing and conflict; micro/meso research on strategy process/implementation; boundary spanning.

 

 

Xu Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau. He received his PhD in Accounting from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2008 and also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics. His research focuses on cross-country studies on financial accounting, auditing, corporate governance and corporate finance. More specifically his work examines the impacts of legal institutions, culture and education on corporate accounting and payout policies. Prior to his PhD, he gained industry experience as an accountant in Mainland China.


Ajai Gaur is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business at Rutgers Business School. He is serving as a senior editor at the Journal of World Business and Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and as a guest editor for special issues of Journal of Management Studies and Journal of World Business. At present, Ajai is working on understanding the strategic adaptation of emerging economy firms during institutional transition. Ajai has also worked on issues related to institutional distance between different governance environments, MNCs' ownership strategies, staffing strategies and entry mode choice in international investments. Empirically, he has examined firms based in Australia, China, Germany, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK and USA. Some of his research has appeared in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business and Management International Review among several others.