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Yigang Pan
University: York University
Email: ypan@schulich.yorku.ca
Research Interests: International market entry strategies, entry modes, entry timing, sequential entries, multinational strategies and performance, joint ventures, licensing, holding companies, and global brand strategies, as well as cross-cultural consumer research.
Ravi Ramamurti
University: Northeastern University
Email: r.ramamurti@neu.edu
Research Interests: Emerging MNCs from emerging markets. International competitiveness of firms in emerging markets, particularly China and India. Corporate strategy and business-government relations in emerging markets. Internationalization process of firms, global strategy, cluster formation, offshoring, and MNE-host government relations in emerging markets.
Padma Rao Sahib
University: University of Groningen
Email: p.rao.sahib@rug.nl
Research Interests: Theoretical and empirical development of matching models applied to diverse contexts such as M&As, alliances between firms and matches, between teams and managers, and firms and their institutional settings. Determinants of timing and duration of M&As, role of institutional differences and organizational learning in M&As. Methodological research on duration models.
Matthew Robson
University: University of Leeds
Email: mjro@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Research Interests: The establishment, management, and performance of interorganizational relationships. International collaborative strategies, including joint ventures, alliances, franchising networks, and exporter-importer deals, as well as the role of social and structural processes within relationship management and marketing.
Tom Roehl
University: Western Washington University
Email: tom.roehl@wwu.edu
Research Interests: Transaction cost economics; optimal contracting between firms; determinants of foreign investment; Japanese Business System; comparative business relationships in Asia; industry research experience in trading companies, aerospace, electronic brokerage, pharmaceuticals and autos. Current research is on relational trust between contracting parties, on liability of foreignness, and on comparative institutional relationships in Asian firms.
Martin Roth
University: University of South Carolina
Email: mroth@moore.sc.edu
Research Interests: How managers can utilize information about the international environments in which they compete to enhance their marketing strategies, focusing on both marketing program content (e.g., brand image strategies, advertising messages, country of origin effects) and marketing knowledge sharing within MNCs.
Jane Salk
University: University of Texas at Dallas
Email: jane.salk@utdallas.edu
Research Interests: Organizational Learning, Alliances and Innovation in Cross-Cultural contexts. The intersection of Strategy and Group and Organizational dynamics. Qualitative research (ethnography, grounded theory).
Robert Salomon
University: New York University
Email: rsalomon@stern.nyu.edu
Research Interests: The management and economics of international expansion. Why firms enter foreign markets; how firms select entry modes; how firms manage cross-border technology transfers; and how international expansion impacts innovation performance.
Saeed Samiee
University: University of Tulsa
Email: samiee@utulsa.edu
Research Interests: International marketing including international marketing strategy, exporting and export marketing, international distribution and retailing, relationship marketing, electronic commerce in an international context, and cross-cultural research methodology.
Aviv Shoham
University: University of Haifa
Email: ashoham@research.haifa.ac.il
Research Interests: International/global/cross-cultural marketing, defined broadly to include marketing management and consumer behavior topics. Marketing strategies and their impact on performance in for-profit and not-for-profit contexts. Consumer behavior including for-profit and not-for-profit issues. The relationships between personality concepts [such as compulsiveness and impulsiveness], attitudes [such as animosity], values [such as materialism or cultural values], and actual consumption behavior.
Leo Sleuwaegen
University: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Email: Leo.Sleuwaegen@econ.kuleuven.be
Research Interests: The economics of the multinational firm and global strategy. The relocation of economic activities to other countries, offshoring, intra-firm trade, international strategic alliances, foreign market entry, the decentralization of R&D activities , global concentration , market power and anti-trust policy.
Jaeyong Song
University: Seoul National University
Email: jsong@snu.ac.kr
Research Interests: Global strategy of multinational corporations; innovation strategy; knowledge creation, diffusion, and management; diversification strategy of business groups, and strategy in the era of digital convergence.
