Engaging Emerging Markets Faculty Researchers

Meet our faculty colleagues here at Ivey and at institutions around the world who have
undertaken research that is relevant to Ivey's Research Centre for Engaging Emerging Markets.


 
Dr. Paul W. Beamish
Director

Paul Beamish holds the Canada Research Chair in International Business and the Donald L. Triggs Chair in International Business. He serves as Director of Ivey Publishing and is the founding Director of Ivey’s Asian Management Institute. His research interests and expertise are in the areas of joint ventures and alliances, business strategy, emerging markets, China/Japan/Asia, exporting, and international management. In 2011, Beamish celebrated a milestone in his publishing career - 100 research papers, 50 books, 25 doctorals 
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Ivey Faculty

 
Dr. Oana Branzei
Assistant Professor, Strategy

Oana Branzei is the David G. Burgoyne Faculty Fellow. Her research interests include internal and external sources of competitive advantage, the role of heterogeneous networks in capability recognition and development and the dynamics of value creation and appropriation in emerging institutional fields. Her current major research initiative, in collaboration with academics and executives in North America, Africa and Asia, explores the creation and appropriation of economic, social and environmental value, the contribution of grassroots microenterprise to poverty alleviation and post-conflict stabilization, and the diffusion of pro-poor, for profit institutions. Branzei’s ongoing projects in Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda are unfolding in collaboration with the International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank and Care Enterprise Partners.
 
   
Dr. Shih-fen Chen
Associate Professor, International Business

Shih-Fen Chen is the William Shurniak Professor in International Business. His research analyzes the allocation of branding rights between two business partners, often located in different nations, in delivering their joint output to a common customer. He calls it "institutional economics of branding", a framework that he uses to study inter-firm cooperation in various business settings, such as international technology transfer, offshore sourcing, channel cooperation, etc. His other research interests cover several issues in foreign investment, particularly entry mode choices.
 
   
Dr. David Conklin
Professor, Business, Economics and Public Policy (BEPP)

David Conklin is the James D. Fleck Professor in International Business.
His research work focuses on the interface between corporations and public policies.  Emphasis is on the ways in which the economic, political, social, and technological forces differ among countries throughout the world, and it analyzes business decision-making in the context of these forces.
 
   
Dr. Niraj Dawar
Professor, Marketing

Niraj Dawar is the
R.A. Barford Professor in Marketing Communications. His current research focuses on brand equity and brand management issues. His is well published on brand extensions, consumers use of brand and international consumer behaviour. His specific interest lies in competition between local firms and multinationals in emerging markets.
 
   

Dr. Charles Dhanaraj
Adjunct Faculty, Ivey School of Business
Associate Professor of Management, Kelley School of Business

Dhanaraj's research, consulting and teaching revolve around three inter-related themes: Globalization, Innovation, and Collaboration.  An engineer by training, Dhanaraj worked in India for six years in manufacturing, strategic planning and business development. He has worked in India, Singapore, Canada and the US, and has been involved with international research projects with large multinational companies such as Eli Lilly, Cummins, GM Allison Transmissions, Rolls Royce (UK), Tata (India), Ranbaxy (India), Haier (China), and Samsung (Korea). His research and teaching has taken him to numerous countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He has served as a guest faculty in business schools in India, China and Denmark, and has won several awards for his research. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Management and Organization Review. He has also authored a number of award winning cases.  He teaches global strategic management, doing business in emerging markets, and managing international alliances, and has done advanced training in Singapore, Denmark, India, Malaysia, Canada and the United States.

 
   
Dr. Lynn Imai
Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour

Imai's research primarily focuses on cross-cultural organizational behaviour with an emphasis on negotiation. Given that many theories and prescribed practice in organizational behaviour are implicitly laden with Western cultural assumptions, her research seeks to uncover the degree to which such theories are generalizable beyond a Western context.  
 
   

Dr. Ariff Kachra
Assistant Professor, Strategy
Director, India Development

Kachra's research interests are in the area of international joint ventures, the international joint venture general manager and global collaboration and cross-cultural exchange. He has a special interest in exchange relationships that exist between partners in two and multi-partner cross-national joint ventures.

 
   
Dr. Harry Lane
Professor Emeritus

Harry Lane is the Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business at the College of Business Administration, Northeastern University. He serves as the Director, Institute of Global Innovation Management. Prior to joining Northeastern University in September 1999, Lane served for 23 years on the faculty at Ivey. His research interests are intercultural management and diversity management as well as organizational learning and strategic renewal.
 
