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Klaus Uhlenbruck
University: University of Montana
Email: Klaus.Uhlenbruck@business.umt.edu
Research Interests: MNE management, international diversification, mergers & acquisitions, privatization, emerging economies, and entrepreneurial processes.
Jean-Claude Usunier
University: Université de Lausanne
Email: jusunier@unil.ch
Research Interests: The cultural dimension of international marketing as well as with cross-cultural and comparative management. Adaptation versus standardization of global marketing strategies as well as on cross-cultural consumer behavior (country-of-origin research). Language and how linguistic differences can be meaningfully used to assess cross-cultural equivalence. Managerial behavior in a globalizing world with special focus on how cultural and linguistic differences affect negotiation and trusting behaviors in international business.
Paul M. Vaaler
University: University of Minnesota
Email: vaal0001@umn.edu
Research Interests: Strategic management and international business. Time trends in the ability of firms to gain and sustain performance advantages in increasingly “hypercompetitive” and or “dynamically competitive” industry settings. Performance stability time trends in technology-intensive industries such as telecommunications, biotechnology and the Internet. Risk and investment behaviors by firms active in emerging market countries. Investment risks associated with emerging market countries implementing industry privatization and liberalization policies, experiencing economic instability, and or holding elections.
Sushil Vachani
University: Boston University
Email: svachani@bu.edu
Research Interests: Global governance, including the impact of NGOs on international business. Multinational-government relations. Multinationals’ impact on society. Entrepreneurship at the bottom of the pyramid. International diversification. The organization, control and management of multinationals and their subsidiaries. Third world multinationals.
Rob van Tulder
University: RSM Erasmus University
Email: rtulder@rsm.nl
Research Interests: Current research interests are in particular aimed at documenting the internationalisation strategies of multinational enterprises, how these strategies are influenced by (and influence themselves) the regulatory environment and to what extent this leads to more or less responsible behaviour. His basic research focuses on correctly measuring internationalization--and international diversification--over longer periods of time for multinational enterprises. The databank that is constructed at the Erasmus University for this research also serves as input for the annual World Investment Report of UNCTAD. Another area of growing interest is the impact of multinational enterprises on development, and positive and negative spill-over effects on local economies. Areas in which this topic has been elaborated is: [1] codes of conduct, [2] labeling, [3] supply chain management, [4] support of international institutions (like global compact), [5] corporate governance.
Filippo Wezel
University: University of Lugano
Email: filippo.carlo.wezel@lu.unisi.ch
Research Interests: Organizational ecology and strategic management, with a focus on long-term processes of industry evolution and organizational performance. Organizational diversity, inter-firm mobility, and other ecological mechanisms driving industry evolution.
Rohan Williamson
University: Georgetown University
Email: williarg@msb.edu
Research Interests: International finance, corporate finance, corporate governance and risk management/hedging. Corporate cash holdings along with the cross-country impact of liquid asset holdings. Impact of culture on finance and a paper that examines the home bias. Exchange rate exposure and risk management. Corporate investment decisions, foreign exchange rate exposure, risk management, corporate liquidity and governance. Corporate governance changes in the in the U.S. over the recent past and international corporate governance differences and its impact on stakeholders. This includes the role of country level institutions and beliefs on firm performance and value.
Joachim Wolf
University: University of Kiel
Email: wolf@bwl.uni-kiel.de
Research Interests: Research is focused on strategic management, organization, and human resource management of multinational firms.
Shaker Zahra
University: University of Minnesota
Email: szahra@csom.umn.edu
Research Interests: International entrepreneurship, Born Global companies, Techno-globalism, National innovation policies.
Raymond Zammuto
University: University of Melbourne
Email: rzammuto@unimelb.edu.au
Research Interests: Organizational adaptation. How organizational culture influences the outcomes of innovations and on the interplay between information technology and organizational form and function. Organization theory. Organizational structure and design, organizational culture, effectiveness, organizational and environmental change, and organizational decline and turnaround management.
Lena Zander
University: Stockholm School of Economics
Email: lena.zander@hhs.se
Research Interests: Research area is international management, specifically cross-cultural management of multinational organizations, teams, and employees. Apart from her work on national culture and interpersonal leadership, her current projects also include core values in multinational companies, developing theory in international management and on team leadership. Lena is also involved in an international research program on 'language and culture'.
Udo Zander
University: Stockholm School of Economics
Email: Udo.Zander@hhs.se
Research Interests: Research interests are managing the multinational company, knowledge, the theory of the firm, impact and power of ideas on international firms and society. His current research areas primarily regard innovation and entrepreneurship. He is also interested in institutional and organizational change.
Mary Zellmer-Bruhn
University: University of Minnesota
Email: MZellmer-Bruhn@csom.umn.edu
Research Interests: Multicultural, global, and virtual teams, diversity and perceptions of diversity in teams, team learning and knowledge transfer, the formation and change in management teams in start-up companies, and the effects of deadlines on team performance.
Bennet Zelner
University: Duke University
Email: bzelner@duke.edu
Research Interests: Cross-national research on how firms respond to and manage differences in their institutional environments, including both formal institutions—political, regulatory and legal institutions—as well as informal institutions, such as norms, values and culture. How firms manage political risk in industries recently subject to market oriented-reform, primarily electricity and telecoms. Risk in such industries stems not just from weak or underdeveloped political and regulatory institutions, but also from the fact that policies such as privatization, liberalization and deregulation are sometimes adopted in response to external influences—such as multilateral lenders—even though they are at odds with a country’s widely-held values and norms. Organizational underpinnings of the deterrent effect of various forms of “distance” on foreign direct investment in such industries. Imprinting and organizational learning, as well as gravity models of trade.
Minyuan Zhao
University: University of Michigan
Email: myzhao@umich.edu
Research Interests: Multinational R&D strategies - how firms allocate and coordinate R&D activities on a global basis. The interaction between multinational firms' internal organization and the idiosyncratic external environments that they face in different countries, particularly in the emerging economies. Policy implications of firm strategies.
Maurizio Zollo
University: Università Bocconi
Email: Maurizio.ZOLLO@insead.edu
Research Interests: 1. the management of corporate growth through M&A and alliances, 2. the evolution of organizations through learning, routinization and codification processes, and 3. the relationship between business and society, corporate social responsibility and the evolution of social consciousness in firms and managers.
Shaoming Zou
University: University of Missouri - Columbia
Email: zou@missouri.edu
Research Interests: Marketing strategy, global marketing strategy, determinants of export performance, product and promotion adaptation, international market entry strategy, global account management, international joint ventures, and international advertising.
