The Strategy and International Business subject group

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.

Strategy and International Business concept.

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.

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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

Selected publications

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.

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

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.

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.

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