   
Dr. C.C. (Cara) Maurer
Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior

Maurer's research interests include organizational diversity, culture, CSR, and firm strategy. Her current research project focuses on the risks and benefits from firm differentiation strategies that are based on organizational diversity.
 
   
Dr. Darren Meister
Associate Professor, Information Systems

Darren Meister is the Robert V. Brouillard Faculty Fellow. His interests in emerging markets lie in two areas. The first topic, based on his work in knowledge management, involves the transfer of best practices within global companies to operations in emerging markets and the integration of these markets into firms best practice development processes. The second focuses on the development of the IT infrastructure required to support global operations, including those in emerging markets.
 
   
Dr. Hubert Pun
Assistant Professor, Management Science

Pun's research focuses on both supply chain management (channel structure, incentive alignment, outsourcing) and healthcare operations (patient flow). He is especially interested in finding the optimal policies for manufacturers under consideration of the strategic actions of their overseas upstream suppliers and downstream retailers.
 
   
Dr. W. Glenn Rowe
Associate Professor, Strategy

Glenn Rowe is the Paul MacPherson Chair in Strategic Leadership. He is involved in several projects related to the Emerging Markets research center. In one, he is examining the role of key employees from a strategic management perspective, particularly with respect to international operations of organizations. This study is a longitudinal examination of the causes of the change of an expatriate General Manager to a non-expatriate General Manager. In a second project, he is assessing the interactive effect of product diversification and international diversification on SME performance. In a third project, he is examining the effect of the corporate strategy of parents on joint venture performance in an international context.
 
   
Dr. Stephen G. Sapp
Associate Professor, Finance

Stephen Sapp is the Bank of Montreal Faculty Fellow.
His research interests are concentrated in international finance, particularly in how the globalization of financial markets has influenced the observed behavior and interactions between these markets. He is particularly interested in risks in emerging markets.
 
   
Dr. Jean-Louis Schaan
Professor, Strategic Management and International Business

Jean-Louis Schaan is the Donald F. Hunter Professor of International Business. A professor of international strategy, his areas of interest are international alliances, the globalization strategies of companies from emerging markets, global brand and branding strategies, relationship between innovation and alliances, and management of global R&D.
 
   
Dr. David Sharp
Associate Professor, Managerial Accounting and Control

David Sharp is the William G. Davis Chair in International Trade. His
research interests centre around international management accounting and management decision-making issues. He has particular interest in accounting control in international joint ventures in China. 
 
   
Dr. Yaqi Shi
Assistant Professor, Management Accounting & Control

Shi's research interests focus on international accounting and corporate governance issues. Presently, she is conducting research on voluntary disclosure for international firms. She is also intrigued by emerging markets issues, and hopes to help decipher the economic myth in emerging economies.

 
   
Dr. Michael Sider
Assistant Professor, Management Communications

Sider's interests centre around intercultural communication, rhetorical analysis, symbolic convergence theory and organizational narrative, business writing, writing theory and pedagogy.
 
   
Dr. Colette Southam
Assistant Professor, Finance-Economics

Southam’s primary research interest is international finance. She studies the segmentation of the global capital and executive labour markets and its mitigation by cross-listing, and strives to provide insight into the compensation practices that have been accused of encouraging excessive risk-taking during the recent financial crisis.  She has recently begun looking at the impact of capital structure and global diversification on Asian joint ventures.
   
Dr. Ning Su
Assistant Professor, Information Systems

Su’s research investigates global sourcing of knowledge-intensive services, from two opposite perspectives: sourcing clients and service providers. His study is based on extensive field research in industries such as financial services, technology, and consulting, and from locations including North America, Europe, Japan, India, and China.
 
   
Dr. Christopher Williams
Assistant Professor, International Business

Williams' research falls into the broad areas of entrepreneurship and organization in multinational enterprises, managing offshore outsourcing and the transition of knowledge-intensive work overseas, and national systems of innovation.
 
   
Dr. Xinghao (Shaun) Yan
Assistant Professor, Management Science

Yan’s research interests include information asymmetry, information sharing, inventory sharing, supplier selection and quality competition in decentralized supply chains. His other research interests cover issues in healthcare, particularly information asymmetry and optimization of hospital operations parameters.
 

