Business in a complex global environment
The Strategy and International Business group takes an inter-disciplinary approach to shedding light on critical competitive, economic, social and environmental issues facing organisations and their top leaders. Members of the group have broad research interests in the areas of strategy, organisation theory and international business and actively contribute to both academic and business communities.
The group’s research has uncovered how corporations deal with disruptive events and compete in an increasingly complex global environment with a diverse set of socio-political and economic influences. A distinctive feature of the group is its ability to produce leading research at the juxtaposition of how corporations achieve and sustain competitive viability, and how their social and environmental footprints can be examined and moderated through internal and external governance systems.
The Business School enjoys frequent visits from world-class scholars and has the resources to invite leading scholars to spend between one and 3 months working with faculty on research projects.
Previous visiting professors who have spent a month or more at Cambridge Judge include:
- Glenn Carroll (Stanford University)
- Dom Hambrick (Pennsylvania State University)
- Anita McGahan (Rotman School of Management)
- Woody Powell (Stanford University)
- Pamela Tolbert (Cornell University)
- The late Will Mitchell (University of Toronto)
Key research and teaching areas
The research of the group falls broadly into the following categories:
- Disruption, business models, strategic renewal, and competitive dynamics and decision making in volatile environments (Shahzad Ansari, Allègre Hadida, Yasemin Kor, Christopher Marquis, Kamal Munir)
- Top management teams and corporate governance (Yasemin Kor, Christopher Marquis, Lionel Paolella)
- Business, technology, and society (Shahzad Ansari, Yasemin Kor, Christopher Marquis, Kamal Munir, Lionel Paolella)
- Categorisation processes and social structures of markets (Kamal Munir, Lionel Paolella)
- Social stability and change (Shahzad Ansari, Christopher Marquis, Kamal Munir)
- Cultural industries (Allègre Hadida) and legal services markets (Lionel Paolella)
- Political economy and evolution of Chinese businesses (Christopher Marquis, Peter Williamson)
Research centres
Group members have leading roles in the following research centres:
Teaching
Faculty members of the Strategy and International Business subject group teach across the full range of undergraduate, postgraduate and executive educations programmes offered by the Business School.
Members
Meet our members including faculty, research and teaching staff, PhD students, and honorary appointees.
Subject group head
Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari
Professor of Strategy and Innovation
PhD (University of Cambridge)
Publishing output
Editorial boards
Members of the Strategy and International Business group have published in top-tier journals such as:
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Academy of Management Annals
- Academy of Management Journal
- Academy of Management Review
- Journal of International Business Studies
- Journal of Management
- Journal of Management Studies
- Organization Science
- Strategic Management Journal
Peer reviews
They currently serve or have served as associate editors at journals such as Journal of Management and Organization Studies and sit on the editorial boards of prestigious journals such as:
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Academy of Management Journal
- Academy of Management Review
- Strategic Management Journal
- Strategic Organization
- Organization Science
Selected publications
- Alvi, F.H. and Williamson, P.J. (2022) “Responses to global financial standards in emerging markets: regulatory neoliberalism and the Basel II Capital Accord.” International Journal of Finance and Economics (DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.2554) (published online Mar 2021)
