Our wider network
CIER's wider network is made up of academics and academic institutions from around the world, working in the area of International Business and Entrepreneurship. The list includes:
- ie-scholars.net
- Dr Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann
- Professor Tom Brewer
- Professor Abraham Koshy
- Athens University of Economics and Business
- MNC Subsidiary Research with Professors Julian Birkinshaw and Shaker Zahra
- Multi-national Research Project on Born Globals
- Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change, Smeal College of Business
- University of Seville
ie-scholars.net
CIER is a founding partner of ie-scholars.net, a virtual community working to increase the visibility and legitimacy of international entrepreneurship as a field of study and to represent coordinate and expand the international network of IE researchers, and their relationships with policy-makers and entrepreneurs.
For more information about ie-scholars.net, please download the following flyer:
About ie-scholars.net (pdf, 68kb)
Dr Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann
Dr Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann works at the University of Porto (Portugal) where she is a Professor Auxiliar, and also Pro Vice-Chancellor responsible for Strategic Planning and University-Business Relations. Ana worked on her PhD at Reading University, the title of which was 'Systems, Evolution and Integration: Modelling the Impact of Economic Integration on Multinationals' Strategies' (2001); it involved a wide-ranging quantitative study of multinational subsidiaries in Ireland, UK, Spain and Portugal. Ana's External Examiner was Prof Stephen Young, and following this meeting, the two have worked together as colleagues and friends on a variety of projects, conference presentations, book contributions and articles. Recent joint publications include: Special Issue on FDI and Multinationals: Patterns, impacts and policies, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 12(1), 2005; 'Sourcing Patterns of Multinational Subsidiaries in Europe', Regional Studies, 2006, 40(6), pp583-599.
Ana is a Visiting Research Fellow with CIER, while Steve was a founder member of the High Council for FDI in Portugal (at the time Ana was a consultant for the Portuguese Investment Agency). Ana's interests relate to multinational subsidiaries' strategies and evolution; country competitiveness, clusters and innovation; FDI impact-human capital formation, technological spillovers, exports, linkages; investment attraction and investment incentives; and multilateral investment agreements and developing countries. She works as consultant to a variety of international and national organizations in different parts of the world; and is well-known and respected in the international business community.
Ana's email is: atavares@fep.up.pt
Professor Tom Brewer
Professor Tom Brewer works in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, Washington D.C.; and is Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium.Tom has PhDs in Political Science and Business Administration, and his research is in international business and international political economy. Prof Steve Young met Tom in the early 1990s at Georgetown University and they have worked together since that time as colleagues and friends on multilateral investment agreements, a topic on which they have published a variety of articles and books, including The Multilateral Investment System and Multinational Enterprises, Oxford University Press, 2000 (paperback ed.).
Tom has many publications on subjects such as the WTO and investment agreements, investment incentives, international dispute settlement, transfer pricing, and political risk and international business. Two of his best known academic articles are : 'International Business - Political Behavior: New Theoretical directions', Academy of Management Review, 1994, 19(1), pp119-143; 'An Issue-Area Approach to the Analysis of MNE-Government Relations', Journal of International Business Studies, 1992, 23(2), pp295-309.
Tom is one of the internationally best known and respected scholars on the subject of climate change and its business implications; and much of his recent research has focused on aspects of this topic, including business perspectives on the EU's emissions trading scheme, the WTO and the Kyoto Protocol, US public opinion on climate change issues etc.
Tom's email is: brewert@georgetown.edu. His personal professional website is: www.usclimatechange.com and his university web address: explore.georgetown.edu/people/brewert/.
Professor Abraham Koshy
Professor Abraham Koshy is Professor of Marketing at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad. IIM-A is recognised as the leading Business School in India, and one of the best Business Schools in Asia and worldwide. Abraham did his PhD on the topic of Brand Management, a subject on which he writes, consults and teaches in India and many other countries.Abraham lectured on the Master's programmes at the University of Strathclyde where he worked with Stephen Young. In spring 2008 he will teach Brand Management on the MSc in Management at Glasgow University, as well as delivering an Executive Programme for business people in Scotland/UK on understanding the business and marketing environment in India. The latter derives from funding received from the British Council's UKIERI programme which enabled Steve Young to visit IIM-A in March 2007 to discuss joint the development of joint CPD and executive programmes. While Prof Koshy is in Glasgow, he will be working with Steve on case study development to support this initaitive.
Prof Koshy is a co-editor of the South Asian edition (published in 2006) of the very famous Marketing Management textbook of Philip Kotler.
Athens University of Economics and Business
Dr Pavlos Dimitratos has been collaborating with Spyros Lioukas and Irini Voudouris (Athens University of Economics and Business) on two projects related to internationalization of small and medium sized Greek firms. In these projects, internationalization strategies of these firms, as well as their organizational and environmental contexts are being examined. This work has already generated a journal article (International Business Review, 2004) and several conference papers.
MNC Subsidiary Research with Professors Julian Birkinshaw and Shaker Zahra
Pavlos has also been collaborating with Joanna Liouka & Stephen Young (University of Glasgow), Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School), and Shaker Zahra (University of Minnesota) on an ERSC project concerning entrepreneurship in multinational subsidiaries. In this project, data were collected on British based foreign-owned subsidiaries. A seminar disseminating the outputs of this work was organized in the University of Glasgow in September 2006; and, two conference papers have already been presented (EIBA, 2005 and EIBA, 2006).
Multi-national Research Project on Born Globals
In addition, Pavlos has been cooperating with Mika Gabrielsson (Helsinki School of Economics), Manek Kirpalani (Bloomsburg University), Jorma Larimo (University of Vaasa), Alex Rialp (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Carl Solberg (BI Norwegian School of Management), Antonella Zuchella (University of Pavia) on two projects related to born global firms. This work addresses issues such as differences in internationalization patterns between born globals and incremental internationalisers; marketing strategies of born globals; patterns of evolution of born globals etc. Data is being collected for Greece, Finland, Norway, Spain and Italy. Two panel sessions (EIBA, 2005 and EIBA, 2006) have already been prepared in relation to these projects.
Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change, Smeal College of Business
Marian V Jones was one of a number of international scholars who took part in the 2005 Klein Symposium on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and the Global Economy. The Symposium, hosted by Gerald I Susman, Klein Professor of Management and Director of the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change, enabled a select group of leading scholars, policy makers and business leaders to Pennsylvania State University to discuss the challenges of entrepreneurship in a global context. The result is an impressive volume of papers edited by Gerald I Susman and available from Edward Elgar publishers. We are delighted to have contributed to Gerald's initiative and welcomed the opportunity to participate in what was truly an international network event.
University of Seville
Francisco J. Acedo of the University of Seville and Marian V Jones have been working together on a paper on the relationship between the speed of internationalisation and entrepreneurial cognition. The immediate result of the collaboration is an article that will be published in the Journal of World Business later this year. In the longer term Marian and Francisco are discussing opportunities to collaborate on cross-national survey research examining the temporal dimensions of SME internationalisation.