Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Timothy Devinney

Timothy Devinney (BSc CMU; MA, MBA, PhD Chicago) is Chair and Professor of International Business at Alliance Manchester Business School.  He is also the Director of the DBA programme and the A/Dean (International). He has held positions at U. Chicago, Vanderbilt, UCLA and Australian Graduate School of Management and the University of Leeds and been a visitor at many other universities across the globe.  He has published 12+ books and 100+ articles in leading journals. He served as an editor and associate editor of a number of journals and book series and sits on the ERB of more than a dozen journals. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts, Academy of International Business, the European International Business Academy, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Awardee and Fellow.  He has served on the executive of a number of academic associations (AOM, SMS, EIBA, ANZAM) as well as university, corporate and charity boards.  He regularly consults with major corporations across the globe.  
More information is available on his academic profile page and a longer list of publications and presentations can be found here.  He also maintains a blog which includes a number of public press articles. 
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Paul Beamish

Paul Beamish is Director of the International Business Institute at the Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Canada. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of over 60 books, 140 refereed articles and 150 published teaching cases. His books are in the areas of International Management, Strategic Management, and International Joint Ventures.  His articles have appeared in AMR, AMJ, SMJ, JIBS, and elsewhere.  He has received best research awards from AOM, AIB, and ASAC. In 2017, he received the PWC Eminent Scholar in International Management Award from the AOM.  There are over 36,000 Google Scholar citations to his research.  He served as Editor-in-Chief of JIBS from 1993-97, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and past Dean of the Fellows of the AIB. 
 Beamish has supervised 34 PhD dissertations: over a third have won major international recognitions. In total, 22 of his cases have won awards. His cases have been translated into one or more languages 160 times.  Over 3.5 million copies of his cases have been studied worldwide. In 2012, he received the International Management Outstanding Educator Award from the AOM. 
 In 2010, he established the 39 Country Initiative.  It allows universities in the world’s 39 poorest countries to use Ivey cases at no cost. To date over 2,000 professors from these countries have registered for access, and hundreds of thousands of copies have been used for free by their students.
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Elizabeth Rose

Elizabeth L. Rose is Chair and Professor of International Business at the University of Leeds, and Adjunct Professor of Business Policy and Strategy at the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur. She has held academic appointments in the U.S., New Zealand, and Finland.  
 Beth’s research addresses various aspects of how firms internationalize and compete across borders. Working at the intersection of international business, international entrepreneurship, and strategy, she is especially interested in the internationalization activities of firms from emerging markets – particularly smaller firms.  
 She is an AIB Fellow, and was named the WAIB Woman of the Year in 2019. Currently, she is co-editor of Academy of Management Collections. 
 Beth has held leadership roles in several academic professional organizations. In the AIB, she served as Vice President for Administration, working closely with AIB chapters around the globe, and was the founding chair of the Australia and New Zealand Chapter (now AIB-Oceania). She has also been President of both the Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA) and the Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS), and Chair of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Global Strategy Interest Group and the Academy of Management (AOM) International Management Division. She is Vice President of the Board of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM). 
 A dual citizen of New Zealand and the US, Beth completed her education in the U.S., doing her undergraduate work in Civil Engineering at Princeton University and earning her PhD in Statistics and Management Science from the University of Michigan. 
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Jay Barney

Jay Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and holds the Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the Eccles School of Business at The University of Utah. Professor Barney’s research focuses on the relationship between firm resources and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage.
He has published over 100 articles and seven books. He has been on the editorial boards at the Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management Journal, has been Associate Editor at the Journal of Management, senior editor at Organization Science, Co-Editor at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and served as the editor-in-chief of the leading theory journal in the field of management, the Academy of Management Review.
Professor Barney has been elected as a Fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society and has won the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award (Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, 2005). In 2010, he won the Academy of Management Scholarly Contributions Award—generally seen as the most prestigious award for research achievement in the field of management. In 2017, he won the Eccles School of Management outstanding research award, followed by the Penrose Award for Pathbreaking Management Research (European Academy of Management, 2019), the CK Prahalad Scholar-Practitioner Award (Strategic Management Society, 2019), the Foundational Paper Award (Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, 2019), the John Fayerweather Eminent Scholar Award (Academy of International Business, 2020), and the Distinguished Scholarship Award (Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management, 2020).
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Rajneesh Narula

Rajneesh Narula is the John H. Dunning Chair of International Business Regulation at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. His research and consulting have focused on the role of multinational firms in development, innovation and industrial policy, R&D alliances and outsourcing. He has published over a 100 articles and chapters in books on these themes. He is currently an Editor of Journal of International Business Studies and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Industrial Business and Economics.
He holds honorary appointments at United Nations University-MERIT, Norwegian School of Business, Oxford University, Simon Frasier University, and the University of Urbino. Prof. Narula was Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Development Research from 2009-2013, and Editor-in-Chief of Multinational Business Review from 2014-2016. In 2017, he was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). The honour is in recognition of his Services to Business Research. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (FRSA) in 2015.
He is a regular commentator on business and economics issues on BBC World News, Sky News, TRT World, CGTN, as well as a variety of print and online publications. He regularly acts as a consultant and advisor to the European Commission, UNIDO, UNCTAD and the OECD, World Bank, as well as a variety of other international organisations, governments and consulting firms. He has previously held full-time appointments at the University of Oslo, Maastricht University and Copenhagen Business School.
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Shaker Zahra