- Hein, P. and Ansari, S. (2022) “From sheltered to included: the emancipation of disabled workers from benevolent marginalization.” Academy of Management Journal (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2020.1689) (published online Feb 2022)
- Khanagha, S., Ansari, S., Paroutis, S. and Oviedo, L. (2022) “Mutualism and the dynamics of new platform creation: a study of Cisco and Fog computing.” Strategic Management Journal (DOI: 10.1002/smj.3147) (published online Feb 2020)
- Kleinaltenkamp, M.J. and Ansari, S. (2022) “Blockchain and the performativity of emerging technology theories.” Perspectives on Process Organization Studies (P-PROS) (forthcoming)
- Kor, Y., Mahoney, J.T. and Tan, D. (2022) “Edith Penrose’s under-explored insights in strategic management and international business research.” Strategic Management Review (forthcoming)
- Liu, W., Beltagui, A., Ye, S. and Williamson, P. (2022) “Harnessing exaptation and ecosystem strategy for accelerated innovation: lessons from the VentilatorChallengeUK.” California Management Review (DOI: 10.1177/00081256211056651) (published online Nov 2021)
- Ma, S., Kor, Y.Y. and Seidl, D. (2022) “Top management team role structure: a vantage point for advancing upper echelons research.” Strategic Management Journal (DOI: 10.1002/smj.3368) (published online Dec 2021)
- Neuberger, I., Kroezen, J. and Tracey, P. (2022) “Balancing ‘protective disguise’ with ‘harmonious advocacy’: social venture legitimation in authoritarian contexts.” Academy of Management Journal (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2020.0517) (published online Nov 2021)
- Rauch, M. and Ansari, S. (2022) “Diaries as a methodological innovation for studying grand challenges.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series (forthcoming)
- Rauch, M. and Ansari, S. (2022) “From ‘publish or perish’ to societal impact: organizational repurposing towards responsible innovation through creating a medical platform.” Journal of Management Studies, 59(1): 61-91 (DOI: 10.1111/joms.12737)
- Rauch, M. and Ansari, S. (2022) “Waging war from remote cubicles: how workers cope with technologies that disrupt the meaning and morality of their work.” Organization Science (DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2021.1555) (published online Nov 2021)
- Williamson, P.J., Symeou, P.C. and Zyglidopoulos, S. (2022) “International diversification, legitimacy, and corporate social performance of extractive industry multinationals.” Global Strategy Journal (DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1405) (published online May 2021)
- Fraser, J. and Ansari, S. (2021) “Pluralist perspectives and diverse responses: exploring multiplexed framing in incumbent responses to digital disruption.” Long Range Planning, 54(5): 102016 (DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2020.102016)
- Kroezen, J., Ravasi, D., Sasaki, I., Żebrowska, M. and Suddaby, R. (2021) “Configurations of craft: alternative models for organizing work.” Academy of Management Annals, 15(2): 502-536 (DOI: 10.5465/annals.2019.0145)
- Munir, K.A. (2021) “Inequality in the time of corona virus.” Journal of Management Studies, 58(2): 607-610 (DOI: 10.1111/joms.12674)
- Munir, K., Ansari, S. and Brown, D. (2021) “From Patañjali to the ‘gospel of sweat’: yoga’s remarkable transformation from a sacred movement into a thriving global market.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 66(3): 854-899 (DOI: 10.1177/0001839221993475)
- Nasirov, S., Li, Q.C. and Kor, Y.Y. (2021) “Converting technological inventions into new products: the role of CEO human capital.” Journal of Product Innovation Management, 38(5): 522-547 (DOI: 10.1111/jpim.12601)
- Paolella, L. and Syakhroza, M.A. (2021) “Beyond the insider-outsider divide: heterogeneous effects of organizational identity and category taken-for-grantedness on conformity.” Social Forces, 99(4): 1487-1517 (DOI: 10.1093/sf/soaa081) (available online via ResearchGate)
- Radić, M., Ravasi, D. and Munir, K. (2021) “Privatization: implications of a shift from state to private ownership.” Journal of Management, 47(6): 1596-1629 (DOI: 10.1177/0149206320988356)