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External Faculty Colleagues

Dr. Neil R. Abramson

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC

Dr. Azimah Ainuddin

Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia

Dr. Marina Apaydin

The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Hari Bapuji

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

Dr. Kevin Boeh Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington
Dr. Arjun Bhardwaj 

University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus)

Dr. Nikhil Celly

The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Chris Changwha Chung

Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Dr. Andrew Delios 

National University of Singapore

Dr. Dev Dutta

University of New Hampshire

Dr. Yulin Fang 

City University of Hong Kong

Dr. Carl Fey 

Nottingham University Business School China

Dr. Anthony Goerzen

Queen's University, Kingston, ON 

Dr. Laura Guerrero

The University of Texas at El Paso

Dr. Louis Hebert

HEC Montreal, Montreal, QC

Dr. Andrew Inkpen

Thunderbird School of Global Management, Glendale, AZ

Dr. Akitoshi Ito

Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Dr. G.L. Frank Jiang Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
Dr. Joy Ruihua Jiang 

Oakland University, Rochester, NY

Dr. Jae Jung

University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO

Dr. Geoffrey M. Kistruck

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Dr. Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Dr. Jianping (James) Liang

Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Dr. Dominic Lim

Brock University, St. Catharines, ON

Dr. Jane Lu

National University of Singapore

Dr. Nathaniel Lupton Fordham University, New York
Dr. Shige Makino

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. Elie Matta

HEC School of Management, Paris, France

Dr. Martha Maznevski

IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr. Daina Mazutis IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Veronika Papyrina

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Dr. Daina Mazutis IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Zhaojie (George) Peng University of Regina, SK
Dr. Israr Qureshi

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr. Suhaib Riaz

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Dr. Andreas Schotter

Thunderbird School of Global Management, Glendale, AZ

Dr. Srinivas Sridharan Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Jing'an Tang

Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

Dr. Dusya Vera

University of Houston, TX

Dr. Peter Voyer

Employed Outside of Academia

Dr. Huanglin Wang Utica College
Dr. Taiyuan (Terry) Wang

Instituto de Empressa, Spain

Dr. Lorna Wright

York University, Toronto, ON

Dr. Natalie Bin Zhao

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC

Dr. Changhui Zhou

Peking University, Beijing, China

 

 
   

Dr. Neil R. Abramson

Neil R. Abramson (Ivey Ph.D. 1992) is an Associate Professor of Business Strategy at the Segal Graduate School of Business, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.  He holds an MA in Social Psychology, an MBA in Organizational Behavior, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and International Business from the University of Western Ontario. Abramson's research interests are related to evolutionary psychology, and the independent effects of cross-national psychological similarities and national culture on the building of effective buyer-seller and leadership-followership relationships between Canadians, Americans and East Asians. He has done extensive research related to China, Korea, Southeast Asia and Japan, and published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of Global Business, and Journal of Business Ethics among others. He teaches in the MBA program the first Emerging Markets class offered at SFU Business, and because of his interests, also teaches a significant component related to Emerging Markets in the Executive MBA Strategy course.

Dr. Azimah Ainuddin

R. Azimah Ainuddin (Ivey Ph.D. 2000) is an Associate Professor of International Business at the School of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia. Her first academic position was at the Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia from 1987 until 2006. Prior to joining Ivey's Ph.D program, Ainuddin earned her MBA from the University of Rhode Island, USA. She teaches courses in international business and strategic management. Her research interests include MNC strategies and internationalization of SMEs.

Dr. Marina Apaydin

Marina Apaydin (Ivey Ph.D. 2009) is an Assistant Professor of Management and a coordinator of the Case Method Initiative at The American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Marina had an accomplished career as a senior management professional with over 20 years of finance, business consulting, and marketing experience across a dozen industries in Europe, Middle East and the USA, conducting business in English, French, Italian, Russian, and Arabic. She had worked with several large organizations to help them launch their operations in new markets including Russian municipal governments, European Bank for Construction and Development, Salomon Brothers, Saatchi & Saatchi, Cable & Wireless, Investcorp Bank and Countrywide Financial. She also served as the Deputy Director for Management of UNESCO's World Heritage Center in Paris. Marina taught various management courses at the American University in Egypt, Sun Yat Sen University in China, and Sabanci University in Turkey and delivered the Lectio Magistralis at the International University in Venice. Marina holds MSEE from St. Petersburg Electrical Engineering University; MBA in Finance and International Business, and MA in Islamic Studies from University of California at Los Angeles. Marina's research interests include FDI in the Middle East and Turkey, mergers and acquisitions, organizational learning and change, innovation and case-method teaching in the Middle East. She has published in in academic journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Development, and International Journal of Emerging Markets. 

