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Rajesh Aggarwal
University: University of Minnesota
Email: raggarwal@csom.umn.edu
Research Interests: All aspects of corporate finance including corporate governance, the economics of organizations, optimal capital structure, bankruptcy, executive compensation, initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, boards of directors, performance evaluation, and fraud and stock market manipulation. Currently, he is studying IPO valuation, the performance of hedge fund managers, and how corporate political contributions influence firm returns. Much of his research has to do with how organizations and top managers respond to financial incentives. Recently, he has been studying how these incentives lead to stock market manipulation and rent extraction.
Ruth Aguilera
University: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: ruth-agu@uiuc.edu
Research Interests: Comparative economic sociology in the fields of corporate governance, merger and acquisitions, and corporate social responsibility.
David Ahlstrom
University: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Email: ahlstrom@baf.msmail.cuhk.edu.hk
Research Interests: Management and entrepreneurship in transition economies. How organizations domiciled in Greater China are managed and compete, both locally and globally. Firm turnaround in East Asia, the nature of entrepreneurship and venture capital in Asia, and strategic alliance partner selection preferences by firms based in transition economies such as China and Russia.
Christina Ahmadjian
University: Hitotsubashi University
Email: cahmadjian@ics.hit-u.ac.jp
Research Interests: Focused on Japan, with an ongoing interest in South Korea and China. Economic sociology, organization theory and comparative institutional analysis. Comparative corporate governance, systems of capitalism, inter-organizational networks, business groups, globalization of capital markets, and changing management practices in the Japanese firm.
Juan Alcacer
University: Harvard Business School
Email: jalcacer@hbs.edu
Research Interests: Geographic strategies that firms follow to enhance their competitive position in global industries. How MNEs choose locations to acquire new technologies, how global firms compete across geographic markets, and how the value chain in global industries is distributed and managed across countries
Jaideep Anand
University: Ohio State University
Email: anand_18@cob.osu.edu
Research Interests: International mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, foreign direct investment and emerging economies using capability oriented and evolutionary perspectives. His research addresses how firm capabilities are redeployed across inter-firm and international contexts.
Ulf Andersson
University: Uppsala University
Email: Ulf.Andersson@fek.uu.se
Research Interests: Research interests concern strategic management of the multinational corporation, knowledge development and sharing in MNCs, subsidiary development, subsidiary influence and HQ - subsidiary relationship
Nicholas Argyres
University: Boston University
Email: nargyres@bu.edu
Research Interests: Strategy and structure; vertical integration, contracting and inter-organizational arrangements; strategy and the institutional environment; information technology and organization; organizational politics
Africa Ariño
University: University of Navarra
Email: afarino@iese.edu
Research Interests: Structure and process in the context of strategic alliances, including evolutionary aspects of the inter-partner relationship, management processes, alliance contractual features, and alliance performance measurement.
Gurdip Bakshi
University: University of Maryland
Email: gbakshi@rhsmith.umd.edu
Research Interests: Stock valuation, option valuation, term structure of interest rates, asset pricing, capital and currency markets, default risk, density approximations, aging, and international finance. The desire to accumulate wealth. How demographic factors affect the stock and the bond markets. The link between spanning and valuing derivative securities. Modeling stock market crashes, developing probabilistic models for a firm's credit rating and the term structure of credit spreads, pricing and hedging credit spread based derivatives, studying the relative flatness of implied volatility curves of individual equity options versus the index, the nature of volatility spreads, continuous-time models of volatility, Nasdaq bubble, and on understanding the contribution of return-jumps versus volatility-jumps.
Pratima Bansal
University: University of Western Ontario
Email: tbansal@ivey.uwo.ca
Research Interests: Business sustainability. Resource-based view, institutional theory, and social cognition to understand how and why organizations do and do not respond to social and environmental issues, and the outcomes of doing so.
