Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Axèle Giroud

Dr. Axèle Giroud is Professor of International Business and Head of the Comparative and International Business Group at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (U.K.). She is Visiting Professor with the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and Rennes Business School (France). She previously held positions with Bradford University (U.K.), and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Dr. Giroud has published widely, including books, academic articles in top journals (e.g. Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Management International Review, World Development), and policy reports for major organisations, such as DFID, the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation, the World Bank, the ASEAN Secretariat, and the United Nations.
Dr. Giroud currently serves as Area Editor for Journal of International Business Policy (JIBP), and Senior Editor for International Business Review (IBR). She sits on the editorial boards of several journals, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Competitiveness Review, International Journal of Emerging Markets, and Asian Business & Management.
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Birgitte Grøgaard

Birgitte Grøgaard holds a PhD from the Norwegian Business School BI, an MBA from University of Colorado at Boulder and a BA in Political Science from Vanderbilt University. Birgitte teaches courses in the Strategy and Global Management program, including: strategic management, international strategic management and strategic management in the global energy industry.
Prior to her PhD studies, Birgitte held various commercial positions in Norway’s largest oil and gas company Statoil. Her experience from working with headquarter-subsidiary relations in international exploration and production has particularly influenced her subsequent research focus. Birgitte also worked as a management consultant for Gemini Consulting, primarily targeting strategic challenges in multinationals. Birgitte has published/forthcoming work in the Journal of International Business Studies, International Business Review, International Studies of Management and Organization, and the Edward Elgar Handbook of Research on International Strategic Management. She has also presented her research at conferences such as the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, Strategic Management Society, and European Academy of International Business.
Dr. Grøgaard’s research interests regarding energy include: international strategies and subsidiary roles; energy firms; firms’ international strategies and subsidiary roles and subsequent performance consequences; and environmental influences on subsidiary roles and industry effects on firm strategies.
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Jennifer Oetzel

Dr. Jennifer Oetzel is a Professor in the Kogod School of Business at American University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Business Strategy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching broadly focuses on the competitive implications of social, economic, and environmental sustainability challenges. More specifically, she studies how multinational enterprises (MNEs) can reduce business risk at its source rather than trying to avoid or react to risks as they occur. By adopting strategies aimed at peacebuilding, managers may not only reduce investment risk but also contribute to stability and prosperity in the communities where they operate and gain a competitive advantage by doing so. Prof. Oetzel’s research has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the Journal of International Business Policy (JIBP), Strategic Management Journal (SMJ), Organization Science, among numerous other outlets.
Prof. Oetzel has been a longtime member of AIB and has served in a variety of capacities over the years. Most recently, she was invited to serve on the Ethics Review Committee. She has also served as Co-Track Chair three times (for the 2009, 2018 and 2020 AIB meetings) and co-organized the 2016 Doctoral Consortium at the AIB Meeting in New Orleans. Prof. Oetzel was a member of the Alan M. Rugman Young Scholar Award Committee from 2014 – 2017. She chaired the committee in 2017. Currently, she serves as an Editorial Board Member for five journals including SMJ, JIBS, and JIBP and she was Associate Editor at Business & Society. She won Best Reviewer Awards from JIBS in 2018 and JIBP in 2020.
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Elizabeth Maitland

Elizabeth is the Chair of International Business, at the University of Liverpool and has previously held appointments at the Universities of Melbourne and New South Wales, in Australia.
Working at the intersection of strategy, international business (IB) and health care management, her research currently focuses on individual cognition and decision-making, in three specific areas: (1) the nature of expertise and judgement in strategy; (2) the impact of distance on MNE strategy; and (3) corruption. She is also involved in health care management projects, on topics including the delivery of primary health care in Tibet, COVID-19, big data and epigenetics, vaccine choice, cancer treatment, and Hepatitis B transmission in migrant worker communities. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of World Business, and has previously served on the board of Human Relations. Her research has been published in leading IB and strategy journals, and a host of specialist medical journals, and she has been a Visiting Professor at the Business School of Nanjing University, in China.
Elizabeth has provided consulting advice on corporate strategy to the senior executive teams and boards of large, multinational companies and to entrepreneurial start-ups, as well as specialist policy advice to Australian and Chinese government departments and authorities.
Elizabeth is a Non-Executive Director of Blum Health Ltd, a software technology company, and the Treasurer and a Trustee of St George’s Hall Charitable Trust, which is responsible for the historical preservation and stewardship of the iconic, Grade 1 listed building in the centre of Liverpool.
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Robert Grosse

