Professor Anoop Madhok

Professor Madhok is currently ASRF Visiting Senior Research Fellow (May-July 2013). He is working with Professor Pavlos Dimitratos on the changing entrepreneurial strategies of large and established multinational firms.

Anoop Madhok obtained his doctorate in 1993 at the Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His PhD was in the area of Strategy (with a minor in International Political Economy). Earlier, he obtained an MA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, where he majored in International Economics as well as Social Change and Development, and an MBA in Marketing and Management at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently a Professor of Strategy and International Business at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, where he has been since 2005. He is also a Visiting Professor since 2003 at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Vrije University, Amsterdam.

Formerly, he was a Professor of Management at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, Salt Lake City from 1993-2005.. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam from 2000 to 2002 and at the University of Melbourne, Australia and University of Valencia, Spain in 2009. In addition to these, he has been a visiting research scholar at a number of other prominent institutions around to world. Earlier, he worked as a manager in prominent multinational firms operating in India such as Imperial Chemicals (ICI) and Philips.

Professor Madhok’s research interests span strategy and international management and include topics such as multinational firm strategy, foreign market entry, strategic alliances, trust and interfirm collaboration, and the theory and boundaries of the firm. He has lectured extensively on these topics in a number of countries around the world. His most recent research area is that of the expansion and competitive strategies of multinational firms from emerging economies. How can firms that do not appear to have any obvious sources of competitive advantage successfully expand and compete with their more established multinational competitors? His work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, among many others, as well as in a variety of books, and he serves or has served on the editorial review board of Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of International Management and Journal of World Business. Courses taught at the Schulich School of Business and elsewhere include multinational strategy and strategic alliances. He also regularly teaches doctoral courses in strategy.

Professor Madhok has received numerous honors and awards in recognition of his work. He received the McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management Distinguished PhD Alumnus Award in 2009. His 1995 paper won the Journal of International Business Studies 2005 Decade Award for the most influential paper in JIBS. He has also been identified as one of the top contributors worldwide in international strategic management research and recognized in 2006 as one of eight scholars whose work was acknowledged for being both prolific and influential in this domain.

During the period of his ASRF Fellowship, Professor Madhok plans to further insight into the changing entrepreneurial strategies of large and established multinational firms. This complements and builds upon his recent work on multinationals from emerging economies, where a key element of the argument emphasizes entrepreneurial orientation and agility. In this project, he will be collaborating in particular with Professor Pavlos Dimitratos as well as other colleagues of the Adam Smith Business School who have recently been working on the concept of entrepreneurial orientation, encompassing dimensions such as innovative, pro-activeness, risk-taking, learning, networking and autonomy. The particular project involves a detailed investigation of the entrepreneurial transformation of the branches / subsidiaries of a Tier 1 global bank within a changing global context as it grows and evolves over the decades.