- Reinecke, J. and Ansari, S. (2021) “Microfoundations of framing: the interactional production of collective action frames in the Occupy movement.” Academy of Management Journal, 64(2): 378-408 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2018.1063)
- Williamson, P.J. (2021) “Chinese cost innovation, the Shanzhai phenomenon, and accelerated innovation.” In: Fu, X., McKern, B. and Chen, J. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of China innovation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, New York
- Williamson, P. (2021) “De-globalisation and decoupling: post-COVID-19 myths versus realities.” Management and Organization Review, 17(1): 29-34 (DOI: 10.1017/mor.2020.80)
- Williamson, P., Guo, B. and Yin, E. (2021) “When can Chinese competitors catch up? Market and capability ladders and their implications for multinationals.” Business Horizons, 64(2): 223-237 (DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2020.11.007)
- Woodcraft, C. and Munir, K.A. (2021) “How COVID-19 is shifting the North-South philanthropic power dynamic.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, 24 March 2021
- Zhang, M.Y. and Williamson, P. (2021) “The emergence of multiplatform ecosystems: insights from China’s mobile payments system in overcoming bottlenecks to reach the mass market.” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 173: 21128 (DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121128)
- Zhou, A.J., Williamson, P.J. and Tung, R.L. (2021) “Editorial.” Cross Cultural and Strategic Management, 28(2): 229-234 (DOI: 10.1108/CCSM-05-2021-237)
- Amis, J.M., Mair, J. and Munir, K. (2020) “The organizational reproduction of inequality.” Academy of Management Annals, 14(1): 195-230 (DOI: 10.5465/annals.2017.0033)
- Brüggemann, I., Kroezen, J. and Tracey, P. (2020) “Fighting ‘factory fiction’: the evolution of a marginalized institutional logic in UK trade book publishing.” In: Steele, C., Gehman, J., Toubiani, M., Hannigan, T. and Glaser, V. (eds.) Macrofoundations of institutions (Research in the Sociology of Organizations). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing (forthcoming)
- Castro, A., Phillips, N. and Ansari, S. (2020) “Corporate corruption: a review and an agenda for future research.” Academy of Management Annals, 14(2) (DOI: 10.5465/annals.2018.0156)
- De Meyer, A. and Williamson, P.J. (2020) Ecosystem edge: sustaining competitiveness in the face of disruption. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
- Guillén, M. (2020) 2030: how today’s biggest trends will collide and change the future of everything. New York, NY: St Martin’s Press/Macmillan.
- Kor, Y.Y., Ma, S. and Seidl, D. (2020) “Opportunities and pitfalls of advice seeking by CEOs and executives.” Harvard Business Review China, August: 132-139
- Ma, S., Kor, Y.Y. and Seidl, D. (2020) “CEO advice seeking: an integrative framework and future research agenda.” Journal of Management, 46(6): 771–805 (DOI: 10.1177/0149206319885430)
- Marquis, C. (2020) Better business: how the B corp movement is remaking capitalism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- Marquis, C. and Qiao, K. (2020) “Waking from Mao’s dream: communist ideological imprinting and the internationalization of entrepreneurial ventures in China.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 65(3): 795-830 (DOI: 10.1177/0001839218792837)
- Munir, K.A. (2020) “Challenging institutional theory’s critical credentials.” Organization Theory, 1(1) (DOI: 10.1177/2631787719887975)
- Rauch, M.S. and Ansari, S. (2020) “Serendipity and framing in the emergence of a platform for responsible innovation.” Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1) (DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.13330abstract)
- Rauch, M. and Ansari, S. (2020) “From ‘publish or perish’ to societal impact: framing and serendipity in the emergence of a platform for responsible innovation.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 7-11 August 2020, Vancouver, Canada.
