2016 JIBS Paper Development Workshop
The Thirteenth Annual Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Paper Development Workshop (PDW) will be held at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA from 9:00am to 3:00pm on Monday, June 27, 2016, 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 2016 JIBS PDW participants is given below. For more information about the 2016 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/2016/ .
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Ulf Andersson is Professor of Business Studies at Mälardalen University, Sweden and Adjunct Professor at BI Norwegian Business School. He has been a Professor of International Business at Uppsala University, where he also earned his doctoral degree, and Professor of Strategy and International Management at Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on subsidiary development, knowledge governance and transfer, network theory, strategy and management of the MNE. He has published more than 65 journal articles, books, and book sections on these topics and his work is published in Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, International Business Review and other leading journals. Dr. Andersson is currently serving as Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies from 2011 - 2016. He has served on the board of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) 2006 – 2009 and as the Secretary of AIB-WE chapter 2007 – 2011. Professor Andersson is also member of the editorial boards of Global Strategy Journal, Management International Review, International Business Review, and Direct Marketing: An International Journal.
Jean-Luc Arregle is Professor of strategy at EM Lyon Business School. His research interests include semiglobalization, MNEs’ decisions to locate and manage FDIs, institutional effects on MNEs’ strategies, and multilevel models.
Christian Geisler Asmussen received his PhD from Copenhagen Business School in 2007 and is currently a Professor MSO at the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization. Drawing on a background in formal economics but applying a multi-disciplinary approach to his research, he focuses in particular on the interaction between competitive advantage and the international expansion trajectories of multinational corporations. His research has been awarded numerous prizes from the Danish and international research communities, including the Barry M. Richman best dissertation award from the Academy of Management and the Haynes Prize for most promising scholar from the Academy of International Business. He currently heads a research project aiming to uncover the drivers of the micro-location choices of multinational firms.
Gabriel R.G. Benito (PhD, Norwegian School of Economics NHH) is Professor at BI Norwegian Business School Oslo, Norway. A Fellow of AIB and a former president of EIBA (European International Business Academy), he is consulting editor of Journal of International Business Studies and serves on the editorial review boards of Academy of Management Perspectives, Global Strategy Journal, International Business Review and Management International Review. His research agenda currently focuses on the multinational enterprises and their foreign subsidiaries. His books include Foreign Operation Methods (w/ Welch and Petersen, 2007, Edward Elgar), and Multinationals on the Periphery (w/ Narula, 2007, Palgrave). His research has appeared in many books and journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Economic Geography, Global Strategy Journal, Applied Economics, Managerial and Decision Economics, Management International Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Management and International Business Review.
Paloma Bernal Turnes holds a PhD. in Business Management (University of Rome, University of Nice, and Rey Juan Carlos University) and she is a Tenure Professor at Rey Juan Carlos University of International Trade and Negotiation Skills at Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain). She is currently researching on transparency, trade facilitation and Public and Private Partnerships (PPPs) at George Washington University and Georgetown University. She is actively engaged in research and cooperation projects in Latin America. She has published 11 books, 8 papers in indexed peer–reviewed scientist journals, 30 book chapters and 32 presentations in conferences.
Sjoerd Beugelsdijk (PhD 2003 Tilburg University) is a full professor in international business at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research interests are in the field of culture (as in norms, values and beliefs) international business, and globalization. He has published in a wide range of academic journals and edited special issues in leading journals, such as the Journal of International Business Studiesand Journal of Economic Geography. He published several books, including one undergraduate textbook. His interest in international business emerges from his ambition to understand how people and firms deal with cultural diversity both between and within nations. Sjoerd Beugelsdijk has held visiting positions at several universities including University of South Carolina, Copenhagen Business School, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Bocconi University. He has served as a head of department and most recently as the academic director of the undergraduate international business program in Groningen.
Keith D. Brouthers is Professor of Business Strategy at King’s College London, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, and Visiting Professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His current research interests include entry and establishment mode choice, export channel selection, and competitor identification. Professor Brouthers’ research has been published in leading academic journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
Marcelo Bucheli is associate professor of international business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his PhD in history at Stanford University, was Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School, and the John H. Dunning fellow at the University of Reading. He studies the political economy of multinational corporations and international business history.
Paula Caligiuri is a D’Amore-McKim School of Business Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University. She is also the Founder and Director of the newly-launched Cultural Agility Leadership Lab (the CALL Program) at Northeastern University, a corporate-sponsored international volunteerism program in partnership with the National Peace Corps Association. Prior to joining Northeastern University in 2013, Paula was a Professor in the Human Resource Management Department at Rutgers University, where she was the Director of the Center for Human Resource Strategy from 2001 until 2010 and co-directed the European Master in Human Resource Leadership from 2003 until 2006. Researching in the areas of expatriate management, global leadership development, and cultural agility, Paula has authored or co-authored several articles and books – including articles in Journal of World Business, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Internatrional Business Studies, and Personnel Psychology. Paula holds a Ph.D. from Penn State University in industrial and organizational psychology.
