Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Stephanie Decker is a professor of strategy at the University of Birmingham Business School. Previously she worked at the University of Bristol, Aston Business School, and the University of Liverpool Management School. She is currently joint editor-in-chief for Business History and serves on the editorial board of Organization Studies, Accounting History, and  Journal of International Business Stu...

Roger Strange is Professor of International Business at the University of Sussex Business School, United Kingdom. His current research focuses on four main areas of International Business: the reasons for, and the implications of, the growing trend towards the externalization of production in global value chains; the effects of corporate governance factors on foreign direct investment decisions; t...

Bodo B. Schlegelmilch heads the Institute for International Marketing Management at WU Vienna and is Chair of AMBA [Association of MBAs] and BGA [Business Graduates Association]. He was Founding Dean of the WU Executive Academy and initiated the Vienna Executive MBA, leading it into the Financial Times Top 50 ranking. Starting at Deutsche Bank and Procter & Gamble, he continued at the Universities...

Shige Makino is Professor at Faculty of Economics/Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan, and Emeritus Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received LLB and MBA degrees from Keio University, and PhD from Ivey Business School, Western University. Shige’s current research focuses on strategies and performance of multinational corporations. He is especially interested i...

Wayne F. Cascio is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Business School of the University of Colorado Denver, where he served as a member of the management faculty from 1981 to 2020. A former area and consulting editor of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), he has published more than 200 articles and book chapters, and 33 books, including Managing Human Resources: Productivi...

Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research interests span from corporate governance and financial development to political economy and the economic effects of culture. He has published extensively in the major economics and fina...

Esther Tippmann is Professor of Strategy, Leadership and Change at NUI Galway, Ireland. Before joining NUI Galway, she was a faculty member at University College Dublin and Research Fellow at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France. Esther’s research and teaching interests revolve around the strategic challenges of internationally operating organizations. She has worked closely with several scaling f...

Pasha Mahmood is a Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School where he studies and works with multinational firms and local enterprises on their emerging market strategies. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s international panel of experts, acting as the co-curator for the ASEAN Transformation Map. Pasha obtained his B.A. in Economics from Oberlin College and...

Günter K. Stahl is Professor of International Management, Head of the Institute of Global Business and Sustainability, and Director of the Centre for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility (STaR) at WU Vienna. Prior to joining WU, he served for nine years on the faculty of INSEAD. He is an Academic Fellow of the Centre for International HRM at Judge Business School, Fellow of the Centre...

Paul Almeida is dean and William R. Berkley Chair at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he champions business as a force to serve the common good. During his tenure as dean, Almeida has focused on leveraging the school’s greatest strengths — its location in the global capital city of Washington, D.C., its ability to create interdisciplinary programs in collaboration with G...

Dr. Crystal Jiang has over two decades of business and university experience. She is currently a Professor of Management at Bryant University. In addition to her role as an Executive Board Member of the Academy of International Business U.S. Northeast Chapter, she also serves as Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, Guest Editor of the Journal of International Management...

Steve Werner (PhD from University of Florida, USA) is the JPMorgan Chase Professor of International Business in the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He also serves as Chair of the Department of Management and Leadership. His research interests include International HRM, compensation, and FDI. His academic work has appeared in Journal of International Business Studies, A...

Yongsun Paik is a Professor of International Business and Management, Director of the Center for International Business Education (CIBE), and the Center for Asian Business at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, California. Before he joined LMU in 1991, he served as a country economist at the Export-Import Bank of Korea and as a researcher at the Ministry of Finance between 1979 and 1...

Gautam Ahuja is a Professor of Management and Organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He has also served at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan from 2001 to 2017, and at The University of Texas at Austin (1996-2001), and as Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (2014-2015). Ahuja’s rese...

Robert Salomon is a Professor of International Management and the NEC Faculty Fellow at NYU Stern School of Business, where he also serves as Vice Dean and Dean for Executive Programs. Robert is an award-winning scholar and educator who has been teaching and conducting research on globalization and global strategy for nearly 20 years. He has been recognized as an outstanding educator and has recei...

Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business, Goizueta Business School, Emory University. He is globally known for his scholarly contributions in consumer behavior, relationship marketing, competitive strategy, and geopolitical analysis. Over 50 years of experience in teaching and research at University of Southern California, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia Un...

Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki is Professor and Chair of International Business at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is also Visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, UK. Emmanuella serves as Associate Editor at the British Journal of Management and as Senior Editor at Management and Organization Review. In 2021, she received the...

Luis R. Gomez-Mejia is a Regents University Professor, a Council of 100 Distinguished Professor, and Weatherup/Overby Chair of Management at WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. Gomez-Mejia, who has been named in several studies as one of the top management scholars in the world, has published more than 350 articles and 15 books in various management areas. He has received many i...

Usha Haley (PhD, NYU) is Barton Distinguished Chair in International Business, Professor, and Director/Center for International Business Advancement at Wichita State University. She chairs the World Trade Council of Wichita . Her research focuses on FDI, trade, international strategy, emerging markets, business-government relations, innovation and broader research impacts. She has over 322 publica...

Jan Selmer is Professor Emeritus, affiliated with the Department of Management at Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark. He received his PhD from the School of Business, Stockholm University, Sweden and he now resides in Stockholm. His research interest lies in cross-cultural management with a special focus on global employees, mainly investigating expatriates a...

Anne S. Tsui is Motorola Professor of International Management Emerita at the Arizona State University, Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Peking University and Fudan University, China. Previously, she was on the faculty of Duke University, University of California, Irvine, and the Founding Head of the Management Department at t...

Kaz Asakawa is Professor of Global Innovation Management at Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University, Japan.  Kaz received his Ph. D. and M.Sc. from INSEAD, France, his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his BA summa cum laude in Political Economy from Waseda University, Japan.  His research interest lies in the areas of global innovation and global R&D management of multinat...

Christine M. Chan is a Professor of Management and Strategy at University of Hong Kong. She is currently Associate Dean (Outreach and Global Engagement) and was Assistant Dean (EMBA, MBA, and Tpg programmes) from 2013 to 2018. Her research analyzes the influences of institutions on multinational enterprises’ foreign market entry strategies and performance in developed and emerging economies. She t...

Throughout his career, Professor Yves Doz has endeavored to act as a valuable bridge between management practice and academic research. He began his professional life working on international helicopter development programs, then moved into academia, first at HEC, then Harvard Business School, and joining the faculty of INSEAD in 1980. As a public acknowledgement of his bridging role, Professor Do...

Professor Attila Yaprak is a Professor of Marketing and International Business and Director, Doctoral Programs at the Ilitch Business School at Wayne State University. He teaches MBA and doctoral program courses in international business, international marketing, and marketing theory and strategy. His research has appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of...