Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship Group

2023

Baxter, D., Trott, P., Ellwood, P. (2023). 'Reconceptualising innovation failure', Research Policy, 52(7), 104811

• DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104811

Borah, D., Massini, S., Malik, K. (2023). 'Teaching benefits of multi-helix university-industry research collaborations: Towards a holistic framework', Research Policy, 52(8), 104843

• DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104843

Cornelissen, J., & Kaandorp, M. (2023). 'Towards Stronger Causal Claims in Management Research: Causal Triangulation Instead of Causal Identification', Journal of Management, 60(4), 834-860

• DOI: 10.1111/joms.12897

Day, L., Balogun, J., Mayer, M. (2023). 'Strategic change in a pluralistic context: Change leader sensegiving', Organization Studies, 44(8), 1207–1230

• DOI: 10.1177/01708406231166815

Ertug, G., Brennecke, J., Tasselli, S. (2023). 'Theorizing about the implications of multiplexity: An integrative typology', Academy of Management Annals, 17(2), 626-654

• DOI: 10.5465/annals.2021.0193

Papageorgiadis, N., Procopiou, A., Sofka, W. (2023). 'Unintended consequences of outcome based compensation – How CEO bonuses, stocks and stock options affect their firms’ patent litigation', Research Policy, 52(8), 104816

• DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104816

Valero-Gil, J., Surroca, J.A., Tribo, J., Gutierrez, L., Montiel, I. (2023). 'Innovation vs. standardization: The conjoint effects of eco-innovation and environmental management systems on environmental performance', Research Policy, 52 (4), 104737

• DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104737

2022

Mikołajewska-Zając, K., Márton, A., Zundel, M. (2022). 'Couchsurfing with Bateson: An ecology of digital platforms', Organization Studies, (43)7, 1115-1135

• DOI: 10.1177/01708406211058628

Brennecke, J., Ertug, G., Elfring, T. (2022). 'Networking fast and slow: The role of speed in tie formation', Journal of Management, 0(0)

• DOI: 10.1177/01492063221132483

Distel, A. P., Sofka, W., de Faria, P., Preto, M. T., & Ribeiro, A. S. (2022). 'Dynamic capabilities for hire - How former host-country entrepreneurs as MNC subsidiary managers affect performance', Journal of International Business Studies, 53, 657–688

• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-019-00274-0

Ertug, G., Brennecke, J., Kovacs, B., Zou, T. (2022). 'What does homophily do? A review of the consequences of homophily', Academy of Management Annals, 16(1), 38-69

• DOI: 10.5465/annals.2020.0230

Grecu, A., Sofka, W., Larsen, M.M., Pedersen, T., (2022). 'Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires', Journal of International Business Studies, 53(3), 534-549

• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-021-00486-3

Grimpe, C., Sofka, W., Kaiser, U. (2022). 'Competing for digital human capital: The retention effect of digital expertise in MNC subsidiaries', Journal of International Business Studies, 54(4), 657-685

• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-021-00493-4

Horner, S., Papageorgiadis, N., Sofka, W., Angelidou S. (2022). 'Standing your ground: Examining the signaling effects of patent litigation in university technology licensing', Research Policy, 51(10), 104598

• DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2022.104598

Macpherson, A., Breslin, D., Akinci, C. (2022). 'Organizational learning from hidden improvisation', Organization Studies, 43(6), 861-883

• DOI: 10.1177/01708406211035509

Spencer, L., Anderson, L., Ellwood, P. (2022). 'Interweaving scholarship and practice: A pathway to scholarly impact', Academy of Management Learning & Education, 21(3), 422-448

• DOI: 10.5465/amle.2021.0266

Van Burg, E., Cornelissen, J., Stam, W., & Jack, S. (2022). 'Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact', Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46(1), 3-20

• DOI: 10.1177/1042258720943051

Van der Giessen, M., Langenbusch, C., Jacobs, G., Cornelissen, J. (2022). 'Collective sensemaking in the local response to a grand challenge: Recovery, alleviation and change-oriented responses to a refugee crisis', Human Relations, 75(5), 903-930