Carolyn M. Callahan is currently the Brown-Forman Endowed Chair, Professor of Accountancy and formerly University Associate Provost and the College of Business Dean at the University of Louisville. Her research effort focuses on analytical and empirical impact of information transmission in the capital markets. She is published in leading academic journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research and Accounting Horizons, among others. She has also written several practitioner articles directed at solving financial disclosure challenges in regulated industries. Such practitioner work has been presented in US Securities and Exchange (SEC) oversight committees as well as at regulated industry conferences. Carolyn currently serves on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and The Journal of International Business Research, two of the highest ranking academic journals, among several others. Carolyn and her husband James are the parents of three adult children who reside in Austin, Texas and Nashville Tennessee.
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
Joseph Clougherty is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Fellow with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. He was previously Senior Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), and faculty member at Tilburg University. He holds a PhD from the University of Southern California, and completed dissertation research at the University of British Columbia. Among other journals, he has published in Canadian Journal of Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, Journal of Management Studies, and Strategic Management Journal. His research interests are interdisciplinary (combining management, industrial organization, and political economy) and international in both scope and nature. He employs an applied economics approach to research questions in both business and economics, and much of his research attempts to understand the antecedents and consequences of M&A activity.
Nicole Coviello is the Betty and Peter Sims Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Marketing at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. Her PhD is in Marketing and International Business (1994, University of Auckland, New Zealand) and she holds an MSc (Technology Management) and BComm Hons (Marketing) from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She also holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Turku (Finland). Nicole’s research is cross-disciplinary and has appeared in numerous leading journals including the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Business Venturing. She is Field Editor for both Marketing and International Entrepreneurship at the Journal of Business Venturing. She recently published a Handbook of Measures for Research in International Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar).
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 external corporate development activities (e.g., acquisitions, alliances and joint ventures), investment decisions under uncertainty, and issues related to inter-organizational ties. His work has been published in journals such as Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and Journal of International Business Studies. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of International Business Studies and the Global Strategy Journal.
Nabil Daoudi is a PhD student at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria, Canada. He holds an MBA from Western Washington University and a B.A in International Business and Economics from State University of New York. While in his MBA program, Nabil interned at the Department of Commerce, Office of International Trade & Economic Development in Seattle. He researched the composite fiber industry for strategic planning purposes in the aerospace industry. He was also employed in the Minority Employee Council at Western Washington University. His research interests include strategy, sustainability and international social entrepreneurship.
Timothy Devinney (BSc CMU; MA, MBA, PhD Chicago) is Pro Dean of Research & Innovation, Professor & 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 12+ books and 100+ articles in leading journals. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Academy of Intl Business, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Awardee and served on the executive of a number of academic associations.
Desislava Dikova is Professor in International Business at Vienna University of Economics & Business (Austria). She previously held positions at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands and King's College London, the UK. She earned her doctorate degree from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Desislava Dikova has been a member of the JIBS editorial board since 2007, she is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of East West Business, and an area editor for the International Journal of Emerging Markets. She was awarded the JIBS Best reviewer award in 2013 and the Academy of Management Best Reviewer Award (in 2007 and 2009). Dikova's research is focused on the international behavior of multinational companies from developed and emerging markets, their foreign market entry mode choices and the subsequent performance of foreign subsidiaries, the competitive behavior of firms with respect to the types of innovation investments and their cross-border merger and acquisition activity.
Pavlos Dimitratos is Professor of IB and Research Lead of the IB & Enterprise Cluster at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK. His research and teaching interests include SME internationalization, MNE subsidiary activities, and international entrepreneurship. He has recently published in the British Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Family Business Review. International Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Marketing Review, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of World Business, Long Range Planning, Management International Review, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal etc. He has served as an elected member of the Executive Boards of the AIB (Secretary of the AIB - UKI Chapter) and the European International Business Academy (EIBA). He has further served as a Track Chair in the AIB, British Academy of Management, and EIBA conferences.
Douglas Dow’s 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.
Jialin Du is a PhD candidate in strategic management and international business, at School of Business, The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on international management, strategies of multinational companies, and emerging market multinationals.
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 work has focused on how MNE subsidiaries’ foreignness generates both advantages and liabilities in host country institutional settings. Edman’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations, among others. Edman received his Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2009. He currently serves on the JIBS Editorial Review Board.
Di Fan (Ph.D Monash, CPA) is an associate professor in international business in the School of Management of Curtin Business School at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. His current research interest includes, International Business Strategies, and Chinese Management. His publications appear in journals, such as Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Management Review etc.
Kevin Fandl is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Strategic Global Management at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. With over a decade of federal government service and many years of international consulting on issues from immigration to foreign trade, Dr. Fandl has developed a keen global perspective on law and policy issues. Though his work principally centers on Latin America, Dr. Fandl also lectures frequently in Europe and Asia. He has published extensively in this field and serves as an expert for international organizations and law firms on issues related to business law and policy.