Rene Belderbos
University: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Email: Rene.Belderbos@econ.kuleuven.be
Research Interests: International technology transfer and international R&D, innovation and technology alliance strategies, industry-science collaboration, foreign investment and divestment decisions, location strategy, strategic trade policies, and the impact of foreign investment on trade.
Gabriel R.G. Benito
University: BI Norwegian School of Management
Email: gabriel.r.g.benito@bi.no
Research Interests: The dynamics of foreign direct investment and foreign operation methods, with an emphasis on issues such as divestment, changes of foreign operation methods, and the global configuration and re-configuration of companies. The organization and management of MNEs, particularly headquarter-subsidiary relationships.
Heather Berry
University: University of Pennsylvania
Email: berryh@wharton.upenn.edu
Research Interests: The intersection of strategy and international business. How firms can exploit the opportunities that exist in foreign markets to create competitive advantages to use throughout their global operations. How different resources and capabilities lead to very different motives and outcomes for firms investing abroad and why different approaches to overseas investment can lead to better performance and long-term benefits for firms.
Rabi Bhagat
University: University of Memphis
Email: rbhagat@memphis.edu
Research Interests: Researches cross-national and cross-cultural variations in work attitudes, national value orientation, and other organizational attitudes, social norms and axioms. Examines robustness of theoretical models and research methodology in cross-national organizational research and in international management. He is interested in knowledge management and transference in a cross-cultural environment, and Asian Cultures and Global Corporations. He is particularly interested in cross-cultural differences in how they effect trust, perception of time in organizations, and economic growth rates. Would also interested in any other area related to marketing or MIS which has cultural underpinnings.
Julian Birkinshaw
University: London Business School
Email: jbirkinshaw@london.edu
Research Interests: The strategy, organization and management of large multinational corporations, and in particular on issues of entrepreneurship and innovation within such companies.
Gordon M. Bodnar
University: Johns Hopkins University
Email: bodnar@jhu.edu
Research Interests: International corporate finance and risk management. The impact of exchange rate changes on non financial firms, FX risk management and exchange rate risk, and the influence of international operations and their reporting on firms' market value and corporate financial policy.
Max Boisot
University: INSEAD
Email: boisot@attglobal.net
Research Interests: How information and knowledge flow within and across groups, within and across national and regional cultures and within and across national borders. How knowledge gets articulated to reflect differences in culture, in values, and in beliefs. The managerial, organizational and institutional implications of the modernization of China and of the Middle East.
Christophe Boone
University: University of Antwerp
Email: christophe.boone@ua.ac.b e
Research Interests: Research interests focus on linking individual differences with the dynamics and functioning of social aggregates, such as groups and organizations. Current research topics include the dynamics of top management team composition, person-organization fit, organizational demography and the mobility of professionals in relationship to firm performance and market structure. He is also strongly involved in research in the field of organizational ecology, studying the origins and consequences of organizational diversity at the population and community level of analysis.
Laurence Booth
University: University of Toronto
Email: booth@rotman.utoronto.ca
Research Interests: Regulated industries, corporate finance, valuation theory and the role of productivity and technology risk in affecting asset prices. The role of arms length contracting in affecting capital structure and dividend policies of firms in North American and emerging markets. Management of foreign exchange exposure and how taxes affect multinational firms financial policies.
Susan Borkowski
University: LaSalle University
Email: borkowsk@lasalle.edu
Research Interests: International tax and transfer pricing issues, particularly the effects of transfer pricing legislation on transnational corporation strategy. The transfer pricing philosophy of various countries' tax authorities, and the interaction between and among those tax authorities and the host and home country transnational corporations affected by their transfer pricing stances.
Maria Boutchkova
University: Concordia University
Email: mboutchkova@jmsb.concordia.ca
Research Interests: Applications of network connectivity theory to corporate ownership structures; pyramidal business groups; election cycles and stock market volatility across the world; political business cycles; ownership structures relevance to corporate cost of capital; privatization; international corporate governance; financial development in emerging markets; international capital flows and exchange rate regimes, global imbalances.