Shaker A. Zahra is  Robert E. Buuck Chair of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management, the University of Minnesota. He  has served as the department chair (9 years), Director of the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship (10 years), and the Academic Co-Director of Carlson Ventures Enterprises. He also served as the Founding Co-Director of the Center for Integrative Leadership at University of Minnesota. Previously, Shaker was Paul T. Babson Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College and Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at Georgia State University. He has been a visiting or guest professor at several universities in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Shaker has also held the 3TU Chair in International Entrepreneurship at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Shaker’s research centers on corporate and international entrepreneurship, dynamic capabilities in science and technology global industries. He is also interested in social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in family firms operating in technology industries.
Shaker studies industry emergence and its consequences for entrepreneurship. His research also explores the evolution and sources of novelty in companies’ strategic choices and their implications for firm heterogeneity.  This research contributes to the knowledge, organizational learning, and the dynamic capabilities’ theoretical perspectives– especially in young entrepreneurial and established companies in technology-based global markets.
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Nicole Coviello

Nicole Coviello is Professor of Marketing and the Lazaridis Chair of International Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. Previously, she was the Research Director of the Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises. Nicole’s other academic appointments have been in New Zealand (University of Auckland; University of Waikato), Canada (University of Calgary) and Finland (University of Turku).
Nicole’s research intersects international business, marketing strategy, and entrepreneurship. She has multiple publications in the top journals of all three of these disciplines, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Marketing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Journal of Business Venturing. Nicole is also co-editor of the Handbook of Measures for International Entrepreneurship Research (with Helena Yli-Renko).
In 2018, an international study showed Nicole to have four of the most influential publications in International Marketing- more than any other scholar in the world. In 2020, she was ranked as one of the top 1% of Business and Management scholars in the world.
Nicole holds a PhD in Marketing and International Business (University of Auckland), an MSc in Technology Management (University of Saskatchewan) and a BComm Hons Marketing (University of Saskatchewan). In 2010, she also received an honorary doctorate from the Turku School of Economics for her work in building the field of International Entrepreneurship. She is Associate Editor at the Journal of Business Venturing, Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies, and she sits on numerous other editorial boards.
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Sumit Kundu

Dr. Sumit K. Kundu is a Professor and James K. Batten Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business in the College of Business, Florida International University. He is the Associate Dean for International in the College of Business.
Dr. Kundu has taught several international business courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Florida International University, Saint Louis University, State University of New York, Northeastern University, and Rutgers University. His extensive international experience includes teaching at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), City University of Hong Kong (China), Saint Louis University Madrid Campus (Spain), and the Indian Institute of Management. He currently serves as the faculty director for the Colleges Executive MBA program and is the Ph.D. coordinator for the department of Management and International Business. Dr. Kundu has been the recipient of several teaching awards namely, Best Professor in Professional MBA program (2010), Best Professor in International MBA program (2007), Best Professor award in Masters in International Business program (2012, 2011, 2006), Outstanding Teacher in Executive MBA program (2004), and Best Course award in Masters in International Business program (2012). Dr. Kundu was named Outstanding Graduate Teacher of the Year (2003), Teacher of the Year for Executive Masters in International Business program (2003), and Teacher of the Year for the full-time MBA program (2003) at Saint Louis University.
Presently Dr. Kundu serves as a Consulting Editor for Journal of International Busines Studies, Associate Editor for Journal of Business Research and Associate Editor for Journal of International Management. Dr. Kundu sits on the editorial board of several journals, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Management International Review, Global Strategy Journal, Thunderbird International Business Review, and Journal of Teaching in International Business.
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Charles Dhanaraj

Charles Dhanaraj is Evelyn & Jay G. Piccinati Endowed Chair in Teaching Excellence, professor and chair of the Department of Management at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver.
Dhanaraj previously served at Temple University, where he was the H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest Professor of Strategy at Fox School of Business, executive director of the Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (EDBA) Program, and the founding director of the Translational Research Center, Dhanaraj has previously served at IMD Switzerland, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Western University Ivey Business School (Canada) and Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore). He has also been a visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Indian School of Business (India), Foundation Dom Cabral (Brazil) and Kellogg School of Management (U.S.A.).
Dhanaraj has published in several top journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal. He has also written over 50 teaching cases, several of which have received international awards.
Dhanaraj serves on the editorial boards of several major academic journals. He has served as a deputy editor at Cross Cultural Strategic Management and a guest editor at Leadership Quarterly and Management International Review. In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), a distinction held by elite researchers for outstanding contributions to scholarly development in international business.
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Farok Contractor

Farok J. Contractor is “Distinguished Professor of Management and Global Business” at Rutgers Business School, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), and author of ten books and over 150 scholarly articles. He holds a Ph.D. (Managerial Science and Applied Economics) and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, as well as two engineering degrees M.S. (Michigan), and B.S.E. (Bombay). He is on the Board of the Academy of International Business, a worldwide association of 3,500 academics and consultants as President-Elect (2020 – 2021) and President (2021 – 2022).
Farok Contractor’s research focuses on key issues in International Business, such as corporate alliances, emerging markets, outsourcing and offshoring, valuation of intangible assets, the technology transfer process, licensing, and foreign direct investment. His papers and books have been cited more than 13,800 times, and he is among the top-ranked contributors of scholarly papers in the field. Farok has chaired or been on the supervisory committees of 19 doctoral dissertations. He is the recipient of a Silver Medal for the number of contributions to Journal of International Business Studies (one ot the top-5 management journals) and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indian Academy of Management.
He has taught at the Wharton School, Copenhagen Business School, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Nanyang Technological University, Indian Institutes of Management (IIM – Ahmedabad and Calcutta), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, XLRI (India), Rutgers business programs in Beijing and Shanghai, Lubin School of Business, and EDHEC in France, and conducted executive seminars on four continents. He served Rutgers as Department Chair, CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research) Research Director, Ph.D. program coordinator, and other key school and university initiatives.
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