Dr. Hari Bapuji

Hari Bapuji (Ivey Ph.D. 2005) is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba. His research and teaching cover strategic management and international business. In particular, his research examines the issues surrounding intangible resources such as knowledge and learning in organizations. He has over ten years of industry experience in information technology and human resource management in large corporations.

Dr. Kevin Boeh

Kevin K. Boeh (Ivey Ph.D. 2008) is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in Tacoma, Washington. He received his MBA from UCLA, and BA from Colorado College. His research is at the intersection of corporate finance and corporate strategy with an international focus, and concerns market failures and inefficiencies driven by information asymmetry and geographic separation. Prior to Ivey, he had 15 years of experience in investment banking and management consulting. He serves on several corporate boards and the investment advisory board for a large public employee pension fund. He chairs the faculty research committee and has won several awards/honors, including being named the Dwight Zulauf Chair Visiting Scholar, and the PLU School of Business teaching award. He has published a book on M&A and his research has appeared in Journal of Management Studies with more research forthcoming.

Dr. Arjun Bhardwaj

Arjun Bhardwaj (Ivey Ph.D. 2007) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Management at the University of British Columbia (UBC) at its new campus in Kelowna (Okanagan Campus). Before joining UBC, Arjun was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University. Arjun is interested in understanding the impact of social and cultural systems across nations (including emerging nations) on economic behaviour, discrimination, and entrepreneurial motivation. Arjun is also interested in research in social networks with a particular focus on understanding the interplay of identity and network positions on network payoffs. A paper from this stream of research was included in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2008. Prior to doing his Ph.D. from Ivey, Arjun studied at the International University of Japan and the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College.

Dr. Nikhil Celly

Nikhil Celly (Ivey Ph.D. 2008) is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business at the Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong. He received his Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Rochester and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the University of Delhi. Celly's research focuses on global restructuring strategies of large multinational companies including activities such as downsizing, downscoping, subsidiary exit and equity changes. One of his projects examines the internationalization of firms from emerging economies especially China and India. 

Dr. Chris Changwha Chung

Chris Changwha Chung (Ivey Ph.D. 2006) is an Assistant Professor of International Business and Strategy at Korea University Business School, Seoul, Korea. His primary research interests are in international joint venture evolution, foreign subsidiary management, and real options during times of uncertainty. His Ph.D. thesis at Ivey won the 2007 Barry Richman Best Dissertation Award (Academy of Management), the 2007 Gunnar Hedlund Best Dissertation Award (European International Business Academy), and the 2008 Udayan Rege Best Dissertation Award (Administrative Science Association of Canada).

Dr. Andrew Delios

Andrew Delios (Ivey Ph.D. 1998) is Associate Professor, and Head of the Department of Business Policy, at the National University of Singapore. He moved to Singapore after three years as an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is currently an owner and director in Belgarath Investments Ltd, an eight year old SME based in Singapore, which is engaged in international franchising. Delios is an author or co-author of more than 60 published journal articles, case studies and book chapters. He is an author or co-author of five books, most recently: Strategy for Success in Asia (Wiley) and International Business: An Asia Pacific Perspective (Pearson). Delios has been an editor of several academic journals including the UK-based Journal of Management Studies, the Singapore-based Asia Pacific Journal of Management and the Canadian Journal of Administrative Studies.

Dr. Devkamal (Dev) Dutta

Dev Dutta (Ivey Ph.D. 2007) is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, the University of New Hampshire. Dev's primary research interest is in the intersection area of competitive strategy and competitive dynamics. He is also interested in exploring the impact of different competitive contexts (e.g., hypercompetition, globalization, and nascent entrepreneurial settings) on strategic management. Dev’s research has been published in top journals and presented at many national and international conferences in North America, Europe and India. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D. studies, Dev worked for over fifteen years as a strategy specialist in the Indian IT industry. Dev's prior academic degrees are in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Finance. He is also a Certified Quality Analyst (CQA) from the Quality Assurance Institute, USA.

Dr. Yulin Fang

Yulin Fang (Ivey Ph.D. 2006) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Business, City University of Hong Kong. Fang has worked with several top international firms such as Andersen, Accenture, and Alcatel. His current research is focused on knowledge management, global virtual teams, multinational firm diversification, and open source software projects. He has published papers in major journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Information & Management, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems.

