Category: Research
Research in the Journal of International Business Policy is featured by the Association of MBAs
Our paper (co-authored with Vera Kunczer and Jonas Puck) on how migrants affect firms’ international investments is summarized and presented for a broader audience by the Association of MBAs. You can read the AMBA article here https://www.associationofmbas.com/migrants-are-key-to-international-business-expansion/, and the full paper (open access) is available to everyone here https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-019-00042-9.
Political Risk and Alliance Diversity: Forthcoming paper in AMJ
Sinziana Dorobantu, Thomas Lindner, and Jakob Müllner: Around the world, spending on large-scale infrastructure projects (airports and ports; power plants; pipelines and railroads) increased tenfold from $41.3 billion in 1994 to $415 billion in 2013, and has been growing since. These projects are often financed by multiple organizations that come together in multi-partner alliances, but
WWTF grant to explore Covid-19 effects on firms
Together with Jonas Puck, Jakob Müllner, and Michael Wolfesberger I got a grant to investigate how the Covid-19 pandemic influences firms in Austria. This grant is part of the 1 Million EUR WWTF COVID-19 Rapid Response Call. All projects that got funding from the call are briefly outlined here: https://www.wwtf.at/covid/index.php?lang=EN. Excited to be working on
AMLE PDW in Durham
Thanks to the organizers and participants of the Academy of Management Learning and Education Paper Development Workshop in Durham. It was very good seeing how AMLE works, and discuss papers on learning and education.
I won the CBS prize at EIBA 2019 for the best paper by an author under 40!
I am excited about having received the Copenhagen Business School Prize for the best paper by an author under 40 at EIBA 2019 in Leeds, UK. The prize was awarded for my paper “Global Diversification Strategy and Firm Performance: A Modelling and Simulation Study”. I thank the three sponsoring departments at CBS (International Economics, Government,
Paper presentation at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)
My co-author Jonas Puck gave a presentation of our joint paper with Vera Kunczer at the Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS) in Vienna yesterday (https://www.ihs.ac.at/events/detail/event/termin/benefitting-from-immigration/). The audience consisted mostly of researchers in political science. There were a lot of interesting points we took away for this and follow-up projects.
Publication with Sinziana Dorobantu and Jakob Müllner in Academy of Management Journal! “Political Risk and Alliance Diversity: A Two-Stage Model of Partner Selection in Multipartner Alliances”
We examine how the political risk influences partner selection in multipartner alliances and consequently their diversity. We propose a two-stage theoretical model—first, a lead firm is selected to lead the alliance; second, the lead firm selects other partners—and we argue that political risk affects both stages. In the first stage, firms with knowledge of and
Three presentations at EIBA 2019 annual conference in Leeds, UK
I will go to the EIBA 2019 annual meeting in Leeds (https://eiba2019.eiba.org/) to present three working papers: A simulation paper on internationalization strategies, an empirical paper on bond underpricing, and an empirical paper on how cooperative learning influences student success.
Publication with Jonas Puck and Alain Verbeke in Journal of International Business Studies! “Misconceptions about multicollinearity in international business research: Identification, consequences, and remedies”
Collinearity between independent variables is a recurrent problem in quantitative empirical research in International Business (IB). We explore insufficient and inappropriate treatment of collinearity and use simulations to illustrate the potential impact on results. We also show how IB researchers doing quantitative work can avoid collinearity issues that lead to spurious and unstable results. Our
Publication with Vera Kunczer and Jonas Puck in Journal of International Business Policy! “Benefitting from immigration: The value of immigrants’ country knowledge for firm internationalization”
Migrants are able to provide firms with knowledge about their country of origin. This can become a valuable source of knowledge for firms in the process of internationalization. Relating to a Knowledge-Based-View perspective, this paper explains how the resource commitment of firms to foreign countries is contingent on immigration from those countries: Immigrants’ country knowledge