- Tan, D., Su, W., Mahoney, J.T. and Kor, Y. (2020) “A review of research on the growth of multinational enterprises: a Penrosean lens.” Journal of International Business Studies, 51: 498-537 (DOI: 10.1057/s41267-020-00328-8)
- Wan, F., Williamson, P. and Pandit, N.R. (2020) “MNE liability of foreignness versus local firm-specific advantages: the case of the Chinese management software industry.” International Business Review, 29(1): 101623 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2019.101623)
- Wan, F., Williamson, P., Yin, E. and Lei, L. (2020) “Is disruptive innovation in emerging economies different? Evidence from China.” Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 57: 101590 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2020.101590)
- Williamson, P. (2020) “Realizing the potential of the Belt and Road Initiative: what role for M&A?” In: De Cremer, D., McKern, B. and McGuire, J. (eds.) The Belt and Road Initiative: opportunities and challenges of a Chinese economic ambition. London: Sage, pp.221-235
- Kroezen, J.J. and Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2019) “What is dead may never die: institutional regeneration through logic reemergence in Dutch beer brewing.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(4): 976-1019 (DOI: 10.1177/0001839218817520)
- Purdy, J., Ansari, S. and Gray, B. (2019) “Are logics enough? Framing as an alternative tool for understanding institutional meaning making.” Journal of Management Inquiry, 28(4): 409-419 (DOI: 10.1177/1056492617724233)
- Ramamurti, R. and Williamson, P.J. (2019) “Rivalry between emerging-market MNEs and developed-country MNEs: capability holes and the race to the future.” Business Horizons, 62(2): 157-169 (DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2018.11.001)
- Roulet, T., Paolella, L., Gabbionnetta, C. and Muzio, D. (2019) “Up or aside? Micro-foundations of institutional change in the career structure of UK elite law firms.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 51: 327-353 (DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065A025) (available online)
- Syakhroza, M.A., Paolella, L. and Munir, K. (2019) “Holier than thou? Identity buffers and adoption of controversial practices in the Islamic banking category.” Academy of Management Journal, 62(4): 1252-1277 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.1017)
- Thananusak, T. and Ansari, S. (2019) “Knowledge production and consumption in the digital era: the emergence of altmetrics and open access publishing in management studies.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 59: 77-102 (DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20190000059005)
- Trevor, J. and Williamson, P. (2019) “How to design an ambidextrous organisation.” The European Business Review, 24 April 2019
- Wan, F., Williamson, P. and Yin, E. (2019) “Enabling cost innovation by non-traditional organizational processes: the case of Chinese firms.” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 139: 352-361 (10.1016/j.techfore.2018.12.003)
- Wang, D., Du, F. and Marquis, C. (2019) “Defending Mao’s dream: how politicians’ ideological imprinting affects firms’ political appointment in China.” Academy of Management Journal, 62(4): 1111-1136 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.1198)
- Williamson, P. and De Meyer, A. (2019) “How to monetize a business ecosystem.” Harvard Business Review, 30 September 2019
- Williamson, P.J. and Wan, F. (2019) “How real are the opportunities for multinationals in China?” In: Grosse, R. and Meyer, K.E. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of management in emerging markets. New York: Oxford University Press, pp.745-762
- Williamson, P.J., Wu, X. and Yin, E. (2019) “Learning from Huawei’s superfluidity.” Ivey Business Journal, May/Jun
- Amis, J.M., Munir, K.A., Lawrence, T.B., Hirsch, P. and McGahan, A. (2018) “Inequality, institutions and organizations.” Organization Studies, 39(9): 1131-1152 (DOI: 10.1177/0170840618792596)
- Brüggemann, I., Tracey, P. and Kroezen, J. (2018) “Bridging divides: translating sustainable livelihoods to Indonesia through empowerment work.” Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018(1) (DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.46)
- Hertenstein, P. and Williamson, P.J. (2018) “The role of suppliers in enabling differing innovation strategies of competing multinationals from emerging and advanced economies: German and Chinese automotive firms compared.” Technovation, 70–71: 46-58 (DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2018.02.008)
- Klitsie, E.J., Ansari, S. and Volberda, H.W. (2018) “Maintenance of cross-sector partnerships: the role of frames in sustained collaboration.” Journal of Business Ethics, 150(2): 401–423 (DOI: 10.1007/s10551-018-3859-5)
- Kumaraswamy, A., Garud, R. and Ansari, S. (2018) “Perspectives on disruptive innovations.” Journal of Management Studies, 55(7): 1025-1042 (DOI: 10.1111/joms.12399)
