Keynote Speaker
Sea-Jin Chang
Sea-Jin Chang is a Lim Kim San Chair Professor of Business Administration, National University of Singapore and also a Techno-SK Chair Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (joint appointment). He received his BA and MA in economics from Seoul National University, and Ph.D. in strategic management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He was previously a faculty member at the Stern School, New York University and Korea University, and also had visiting appointments at Stanford, INSEAD, London Business School, and Hitotsubashi University. Professor Chang is primarily interested in the management of diversified multinational firms. His current research focuses on understanding the process of creating operating synergies among diversified lines of business and building a strong local organization after foreign entry. His other research interests include organizational learning, corporate growth through joint ventures and acquisitions, foreign direct investment and comparative management studies of Japan, Korea, and China. His book, Sony vs. Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics’ Giants Battle for Global Supremacy (Wiley, 2008) compares and contrasts these two firms’ global strategy. His other books include The Rise and Fall of Chaebols: Financial Crisis and Transformation of Korean Business Groups (Cambridge, 2003) and Business Groups in East Asia: Crisis, Restructuring and New Growth (Oxford, 2006), and Multinationals in China: Entry Strategies, Competition, and Performance (Oxford, 2013). He previously served as an Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, and an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal. He is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and of the Academy of International Business.
Meet the researchers session
Yadong Luo
Dr. Yadong Luo is the Emery Findley Distinguished Chair and Professor of Management at Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM) and the Academy of International Business. He has written over 20 books and over 200 research articles (including over 60 articles in UT-Dallas Top Business Journals List), dealing with topics ranging from global strategy and cooperative alliances to cross-cultural management and emerging market businesses. He has made significant contributions to a wide range of business and management issues, including the development of theories such as the springboard theory, composition-based view, and global co-opetition. Additionally, he has written extensively on the development of business and management in emerging markets.
Professor Luo has contributed immensely to research on international business in emerging markets and the broader themes of global strategy and international management. His works have been extensively published in JIBS and other IB outlets. As one of the leading IB scholars contributing to top management journals, his papers have appeared in AMJ, ASQ, AMR, SMJ, JAP, and Org. Science, among others. He has served as an editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and other journals for many years, and prior to entering academia, he worked in international business and public policy for seven years. As of the end of 2022, his H Index stood at 108, with over 52,000 Google Scholar Citations.
Dr. Luo is ranked #12 worldwide in the field of Business & Management by Stanford University's World's Top Scientists List, and he is recognized as the top IB scholar by various rankings. Among his numerous accolades are the JIBS 50th Anniversary Gold Medal, AOM's Educator Award (IM division), UM's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Axiom Gold Medal for his recent book (the Digital Multinationals, MIT, 2022).
Klaus Meyer
Klaus Meyer is a Professor of International Business at Ivey Business School, London, Ontario, Canada. Until 2017, he spend six years at China Europe International Business School, where he was the Philips Chair and Professor of Strategy and International Business. Previously he has also been full-time faculty member at Copenhagen Business School, the University of Bath, England and University of Reading, England, and held visiting appointments at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and at National Cheng-chi University, Taipei.
Professor Meyer is a leading scholar in the field of international business conducting research on the strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs), especially foreign entry strategies, in emerging economies, especially Eastern Europe and East Asia. A central theme of his research is the influence of local contexts on the strategies and operations of MNEs operating in emerging economies. His theoretical contributions apply and in particular institution-based theories in the realm of international business. Recent work is investigating the strategies of MNEs originating from emerging economies, in particular China, and how their origins shape their international growth strategies.
Professor Meyer has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) in 2013 and in 2015 he received the JIBS Decade award for the most influential paper published a decade ago. In 2012-2014, he was the Vice President of the AIB, and in this function he chaired the 2014 AIB conference held in Vancouver. From 2016 to 2022, he served as an area editor for the Journal of International Business Studies.