Igor Filatotchev is Professor of Corporate Governance and Strategy at Cass Business School, City University London, and Director of Centre for Research on Corporate Governance at Cass. He is also a Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business. He earned his PhD in Economics from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (Moscow, the Russian Federation). His research interests are focused on corporate governance effects on entrepreneurship and strategic decisions and sociology of capital markets. Key research programmes currently in progress include analysis of resource and strategy roles of corporate governance; corporate governance life-cycle; and a knowledge-based view on governance development in entrepreneurial firms and IPOs. He has published more than 120 refereed academic papers, numerous books, and book chapters, in the fields of corporate governance, entrepreneurship and strategy including publications in leading academic journals. Most recently he edited “Corporate Governance and the Business Life-cycle” (2010), London, New York: Edward Elgar, and co-edited “The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance” (2013), Oxford: OUP. He is a General Editor of Journal of Management Studies. Before joining Journal of Management Studies editorial team he was an Associate Editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review.
Khaled Fourati is a doctoral candidate at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research investigates how multinationals strategically respond to institutional arrangements in emerging markets and compares and contrasts these multinationals’ respective patterns of institutional entrepreneurship. Khaled presented his work at various conferences and was awarded the best conference paper on emerging markets, AIB-SSA 2015.
Elisa Giuliani (PhD SPRU, Sussex University) is Associate Professor of Management at the Department of Economics & Management of the University of Pisa. She is currently Associate Editor for Research Policy, and part of the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of International Business Studies and Management and Organization Review. The primary focus of her research is on social networks in industrial clusters; knowledge spillovers from multinational enterprises (MNEs) to developing countries; and the impact of emerging-market MNEs on host countries. Additional research interests include: the corporate social responsibility and irresponsibility of international business, and the human rights repercussions of the business sector in general. On this latter front, she is currently coordinating the CSR & Human Rights Project at the University of Pisa. She has consulted for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and the UN Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Laurel Grassin-Drake is a doctoral candidate and past Presidential Fellow at MIT’s Sloan School, studying economic sociology and international business. Her research focuses on the mechanisms and challenges of cross-regional integration in MNCs. She uses qualitative methods to study the micro-processes of integration, and her current research site is a US-based global components manufacturer. Her first career was in international institutional equity asset management. Based in New York and then London, she was portfolio manager for a variety of European and emerging market portfolios. She has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Sid Gray is Professor of International Business, and formerly Head of the School of Business, at the University of Sydney. He has a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree from the University of Sydney and PhD from Lancaster University in England. His research interests include internationalization and entrepreneurship processes, 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 many papers in leading international journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Journal of Accounting Research and Abacus. He was formerly a full professor at the Universities of Glasgow, Warwick, and New South Wales. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Yoo Jung Ha is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Business at the York Management School, University of York, UK. She holds a PhD from The University of Manchester and an MPhil from The University of Oxford. Her research interests include technology spillovers, the impact of activities by multinational enterprises on host countries, MNE’s innovation strategy at the subsidiary level. She has published in International Business Review and Asian Business & Management.
Guus Hendriks is a Ph.D. candidate at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands. He holds a joint M.A.-degree in Economics from the University of Antwerp and six other European universities. His research interests relate to the internationalization strategies of multinational enterprises, as well as international business-government relations and development effects of foreign investment. Industry experience within subsidiaries of MNEs in the Czech Republic has further sparked his interest in outsourcing decisions and global value chains. His work has won several awards, including the Best Overall Paper Award of Academy of Management’s International Management division.
Jean-François Hennart 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, the Global Strategy Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Management International Review, the Journal of Retailing, and other top journals.
Edith Ipsmiller is working as a teaching and research assistant at the Institute for International Business at the WU Vienna. In her dissertation, she is concentrating on the application of real options theory in strategic management. She studied International Business Administration at the WU Vienna and at the Université Paris Dauphine, specializing in foreign commerce and financial accounting and auditing. Prior to her position at the institute, she was working in the thrilling international gaming industry. She also did various internships in other lines of business during her studies, including one at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce in Paris.
Yordanka Ivanova is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics and Management and Applied Economic Sciences/Business Economics. She is enrolled in the Ph.D. program for joint supervision and awarding of a doctorate diploma between Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria. Her latest research focuses on the internationalization pattern and its dimensions in the family and non-family enterprises of different sizes. Her specific interests are targeted at the big picture of globalization challenges and opportunities, and micro dimensions and projections in theoretical and practical aspect. She is a member of the Academic Network in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Finance.
Chuandi Jiang is a second year Ph.D. student of International Business & Marketing in John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University. He holds a Master in Marketing Analytics degree from Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His studies focus on the multilevel analysis of culture, cross-cultural management, diversification strategy, concepts and measurements of culture distance in a constructionism perspective, and performance of MNEs. He is currently exploring factors and mechanisms that ameliorate cultural distances at national level, and analyzing the non-economic motivations of firms’ international diversification activities, such as CSR and innovation models.
