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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.
Mike W. Peng
University: University of Texas at Dallas
Email: mikepeng@utdallas.edu
Research Interests: Current research interests are global strategy with a focus on emerging economies.
Mark F. Peterson
University: Florida Atlantic University and Universiteit Maastricht
Email: mpeterso@fau.edu
Research Interests: Engaged in research about national culture, personal values associated with national culture, and research design and data analysis issues in culture research. Recent publications have addressed questions of subcultures in relation to national cultures, cultural boundaries, the meaning of culture-related variables at different levels of analysis, the link of cultural values with social structures (roles, rules and norms), the relationship between culture theory and institutional theory, the implications of societal culture for individual cognition and values, and the implications of national culture and personal values for technology use.
Aseem Prakash
University: University of Washington
Email: aseem@u.washington.edu
Research Interests: Intersection of international business and international political economy. Issues of governance: how do governance institutions emerge, how they function, and how they impact individual and collective outcomes. Voluntary governance mechanisms and how trade and foreign direct investment influence the politics and institutions of host, developing countries. NGO advocacy and business political strategy.
Sheila Puffer
University: Northeastern University
Email: s.puffer@neu.edu
Research Interests: Russian business and management, with secondary interests in other BRIC economies. Specific areas of focus are Russian entrepreneurship, knowledge acquisition, resistance to change, information hoarding, corporate governance, as well as Russian multinational corporations.
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.
Subramanian Rangan
University: INSEAD
Email: subramanian.rangan@insead.edu
Research Interests: Crossborder competition among multinational firms, and crossborder cooperation within multinational firms. At a macro level economic sociology and institutional theory to international business. At a micro level interested in work that links psychology (primarily social dilemmas) research to the management of multinational firms.
Jeffrey Reuer
University: Purdue University
Email: jreuer@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Corporate strategy. Corporate investments such as alliances and acquisitions, using information economics and options theory. The contractual design of alliances and M&Amp;A, the roles IPOs play in acquisition markets, and the performance implications of firms’ growth options.
Matthew Robson
University: Cardiff Business School
Email: RobsonMJ@Cardiff.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.
Peter Rodriguez
University: University of Virginia
Email: rodriguezp@darden.virginia.edu
Research Interests: The economics of international business, trade and economic development, with an emphasis on corruption. Theoretical explorations of international trade policies and firm behavior to empirical and practice-based studies of issues in international business and management. The forces that influence FDI and early stage investments in emerging markets.
Jane Salk
University: University of Texas - 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.
Henri Servaes
University: London Business School
Email: hservaes@london.edu
Research Interests: Corporate control and the fund management industry. Sources of gains in mergers and acquisitions, the role of investment banks in acquisitions, corporate diversification, corporate liquidity, and the relation between insider ownership and firm value. Various aspects of fund management organization such as the decision to start funds, fund fees, determinants of the size of the fund industry, and the corporate governance of funds. Initial public offerings.
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.
Jordan Siegel
University: Harvard University
Email: jsiegel@hbs.edu
Research Interests: How companies can best manage institutional differences across countries. How firms can rent foreign institutions as a means of substituting for weak governance institutions at home, on how labor market institutions impact the design and success of global business strategies, and on how culture impacts the decision of where to locate foreign direct investments.
Tal Simons
University: Hebrew University
Email: tal.simons@gmail.com
Research Interests: The creation and change of institutions in particular those related to the cooperative idea. The relationship between organizations and 'the state'. Ideology's role as a determinant of organizational structure, practices and change over time in relation to environmental, institutional and economic pressures. Inter-organizational relations, their effects on learning and innovations in organizations. Communities of (similar) organizations and their co-evolution. Super-organizations' role in the survival and success of member organizations. The emergence of new organizational forms and genealogy of organizations. The evolution of industries, relationships between founders' origins and background and organizational form, organizational success and survival.
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: 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. 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@uiuc.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 & 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.
Mary B. Teagarden
University: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Email: mary.teagarden@thunderbird.edu
Research Interests: Global competitiveness and capability building with an emphasis on the management of technology firms, off-shore manufacturing and service activity, innovation, high technology transfer, sustainable development and strategic human resource management. Business in the Asian Pacific Rim, Mexico, and emerging market economies, including the People’s Republic of China, India and former Eastern Block countries. Project benchmarking the best international human resource management practices, and a project identifying the antecedents, consequences and dimensions of a global mindset.
Satu Teerikangas
University: Helsinki University of Technology
Email: satu.teerikangas@tkk.fi
Research Interests: Current research interests center around the area of mergers and acquisitions, particularly cross-border mergers and acquisitions, a topic that she has researched from the strategic, managerial, cultural and human perspectives, shedding new light to the challenges in managing M&A across borders. Thus far, her research has mainly been qualitative research with a realist/positivistic research ontology using the grounded theory and case-based research methods. On broader terms, she is also interested in intercultural encounters of people and organizations across national borders; cultural change in organizations; comparing M&A, joint ventures and alliances as corporate phenomena; the management of multinational firms; as well as multicultural and high-performance teams.
Laszlo Tihanyi
University: Texas A&M University
Email: LTihanyi@tamu.edu
Research Interests: Corporate governance mechanisms in multinational companies, the effects of institutional changes on organizations, and international strategies. Organizational adaptation in transition economies and ownership effects on the strategies of multinational companies. The role of the institutional environment in internationalization and the influence of social movement activity on the divestments of multinational companies.
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.
Adrian E. Tschoegl
University: University of Pennsylvania
Email: tschoegl@alum.mit.edu
Research Interests: International banks and banking, and especially on banking history. International finance, Japan’s economy and financial system, and economic geography.