- Kumaraswamy, A., Garud, R. and Ansari, S. (eds.) (2018) “Special issue on managing in the age of disruptions.” Journal of Management Studies, 55(7)
- Lawrence, T.B., Amis, J.M., Munir, K.A., Hirsch, P. and McGahan, A. (eds.) (2018) “Special issue on inequality, institutions and organizations.” Organization Studies, 39(9)
- Liang, H., Marquis, C., Renneboog, L. and Sun, S.L. (2018) “Future-time framing: the effect of language on corporate future orientation.” Organization Science, 29(6): 1093-1111 (DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2018.1217)
- Marquis, C. and Bird, Y. (2018) “The paradox of responsive authoritarianism: how civic activism spurs environmental penalties in China.” Organization Science, 29(5): 948-968 (DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2018.1212)
- Munir, K., Ayaz, M., Levy, D.L. and Willmott, H. (2018) “The role of intermediaries in governance of global production networks: restructuring work relations in Pakistan’s apparel industry.” Human Relations, 71(4): 560-583 (DOI: 10.1177/0018726717722395)
- Munir, K. and Naqvi, N. (2018) “Privatization in the land of believers: the political economy of privatization in Pakistan.” Modern Asian Studies, 51(6): 1695-1726 (DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X16000585)
- Pettus, M.L., Kor, Y.Y., Mahoney, J.T. and Michael, S.C. (2018) “Sequencing and timing of strategic responses after industry disruption: evidence from post-deregulation competition in the US railroad industry.” Strategic Organization, 16(4): 373-400 (DOI: 10.1177/1476127017743502)
- Purdy, J., Kish‐Gephart, J., Labianca, G. and Ansari, S. (2018) “Connections and collaboration: celebrating the contributions of Barbara Gray.” Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 11(1): 88-107 (DOI: 10.1111/ncmr.12118)
- Symeou, P.C., Zyglidopoulos, S. and Williamson, P. (2018) “Internationalization as a driver of the corporate social performance of extractive industry firms.” Journal of World Business, 53(1): 27-38 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2017.07.004)
- Van Dijk, M., Kroezen, J. and Slob, B. (2018) “From Pilsner desert to craft beer oasis: the rise of craft brewing in the Netherlands.” In: Swinnen, J. and Garavaglia, C. (eds.) The craft beer revolution: a global economic perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.259-294
- Wiedner, R. and Ansari, S. (2018) “Appreciating emergence and serendipity in qualitative research: resisting the urge to follow set plans.” In: Mir, R. and Jain, S. (eds.) The Routledge companion to qualitative research in organization studies. New York: Routledge, pp.343-357
- Williamson, P.J., Hoenderop, S. and Hoenderop, J. (2018) “An alternative benchmark for the validity of China’s GDP growth statistics.” Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 16(2): 171-191 (DOI: 10.1080/14765284.2018.1438867)
- Williamson, P. and Wan, F. (2018) “Emerging market multinationals and the concept of ownership advantages.” International Journal of Emerging Markets, 13(3): 557-567 (DOI: 10.1108/IJoEM-08-2017-0319)
- Williamson, P.J., Wu, X. and Yin, E. (2018) “Super-fluidity: creating an organization that flexes with the market [in Chinese].” Harvard Business Review China, May: 121-127
- Amis, J.M., Munir, K.A. and Mair, J. (2017) “Institutions and economic inequality.” In: Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Lawrence, T. and Meyer, R. (eds.) The SAGE handbook of organizational institutionalism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2nd edition, pp.705-736
- Boutinot, A., Joly, I., Mangematin, V. and Ansari, S. (2017) “Exploring the links between reputation and fame: evidence from French contemporary architecture.” Organization Studies, 38(10): 1397-1420 (DOI: 10.1177/0170840616670433)
- Castro, A. and Ansari, S. (2017) “Contextual ‘readiness’ for institutional work: a study of the fight against corruption in Brazil.” Journal of Management Inquiry, 26(4): 351-365 (DOI: 10.1177/1056492617696887)
- Chen, P.-L., Kor, Y., Mahoney, J.T. and Tan, D. (2017) “Pre-market-entry experience and post-market-entry learning of the board of directors: implications for post-entry performance.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 11(4): 441–463 (DOI: 10.1002/sej.1251)
- Foster, W.M., Coraiola, D.M., Suddaby, R., Kroezen, J. and Chandler, D. (2017) “The strategic use of historical narratives: a theoretical framework.” Business History, 59(8), 1176-1200 (DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2016.1224234)
- Heyden, M.L.M., Fourné, S.P.L., Koene, B.A.S., Werkman, R. and Ansari, S. (2017) “Rethinking ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ roles of top and middle managers in organizational change: implications for employee support.” Journal of Management Studies, 54(7): 961–985 (DOI: 10.1111/joms.12258)