Crystal Jiang is an Associate Professor of management at the College of Business, Bryant University. Her research focus on firms originated from emerging markets in innovation strategy and knowledge management, with a special interest in political networking and government roles. She has published in Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Handbook of International Business and other top IB journals. She is an Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship.
Perttu Kähäri has 20 years of managerial experience in multinational companies in service businesses. He has held roles at corporate headquarters, regional headquarters and country subsidiary management. He defended his doctoral thesis Why do regional headquarters live and die? in 2014. His work was nominated for various international and national awards, and also attracted exceptional media attention in Finland. Alongside pursuing a new business venture, Kähäri remains affiliated with Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland. His current research focuses on MNC organizational design, headquarters and their dynamic nature, and international entrepreneurship.
Kiattichai Kalasin is an International Research Fellow at China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS). He received his PhD in Strategy & Management from HEC Paris. His research interests center on State-owned enterprises and emerging-economy MNEs. Before joining CEIBS, Kiattichai was a lecturer at the Mahidol University in Bangkok, a project manager at Johnson Electric Co., Ltd (Hong Kong) and an electrical engineer at SCG in Thailand.
Philip Kappen is an associate professor of international business and entrepreneurship at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. His research focuses on subsidiary evolution and the role of headquarters in MNEs, as well as the management of innovation. He received his PhD from Uppsala University.
Hyun Gon Kim, born in Seoul, South Korea, worked as an engineer and manager for ten years after he obtained bachelor’s degree. Thereafter, he decided to focus on academics. He earned his master’s degree in international trade (business) in Hanyang University, South Korea. Then, he entered Ph.D. in economics at Rutgers University and received his master’s degree in economics (Rutgers University) after transferring to Rutgers Business School. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in management with Rutgers Business School. Hyun Gon’s research focuses on international business, international business strategy, international marketing strategy, and economics.
Diana Kwok is a second year PhD candidate at the Aix-Marseille Université, France. Her dissertation examines the influence of intra-national cultural variations on the development of interpersonal trust in cross-border acquisitions involving emerging market firms. She has guest-reviewed manuscripts for the AIB 2016 Annual Meeting, AIB-SEA Regional Conference 2015, and Group & Organization Management. Diana also provides strategic advisory services for businesses to develop in Asia and teaches at several business schools in France and Monaco. She worked previously in the financial services and non-profit industries. She is of Malaysian-Chinese origin.
Nandini Lahiri is a faculty member of the Strategic Management department at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Her research lies at the intersection of strategy, technology and international business with a focus on understanding both drivers and performance implications of firm scope. She is particularly interested in how firms utilize their resources across geographic and technological domains as well as across alliance partners to enhance R&D related activities. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. She serves on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal and Journal of Management. Nandini is a graduate of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. At Temple, she teaches strategy in the full-time and professional MBA programs as well as in the Ph.D. program.
Olivier Lamotte is Associate Professor of International Business and International Economics at Paris School of Business (France). He holds a PhD from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. His research focuses on internationalization strategies, international entrepreneurship, innovation and emerging economies. During his career he worked with several public and private organizations on consulting and research projects. He has held several visiting research positions abroad, at the Univ. of Yokohama (Japan), Brown University (USA), Birkbeck College (UK) and the University of Sussex (UK).
Jongmin Lee is a PhD candidate in Management (International business and strategy) at Henley Business School, University of Reading. His research interests include knowledge management, headquarters-subsidiary relationships, regional strategies, and emerging market multinationals. His current research focuses on the management of complex MNE network and expatriate staffing strategies. Before joining the PhD program, he worked at Samsung Electronics (Headquarters) and received an MSc and a BBA from Yonsei University (Korea).
Fangrong Li is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She received her PhD in International Business from City University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on business strategies of firms in and from emerging economies, with particular interests in internationalization strategies and innovation strategies. Her current work focuses on the influence of institutional environment on the internationalization strategies and performance of MNEs from emerging economies. She is also doing research on how MNEs from emerging economies learn through internationalization activities.
Lin Li is a PhD candidate student in the field of International Business and Strategy at the Nottingham University Business School China. My research focus on foreign direct investment strategy of emerging market firms especially the case of Chinese multinational enterprises. More specifically, I have a particular interested in location strategies, their affecting factors under the Chinese context, and their performance implication. My work also investigates institutions and network relationship, and their influence on foreign direct investment strategies of Chinese multinationals. The related paper has been presented on some national and international conferences such as AIB and IACMR conference.
Linjie Li is a PhD candidate in the field of International Business at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research concerns the interactions between resource-based views and institutional theory in explaining MNEs’ internationalization strategy and performance. Parts of Linjie’s work have been presented at 2014 AIB-UKI Conference and 2015 AOM Meeting. Her paper for the 2015 AOM Meeting has been judged to be one of the best accepted papers and has been published in the Proceedings of the 2015 Academy of Management Meeting. Other parts of Linjie’s work are under review at journals such as SMJ and IBR.