He has published over 90 articles in leading scholarly journals, in particular in Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Management Studies, and he published eight books, including the textbook International Business (with Mike Peng, published by Cengage Learning, 3rd ed., 2019) and the Oxford Handbook of Management in Emerging Markets (co-edited with Rob Grosse, OUP, 2019). Prof. Meyer holds an MSc from the University of Göttingen and a PhD from London Business School.
Ilan Alon
Dr. Ilan Alon is Professor of Business and Economics at Ariel University (Israel) and University of Agder (Norway). He was visiting scholar at Georgetown University, Harvard University and other prestigious universities around the world. Alon’s research concentrates on emerging markets (in particular China), international franchising, cultural intelligence, and, more recently, crypto economics. Alon’s research appeared in ranked academic journals, such as the Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Management, International Business Review, Journal of International Marketing, International Marketing Review, Management International Review, and others. These articles have collectively gained over 12k citations on Google Scholar. Prof. Alon is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Emerging Markets (5.1 Scopus CiteScore Monthly Tracker 2022).
Meet the editors session
William Newburry
Dr. Newburry is Chair of the Department of International Business and the Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business at Florida International University. Bill is also a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Nanyang Business School Center for Emerging Markets. He earned his PhD from New York University, co-majoring in international business and management. His research focuses on how multinational corporations manage and relate to subsidiaries and other local stakeholders when they invest in foreign countries, with an emphasis on reputation issues.
Bill was elected an Academy of International Business (AIB) Fellow in 2020 and served as the Local Host Chair of the 2022 AIB Meeting hosted by FIU in Miami. He is serving a five-year term on the Academy of Management International Management Division Executive Committee (2019-2024), currently in the position of Division Chair. He also serves as President of the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE) and as Editor of AIB Insights. Bill previously served as President/Chapter Chair of the Academy of International Business Latin America Chapter (2012-2018), and Chair of the Strategic Management Society Global Strategy Interest Group (2008-2009).
Bill has published 45+ articles in top-tier journals, along with another 20 chapters in edited books. He co-authored Building Strategic Capabilities in Emerging Markets (2020, Cambridge University Press), and has co-authored/edited four additional books. He serves on the Senior Advisory Board of Review of International Business and Strategy, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Thunderbird International Business Review, and Cross Cultural and Strategic Management.
Roger Strange
Roger Strange is Professor of International Business at the University of Sussex Business School, United Kingdom. His current research focuses on four main areas of International Business: the reasons for, and the implications of, the growing trend towards the externalization of production in global value chains; the effects of corporate governance factors on foreign direct investment decisions; the determinants of MNE subsidiary location; and the impact of new digital technologies on international business theory and practice. He is the author/editor of fourteen books, and over one hundred journal articles and book chapters.
Roger is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and the European International Business Academy (EIBA), and a former EIBA President. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of International Business Review, and a member of the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Business Policy, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Asia Pacific Business Review, and the Journal of Management & Governance.
He has been a consultant to UNCTAD on several World Investment Reports and to the World Bank on the forthcoming Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2021-2022.
