Paul Beamish holds the Canada Research Chair in International Management 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.

Ivey Faculty

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. Charles Dhanaraj
Associate Professor, Strategy and International 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. T.S. (Tony) Frost
Associate Professor, International Business

Frost is the Walter A. Thompson Faculty Fellow. His research interests revolve around strategy and competition in a global context. The main focus of his research is on the capacity of foreign subsidiaries to assimilate, utilize and transfer geographically localized knowledge during the process of technological innovation.

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.

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External Faculty Colleagues

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. 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. Arjun Bhardwaj

Dr. 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 International Business in the College of Business at Loyola University New Orleans. 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 currently focuses on the international disinvestments of large multinational companies and in particular their downsizing initiatives.  He also has an interest in small firm internationalization and new venture internationalization of firms from both developed and emerging economies.

Dr. Chris Changwha Chung

Chris Changwha Chung (Ivey Ph.D. 2006) is an Assistant Professor of International Business at Florida International University in Miami. 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) and the 2007 Gunnar Hedlund Best Dissertation Award (European International Business Academy).

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. 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

Carl Fey (Ivey Ph.D. 1997) is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Business at Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden) and Associate Dean of Research at Stockholm School of Economics in Russia. Fey focuses his teaching, research, and consulting on what management practices work best in Russia and China. Fey, who is known for his dynamic talks merging international best practice and Russian and Chinese reality, also serves on the International Association of Chinese Management Research Executive Board. Fey has served as an advisor for the Russian government and has published over 35 articles. In addition, he has served as a consultant for many leading local and foreign companies in Russia and China including for Russia’s largest foreign investment deal—TNK-BP.

Dr. Anthony Goerzen

Anthony Goerzen  (Ivey Ph.D. 2001) is an Associate Professor of Strategy & International Business at the Faculty of Business, University of Victoria (Canada).  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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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.

Suhaib Riaz

Suhaib is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario. He received his MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), and his B.SC. (Engineering) from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in India. He is completing his Ph.D. in General Management (Specializing in Strategy and International Business) at Ivey. His research interests are in investigating key employees from a strategy perspective, particularly changes in key employees over time and their link with strategic outcomes at the firm level. Prior to joining academia, Suhaib worked in management positions in the United States and India (1997-2002).  His experience includes strategic management and international management roles in the information technology consulting services industry, steel industry, and chemicals industry.

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) 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, introductory marketing, marketing management and consumer behaviour at both the undergraduate and MBA levels. His research interests are primarily in the area of social influence in consumer behaviour, 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 proceedings from a variety of conferences.

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 an Associate 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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Doctoral Candidates

Samer Abdelnour
Samer is a Ph.D. candidate in general management. His research interests are in the areas of international entrepreneurship and sustainable international development policy. Much of his research is focused in post-conflict contexts.

Marina Apaydin
Marina is a Ph.D. candidate in strategic management. She has an accomplished career as a senior management professional with over 18 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 has 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 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, innovation and case-method teaching in the Middle East.

Laura Guerrero
Laura is a Ph.D. candidate in organizational behaviour. Her research interests are in the areas of international careers, expatriate adjustment, and skilled immigrants. Her dissertation aims to uncover job search strategies that skilled immigrants may use to achieve job outcomes comparable to those who are not immigrants. She has presented her research at the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, Southern Management Association, and Administrative Sciences Association of Canada conferences. Laura has taught an introductory course in Organizational Behaviour. Laura has lived and worked in Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

Guo-Liang (Frank) Jiang
Frank is a Ph.D. candidate in strategic management, specializing in international business. His research examines how national idiosyncrasies and organizational learning jointly affect MNCs' strategic choices and foreign subsidiary performance. His research interests also include knowledge transfer and expatriate management. Frank obtained his MBA from Ivey in 2005.

Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee
Mark is a Ph.D. candidate in marketing. His interests are in the areas of social networks and how structural networks and relationship influence people’s consumption behaviour. Additionally, he is also interested in cross-cultural research, specifically examining the impacts of cultural intelligence on buyers and sellers from different countries.

Jianping (James) Liang
James is a Ph.D. candidate in marketing. His research interests are primarily in the areas of judgment and decision making, switching behaviour, innovation diffusion, pricing, and foreign direct investment in the retail trade. 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.

Nathaniel Lupton
Nathan is a Ph.D. candidate in general management, specializing in international management and strategy. His primary research interests include technological innovation and organizational learning within the emerging market context.  Nathan is also interested in foreign direct investment and international joint ventures within in emerging markets.

David Maslach
David is a Ph.D. candidate in general management, specializing in technical entrepreneurship. He is broadly interested in economic sociology and applied econometrics. His research investigates how organizations learn from failure and how rivals exploit uncertainty surrounding failure, especially in international markets.

Cara Maurer
Maurer is a Ph.D. candidate in strategic management. Her research interests are primarily in the area of organizational diversity as a competitive advantage, with special emphasis on how diversity is valued differently across international markets and cultures.

Daina Mazutis
Daina is a Trudeau Scholar and a Ph.D. candidate in general management, specializing in leadership and strategy. 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 already been published in Business Horizons, Management Learning and AOM's Best Paper Proceedings.

Zhaojie (George) Peng
George is a Ph.D. candidate in international business. His research interests center on international joint ventures with a transitional economy focus. His recent research is on the effect of evolving institutional environment on the strategic choices of MNEs in China using a co-evolutionary perspective. His other research interests include issues in foreign direct investment, such as the effect of national corporate responsibility environment on foreign direct investment inflows.

Michael Roberts
Michael is a Ph.D. candidate in organizational behaviour.  His research is in the area of leadership; with a particular interest in leading change in multinational organizations. Michael is a University of Western Ontario graduate, and has a Master's degree in education from the University of Toronto.  Michael taught at the KAIST Graduate School of Management in Seoul, Korea before joining Ivey. He hopes his research will have a direct positive impact on people in organizations; making their work lives more productive, meaningful, and fulfilling.

Andreas Schotter
Andreas is a Ph.D. candidate in general management with a specialization in strategy and international business. His research focuses on multinational corporate evolution and subsidiary development, sustainable international business ventures, and strategic management (corporate and business unit strategy, corporate entrepreneurship, knowledge management). Before he started his academic career, he was a senior executive and a managing director of the Asian operations of several multinational manufacturing companies. He is also a graduate of the IVEY Hong Kong Executive MBA program.

Francis Sun
Francis Sun is a Ph.D. candidate in general management. Prior to pursuing an academic career, Francis was an executive officer at China Unicom. His current research is focusing on comparative institutional studies between market economies and emerging markets, business practices in East Asia, and business strategy in emerging markets.

Huanglin Wang
Huanglin is a Ph.D. candidate in general management.  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.

Taiyuan (Terry) Wang
Terry is a Ph.D. candidate in general management specializing in the field of firm-level of entrepreneurship. 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.

Fei (Sophie) Zhu
Sophie is a Ph.D. candidate in general management. Her research interests include comparative studies of corporate entrepreneurship in Chinese and US/Canadian companies, corporate social responsibility in the Chinese context, and strategic leadership.

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