Wen Li is a Ph.D. candidate in School of Management, Zhejiang University, China. Her research centers on international strategy such as FDI location choice, entry mode choice, experiential learning and internationalization speed of emerging market firms. Especially, her recent research focuses on internationalization cases about Huawei, home-based learning of Chinese firms and entry mode strategies in Africa. Parts of her work were presented at international conferences such as AIB-UKI, Special Issue Conference of APJM in Australia, and currently are in R&R condition in International Business Review, Asia Business & Management and one is under review at Journal of Business Research.
Ana Lisboa is an Associate Professor of Marketing and the Coordinator of the BSc Marketing of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. She is also 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 BSc degree in Management from the University of Coimbra. Her work was awarded as the best paper in track Global & Cross Cultural Marketing at the 2016 Winter Marketing Academic Conference in Las Vegas. 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.
Xia Liu is a Ph.D. student in Economics at European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics(ECARES) in the University Libre de Bruxelles. She has been a visiting scholar in the Center of Law and Economics in the ETH Zurich. Her research interest focuses on Law and Economics and Knowledge Management, with a special focus on patent evaluation, litigation risk and technology transaction.
Nathaniel Lupton earned his PhD in international business and strategy from the Ivey School of Business, Western University in 2011. He also holds Bachelor of Commerce and MBA degrees from Carleton University. Hi research focuses on foreign direct investment, innovation, knowledge management, and multinational enterprise strategy and structure. Prior to pursuing an academic career, Dr. Lupton worked in the real estate and telecommunications industries. This research appears in peer reviewed journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of World Business, Journal of Knowledge Management, Knowledge Management Research and Practice, Chinese Management Studies, and others.
Kristiina Mäkelä (PhD) is Associate Professor, Head of the International Business unit at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, and the Head of the Nordic Research School in International Business (NORD-IB). 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 editorial review board of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Human Resource Management Review.
Mona Makhija is professor of Management and Human Resources at the Fisher College of Business, specializing in international strategy issues. One area of her research focuses on the institutional features of national environments that affect the structure of firms, the nature of competition and, ultimately, the behavior of managers. Another line of research examines industry globalization and its effect on the strategies of multinational firms competing in them. Her work covers firms and managers in different parts of the world, including Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia. This research has appeared in such journals as Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science and a number of other journals. She has presented her research at top academic and professional meetings, conferences and universities, and teaches courses in international business, international strategy, and institutions. She is currently serving as Area Editor, Journal of International Business Studies.
Ishva Minefee is a Ph.D. candidate in Business Administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research agenda centers on the interactions between multinational corporations (MNCs) and social movement activists. He primarily examines how MNCs legitimize controversial investments in host countries rife with sociopolitical conflict. Ishva’s dissertation focuses on the rhetorical strategies MNCs implemented in response to activists during apartheid in South Africa. He is also engaged in research that analyzes how activists influence MNC divestment from host countries.
Robert Mittelman is an assistant professor of social entrepreneurship at Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada. He holds a PhD in management from the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University where he investigated charitable giving to distant others. His research interests relate to social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship as a tool for poverty alleviation, and non-profit marketing. He was awarded Best Doctoral Student Research Conference Paper in the Public & Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management in 2015 and received the Graduate Student Research Award from the Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research in 2012.
Arindam Mondal is a Ph.D. student in his final year at Strategic Management Group, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has been researching in the broader area of multinationals from emerging economies and their international business strategies. In a nutshell, the central premise of his work is to show that alignment and interaction between firm resources and the environmental factors can be the “missing links” assisting MNCs from emerging markets in making various strategic choices to survive and succeed over time. Arindam has presented his work at past AIB, AOM and SMS conferences. Also, he has become an equal co-author on multiple other conference papers and working papers, two being under review in very reputed international journals.
Serghei Musaji is a PhD candidate in Entrepreneurship at IE Business School. He holds a Master of Research Degree from IE Business School, a Master of International Business and a Bachelor of Finance and Banking from Romanian-American University. His teaching interests focus on the areas of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business. His research interests lie in the intersection of entrepreneurship and international business. He holds professional experience in the areas of business development, business process standardization, and business intelligence in complex multi-business organizations.
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. His work appears in Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, 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 World Business.
Niina Nummela is a Professor of International Business and Vice Dean 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).
Denis Odlin has almost completed his PhD at the University of Auckland in International Business, with submission expected in July 2016. His research topic considers how competitors influence the survival of internationalising small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Denis has eight years of tertiary teaching experience as a lecturer at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, plus 20 years of international business experience, holding senior marketing management positions in high technology firms across Asia and Australia. He holds a Master of International Business from the University of Melbourne.