Dr. Carl Fey

Dr. Carl F. Fey (Ivey Ph.D. 1997) is Dean of Nottingham University Business School China. Most of Dr. Fey’s research focuses on how to adapt management theory and practices for success in the transforming economies of China and Russia.  A well known researcher who has published over 45 articles in leading academic journals, Dr. Fey also does much executive education work.  Dr. Fey also provides organizational consulting services helping firms in China and Russia to increase their effectiveness and also assisting foreign companies who wish to enter the Chinese and Russian markets.  Dr. Fey has also recently finished a term serving on the executive board of the 3000 member International Association of Chinese Management Research.  Dr. Fey has also served as business development advisor for the Russian Government and a consultant for many firms.  From 1997-2011, he was a Professor of International Business at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) where he helped SSE to develop a branch campus for executive development in Russia.    For more information contact: carl.fey@nottingham.edu.cn

Dr. Anthony Goerzen

Anthony Goerzen  (Ivey Ph.D. 2001) is an Associate Professor and Donald R. Sobey Professor of International Business at the School of Business, Queen's University.  Goerzen’s primary research interests center on the strategic management of multinational enterprises with a focus on the organizational and performance effects of interfirm networks, cross-border alliances, and geographic location. He has published his research in several academic journals, books, and book chapters. He is on the Editorial Board of Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of International Business Studies. Further, Goerzen has presented at numerous conferences in Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia and has received the 2002 Best Paper Award as well as the 2003 Best Reviewer Award, both sponsored by the Academy of International Business. His thesis entitled, “Network diversity and multinational enterprise performance,” won the Udayan Rege Best Dissertation Award 2000-2002 (a biannual PhD thesis competition held by the Administrative Science Association of Canada) and was selected into the final four of the Gunnar Hedlund Best Dissertation Award 2002 (sponsored by the Institute of International Business and the European International Business Association) as well as the Barry Richman Best Dissertation Award 2002 (sponsored by the Academy of Management).

Dr. Laura Guerrero

Laura Guerrero (Ivey Ph.D. 2009) is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Department of Marketing & Management, The University of Texas at El Paso.  Her research interests are in the areas of international careers of expatriates and skilled immigrants.  Her focus has been on organizational behavior; her dissertation was about the job search antecedents and behaviours of skilled immigrants.  Laura has lived and worked in Mexico, the United States, and Canada.  Laura has several projects in which she will continue to explore the challenges faced by skilled immigrants in North America and Europe.  She has presented her research at the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, Southern Management Association, and Administrative Sciences Association of Canada conferences.

Dr. Louis Hebert

Louis Hebert (Ivey Ph.D. 1994) is a Professor in Management at the HEC Montreal and the Academic Director of the McGill - HEC Montreal EMBA Program. His research interests are in managing growth and strategic transitions, particularly in areas of strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions.

Dr. Andrew Inkpen

Andrew Inkpen (Ivey Ph.D. 1992) is the J. Kenneth and Jeanette Seward Chair in Global Strategy and Professor of Management at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Inkpen focuses his time on researching multinational corporations and writing case studies that examine the business practices and challenges faced by global corporations. He has studied topics ranging from strategic alliances and knowledge transfer to strategic failure and organizational renewal, bringing real-world examples to the classroom. His recent case studies covered issues such as corporate turnaround in the Brazilian subsidiary of a large MNC consumer products company and the entry into the Russian market by a U.S. based manufacturing firm.

Dr. Akitoshi Ito

Akitoshi Ito (Ivey Ph.D. 1998) is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS), Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He has been active about research in various areas of finance. In one of his recent research papers, he investigated various biases observed in the equity portfolio holdings of institutional investors in the Japanese stock market. He also extensively examined corporate governance-performance issues, focusing on the ownership structure of Japanese companies. Furthermore, he analyzed the very unique dynamics of international art and stock prices in the 1980s and 1990s. He previously taught at University of Tsukuba, University of Regina, International University of Japan, and Tokyo Keizai University. He also taught in several finance executive programs and seminars tailored for large corporations and governmental institutions.

Dr. G. L. Frank Jiang

Guo-Liang Frank Jiang (Ivey Ph.D. 2010) is an Assistant Professor at the School of Business Administration at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His research focuses on foreign investment and non-market strategy. Prior to his academic career, Jiang worked for six years in companies including General Electric, Hyundai and Kao. In addition to academic research, Jiang has participated in consulting projects on regional economic development in Canada.  Frank obtained his MBA from Ivey in 2005 and is a graduate of Shanghai Jiaotong University in China.

