Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Tomas Hult

Tomas M. Hult, PhD, is a worldwide thought leader in international marketing, marketing strategy, customer satisfaction, supply chain management, and international business. He regularly speaks at high-profile events (e.g., United Nations, World Investment Forum, European Commission) and publishes influential opinion articles (e.g., The Hill, Time, Fortune, World Economic Forum, Dinero).
Dr. Hult is a member of the Expert Networks of the World Economic Forum and United Nations / UNCTAD’s World Investment Forum, and he is also part of the Expert Team at the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Dr. Hult has been featured on “Talks at Google” and per Google Scholar, he is among the world’s top-cited business academicians.
Dr. Hult was recognized in 2016 as the Academy of Marketing Science / CUTCO-Vector Distinguished Marketing Educator for his scholarly career achievements. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business. In 2019, he was recognized with the John H. Dunning AIB Service Award for outstanding service to AIB – as the longest serving Executive Director in AIB’s history (2004-2019).
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Saul Estrin

Saul Estrin is a Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy and was the founding Head of the new Department of Management at LSE. He was formerly a Professor of Economics, and Associate Dean (Faculty and Research), at London Business School, where he served in 2001 as Acting Dean.  He also held the Adecco Professorship of Business and Society at London Business School and was the Research Director of its Centre for New and Emerging Markets. At LSE he is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Economic Performance.
His research covers a range of subjects in international business and entrepreneurship, especially with reference to emerging and transition economies.  He has analysed issues including the relative performance of state owned and private firms; FDI entry mode; the impact of business group affiliation on internationalisation; and emerging market multinationals. Much of his research interest has been with contextualising MNE performance, especially with respect to institutions, both formal and informal. Most of his work is empirical, drawing on both archival data and surveys that he has been involved in collecting.
He also has considerable practitioner experience. He was a non-executive Board member of Barings Asset Management, Emerging Markets Trust and a member of the Academic Panel of the UK postal regulator, Postcomm.
Saul has been a visiting Professor at Stanford University, Michigan Business School, Cornell University and the European University Institute. He is an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford as well as the IZA, Bonn and a Fellow of the AIB.
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Arjen van Witteloostuijn

Arjen van Witteloostuijn is Professor of Business and Economics at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and Dean of the VU School of Business and Economics in the Netherlands, as well as Research Professor in Business, Economics and Governance at the University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School in Belgium. In the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, he was affiliated with the University of Groningen, University Maastricht, Tilburg University and Utrecht University (all four the Netherlands), and Cardiff University and Durham University (both in the United Kingdom), and he visited New York University (the US) and Warwick Business School (the UK). He holds degrees in Business, Economics and Psychology.
He is (former) member of the editorial board of, e.g., the, Academy Management Journal, Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management, British Journal of Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies and Strategic Organization. He was/is member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Dutch Parliament and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), and Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB).
He has published widely in such international journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Accounting, Organizations & Society, American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, British Journal of Political Science, Economica, Industrial Relations, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Management Science, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Personality and Individual Differences, Public Administration Review, and Strategic Management Journal. He strongly believes in work that crosses multiple disciplines.
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Anoop Madhok

Anoop Madhok is a Professor of Strategy and the Distinguished Scotiabank Professor in International Business & Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. He received his PhD from McGill University, Montreal and an MA in International Economics and Development from Johns Hopkins University. Earlier he was a Full Professor at the University of Utah and at Vrije University, Amsterdam (part-time). Additionally, he has held Visiting Professorships and research scholar positions at a number of institutions around the world, such as Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Melbourne and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, among others.
Professor Madhok’s work spans strategy and international business. His research interests include multinational firm strategy, interfirm collaboration, and economic organization and firm boundaries. His current research focus is on digital platforms and ecosystems, where he is examining issues to do with their design and governance. His work has regularly been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, among others, and has been recognized with prominent awards, such as Journal of International Business Studies Best Paper of the Decade Award (2005), the Global Strategy Journal Best Paper Award (2019), as well as Best Paper or Finalist in a number of prestigious international conferences. Additionally, he received the McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management Distinguished PhD Alumnus Award in 2009 and was also identified as one of the top contributors worldwide in international strategy research.
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Daphne Yiu

Professor Daphne Yiu is the Rath Chair in Strategic Management at the Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma. She was born in Hong Kong and a tenured professor in Hong Kong. Her scholarly pursuit focuses on examining how organizations make choices of organizational form, corporate and international strategy, as well as corporate governance mechanisms in relation to the institutionalization process, particularly in emerging and transition economies.
Her publications appeared in a number of top tier journals in international business and management. Professor Yiu was elected as the President of Asia Academy of Management, a Fellow of Asia Academy of Management, and Representatives-at-Large at the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society.
She is currently serving as an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Journal, and was Senior Editor at Journal of World Business, Senior Editor at Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Editor at Corporate Governance: An International Review. She is, or has been, a member of the editorial review board of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, among others.
She was a recipient of AMJ Outstanding Reviewer Award, publications with top downloads, best conference paper awards, and teaching awards. She also has extensive administrative and organizing experience by serving as department chairperson, associate director of research centers, and conference organizer. She has given keynote speeches and consulting advice to academic and professional associations, think tanks and organizations.
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Nicolai Foss