• DOI: 10.1177/00187267211004688

Zhu, J., Delbridge, R. (2022). 'EXPRESS: The management of second-generation migrant workers in China: A case study of centrifugal paternalism', Human Relations, 75(12), 2272–2299

• DOI: 10.1177/00187267211032948

Gutierrez, L., Montiel, I., Surroca, J. A., & Tribo, J. A. (2022). 'Rainbow Wash or Rainbow Revolution? Dynamic Stakeholder Engagement for SDG-Driven Responsible Innovation', Journal of Business Ethics, 180(4), 1113-1136

• DOI: 10.1007/s10551-022-05190-2

2021

Brennecke, J. (2021). 'Media review: Entrepreneurship as networking: mechanisms, dynamics, practices, and strategies', Organization Studies, 1-4

• DOI: 10.1177/01708406231200710

Borah, D., Malik, K., & Massini, S. (2021). 'Teaching-focused university–industry collaborations: Determinants and impact on graduates’ employability competencies', Research Policy, 50(3), 104172

• DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2020.104172

Brennecke, J., Sofka, W., Wang, P., Rank, O.N. (2021). 'How the organizational design of R&D units affects individual search intensity-A network study', Research Policy, 50(5), 104219

• DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2021.104219

Burke, G., Wolf, C. (2021). 'The process affordances of strategy toolmaking when addressing wicked problems', Journal of Management Studies, 58(2), 359-388

• DOI: 10.1111/joms.12572

Chatterjee, I., Cornelissen, J., Wincent, J. (2021). 'Social entrepreneurship and values work: The role of practices in shaping values and negotiating change', Journal of Business Venturing, 36(1), 106064

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106064

Cornelissen, J., Akemu, O., Jonkman, J.G.F., Werner, M.D. (2021). 'Building character: The formation of a hybrid organizational identity in a social enterprise', Journal of Management Studies, 58(5). pp. 1294-1330

• DOI: 10.1111/joms.12640

Cornelissen, J., & Cholakova, M. (2021). 'Profits Uber everything? The gig economy and the morality of category work', Strategic Organization, 19(4), 722-731

• DOI: 10.1177/1476127019894506

Jayawarna, D., Marlow, S., Swail, J. (2021). 'A gendered life course explanation of the exit decision in the context of household dynamics', Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 45(6), 0-0

• DOI: 10.1177/1042258720940123

MacKay, B., Chia, R., & Nair, A. (2021). 'Strategy in Practices: A process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes', Human Relations, 74(9), 1337-1369

• DOI: 10.1177/0018726720929397

Sofka, W., Grimpe, C., Kaiser, U., (2021). 'Understanding the unwritten rules of the game: Government work experience and salary premiums in foreign MNC subsidiaries', Journal of International Business Studies, 53(6), 1110-1132

• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-021-00408-3

Zhu, J., Spence, C., Ezzamel M. (2021). 'Thinking like the state: Doxa and symbolic power in the accounting field in China', Accounting, Organizations and Society, 93. 101235

• DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2021.101235

2020

Belderbos, R., Tong, T. W., Wu, S. (2020). 'Portfolio configuration and foreign entry decisions: A juxtaposition of real options and risk diversification theories', Strategic Management Journal, 41(7), 1191-1209

• DOI: 10.1002/smj.3151

Brennecke, J. (2020). 'Dissonant Ties in Intraorganizational Networks: Why Individuals Seek Problem-Solving Assistance from Difficult Colleagues', Academy of Management Journal, 63(3), 743-778

• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2017.0399

David, N., Brennecke, J., & Rank, O. (2020). 'Extrinsic motivation as a determinant of knowledge exchange in sales teams: A social network approach', Human Resource Management, 59(4), 339-358

• DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21999

Gilding M., Brennecke, J., Bunton, V., Lusher, D., Molloy, P., Codoreanu, A. (2020). 'Network failure: Biotechnology firms, clusters and collaborations far from the world superclusters', Research Policy, 49(2), 103902

• DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2019.103902

Schildt, H., Mantere, S., & Cornelissen, J. (2020). 'Power in Sensemaking Processes', Organization Studies, 41(2), 241-265

• DOI: 10.1177/0170840619847718

Solinger, O.N., Jansen, P.G.W., Cornelissen, J.P. (2020). 'The emergence of moral leadership', Academy of Management Review, 45 (3), 504-527

• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2016.0263

Surroca, J. A., Aguilera, R. V., Desender, K., & Tribo, J. A. (2020). 'Is managerial entrenchment always bad and corporate social responsibility always good? A cross-national examination of their combined influence on shareholder value', Strategic Management Journal, 41(5), 891-920

• DOI: 10.1002/smj.3132

Thaning, MS., Zundel, M., Holt, R., Contu, A., Vince, R. (2020). 'From the Editors—Why Reason, Why Now?', Academy of Management Learning & Education, 19(3), 259-268

• DOI: 10.5465/amle.2020.0328

This research theme explores how organisations should design appropriate sustainable strategies to create value for their internal and external stakeholders, including employees, customers, community residents, the natural environment, and suppliers of capital and other resources.

Our research looks at the potential of different strategies, such as alliances, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, organisational changes, diversification, internationalisation, etc, to generate positive impact on organisations and their stakeholders.

Form an internal perspective, research within this theme focuses on factors influencing effective corporate governance, including the selection and composition of the top management team as well as the diversity, expertise, power and compensation of managers and corporate boards.

Our researchers also study the mechanisms used to manage interdependencies between an organisation’s internal actors and its multiple external stakeholders, and how effective decision-making can help avoid corporate misconduct and scandals, resolve grand challenges and enhance the wellbeing of people and the planet.

Research subtopics:

• Interrelations between sustainability and strategies at business and corporate levels
• Corporate purpose, social enterprises, and sustainability
• Diversity in the top management team
• Causes and consequences of corporate social (ir)responsibility
• Socially responsible investing and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG)
• Institutions and sustainability
• Addressing grand challenges in the global business environment
• Internationalisation, multinational enterprises (MNEs) and social responsibility

Research within this theme unravels the complexities of the global business, institutional and regulatory environments through four distinct lenses: difference, distance, diversity and disparity.

We explore how these complexities shape or are shaped by the internationalisation, innovation, intellectual property (IP) and human capital strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs) and Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across emerging and advanced country contexts.

Several studies within our Group focuses on how organisations navigate the dynamic and changing nature of the global environment, by strategically developing and managing their knowledge, innovation and human capital assets across borders.

Our research reveals novel insights into the characteristics and dimensions of cross-country institutional and regulatory environments, such as the strength of national patent enforcement regimes across countries, corporate social responsibility practices, environmental regulations and the alignment with sustainable development goals.

We make significant contributions to existing theory by elucidating how these factors influence the global business activities and behaviours of firms, including internationalisation strategies, global market integration activities, knowledge transfer between headquarters and subsidiaries, patent and IP litigation strategies and management of human capital.

Research subtopics:

• Global strategy and MNCs
• Institutional contexts and organisational behaviour
• Strategic IP management across global innovation contexts
• Strategic human capital and international business

Research within this theme encompasses theoretical, empirical and methodological investigations within the field of innovation management.

A central focus of our research lies in exploring the intricate web of collaborations and networks that underpin successful innovations and their emergence, evolution, management and impact on organisational performance.

By investigating how a wide array of stakeholders, including individuals, organisations and entire sectors, such as the four helices of the innovation system (industry, university, government, and civil society), converge to drive innovation, we aim to unveil effective strategies and policies for promoting collaborative innovations.

Understanding innovation as a complex and dynamic process is another pivotal area of our research.

We are interested in unravelling how innovations are brought into being in practice with an aim to develop process theories, frameworks and methodologies that can help organisations systematise innovation efforts in various sectors/industries.

Another significant area of our research focuses on how organisations can effectively navigate the complex landscape of emerging digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, the Internet of things (IoT), satellite imagery, and data analytics.

Specifically, we study the mechanisms and dynamics involved in leveraging and exploiting these new technologies for business model innovations.

Using organisational and learning theories, our researchers are contributing to developing a better understanding of various AI technologies and their impact on the organisation of scientific research, specifically labour processes, learning processes, operational efficiency, and reconfiguration of workplaces. 