Dr. Ruihua Joy Jiang

Ruihua Joy Jiang (Ivey Ph.D. 2004) is an Assistant Professor of International Business in the School of Business Administration at Oakland University in Rochester. She earned her  MBA in Finance from Baruch College, and MA and BA in English from East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. Prior to joining SBA at Oakland University, Jiang was an Assistant Professor of Management at Lehigh University, teaching Strategic Management. Her research interests fall into two streams. Her first research program focuses on multinational corporations’ foreign expansion process and performance. Current projects examine foreign expansion speed and its performance implications at the corporate as well as the subsidiary level. She is especially interested in China as a foreign investment destination. The other research program studies firms’ cooperative strategy. Current projects investigate the relationship between strategic alliance portfolio characteristics and firm performance and evolution of firms’ alliance portfolio strategy.

Dr. Jae Jung

Jae Jung (Ivey Ph.D. 2008) is an Assistant Professor of International Business at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He received his B.A. in international trade and MBA in international business from Korea University, South Korea. Before he started his Ph.D. study at Ivey, Jung served as a researcher in Korea Development Institute (KDI) and as sergeant in the Korean Army. He also worked for Kia Motors in Germany and for S.Y. Textile in Vietnam.  Jung’s research interests focus on multinational enterprises’ ownership strategies and risk-taking strategies. He has published an article in Management International and two teaching cases through Ivey Publishing. He is a member of Academy of Management and Academy of International Business.

Dr. Geoff Kistruck

Geoff Kistruck (Ivey Ph.D. 2008) is an Assistant Professor of Management and Human Resources at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University.  His research interests are primarily in the areas of corporate governance, international business, and collaborative ventures between the for-profit and non-profit sectors within emerging economies. His research has already won several conference awards as well as been published in the Journal of Business Ethics.

 

Dr. Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee

 

Mark is an assistant professor of Marketing at Colorado State University. He earned his Ph.D. in business administration and marketing from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Mark’s primary research interests are in the consumer behavior discipline, specifically focusing on the structural dynamics of social networks and its impact on consumers. He also studies the role of materialism in the evolution of consumer networks. Additionally, he is also interested in cross-cultural research, specifically examining the impacts of cultural intelligence on buyers and sellers from different countries.  

Dr. Jianping (James) Liang

Jianping (James) Liang (Ivey Ph.D. 2009) is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Sun Yat-sen University in China. One of his research interests is on the foreign direct investment in the emerging markets. James has a Bachelor's degree in marketing and a Master's degree in consumer studies. His research has been published in the Journal of Product and Brand Management and various conference proceedings.

Dr. Dominic S. K. Lim

Dominic is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Business, Brock University in St Catharines. He received his MBA from Cambridge University where he was a British Chevening Scholar, and his BS (Computer Engineering) from Seoul National University in Korea. He is completing his Ph.D. in General Management (Specializing in Entrepreneurship) at Ivey, where he is a Research Coordinator of the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship. His research interests are in growth of entrepreneurial ventures, comparative business systems/cross cultural research on entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial cognition.

Dr. Jane Lu

Jane W. Lu (Ivey Ph.D. 2001) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Policy, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on the intersection between organization theory and international strategy. Her research has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Business Venturing.

Dr. Nathaniel Lupton

Nathan Lupton (Ivey Ph.D. 2011) is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Gabelli and Graduate Schools of Business at Fordham University, New York.  His research interests include international innovation management, subsidiary entrepreneurship, and the globalization of technological development.  His research has been published in Academy of Management Perspectives and the International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies.  Prior to his academic career, Nathan worked in the telecommunications industry. 

Dr. Shige Makino

Shige Makino (Ivey Ph.D. 1995) is Professor and Chairman of Department of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained his LLB and MBA from Keio University in Japan. His current research focuses on investigating the effects of non-economic factors on economic activities in international business, the management of international strategic alliances, and the strategies for foreign market entry and exit. His research has appeared in a number of leading journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. He is the President of the Association of Japanese Business Studies and has been serving as editorial and advisory board member in eight international journals. He has received several prestigious academic awards such as the Best Paper Award (2004 & 2006) in Asia Academy of Management, the Eldridge Haynes Prize for Best Paper (2002) in Academy of International Business.

Dr. Elie Matta

Elie Matta (Ivey Ph.D. 2004) is an Assistant Professor in Management and Human Resources at the HEC School of Management in Paris. His research interests are primarily in agency theory and prospect theory, with focus on managerial risk taking in the context of firm internationalization and foreign market entries. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. He regularly presents his research in international academic conferences and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for various academic journals and research grant foundations. He has held various awards and scholarships, including the J. Armand Bombardier Ph.D. Fellowship in Global Management and the University of Western Ontario Plan for Excellence Award.