- Kor, Y.Y., Prabhu, J. and Esposito, M. (2017) “How large food retailers can help solve the food waste crisis.” Harvard Business Review, 19 December 2017
- Marquis, C., Yin, L. and Yang, D. (2017) “State-mediated globalization processes and the adoption of corporate social responsibility reporting in China.” Management and Organization Review, 13(1): 167-191 (DOI: 10.1017/mor.2016.55)
- Paolella, L. and Sharkey, A.J. (2017) “Forging consensus: an integrated view of how categories shape the perception of organizational identity.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 51: 327-353 (DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20170000051009) (available online)
- Quinn, Q. and Munir, K. (2017) “Hybrid categories as political devices: the case of impact investing in frontier markets.” In: Durrand, R., Granqvist, N. and Tyllström, A. (eds.) From categories to categorization: studies in sociology, organizations and strategy at the crossroads (Research in the Sociology of Organizations). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing, pp.113-150 (DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20170000051002)
- Yin, E., Ansari, S. and Akhtar, N. (2017) “Radical innovation, paradigm shift and incumbent’s dilemma: the case of the auto industry.” Future Studies Research Journal, 9(1): 138-148 (DOI: 10.24023/FutureJournal/2175-5825/2017.v9i1.301)
Industry and policy engagement
Organisations
Members of the Strategy and International Business group have worked with some of the world’s leading organisations. They engage deeply with the business community, multilateral agencies and governments through their impactful research, innovative executive education programmes and area expertise.
Members of the group have spearheaded several research projects and grants funded by companies such as Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton and Newton Asset Management (a division of BNY Mellon Bank).
They have advised major multilateral agencies such as the World Bank, the European Commission, the Asian Development Bank and UNCTAD, as well as governments of countries such as Greece and Pakistan.
Examples of engagement projects
Below are some examples of recent and current research projects that faculty members have been conducting in collaboration with or in support of businesses.
- Professor Shaz Ansari works as a consultant at Thinfilms, a New Jersey firm providing thin film services to over 150 corporations in the hybrid microelectronics, semiconductor, optical, medical and sensor industries. He has also delivered executive education and training to several multinational corporations.
- Dr Chris Coleridge founded and is now the CEO of Carbon13, a startup accelerator funded by ARM, Volkswagen, BP, EY and DLA Piper. The accelerator works to foster scalable ventures with the potential to take 10 million tonnes of CO2 per annum out of the emissions base through technically- or behaviourally-based innovations across the energy, mobility, manufacturing, buildings, agriculture and finance sectors.
- Professor Yasemin Kor is collaborating with the Cambridge Global Food Security Initiative on projects for the food industry, to enhance sustainability and resilience.
- Professor Kamal Munir frequently consults with blue chip and technology firms facing disruption related challenges. He also serves on the advisory board of a healthcare company and is involved with start-ups in the technology space. Professor Munir also consults for governments and multilateral institutions in the area of competitiveness at the national and industry levels. He serves as an Advisor to OECD’s Centre on Philanthropy. Professor Munir is currently working with a global network of professional accounting and advisory firms on issues related to diversity and inclusion.
- Dr Lionel Paolella has been advising organisations on ways to foster equity, diversity and inclusion. He has also delivered executive education and training programmes on diversity to several corporations.
- Professor Peter Williamson has been advising several multinationals and Chinese companies on globalisation strategies and development of their business ecosystems. He currently serves as a non-executive director of the global renewal energy firm Green Gas International and non-executive chairman of the global digital process automation company Bizagi.
Research seminars
The Strategy and International Business subject group hosts a seminar series of distinguished visiting scholars. Please contact Luke Slater, if you would like to be added to the mailing list.
Upcoming seminars
Join our Strategy and International Business seminar with Professor Christine Beckman, University of California Santa Barbara.
A Strategy and International Business seminar with Dr Paola Cillo, Università Bocconi.
A Strategy and International Business seminar with Professor Siobhan O’Mahony, Boston University.
Past seminars
2024
A Strategy and International Business seminar with Dr Amanda Sharkey, Mendoza College of Business.