Robert Grosse is Professor of International Business and Director for Latin America at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, Arizona.  He joined the University in August of 1994, and rejoined in 2016.  He was Director of Leadership Development at Standard Bank in South Africa during 2006-9, Dean of the graduate business school, EGADE, at Monterrey Tec in Mexico after that, and then Dean of the business school at American University of Sharjah in the UAE before returning to Thunderbird.
He holds a B.A. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, both in international economics.  He has taught international finance and global strategy as a full-time faculty member in the MBA programs at Thunderbird, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, and at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain).  He has also taught in many universities throughout Latin America.
Professor Grosse is a leading author on international business and on business in emerging markets.  He edited the Oxford Handbook on Management in Emerging Markets (Oxford, 2019) with Klaus Meyer.  His book on Emerging Markets: Strategies for Competing in the Global Value Chain was published in 2016 by Kogan Page.  He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the Business Association for Latin American Studies.  He was President of the Business Association of Latin American Studies in 2005-6 and President of the Academy of International Business during 2012-14.
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William Newburry

Dr. Newburry is Chair of the Department of International Business and the Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business at Florida International University. Bill is also a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Nanyang Business School Center for Emerging Markets. He earned his PhD from New York University, co-majoring in international business and management. His research focuses on how multinational corporations manage and relate to subsidiaries and other local stakeholders when they invest in foreign countries, with an emphasis on reputation issues.
Bill was elected an Academy of International Business Fellow in 2020. He is currently serving a five-year term on the Academy of Management International Management Division Executive Committee (2019-2024). He also serves as President of the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE), as Series Editor for Research in Global Strategic Management and as Associate Editor of AIB Insights. Bill served as President/Chapter Chair of the Academy of International Business Latin America (AIB-LAT) Chapter (2012-2018). He previously chaired the Strategic Management Society Global Strategy Interest Group (2008-2009).
Bill has published 45+ articles in top-tier journals, along with another 20 chapters in edited books. He recently co-authored Building Strategic Capabilities in Emerging Markets (2020, Cambridge University Press), and has co-authored/edited four additional books. He serves on the Senior Advisory Board of Review of International Business and Strategy, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Thunderbird International Business Review, and Cross Cultural and Strategic Management.
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Paul Vaaler

Paul M. Vaaler is the John and Bruce Mooty Chair in Law & Business, a joint appointment to the University of Minnesota’s Law School and Carlson School of Management.  He previously served on faculties at Tufts University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Paul has also held visiting appointments at Harvard University where he was a Research Fellow, at Oxford University where he was the Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor of Business and Development, and at the University of Pretoria where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Paul’s scholarly and related practice-oriented publications address issues at the intersection of international business, law, and politics:  understanding long-term performance stability trends and their competition (antitrust) policy implications for firms in the US; understanding how migrants from developing countries remit money and ideas to fund, found and grow new businesses in developing countries with poor legal infrastructure; understanding how elections change the attractiveness of new democracies for lending and investment.
Paul currently serves the profession as an editorial board member for the Global Strategy Journal, as a senior editor for the Journal of International Business Policy, as a consulting editor for the Journal of World Business, and as co-editor-in-chief of the Social Science Research Network Global Business Issues electronic journal.  He currently serves the Academy of International Business (AIB) as chair the AIB Ethics Review Committee.  Paul serves the broader community as an executive educator, consultant, and media commentator.  More recently, he consulted for the World Bank and US federal judiciary on migrant remittance trends.
Paul received his B.A. in History from Carleton College, his M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. More information about Paul is available here.
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Zeynep Aycan