Dr. Martha Maznevski

Martha Maznevski (Ivey Ph.D. 1994) is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and International Management at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she directs and teaches in global executive programs. Her research focuses on managing people in the complexity of globalization, including teams and leadership in multinational and virtual (distance) contexts, diversity, networked and connected teams, and the relationship between organizational and national culture. Maznevski has published many books and articles on these subjects, including The Blackwell Handbook of Global Management: A Guide to Managing Complexity (Blackwell, 2004), and the textbook International Management Behavior (Blackwell), now in its fifth edition. She has served as a consultant and advisor to public and private organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia on issues of managing people globally.

Dr. Daina Mazutis

Daina Mazutis (Ivey Ph.D. 2011) is a Professor of Strategy, Leadership and Ethics at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research investigates how CEOs of multi-national organizations have been able to steer their firms in the simultaneous pursuit of both financial and social objectives, engaging in positively deviant or even supererogatory behaviour. Her work has won numerous awards and has been published in Business Horizons, Management Learning and AOM's Best Paper Proceedings.

Dr. Veronika Papyrina

Veronika Papyrina (Ivey Ph.D. 2007) is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the College of Business, San Francisco State University. One of the areas of her research interests focuses on the entry strategy into emerging markets. Her research on this topic has been published in the Journal of International Marketing.  She has previously taught at the High Institute of Management in her native Moscow, where she taught Social and Political Environment of Business.

Dr. George Z. Peng

George Z. Peng (Ivey Ph.D. 2009) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Regina. His research interests include international business strategy and management, learning and knowledge management in international business, culture and international business, and international joint ventures and alliances. His recent research studied the effect of multinational corporations’ international experience on subsidiary performance from organizational learning, knowledge transfer and dynamic capability perspectives by adopting a disaggregated approach. His other research interests include corporate social responsibility in international business. His research has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Management, and Management and Organization Review. He has presented his research at the Academy of Management and Academy of International Business.

Dr. Israr Qureshi

Israr Qureshi (Ivey Ph.D. 2009) is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Qureshi's research interests are in the areas of Social Network & Social Capital Paradigms in Organizational Research; Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibilities; Entrepreneurial Orientation and Innovation; Social Networking Technologies (SNT) & Knowledge Sharing; Electronic Commerce, eCRM, and Internet Banking; Adoption and Infusion of Innovation; IT Management and Governance; Simulation to Test the Efficacy of Statistical Techniques. His current projects examine: effects of composition of top management teams on firm performance; co-evolution of social, environmental and financial performance of the firms; role of trust related mechanisms in electronic commerce; importance of CMC based ties in knowledge sharing; and evolution of social networks and their impact on organizational commitment, fairness perception, satisfaction and stress.

Dr. Suhaib Riaz

Suhaib is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He received his MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and Ph.D. from the Ivey Business School. His current research is on the relationship between business and society, in the context of the global financial crisis. His research has received various awards, including the Udayan Rege Best Dissertation Award, Emerald Literati Award for Excellence, and a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Prior to joining academia, Suhaib worked in management positions in the United States and India.

Dr. Andreas P. J. Schotter

Andreas Schotter (Ivey Ph.D. 2009) is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Thunderbird School of Global Management. His primary research interests are multinational corporate development and subsidiary evolution, the management of the headquarters-subsidiary interface, corporate strategic change, global innovation and technology management, emerging markets, and the management of environmental sustainability across borders. Before embarking on an academic career, he was a senior executive with several multinational corporations in the automotive, industrial equipment, and consumer goods industries. He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and North America. As an entrepreneur, he jointly owned and operated a manufacturing business in Australia. Andreas earned a Masters in Economics and Business Management from the University of Kassel, Germany. He is also a graduate of the IVEY Hong Kong Executive MBA program.

Dr. Srinivas Sridharan

Srinivas Sridharan is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Monash University, Australia. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in Marketing at Ivey (2003-2010). He has a PhD in marketing at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA. His research explores the role of marketing in developing countries, particularly in low income settings. He has recently investigated in the Indian context: product design for low literate, low income users, customer relationship approaches in informal markets, marketplace literacy among consumers and micro-entrepreneurs, and environmental sustainability attitudes. His findings have appeared in several marketing journals, and have also been profiled in practitioner outlets such as the Wall Street Journal. Srinivas has more than 10 years of teaching experience, and has taught across undergraduate, MBA, and PhD levels. He currently teaches the MBA core marketing course at Monash and also courses on Sustainable Marketing and Marketing Theory. Recently, while at Ivey, he designed and taught a new elective to HBAs: Co-creation of Value in Emerging Markets.