A Strategy and International Business seminar with Professor Ithai Stern, INSEAD.
Join our Strategy and International Business seminar with Professor Fabrice Lumineau, HKU Business School.
Speaker: Fabrice Lumineau, Professor of Management and Strategy at HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong.
Speaker: Geoffrey G Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School, Harvard University.
Join our Strategy and International Business seminar with Professor Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School.
Join our Strategy and International Business seminar with Professor Rodolphe Durand, HEC-Paris.
Join our Strategy and International Business seminar with Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard Business School.
Join our Strategy and International Business seminar with Dr Rebeca Mendez-Duron, Universitat de es Balears.
Join our Strategy and International Business seminar with Professor Maja Korica, IESEG School of Management.
A Strategy and International Business seminar with Dr Ivona Hideg, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
2023
Michaelmas term
A Strategy and International Business seminar with Professor Patrick Haack, HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne.
Lent term
27 February 2023 | 12:30-14:00, Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
Disrupting a regulated market: fintech ventures’ trade-offs in resource management and consequences for firm growth
Professor Pinar Ozcan, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
3 March 2023 | 12:30-14:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Talk normal! How management consultants translate academic knowledge into practical advice
Professor Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen Business School
17 March 2023 | 12:30-14:00, Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
Principal costs: re-examining the relationships among principals, agents and firms
Professor Maria L. Goranova, Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
2022
Michaelmas term
22 September 2022 | 13:00-14:30, Castle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School
Going beyond optimal distinctiveness: a machine learning approach to strategic positioning for gaining an audience composition premium
Dr Eric Zhao, Indiana University
6 October 2022 | 12:30-14:00, Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
Mind the gap: responding to the grand challenge of displacement through field bridging
Professor Christine Beckman, USC
13 October 2022 | 12:30-14:00, Room W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School
Rhetorical strategies of authenticity: social value judgements in the emerging contest over cellular meat
Professor Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria, Washington State University and University of Liverpool
28 October 2022 | 12:30-14:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Product-line decisions and rapid turnover in movie markets
Professor Darlene C. Chisholm, Suffolk University
11 November 2022 | 12:30-14:00, Online and at Cambridge Judge Business School
Seminar from Professor Davide Ravasi
Professor Davide Ravasi, UCL School of Management
6 December 2022 | 12:30-14:00, Room W4.06, Cambridge Judge Business School
Nonmarket strategies for social and legal licenses: a necessary condition analysis
Dr Shuna Shu Ham Ho, Dalhousie University
7 December 2022 | 12:30-14:00, Room S3.04, Cambridge Judge Business School
Physical climate risk and firms’ adaptation strategy
Ms Xia Li, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
8 December 2022 | 11:00-12:30, Room S3.04, Cambridge Judge Business School
Stakeholder engagement for sustainable development: a conceptual model of orchestration
Dr Lite J Nartey, INSEAD
8 December 2022 | 14:00-15:00, Room S3.04, Cambridge Judge Business School
Why am I here? Meaningfulness in unsettled times
Dr Madeleine Rauch, Copenhagen Business School
Lent term
1 March 2022 | 12:00-13:30, Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
The radical flank revisited: how regulatory accountability shapes the effectiveness of social activism on business outcomes
Dr Shon Hiatt, Marshall School of Business USC
5 April 2022 | 12:00-13:30, Cambridge Judge Business School
Organisational adaptation in a goal-framing perspective
Professor Nicolai Foss, Copenhagen Business School
2021
Michaelmas term
19 November 2021 | 14:45-16:15, Lecture Theatre 3, Cambridge Judge Business School
Ratings, reactivity and the paradox of recognising responsibility
Dr Ben Lewis, Brigham Young University
23 November 2021 | 13:00-14:30, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Some organisational antecedents of evil
Professor Freek Vermeulen, London Business School
2020
Michaelmas term
10 November 2020 | 09:00-10:00, Online
Political protest and corporate philanthropic giving: a natural experiment of the Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan
Professor Haibin Yang, City University of Hong Kong
19 November 2020 | 11:00-12:00, Online
Political turnover and the cross-border acquisitions of Chinese firms