Nicolai J. Foss is a Professor of Strategy at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, CBS, Honorary Adjunct Professor, Department of Marketing & Management, Southern Denmark University, and External Chair, Danish Institute for Advanced Studies, 2020-2025.
Trained as an economist at the Copenhagen University (M.Sc.,1989), Foss his received his PhD degree from the Copenhagen Business School in 1993, where he was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, before he moved to Bocconi University 1 September 2016. From 2016-2019 he was the Rodolfo Debenedetti Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Bocconi University, Milano. He has held part-time and visiting professorships at several universities.
Foss has served as a panel member of the European Research Council and on the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society. He is a member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society.
Encompassing 227 journal articles, 102 book chapters and 26 books (edited as well as monographs), his work has been published in the leading journals in management. He has published books with leading publishers, such as Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. Many of his papers have been reprinted in research handbooks, and several of his articles and books are translated into Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. His google scholar citations are above 40k, and his H-index is 101. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He was listed as the “best Danish economist” by the newspaper, Børsen, in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
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Keith Brouthers

Keith D. Brouthers is Professor of Business Strategy at King’s Business School, King’s College London and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.  Professor Brouthers specializes in international strategic management, and he is the recipient of the JIBS Decade Award in 2012 as well as a JIBS 50-year anniversary award for scholarship in 2019.
His current research interests include entry and establishment mode choice, export channel selection, and the digital economy.
Professor Brouthers’ research has been published in leading academic journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
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Geoffrey Jones

Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. Professor Jones earned his B.A. and Ph.D degrees at Cambridge University, and holds an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School and an honorary Ph.D degree from the University of Helsinki. He has taught in Britain, the Netherlands and the United States, and has held Visiting Professorships in Colombia and Japan. Professor Jones is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Professor Jones researches the history of globalization and global business, the ecological and social responsibility of business, and the business history of emerging markets. Among his books on these themes are British Multinational Banking 1830-1990 (1993), Merchants to Multinationals (2000), Renewing Unilever (2005), Multinationals and Global Capitalism (2005), Beauty Imagined. A History of the Global Beauty Industry (2010), and Profits and Sustainability. A History of Green Entrepreneurship (2017). He has published extensively in both history journals, including Business History Review and Economic History Review, and management journals, including Journal of International Business Studies and Strategic Management Journal.
Professor Jones established and co-directs the Creating Emerging Markets oral history project at Harvard Business School. This project conducts lengthy interviews with the most impactful business leaders in Africa, Asia and Latin America over the last four decades. The transcripts and video materials are fully accessible online for research and teaching purposes.
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Rosalie Tung

Rosalie L. Tung is Professor of International Business at Simon Fraser University (Canada).  She holds the Ming and Stella Wong Chaired Professorship.  Prof. Tung has served as the 2017-2020 Dean of the Fellows, Academy of International Business; 2015-2016 President of the Academy of International Business; the 2003-2004 President of the Academy of Management.  Rosalie has been inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and a Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research.
In 2021, she was awarded the John H. Dunning Academy of International Business President’s Award.  In the same year, she was selected as the recipient of the 2021 Academy of Management, International Management Division Eminent Scholar Award.  She is also one of sixteen International Business scholars to be awarded a Gold Medal for “most substantive contributions” in the Journal of International Business Studies, the premier journal in International Business, in that journal’s first 50 years (1970-2019) of publication.  Rosalie was also selected as the recipient of the 2019 Academy of Management’s Distinguished Service award, an Academy-wide award; and in 2020 she was awarded the Academy of Management, International Management Division Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award.
Rosalie is the author or editor of eleven books and many articles.  She has also served on the editorial boards of many journals.
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Tailan Chi

Dr. Tailan Chi is Richard C. Notebaert Distinguished Professor of International Business & Global Studies the Lubar School of Business at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Kansas. He received his B.E. from the University of International Business & Economics, Beijing, China, his MBA from University of San Francisco, and his MA in economics and PhD in business administration from the University of Washington.
Dr. Chi’s research conducts economic analysis under the constraints of information imperfections and cognitive limitations and applies this approach to the study of international business and strategy. He is a pioneer in integrating the concepts of the resource-based view into a property rights framework to understand alternative organizational modes for pooling complementary assets from different firms. He is also a major contributor to the application of the real options approach to the analysis of interfirm collaboration. He has published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Management Science. He has co-authored a major textbook, International Business (4th ed., Routledge), with Drs. Oded Shenkar and Yadong Luo.
Dr. Chi is an Area Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies, and serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of World Business and Global Strategy Journal. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
Dr. Chi has taught a large variety of international business courses at multiple institutions around the world. Before entering academia, he worked as a business negotiator for a major Chinese trading company.
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