Chris Brewster
University: University of Reading
Email: chris.brewster@henleymc.ac.uk
Research Interests: Professor Brewster’s current research interests are in the fields of comparative and international HRM. In comparative HRM he is exploring the notion of convergence using institutional theory and a significant longitudinal database. In international HRM, as well as continuing his interests in the management of expatriates (and widening that to explore the link with migration theories), he is researching the strategies adopted by organizations to deal with the dual pressures of integration and isomorphism. This involves, in particular, examining how technology is changing the role of the corporate HRM centre and its relationship to the line. Chris has a particular interest in the management of people in international not-for-profit organizations and inter-governmental organizations.
Keith D. Brouthers
University: University of London
Email: keith.brouthers@kcl.ac.uk
Research Interests: International strategic decision-making. Entry mode choice, joint venture management, and competitor selection. Transaction cost, institutional, real option, upper echelon, and agency theories.
Lance Eliot Brouthers
University: University of Texas at El Paso
Email: LBrouthers@utep.edu
Research Interests: International strategy issues including entry mode choice, international product strategy, international entrepreneurship, emerging market firms and influences of aspects of the international business environment including cultural differences, corruption, and institutional environment differences.
Garry D. Bruton
University: Texas Christian University
Email: G.Bruton@tcu.edu
Research Interests: Entrepreneurship in emerging markets, especially China.
Mark Casson
University: University of Reading
Email: m.c.casson@rdg.ac.uk
Research Interests: Economic theories of international business. Theories that embed the analysis of MNEs within a coherent model of the global economy, the management of external sources of volatility is key to understanding the organizational structure of the firm. The economic history of international business and in histories of individual firms.
Xiao-Ping Chen
University: University of Washington
Email: xpchen@u.washington.edu
Research Interests: Group dynamics, social dilemmas, leadership, employee turnover, management related issues in China, and cross-cultural management.
Gordon C. K. Cheung
University: Durham University
Email: g.c.k.cheung@durham.ac.uk
Research Interests: Political economy in Chinese societies, especially China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Cultural aspects of Chinese business, social and economic capital formation of Chinese, economic enterprises of Chinese Diaspora, intellectual property rights infringements in Chinese societies and political and business relations in Greater China.
Tailan Chi
University: University of Kansas
Email: chi@ku.edu
Research Interests: Choice of market entry and operation modes, organizational structures of multinational corporations, and effect of a firm’s intangible assets on strategy and performance. New institutional economics (transaction cost economics, agency theory and property rights paradigm), resource-based view, and real options theory. Mathematical modeling and large-sample statistical methods in his work. Geographical focus is China. Reorganization and expansion of Chinese enterprises across industry segments and geographic areas.
John Child
University: University of Birmingham
Email: j.child@bham.ac.uk
Research Interests: International strategic alliances, internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises, internationalization of firms from emerging economies, and the organization of international firms.
J. Jay Choi
University: Temple University
Email: jjchoi@temple.edu
Research Interests: Current research interests include international corporate government, value creation in restructuring, global corporate risk management, international financial management, and Asian corporate finance and strategy.
Petra Christmann
University: Rutgers University
Email: ChristmannP@rbs.rutgers.edu
Research Interests: The effects of globalization on the natural environment, environmental business strategies and corporate social responsibility in the global economy, the relationship between environmental strategies and firm performance, firm self-regulation, and global standards for corporate environmental and social conduct such as ISO 14001 or SA 8000.
Wilbur Chung
University: University of Maryland
Email: wchung@rhsmith.umd.edu
Research Interests: Technical knowledge, agglomeration, and foreign direct investment. Why firms go abroad with particular attention to "knowledge seeking" activity and how firms' motives affects their location choice. Outcomes of location choice: how agglomeration affects firms' performance and how inward foreign direct investment affects host industry competition and productivity.
