Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Grazia Santangelo

Grazia D. Santangelo is professor of Strategic and International Management at Copenhagen Business School and visiting professor at Henley Business School (UK). She earned her PhD in Economics at the University of Reading (UK) and, before joining Copenhagen Business School, held a Jean Monnet Chair in International Business at the University of Catania (Italy). She researches across the fields of international business, global strategy, and innovation. Her current research focuses on how firms deal with ethical issues and strategize about their intangibles around the globe; the evolution of firms’ internationalization process; and the nexus between institutions, and firms’ cross-border strategy. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Economic Geography and Research Policy, and has been recognized by a number of international awards.
She is Reviewing Editor of Journal of International Business Studies and a member of the editorial review board of Academy of Management Review. She also served as associated editor of Journal of International Management and Industry and Innovation.
Grazia D. Santangelo is a Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), and elected member of the Executive Board of the Academy of Management (AOM) International Management (IM) division. She is Division Program Chair for AOM 2022. She served as Chair of the Research Committee of the AOM IM Division, representative-at-large of the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society and as former EIBA president.
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Mitchell Koza

Mitchell P. Koza is Distinguished Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick. He has previously served as Vice Dean of Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick and Dean of the Rutgers School of Business-Camden. While Dean, the Rutgers-Camden MBA achieved a ranking of top 15 nationally in the field of Global Management, in a survey conducted by The Princeton Review and later published in Entrepreneurship magazine.
Koza has been elected to the Quality of Markets Committee of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey; served as committee member for the Best Paper Prize for the Strategic Management Society and NJBIZ awards to the New Jersey business community; and Chaired several reaccreditation visiting committees for the AACSB. For many years he delivered a weekly business report for WHYY-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate in Philadelphia. Koza is Founding Co-Chair of the Strategic Management Society Interest Group on Global Strategy, and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).
Prior to joining Rutgers School of Business, Koza spent eighteen years as an expatriate.  Most recently, he was Professor of International Strategy and Director General (CEO) of INSEAD-Cedep, in Fontainebleau, France. He spent 4 years at Cranfield School of Management (UK) where he held the Chair in International Strategy and was Founding Director of the Centre for International Business, and, previously, eleven years at INSEAD as a faculty member. Prior to his move to Europe he held appointments at UCLA, Yale, and Chicago.
Koza’s award winning research, cases, and commentary have explored issues of producing cooperation in international strategic management, and have been published in the major academic and practitioner outlets, including, but not limited to, the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, The Financial Times, Global Strategy Journal, Organization Studies, and Les Echos, and have been translated into eight languages. He is noted as a leading scholar in Who’s Who in Management Sciences.  Koza was educated at the University of Chicago (PH.D.), Harvard University (ED.M.) and Queens College, CUNY (B.A.). Koza maintains advisory relationships with several of the world’s most successful companies.
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Ursula Ott

Prof. Ursula F. Ott is Professor of International Business and Director of the Centre for International Business Strategy and Decisions (CIBSD) at Nottingham Business School, UK. She has a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Vienna and was afterwards in academic positions at the University of Vienna, London School of Economics as Schrödinger Fellow, Loughborough University and Kingston University London, as Director of the Centre for Experimental Research in International Business (CERIB).
Her research combines game theoretical reasoning of interactive decision-making in applications of bargaining, signaling and agency theory with organizational and cultural problems in international business. Her theoretical insights are tested with experienced negotiators and managers in experiments and also analyzed with configurational analysis (fsQCA).
Her research has been published in top journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, and as research monographs/books on international joint ventures and international negotiations. She is the recipient of Best Paper Awards at leading international conferences in International Business and Global Innovation and Knowledge. Her research projects received funding of the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Engineering, Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She is on the AIB Research Methods SIG Board as Vice-President of Webinars after receiving the Best Research Methods Paper Award in 2019. Her research has an impact in industry and politics (Integration/Migration and Brexit Negotiations).
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Mansour Javidan

Mansour Javidan is Garvin Distinguished Professor and Director of Najafi Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University. He received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota.
Mansour was recently recognized as among the top 100 most influential (i.e., top 0.6%) authors in Organization Behavior in the world.  He is also recognized as among the top 2% most cited scientists in the field of business and management in the world. His article on global leadership recently received the Decade’s Best Paper Award (2006- 2016) by the Academy of Management Perspectives. He has published in Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Leadership Quarterly, Management International Review, among others.
Mansour is Past President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness, globeproject.com) research program.  He is currently the Project Director and Principal Co-Investigator of GLOBE 2020, working with a team of 472 researchers studying culture change, leadership ideals, and trust dynamics in over 140 countries. The project has received close to $1.5 million in funding.
Mansour has offered executive development programs and conducted consulting projects in over 30 countries.  His clients include NASA, Abbott Labs, Accenture, U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Marshals Service, Aditya Birla, Alstom, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Statoil, BAE Systems, Bank Mandiri, BP, Cisco, Johnsosn & Johnson, Chevron, Telcom Indonesia, ExxonMobil, Commerzbank, Dell Computers, Scotiabank, Metlife, Europharma, Merck, Dow Chemical, Huawai, McCormick, and SABIC.
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Jane Lu