Arndt Sorge
University: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Email: sorge@wzb.eu
Research Interests: The interaction between international and national or local levels and policies, in multinational enterprises and in regulatory domains such as organizational structure and processes, modes of entry, corporate governance, technical change, vocational education and training, HRM, and industrial relations. National systems and institutions in Europe; direct fieldwork experience in the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and France. MNEs in Western and Eastern Europe. Conceptual and methodological interests are in midrange theory (Eisenhardt) and comparative case analysis.
Jennifer Spencer
University: George Washington University
Email: jspencer@gwu.edu
Research Interests: International corporate strategy, with a focus on knowledge spillovers between firms, global technology strategies of firms in high technology industries, international entrepreneurship, and the strategies of both multinational enterprises and indigenous enterprises in developing countries. Institutional theory and knowledge-based theories of the firm.
Daniel Sullivan
University: University of Delaware
Email: sullivad@lerner.udel.edu
Research Interests: Wide-ranging and continually evolving still, the enduring themes of my research center on matters of ontology (the types of questions that we engage and the knowledge that we profess to know) and epistemology (how we operationalize, test, and interpret what we profess to know) in the realm of international business. Less esoterically, I bring these ideas to bear in investigating topics that touch on the academic and practical aspects of Globalization and Business, Executive Leadership, International Management, Chaos Theory, and Principles of Measurement.
Ursula Sullivan
University: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: uyas@illinois.edu
Research Interests: Managing marketing channels, distribution alliances, and channel strategy. Marketing communications with multichannel customers. Supply chain management. The integration of logistics and marketing. Horizontal distribution alliances. The international pharmaceutical Industry. Alliance structure and success in the global airline industry.
Riki Takeuchi
University: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Email: mnrikit@ust.hk
Research Interests: Understanding social exchange relationships among various organizational constituents. Cross-cultural adjustment processes international assignment experience for expatriate and spouses. Macro/strategic human resource management with particular focus on employer-employee relationship and examines the role of human resource systems at multiple levels, including firm-, business unit-, and individual-levels. The mediating mechanisms through which a system of HR practices affects overall establishment performance. resource-based view of the firm and the social exchange as its theoretical foundations in conceptualizing and measuring the mediators. Organizational behavior. Social exchange relationships with an emphasis on organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors. Justice climates and organizational citizenship behaviors.
Marios Theodosiou
University: University of Cyprus
Email: mariosth@ucy.ac.cy
Research Interests: Standardization versus adaptation of marketing strategy in international markets, the impact of marketing strategy on performance in the context of international business ventures, export marketing strategy, export sales management, cross-cultural advertising.
Laszlo Tihanyi
University: Texas A&M University
Email: LTihanyi@tamu.edu
Research Interests: Corporate governance in multinational companies, the effects of institutional changes on organizations, and international strategies. Organizational adaptation in emerging economies and the influence of social movements on foreign direct investment.
Dean Tjosvold
University: Lingnan University
Email: tjosvold@ln.edu.hk
Research Interests: Cooperative teamwork, leadership, and conflict management. China and is developing frameworks useful for understanding cross-cultural interaction. Interdependence, teamwork, and conflict broadly defined and occurring in such settings as international alliances, supply chain relationships, strategic alliances, and government-business collaboration. Power and leadership in various settings, including cross-cultural ones.
Eric Tsang
University: University of Texas at Dallas
Email: ewktsang@utdallas.edu
Research Interests: My current research interests include: organizational learning in an international context, cross-border knowledge flows in MNCs, inter-organizational knowledge transfer within strategic alliances, cross-border make-or-buy decisions, foreign direct investment in emerging economies, management of international joint ventures, the effects of cultural, economic, geographic, or institutional distance on the performance of MNCs.
Adrian E. Tschoegl
University: University of Pennsylvania
Email: tschoegl@wharton.upenn.edu
Research Interests: International banks and banking, and especially on banking history. International finance, Japan's economy and financial system, and economic geography.