Snehal Subhash Patel is a PhD student in the field of International Business at the School of Business, Management and Economics at University of Sussex (UoS), UK. My research focuses on foreign direct investment (FDI) location decisions and effects of environmental regulations, in emerging economies at a sub-national level. I have been working as an Associate Tutor since 2011 in Business and Management at UoS, UK and also organised EIBA 2012 conference along with Prof. Roger Strange. I hold a Masters in International Business degree from UoS, UK and Bachelors degree in Engineering (Electronics and Tele-Communication) from Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, India.
Verena Patock is a Doctoral Candidate and Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute for International Business at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Austria. Prior to joining WU Vienna, she worked in marketing and communications, and in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) department of a German think tank. Her current research interests lie in the fields of CSR, international business, top management team diversity and cross-cultural management.
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.
Shameen Prashantham is an Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at CEIBS. Prior to that, he was at Nottingham University Business School China, and before that spent over a decade in Scotland as a doctoral and post-doctoral researcher (Strathclyde) and a lecturer/senior lecturer (Glasgow). His research and teaching interests relate to international strategy and entrepreneurship. His research focuses on new venture internationalization, in particular how start-ups “dance with gorillas” i.e. partner with large multinationals as a means to improve their prospects of innovation and international expansion. He also has interests in strategy-as-practice. His work, undertaken in China, India, the UK and USA, has appeared in Academy of Management Perspectives, California Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies, among other outlets. His latest book is Born Globals, Networks and the Large Multinational Enterprise: Insights from Bangalore and Beyond (London, Routledge, 2015).
Markus Pudelko (PhD, University of Cologne) is Director of the Department of International Business at Tübingen University School of Business and Economics and Vice Dean as well as Associate Dean for International Affairs of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. Before joining Tübingen University, he worked for eight years for the University of Edinburgh Business School. For longer-term research purposes he visits frequently other universities, such as Columbia University, Doshisha University, Fudan University, IESE, Korea University, Melbourne University, Peking University, Sophia University, Stellenbosch University, Vaasa University and Waseda University. Since 2004 he co-chairs the EIASM workshop on International Management. His current research is on headquarters-subsidiary relationships, multinational teams, the impact of language on international business, Japanese HRM and gender issues, international and comparative HRM and cross-cultural management. He has published on these topics in books, book chapters and journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management, Long Range Planning, Journal of World Business, Organizational Dynamics and International Journal of Human Resource Management.
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. At prior positions, he held appoints in various departments including accounting, international business and strategic management. Dr. Reeb’s research interests range from founding-family ownership to the properties of global innovation, spanning deceptive trade practices in financial intermediaries to diversity in the workforce. He holds a PhD in International Finance, a joint program of the departments of finance and international business at the University of South Carolina. Professor Reeb has served the AIB in several areas: Two terms as the Accounting and Finance Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies (2010-2013; 2013-2016), the 2014 Mid-Career Consortium Chair (Vancouver), and as a JIBS Development Workshop Mentor (5 years). He first began attending the annual AIB meetings in Seoul, South Korea in 1995.
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 Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. Her research has received awards from the Academy of Management and the International Council for Small Business, and her papers have been published or are forthcoming in Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. She has held visiting positions at the University of Glasgow, the University of Adelaide, the University of Victoria, Australian National University, and Dartmouth College.
Matthew Robson is Professor of Marketing at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, in the U.K. He earned a PhD at Cardiff University, and served there as a member of faculty before taking up his Chair at the University of Leeds. His research interests focus on international and export marketing, distribution channel relationships, franchising, strategic alliances, and retailing. Matthew teaches extensively and supervises doctoral students across these areas. His research has been published in British Journal of Management, Industrial Marketing Management, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Organization Science, and others. Matthew currently is Associate Editor at Journal of International Marketing. He has worked on funded research projects amounting to approximately seven million pounds sterling.
Astrid Juliane Salzmann is an assistant professor at the Department of Finance in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. She has been teaching Finance at the RWTH Aachen University since 2006. Her research interests focus on international finance and cross-cultural research. She studied Management Mathematics at the University of Kaiserslautern and the National University of Singapore and received her Ph.D. in 2010 from the RWTH Aachen University.
Almasa Sarabi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of HRM and Asian Business at the Georg-August University of Goettingen. Her research resolves around communication dynamics between headquarters and subsidiaries with special emphasis on knowledge hiding and silence. She also works in the areas of global careers and subsidiary management.
Monica Semeniuk’s role as a PhD candidate in the Beedie School of Business (Simon Fraser University, Canada), builds on 20 years of experience in business. As a consultant, she worked with clients of varying size and complexity in multiple industries. Keen to share her workplace learning, she delivered presentations at project management events in North America, India and Australia. Moreover, her desire to enhance her inter-cultural communication skills took her to Malaysia, where she developed and delivered project management training within Asia, Australia and Europe. Her research interests include cultural intelligence, emerging markets, and humour.
Alexey V. Semenov’s research focuses on the issues related to international business and international management. By utilizing the institutional and internalization perspectives, Alexey examines the drivers behind the inherited disadvantages of foreignness and how such disadvantages affect multinational enterprises (MNEs) strategies. Specifically, he looks at how the interaction and the alignment between firms’ resources and environmental factors influence the liability of foreignness (LOF) faced by MNEs in various locations. Moreover, his research examines how multinational organizations select among a set of alternative strategies of diversification in order to reduce or even offset LOF while considering the various environmental contexts and different types of firms’ resources.