Nicole Coviello
University: University of Auckland
Email: n.coviello@auckland.ac.nz
Research Interests: International entrepreneurship, network theory and contemporary marketing practices. Internationalization processes, issues related to international new ventures, the dynamic processes associated with the development and use of networks in various contexts (e.g. internationalization, venture development, new product development).
Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
University: University of South Carolina
Email: acuervo@moore.sc.edu
Research Interests: How firms become competitive and how then they become international. Governance issues, corruption in particular. The emergence and success of developing country MNEs. Fieldwork in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Spain.
Helen De Cieri
University: Monash University
Email: Helen.DeCieri@BusEco.monash.edu.au
Research Interests: The changing role of the HR function in MNEs, global mobility and international talent flows, strategic HRM in multinational enterprises, expatriate management and cross-cultural management, the management of work-life issues, HRM in China and human resource metrics.
Andrew Delios
University: National University of Singapore
Email: andrew@nus.edu.sg
Research Interests: International strategy, foreign direct investment, entry mode choice, alliances and acquisitions. Theoretical domains of transaction cost theory, institutional theory, and various theories concerning the international operations of multinational firms. The geographic area of his research interests is the Asia Pacific region, although research conducted in any region of the world would hold appeal.
Timothy Devinney
University: University of New South Wales
Email: T.Devinney@agsm.edu.au
Research Interests: Structured econometric modeling of IB phenomena, international strategy, cross cultural modeling, the application of experimental methods to IB phenomena
Charles Dhanaraj
University: Indiana University
Email: dhanaraj@iupui.edu
Research Interests: Global strategy and management of multinational corporations. International joint ventures, strategic alliances, and organizational networks. Knowledge acquisition in alliances. Development of strategic capabilities in multinational corporations. Dynamics of institutions and innovation in emerging market firms. Theory development in international business.
Adamantios Diamantopoulos
University: University of Vienna
Email: adamantios.diamantopoulos@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Research interests are in international marketing (in particular exporting, branding, country of origin effects, and consumer behaviour) as well as in research methodology (especially measurement theory, structural equation modeling, and survey & experimental methods.
Desislava Dikova
University: University of Groningen
Email: d.dikova@rug.nl
Research Interests: FDI entry modes (the choice between wholly owned subsidiary, JV, greenfield establishment, acquisition); Foreign entry modes (export, licensing, or foreign direct investment); Performance of foreign subsidiaries; International strategies in transition economies; Multinational enterprises organizational behavior (global, multidomestic, transnational strategies); Mergers and acquisitions.
Jonathan Doh
University: Villanova University
Email: jonathan.doh@villanova.edu
Research Interests: Global corporate responsibility, offshore outsourcing, and corporate-NGO relations.
Peter Dorfman
University: New Mexico State University
Email: pdorfman@nmsu.edu
Research Interests: Areas of cross cultural and international management. Leadership processes and organizational behavior from a cross cultural perspective. Leadership effectiveness of CEO entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs. Secondary interest in international Human Resource Management.
Susan P. Douglas
University: New York University
Email: sdouglas@stern.nyu.edu
Research Interests: Current research interests are in three areas: global marketing strategy, cross-cultural consumer research and conceptual and methodological issues in international marketing research. Her work on global marketing strategy focuses on the competitive and spatial dimensions of marketing strategy, strategies in emerging markets, particularly in rural areas, as well as global branding strategies. Her cross-cultural research relates to the changing spatial and territorial dynamics of cultural influences and the implications for marketing research. Her current writing on international marketing research focuses on improving its conceptual foundations.
Peter J. Dowling
University: Victoria University of Wellington
Email: Peter.Dowling@vuw.ac.nz
Research Interests: International human resource management, international management and international strategy.
John H. Dunning
University: University of Reading (Emeritus)
Email: jill.mturner@virgin.net
Research Interests: The role of micro and macro institutions in affecting the determinants and impact of international business activity; and in incorporating the social and ethical dimension into our understanding of the interface between global capitalism and patterns of development.