Professor Jane Lu, City University of Hong Kong
Lent term
29 January 2020 | 12:00-13:30, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Platform competition and user-generated content: evidence from game wikis
Professor Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich School of Management
2019
Michaelmas term
5 November 2019 | 12:30-16:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Regulatory impediments and the redeployability of physical assets: implications for investment decisions
Dr Timo Sohl, Pompeu Fabra University
20 November 2019 | 13:30-15:00, Room KH107, Cambridge Judge Business School
Structuring the ecosystem: antecedents of digital platforms’ organisational boundaries and technological interfaces
Professor Annabelle Gawer, University of Surrey
26 November 2019 | 12:00-13:30, Cambridge Judge Business School
Resource allocation capability and the allocation of resources in multi-business firms
Dr Catherine A. Maritan, Syracuse University
Easter term
16 April 2019 | 12:30-14:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Seeing like a philanthropist: from the business of benevolence to the benevolence of business
Professor Woody Powell, Stanford University
10 May 2019 | 12:30-15:00, Castle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School
Why should we change? How hidden temporal structures influence change recipients’ response to strategic change
Dr Quy Huy, INSEAD
14 May 2019 | 14:30-16:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Digitisation and open innovation: towards an integrative framework
Professor Gianvito Lanzolla, Cass Business School
25 September 2019 | 12:00-13:30, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
The effect of founder experience on labour market outcomes: a field experiment
Dr Tristan Botelho, Yale School of Management
Lent term
14 January 2019 | 12:00-13:30, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Overcoming the liability of gender: collaboration networks and entrepreneurial patenting by garage inventors
Dr Michelle Rogan, Kenan-Flagler Business School
22 January 2019 | 12:00-13:30, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Business models and business model innovation
Professor Christopher Tucci, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
5 April 2019 | 12:00-13:30, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Integrating distant pasts and futures sustainably in the present: toward a theoretical framework of organisational temporality
Professor Majken Schultz and Professor Tor Hernes, Copenhagen Business School
2018
Michaelmas term
27 September 2018 | 12:00-13:30, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Spoken like a woman: how gender influences CEO communication
Professor Gerry McNamara, Michigan State University
29 October 2019 | 12:00-13:30, Room W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School
How the network neighbourhood influences partnerships: from handshakes to formal collaboration among US fire departments
Professor Anita McGahan, University of Toronto
13 November 2018 | 13:15-15:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
The liability of high status and the advantages of brokerage in the face of environmental shocks
Professor Andrew Shipilov, INSEAD
30 November 2018 | 13:30-15:00, LT3, Cambridge Judge Business School
Construction and labour market frictions, sibling relatedness and establishment growth: the role of resource redeployability
Dr Timo Sohl, Pompeu Fabra University
Easter term
19 March 2018 | 15:30-17:00, Room tbc, Cambridge Judge Business School
in association with the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN)
That could have been me: director deaths, mortality salience and CEO prosocial behaviour
Dr Guoli Chen, INSEAD
1 May 2018 | 11:00-12:30, Room W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School
Big, beige and bulky: aesthetic shifts in the hearing aid industry (1945-2015)
Dr Stine Grodal, Boston University Questrom School of Business
16 May 2018 | 12:00-13:30, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Diversity and performance in the multinational firm: evidence from the ships of the Dutch East India Company, 1700-1796
Professor Filippo Carlo Wezel, Universita’ della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano)
6 July 2018 | 12:00-13:00, Cambridge Judge Business School
Writing for an audience
Professor Will Mitchell, University of Toronto
Lent term
15 January 2018 | 13:00-15:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Connecting and creating: tertius iungens, individual creativity and strategic decision processes
Dr David Obstfeld, California State University
23 January 2018 | 12:00-13:30, Room W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School
Towards a theory of ecosystems
Professor Michael G. Jacobides, London Business School
5 March 2018 | 12:00-13:30, Room W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School
Founder industry specific experience: an asset or a liability? The case of international expansion
Professor Niron Hashai, Arison School of Business