Arjen Slangen (PhD, Tilburg University) is an associate professor of International Business at RSM Erasmus University, The Netherlands. His research focuses on the antecedents and implications of firms’ internationalization strategies such as their entry mode choices and headquarters relocation decisions. He is especially interested in the role of institutional factors in these strategies. His research has been published in such journals as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Economic Geography, Global Strategy Journal, and Journal of International Marketing. Arjen serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, and Journal of International Management, among others.
Wolfgang Sofka is an Associate Professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization of Copenhagen Business School. In his research he focusses on how firms acquire knowledge and how they capture its economic value. He is especially interested in how these mechanisms are influenced by the internationalization of firms and markets.
Jaeyong Song is AMOREPACIFIC Chaired Professor of Strategy and International Management at Seoul National University (SNU). He received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining SNU, he was a Professor of Strategy at Columbia Business School and Yonsei University. He is a Korea Chapter Chair of the Academy of International Business and an editor of Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). He won the Richman Best Dissertation Award of the Academy of Management, the Hedlund Best Dissertation Award from the European International Business Association, Chazen Teaching Innovation Award at Columbia Business School, Korea Academy of Management Best Researcher Award, SNU Teaching Award, the best performing professor award from Yonsei University. He was chosen as one of the top 10 business/management gurus in Korea by Maeil Economic Daily. He was a keynote speaker for GE’s Global Leadership Meeting and SABIC’s Yearend meeting 2014. His research has appeared in top-tier journals such as Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, JIBS, Harvard Business Review, Research Policy, Journal of Management, California Management Review, and Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. His book “The Samsung Way” has been published in multiple languages by McGraw Hill and other major publishers abroad.
Vas Taras received his PhD in International HR and Org. Dynamics from the University of Calgary, Canada and his Master’s in Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas. He teaches International Business at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Vas leads a number of international business education and research projects, most notably the X-Culture Project. His research revolves around cross-cultural and global virtual teams and experiential approaches to international business education. His research team is particularly interested in the potential of large and diverse crowds of amateurs in solving complex business problems. Vas is on the JIBS Editorial Board since 2013 and is also an Associate Editor of the IJCCM, and the Editorial Board member of JWB, JIM, CCSM, and MRR.
Wenjun Tu (CPA, China) is a PhD candidate in the field of Finance at Nottingham University Business School, China. Her research interests include Cross-border merger and acquisition (CBM&A), MNEs from emerging markets and corporate governance. Her current research concerns the performance of CBM&As made by emerging market firms in both short and long term. Specifically, her research aims to understand the influences of micro and macro institutional factors (i.e. state ownership, cultural distance) on the performance of CBM&As. She also carries out government research projects about investment and soft environment in China.
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 most recent research focuses on the organization of global value chains and their implication for trade and cluster specialization patterns. On this topic, he has published widely in academic journals and has consulted for various Canadian and international governmental organizations including DFATD, Transport Canada, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
Ramya Venkateswaran is an Assistant Professor in Strategic Management at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. She completed her Fellow Program and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. An engineer, she has worked for 15 years in the Indian IT industry, in both Indian and multinational companies, before transitioning to academia. She teaches Strategic Management, Strategy Execution and Strategic Decision Making in International Business: Cross Cultural Perspectives – revolving around the X-culture project. Her research focuses on situational-moderators that determine when does culture matter to international business and also on the operationalization of cultural friction in entry mode.
Davina Vora is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College in German Language & Literature and Political Science and Ph.D. in International Business from the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining SUNY New Paltz, she worked at the University of Texas at Dallas and Coopers & Lybrand Consulting (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers). Her research interests span the areas of international management, organizational behavior, and strategy. She is primarily interested in multi/biculturalism, psychological attachment in a multinational context, group diversity, boundary spanning, global leadership, and the influence of cultural values on individuals and groups. She is on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and International Journal of Human Resource Management. She has published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Entrepreneurship, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Management International Review. In addition, she is actively involved in the Academy of Management and Academy of International Business.
John Wald is a Professor of Finance at the University of Texas at San Antonio. After getting his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, John was on the faculty at Rutgers University, at Penn State University, and then at UTSA. John’s research is primarily in the area of corporate finance, and includes issues in law and finance, international finance, and executive compensation. He has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business, and other journals. He currently serves on the editorial review board for the Journal of International Business Studies and on the board of directors of the Midwest Finance Association. He teaches classes at the undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. levels on corporate finance and international finance topics. Born in Poland, John is a citizen of the U.S.A.