Prof. Zeynep Aycan holds Koc Holding Chair in Management and Strategy at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. She has dual-appointment in the Department of Psychology and Faculty of Management. She is the founder and academic director of the Leadership Lab. Aycan received her Ph.D. from Queen’s University, Canada and conducted postdoctoral studies at McGill University. Her research interests include the impact of culture on HRM practices, leadership, and work-life balance.
Aycan published 5 books and numerous book chapters and research articles published in journals including Journal of Applied Psychology;Annual Review of Psychology; Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior; Human Relations; Journal of International Business Studies.  Her book Management and Organizations in Cross-Cultural Context (Sage Inc., 2014) received two awards: Best Leadership Book of the Year Award from Chartered Management Institute (London) and American Psychological Association Ursula Gielens Book Award.
Other awards Aycan received in recognitions of her work include TUBITAK Science Award (the highest distinction in Turkey), Academy of Management Caroline Dexter Award, World Economic Forum Outstanding Young Scientist Award. Aycan was a visiting scholar to Harvard University, Aston University (UK), ESCP-EAP European School of Management Oxford (UK), Bordeaux University (France), Tartu School of Management (Estonia), and Renmin University of China. She is the Fellow of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and Association for Psychological Sciences (APS). She is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Workforce Strategy, Simon Fraser University.
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Joan Ricart

Joan E. Ricart, Fellow of the SMS and EURAM, is the Carl Schrøder Professor of Strategic Management at the IESE Business School, University of Navarra. In this school, he has also Director of the Doctoral Program (1995-2006), Associate Dean for Research (2001-2006), and Associate Director for Faculty and Research (2006-2014) and Chairman of the Strategic Management Department (1993-2016).
He was the Founding president of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). He has been President of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), and Vice-president of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management. He was the academic director of the EIASM and member of the research committee of the EFMD.
Joan E. Ricart holds a Ph.D in Managerial Economics, Northwestern University; Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; and Ph.D. in Economics and Business Administration, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Joan E. Ricart has a wide and recognized international experience as lecturer. Throughout his career, he has been visiting Professor in many Business Schools around the world: IPADE (Mexico); IAE (Argentina); IDE (Ecuador); UNISA (South Africa).  He has also supervised several doctoral theses and research projects.
He has published several books and articles in leading journals as Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Econometric or Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is co-academic director of IESE Cities in Motion and academic director of the UN center of excellence of PPP for Cities. His current work focuses on cities, business models, offshoring, and sustainability.
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Pierre Dussauge

Pierre Dussauge is a Professor of Strategic Management at HEC Paris. He is a graduate of the HEC Paris “Grande Ecole” (Masters in Management) program and earned a PhD. in management science from the Paris-Dauphine University. He was a visiting professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the Ross Business School of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1991 to 2003. He has also held visiting positions at Insead (Fontainebleau), at IESE (Barcelona, Spain), at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), at Tsinghua University (Beijing), at INCAE (Costa Rica), at the Stockholm School of Economics, etc. He is the recipient of various teaching awards.
Pierre Dussauge is the author or co-author of many articles published in academic or practitioner-oriented journals, notably the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Group Decision and Negotiation, Global Strategy Journal, International Studies in Management and Organization, Long Range Planning, European Management Journal, Defense Economics, the Financial Times, etc. Pierre is also the author of many book chapters and of several books in the field of strategic management, notably State-Owned Multinationals, J. Wiley & Sons, 1987; Strategic Technology Management, J. Wiley & Sons, 1992; Cooperative Strategy, J. Wiley & Sons, 1999; Strategor, Dunod, 2019. His research has dealt with global strategy, with a particular focus on global strategic alliances formed by competing firms.
In addition to his academic work, Pierre Dussauge has been a consultant or a management educator with a number of firms in Europe, in the US and in Asia.
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