Jane Lu is Chair Professor and Head of Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong. She received her MBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and Ph.D. from the Ivey School of Business, Western University. She started her academic career at National University of Singapore where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
She served as James Riady Chair Professor in Asian Business and Economics and Director of the Centre for Asian Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne (2013-2017), and Parkland Chair Professor of Strategy and Director of the Centre for Emerging Market Studies at CEIBS (2017-2019), prior to joining CityU.
Jane’s research centers on the intersection between organization theory and strategy with a focus on international strategy and non-market strategy. Her earlier research investigates broad level issues that underlie the international strategy of a firm, as well as specific strategic questions, such as how to make a successful foreign entry into a country, or how to manage successfully in a foreign country.    Her recent research continues this line of research but with a focus on emerging market firms and their non-market strategies.
Her work has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management and Journal of International Business Studies, and other leading journals. She served as Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2016-2018). She is currently a Senior Editor of Journal of World Business and a Consulting Editor of Journal of International Business Studies.
Jane has been involved with the IB scholarly community for many years. She served on Doctoral and Junior Faculty Consortia at AIB and AOM conferences for years, AIB’s Haynes Prize Award committee for three years and chaired it in the fourth year. She also served as track chair in AIB conferences (2013 and 2021).
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Maurizio Zollo

Maurizio Zollo is professor of strategy and sustainability, head of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship and Scientific Director of the Leonardo Centre on Business for Society at Imperial College Business School. He is also founder and chairman of the GOLDEN (Global Organizational Learning and Development Network) for Impact Foundation.
His research currently involves the active engagement of corporations in the design and execution of field experiments focused on innovation-oriented or sustainability-oriented organizational change challenges. It also involves international institutions including the UN, EU, OECD, World Bank and WEF in developing policy implications to support and stimulate private sector efforts in these areas.
The author of over 50 publications, cited about 20,000 times in scientific articles, including the fourth most cited article on Organization Science to date and the first article showing neauroscientific correlates (fMRI) of strategic decisions on SMJ.
A past Editor-in-Chief of Organization & Environment (IF grew from 2,6 to 8,5) and of the European Management Review, he helped establish and develop the Academy of Business in Society, as well as the Stakeholder Strategy division of the Strategic Management Society, for which he also chaired the Innovation and Knowledge and the Behavioral Strategy interest groups.
Before joining Imperial College in 2019, Prof. Zollo served for a decade on the faculty of Bocconi University, and of INSEAD for the previous decade. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Sloan School of Management of MIT since 2012. He holds a PhD in management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a laurea degree in monetary economics from Bocconi University.  Prior to his academic career, he was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. and investment banker at Merrill Lynch in New York.
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Esteban García-Canal

Esteban García-Canal is Professor of Management and International Business at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where he is the Director of IUDE Business School and holds the Chair in Business Growth and Internationalization. He received his PhD in Economics and Business from the University of Oviedo, after completing the PhD coursework at the University of Navarra, of whose Institute of Business and Humanism he is a member.
His research interests are focused on the confluence between organizational economics, corporate strategy, and international business. Author of more than 90 articles published in leading economics, management, and international business journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Research Policy, Organization Studies, Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Studies, Harvard Business Review, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics, Management International Review, Business History, International Business Review, Industry and Innovation, R&D Management or Long Range Planning, among others. His most recent books are The New Multinationals and Emerging Markets Rule, coauthored with Mauro Guillén. He currently is or has been a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review, Global Strategy Journal, Management Research, BRQ Business Research Quarterly, or Universia Business Review.
He has been President of the International Management Division of the Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa (ACEDE) and coordinator of the Economics and Management Division of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Research Grants Council) in Spain.
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Stefanie Lenway

Stefanie Ann Lenway is Dean of the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis and St. Paul. At the Opus College, Stefanie has launched the Center for Innovation in the Business of Health Care, which facilitates research and dialogue across verticals in the health care value chain with the aim to drive innovation to reduce health care costs. The Opus College also continues to build on its strengths in entrepreneurship through the activities of the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship and in Principled Leadership through the Melrose the Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership.
Prior to her career in academic leadership, Stefanie was a Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Her teaching focused on Corporate Strategy and International Business primarily at the graduate level.
Innovation and technology disruption comprised the core of her research, which culminated with the publication by Stanford University Press, the book, Managing New Industry Creation, coauthored with Tom Murtha and Jeff Hart. This book tracks the evolution of the development of the thin film transistor (flat panel display) industry from inception to when it began to replace the cathode ray tube in televisions.
Stefanie has served on the boards of AACSB, the Academy of Management, and the Academy of international Business where she also served a term as President.
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Stephen Tallman

Stephen Tallman is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Richmond.  He holds a PhD in international business and strategic management from UCLA, and has been on the faculty of the University of Hawaii, the University of Utah, the Cranfield School of Management, and a visitor at SDA Bocconi, HKUST, Copenhagen Business School, and other business schools worldwide.
His research interests include global strategic management, alliance strategies, geographic clusters, knowledge strategies, and organizational learning. He has authored or edited five books and has published in Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Global Strategy Journal, and other peer-reviewed journals.
He chaired the International Management Division of the Academy of Management, co-founded the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and chaired the Global Strategy track for the AIB Annual Conference twice. He is the founding and past Co-Editor of Global Strategy Journal (2010-2016) and has been an Associate Editor for SMJ and a Consulting Editor for JIBS. He was a Western Academy of Management Ascendent Scholar and is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the Strategic Management Society. He recently entered the phased retirement program at UR.
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David Reeb

Professor David M. Reeb holds the Mr. and Mrs. Lin Jo Yan Professorship. He serves as a fellow of the Academy of International Business and Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). Dr. Reeb’s academic research centers on organizational structure, firm financing, and international business.
His articles appear in a wide variety of outlets, including the Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Finance, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, the American Economic Review, and Journal of International Business Studies.
This research generates numerous citations (19,000 Google Scholar and 6,000+ on Web of Science), including one of the most highly cited finance papers of all time. It has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Inc Magazine, SmartMoney, MSNBC, and several major newspapers and business magazines in the US, Canada, and Australia. He has also been interviewed on CNN and Bloomberg TV and previously served two terms as an Area Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies.
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