Yi Wang is Assistant Professor of International Marketing at the Faculty of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, Finland. His research interests focus on FDI entry strategies and survival/performance of foreign subsidiaries operating in transition economies. He has presented his research papers several times in conferences such as the Academy of International Business (AIB), The UKI chapter of the Academy of International Business (AIB-UKI), the European International Business Academy (EIBA), and the World Business Congress. His research articles have been published in Journal of Global Marketing and in several international books as book chapters.
D. Eleanor Westney (Ph.D., Princeton University) is Sloan Fellows Professor of Strategy and International Management Emerita at MIT Sloan School of Management, and Visiting Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Her first book, Imitation and Innovation: The Adoption of Western Organizational Forms in Meiji Japan (Harvard University Press, 1987), explored the patterns of cross-border organizational learning, a theme that has continued to be a major focus of her interests. With Sumantra Ghoshal, she edited Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation (Macmillan, 1993; second edition 2005), and with several of her M.I.T. colleagues has written a text on organizational processes, Managing for the Future (Southwestern, 3rd edition 2005). She has written extensively on the organization of multinational corporations, on Japanese MNCs, and on the internationalization of research and development. She has been a visiting researcher at Hitotsubashi University and the University of Tokyo in Japan, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business since 1997, Chair of the International Management division of the Academy of Management, and Dean of the AIB Fellows from 2008 to 2011.
Sheryl Winston Smith is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and her B.S. from Yale University. Her research interests are at the nexus of entrepreneurship, global strategy, and finance. Her current interests include international entrepreneurship, including venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, and new firm performance; global innovation strategy and global sourcing of knowledge and innovation, including corporate venture capital and other forms of external knowledge search; and the role of intellectual property rights in innovation. Dr. Winston Smith has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including several from the National Science Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman. She is on the Editorial Review Board of Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). Her research has been published and presented widely. Prior to her appointment at the Fox School of Business, she carried out postdoctoral work at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and was a Visiting Scholar at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Michael 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, most recently The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems (2014, Oxford U. Press, with G. Redding).His papers have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Management and Organization Review, and Socio-Economic Review. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Asian Business & Management (SSCI, ABS Level 2) and a Senior Editor of the 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.
Xiaohua Yang teaches International Business and is the founding director of China Business Studies Initiative in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco. She specializes in internationalization of Chinese firms, international R&D strategic alliances, and foreign market entry strategies. She has taught and lectured in the USA, Australia, China, Taiwan, and Europe. Dr. Yang is a recipient of multiple Best Paper Awards from prestigious international conferences, the outstanding research award and the outstanding service award from the USF School of Management.
Jiangling Yi is a PHD student at the School of Business, Nanjing University, China. She is currently pursuing several streams of research. The first seeks to assess how early foreign firms' behavior is shaped by broader contexts such as embeddedness in geographic communities, how environmental conditions during founding periods leave a lasting imprint on contemporary FDI in China, and how these early imprints decay, reactivate and persistent during the institutional choas. The second explores the institutional change processes in emerging markets and the underlying mechanisms that the institutional quality and FDI inflows in Chinese cities have a U shaped relationship.
Ivo Zander conducted research on regional agglomerations and the internationalization of research and development in multinational corporations before moving into the field of entrepreneurship. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Research Policy. His current research interests include the organizational dynamics of start-up firms, corporate entrepreneurship, innovation and strategic renewal in the multinational corporation, and the entrepreneurial dynamics of accelerated internationalization. He teaches entrepreneurship and various aspects of growing and managing the international firm.
Mary Zellmer-Bruhn is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Work and Organizations Department of the Carlson School of Management. She received a bachelor's degree in marketing, a master's degree in management, and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior, all from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and joined the Carlson School of Management in 1999. Professor Zellmer-Bruhn teaches courses at the Carlson School on the management of teams, organizational behavior, and organizational change. She has received the Carlson School's Excellence in Teaching and Outstanding Honor's Faculty teaching awards. Zellmer-Bruhn's research focuses on teamwork, including the formation and design of teams, the social capital benefits of teamwork, entrepreneurial teams, knowledge management and team routines, and cross-cultural teamwork. Zellmer-Bruhn currently serves as Area Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. She serves on the editorial boards of Organization Science, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, and has previously served on the boards of Journal of International Business and Journal of Management.
Jing Zhang joined the faculty at Old Dominion University in 2012 where she has taught Strategic Entrepreneurship, International Business Operation, and Strategic Management. Her primary research interests deal with entrepreneurship, technological innovation and knowledge management. Dr. Zhang has 20 refereed publications in journals such as "Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice", "Journal of Business Venturing", "Journal of Management", "Journal of Management Studies", “Journal of World Business”, “Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal” and "Research Policy" to name a few. She serves on the review board for the journal "Long Range Planning", and works as an ad hoc reviewer for a number of journals. She received her doctoral degree from National University of Singapore.
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Yue (Kate) Zhang is an Associate Professor of Management at School of International Business, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China. She also serves as the independent director of a state-owned company listed in Shanghai Exchange Stock. Her research interests focus on the individual factors in IB studies, international human resources and cross-cultural management.