Krzysztof Wach
Full professor at Krakow University of Economics KUE (Poland). Professor of social sciences (2020), Habilitation (dr hab.) in economics (2013), PhD in management (2006), MSc in international economics (2001). His research interests include international business, international entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and innovation, family firms. Member of the Committee for Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences PAN (since 2020). Member of the Committee for Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences PAU (since 2020), Member of the Committee for Organization and Management Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences PAN – Branch in Krakow (since 2022). Chairman of the Scientific Discipline Council for Economics and Finance at CUE (since 2019). Director of the Department of International Trade KUE (Since 2016). Head of the Centre for Strategic and International Entrepreneurship KUE (since 2014). Member of AIB (Academy of International Business) – Vice-Chair of the AIB-CEE (since 2017) and EIBA (European International Business Academy). Editor-in-Chief of ‘Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review’ (Scopus, ESCI WoS) and ‘International Entrepreneurship Review’. Associate Editor of various journals, including ‘European Journal of International Management (SCI WoS, Scopus), ‘Central European Management Journal’ (Scopus, ESCI WoS, Emeralnd), ‘Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics’ (Scopus) or ‘European Integration Studies’ (ESCI WoS), ‘Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship’ (Elsevier), ‘International Journal of Multinational Corporation Strategy’ (Inderscience). Served as an expert on inclusive entrepreneurship for the European Commission and OECD (2013-2019). A European Commission national expert for youth entrepreneurship (2016). Visiting professor at various American and European universities, including National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan, 2019), Shanghai Laxin University of Finance and Accounting (China, 2017), Grand Valley State University (Grand Rapids, USA, 2010, 2013), Roosevelt University (Chicago, USA, 2013), University of Detroit Mercy (Detroit, USA, 2013), Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, USA, 2013), Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK, 2010), University College London (UK, 2014), Technical University of Cartagena (Cartagena, Spain, 2013), University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia, 2015), National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine, 2010), Slovak University of Agriculture (Nitra, Slovakia, 2005-2014). Participant in various international education and research projects (e.g. Jean Monnet, Atlantis, International Visegrad Fund IVF, Central European Initiative CEI, National Science Centre NCN of Poland). Expert and evaluator of projects for the European Commission, Research Council of Lithuania LMT, Czech Science Foundation GACR, Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education SAAVS, National Centre for Science and Technology Evaluation of Kazakhstan NCSTE. Recently he has published in such JCR journals as Journal of Vocational Behavior, European Journal of International Management, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Oeconomia Copernicana, Energies, Agricultural Economics, Central European Management Journal, Journal of International Studies, Economics & Sociology.
Mariusz Próchniak
Dean of the Collegium of World Economy at SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics II. A graduate of SGH Warsaw School of Economics, he also obtained his doctoral and postdoctoral degrees there. His research focuses on economic growth modelling and real convergence from the theoretical and empirical perspective, with particular emphasis on the role of institutional factors. He is also involved in research on models of capitalism. An author and co-author of monographs and numerous articles published, among others, in journals listed in the JCR database. Participant of many research projects funded by bodies such as the National Science Centre (NCN) and the National Bank of Poland.
Thomas Steger
Thomas Steger is Full Professor of Leadership and Organization at the University of Regensburg. He has graduated from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and received his doctoral degree as well as his habilitation from the Chemnitz University of Technology. Moreover, he acted as professor (ad interim) at the University of Hohenheim and at the University of Erfurt.
His research interests focus on corporate governance (especially boards of directors) and employee owned companies. Particular emphasis is placed on the transforming countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Since more than two decades, Thomas is intensively engaged in the area of management in Central and Eastern Europe. He was a co-founder (and currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of East European Management Studies. Moreover, he was a guest lecturer at different universities in Central and Eastern Europe and has led and contributed to several research projects in the field, related to topics such as business elites, corporate governance, talent management, MNC subsidiaries, and business corruption.
Thomas has widely published in journals such as Journal of World Business, Organization, Journal of Business Research, East European Economics and International Journal of Manpower. Moreover, he published three books and co-edited several special issues of prestigious journals.
Hussain Rammal
Hussain Rammal is Associate Head: People and Culture, and Professor of International Business at the Adelaide Business School, the University of Adelaide. He is the founding editor of the Emerging Issues in International Business and Global Strategy book series, co-editor-in-chief of Review of International Business and Strategy Journal, the Real Impact Editor (Oceania) for the Journal of Knowledge Management, and Associate Editor of Business & Society journal.
Before joining the University of Adelaide, Hussain was a faculty member at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where he led the Business School's MBA program as Director and also coordinated the Higher Degrees by Research program for the Management Department and at the University of South Australia (UniSA), where he was the Director of the Master of International Business degree. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Aberdeen - UK, Aalto University - Finland, Bologna University - Italy, University of Lampung - Indonesia, and Brawijaya University - Indonesia.
Hussain's current research interests include the internationalization of services firms (trade in services), the transfer of knowledge across the inter-and intra-MNE networks, global talent management, and international business negotiations.