Research subtopics:

• Collaboration and networks for innovation
• Innovation as a process
• Intellectual property protection, and technology transfer
• Management of emerging digital technologies

Research within this theme explores the nature, untapped potential and scope of micro-enterprise as a sustainable pathway for the socio-economic integration of under-represented and disadvantaged groups.

We hold the view that inclusive entrepreneurship is an important vehicular transit for sustainable and inclusive growth, and suggest that weak institutional settings channel entrepreneurs away from productive activities, due to various reasons relevant at individual, firm, household and country levels.

Our research develops ground breaking knowledge about entrepreneurship as a socially situated phenomenon.

Taking this perspective, we theoretically develop and empirically evaluate how social processes interact with individual abilities to form various productive opportunities for entrepreneurs.

Our goal is to further our understanding of long-term trends, societal impact and the forms of entrepreneurship that can enable productive and 'good' work as policy makers 'build back better', 'level up' and develop inclusive economies.

We consider the process of acquiring and applying resources to be a process of agents interacting with socio-cultural relations that ultimately emerge from deep social relations such as class and gender.

Research subtopics:

• Social inclusion for unlocking entrepreneurship: the potential for increasing entrepreneurial capacity
• Social and responsible entrepreneurship
• Resourcing the entrepreneurial Venture
• Entrepreneurship across time and space

2024

Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights in Autocratic Contexts –The Case for Academic Freedom in Autocratic Regimes and the Contribution of Political CSR and Deliberation

• Professor Andreas Georg Scherer, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
• 20 March 2024

On opportunities and possibilities: The past, the present and the future

• Professor Stratos Ramoglou  University of Southampton (England) 
• 14 February 2024

Undercover Operations? MNE ‘Concealed Distancing’ in Hostile Geopolitical Environments

• Dr João Albino-Pimentel Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina (USA)
• 31 January 2024

2023

The Role of Autonomy in Problem Formulation and Creativity of R&D Workers

When the Pursuit of Goodness Fuels Reactance

• Professor Floor Rink, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
• 15 November 2023

How does rivalry affect technology exchanges between firms?

• Professor Pedro de Faria University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
• 25 October 2023

Intra- And Inter-Group Dynamics And The Market For Quality: Examining Mobility Of High Caliber Professionals

• Professor Daniel Muzio, University of York (England)
• 20 September 2023

Contextualizing Entrepreneurship – Taking stock, exploring new directions

• Professor Friederike Welter, Bonn University of Siegen (Germany)
• 12 July 2023

Product Market Choices of Entrepreneurial Ventures: The Role of Prior Experience

• Dr Anu Wadhwa, Imperial College London (England)
• 30 March 2023

Political disruption and international business 

• Professor Klaus Meyer, Ivey Business School (Canada)
• 30 March 2023

Home favors and distant troubles: The impact of home bias on global litigation

• Professor Minyuan Zhao, Washington University (USA)
• 8 March 2023

Capitalizing the future: Using language to build opportunity capital

• Professor Dimo Dimov, University of Bath (England)
• 1 March 2023

The issue is not the issue: Stakeholder pressures on Environmental, Social, and Governance Issues and Firm Actions

• Professor Ioanis Ioannou, London Business School (England)
• 14 April 2023

Engaging ethnic minority businesses in HR change: An action research study

• Professor Monder Ram, Aston University (England)
• 22 February 2023

2022

Global Cities and Cosmopolitanism: An Examination of Sub-national and Supra-national Cultural Values

• Professor Torben Pedersen, Bocconi University (Italy) and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
• 9 November 2022

Not my CEO: Gender Effects in Employee Evaluations of the Chief Executive

• Professor Georg Wernicke, HEC Paris (France)
• 26 October 2022

 Firm Failure From an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Perspective: A Case Study

• Professor Colin Mason, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow (Scotland)
• 19 October 2022

Alternatives to templates in qualitative research

• Professor Bill Harley, University of Melbourne (Australia)
• 28 September 2022

Activists Investor Have CEOs on the Ropes – When Does the Board Throw in the Towel

• Professor Margarethe Wiersema, University of California (USA)
• 21 September 2022

A Cross-Country Study of the State's Multifaceted Impact on Greenwashing

• Professor Ruth Aguilera, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University (USA)
• 25 May 2022