Dr. Jing'an Tang

Jing’an Tang (Ivey Ph.D. 2007) is an Assistant Professor of Management at the John F. Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He received his MBA from the University of Maryland at College Park and his B.A. in economics from Renmin University of China in Beijing. He teaches strategic management and international business courses. Tang's research is focused on international strategy, foreign peer networks and foreign subsidiary performance. He has presented his research at the Academy of Management (AOM), Academy of International Business (AIB) and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). He won the best paper award from the International Management Division at the AOM meeting in 2006 and honorable mention award (2nd place) from the international business division at the ASAC meeting in 2004.

Dr. Dusya Vera

Dusya Vera (Ivey Ph.D. 2002) is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. Her research interests are in the areas of improvisation, organizational learning, and strategic leadership. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, the Leadership Quarterly, Organization Studies, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Business Research, among others. She is an editorial board member of The Academy of Management Journal, The Academy of Management Review, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Vera has teaching experience in strategic management at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels in the U.S., Canada, Ecuador, Colombia, and Spain.

Dr. Peter Voyer

Peter Voyer (Ivey Ph.D. 2007), is a senior officer in the Canadian Army. He is currently posted to the Canadian Forces College in Toronto where he is a curriculum development officer. Previously he was an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Royal Military College of Canada, Department of Business Administration, in Kingston Ontario. There he taught international management, marketing management and strategy, and consumer behaviour at both the undergraduate and MBA levels. His research interests are primarily in the area of social influence in consumer behaviour, word of mouth processes, macro effects of marketing, international marketing, and ethical practices in international management. His research has been published in the Journal of Service Research and the Journal of Business Ethics, in addition to numerous conference proceedings.

Dr. Huanglin Wang
Huanglin Wang (Ivey Ph.D. 2011) is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Utica College in the New York State. Her interests are in the areas of internationalization process and location choice; the impact of cultural distance, international alliance and networks, and MNEs from emerging markets.

Dr. Taiyuan (Terry) Wang

Taiyuan (Terry) Wang (Ivey Ph.D. 2009) is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Instituto de Empressa in Madrid, Spain.  His current research examines how firms pursue entrepreneurial strategies by investigating strategy-making styles, organizational structures, management practices, and entrepreneurial actions. He is also interested in studying these entrepreneurial aspects in the contexts of emerging markets and international new/small ventures.  Prior to his academic career, he worked for multinational corporations and governmental organizations in China where he accumulated extensive industrial experience.  He has presented at prestigious conferences such as the Academy of Management (AOM), the Academy of International Business (AIB), and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), where he has won Best Ph.D. Student Paper and Best Reviewer awards.

Dr. Lorna Wright

Lorna Wright (Ivey Ph.D. 1991) is an Associate Professor of International Business at the Schulich School of Business, York University.  She has been working, teaching and researching in emerging markets for several decades. Her geographic areas of expertise are Southeast Asia, China, and South and Latin America. She speaks Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Japanese and Spanish, in addition to English. Her teaching focuses on cross-cultural management, international negotiations and business strategy in Asia. Her current research projects concern a comparison of SMEs in the 21 APEC economies regarding their use of electronic processes, and a qualitative study involving interviews with 60 Indonesian women business leaders. Past projects have investigated strategic alliances between Japanese and Canadian companies for third market entry in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and key success factors for Canadian companies in Southeast Asia. She has written cases on business in Indonesia, Thailand, China and Dubai.

Dr. Natalie Bin Zhao

Natalie Bin Zhao (Ivey Ph.D. 2007) is an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University. She holds M.Sc. degrees in management from both the National University of Singapore and Shandong University of Science and Technology in China. She also worked in industry for several years at the Ji'ning Metal Materials Company in China. Her research interests include error reporting, learning from errors, and organizational stigma. Her work has been published in several top journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Journal of World Business, and the Journal of Psychology.

Dr. Changhui Zhou

Changhui Zhou (Ivey Ph.D. 2002) is Professor of Strategic Management at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China. His research focuses on innovation and capability building in emerging market-based companies, including both indigenous firms and foreign-invested enterprises.
 

 
   
   
   
   
   

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