Strategy & International Business Subject Group

About the Group

Members of the group regularly publish in leading management journals, and have written influential academic and more popular papers that have been subject of debates by policymakers and managers. They have advised various governments and multilateral agencies (including the World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, UNCTAD, governments of Greece, Pakistan, etc). The group boasts expertise on a wide variety of topics ranging from business strategy and organisation theory to regional clusters and national competitiveness. Members' work is cited frequently in the world's leading media outlets and they are asked to appear on prominent TV channels such as BBC and Bloomberg. The group also houses the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), which serves as an umbrella for a wide variety of initiatives including high level symposia on issue of contemporary relevance to business.

The research of the group falls broadly into the following categories:

• Social stability and change (Kamal Munir, Shahzad Ansari)
• Cultural industries (Allègre Hadida)
• National competitiveness (Christos Pitelis, Kamal Munir, Jin Zhang)
• Regional competitiveness (Christos Pitelis)
• Dynamic capabilities (Christos Pitelis, Shahzad Ansari, Allègre Hadida)
• Technology and society (Shahzad Ansari, Kamal Munir)
• Corporate reputation (Stelios Zyglidopoulos)
• Business and society (Stelios Zyglidopoulos, Kamal Munir)
• Political economy and evolution of Chinese businesses (Jin Zhang, Peter Williamson)

Members

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Publishing output

Members of the group regularly publish in leading management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Research Policy and Strategic Management Journal. Here are a selection from the last few years:

Ansari, S.M., Wijen, F. and Gray, B. (2012) "Averting the 'tragedy of the commons': an institutional perspective on the construction and governance of transnational commons." Organization Science (forthcoming)

Ansari, S.M. and Krop, P. (2012) "Incumbent performance in the face of a radical innovation: towards a framework for incumbent challenger dynamics." Research Policy (forthcoming)

Hadida, A.L. (2012) "Institutions, assets combinations and film performance: a U.S.-French comparison." Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (forthcoming)

Herzog, J.O., Munir, K.A. and Kattuman, P. (2012) "The King and I: monarchies and the performance of business groups." Cambridge Journal of Economics (DOI: 10.1093/cje/bes032) (published online Jul 2012; forthcoming in print)

Illia, L., Zyglidopoulos, C.S., Romenti, S., Rodríguez-Cénovas B., and del Valle Brena, G.A. (2012) "Communicating CSR to a cynical public." MIT Sloan Management Review (forthcoming)

Ansari, S., Munir, K. and Gregg, T. (2012) "Impact at the 'bottom of the pyramid': the role of social capital in capability development and community empowerment." Journal of Management Studies, 49(4): 813-842 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01042.x)

Munir, K. and Khalid, S. (2012) "Pakistan's power politics." Economic and Political Weekly, 47(25): 24-27

Seifert, M. and Hadida, A.L. (2012) "On the relative importance of linear model and human judge(s) in combined forecasting." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 120(1): 24-36

Zyglidopoulos, S.C., Georgiadis, A.P., Carroll, C.E. and Siegel, D.S. (2012) "Does media attention drive corporate social responsibility?" Journal of Business Research, 65(11): 1622–1627 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.10.021)

Koene, B. and Ansari, S. (2011) "Institutional change and the multinational change agent." Journal of Organizational Change Management, 24(4): 511-531 (DOI: 10.1108/09534811111144647)

Ansari, S. and Phillips, N. (2011) "Text me! New consumer practices and change in organizational fields." Organization Science, 22(6): 1579-1599 (DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0595)

Ansari, S., Wijen, F. and Gray, B. (2011) "Fiddling while the ice melts? How organizational scholars can take a more active role in the climate change debate." Strategic Organization, 9(1): 70-76 (DOI: 10.1177/1476127010395525)

Munir, K.A. (2011) "Financial crisis 2008-2009: what does the silence of institutional theorists tell us?" Journal of Management Inquiry, 20(2): 114-117 (DOI: 10.1177/1056492610394739)

Williamson, P.J. and Raman, A.P. (2011) "How China reset its global acquisition agenda." Harvard Business Review, 89(4): 109

Yin, E. and Williamson, P.J. (2011) "Rethinking innovation for a recovery." Ivey Business Journal (Online Edition), May/Jun

Zyglidopoulos, C.S. and Fleming, P. (2011) "Corporate accountability and the politics of visibility in 'late modernity'." Organization, 18(5): 691-706 (DOI: 10.1177/1350508410397222)

Ansari, S.M., Fiss, P. and Zajac, E. (2010) "Made to fit: how practices vary as they diffuse." Academy of Management Review, 35(1): 67-92

Ansari, S. and Munir, K. (2010) "Letting users into our world: some organizational implications of user-generated content." In Griffiths, D., Phillips, N. and Sewell, G. (eds.): Technology and organization: essays in honour of Joan Woodward. (Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series, vol.29) Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing, pp.79-105

Dacin, M.T., Munir, K. and Tracey, P. (2010) "Formal dining at Cambridge colleges: linking ritual performance and institutional maintenance." Academy of Management Journal, 53(6): 1393-1418

Hadida, A.L. (2010) "Commercial success and artistic recognition of motion picture projects." Journal of Cultural Economics, 34(1): 45-80 (DOI: 10.1007/s10824-009-9109-z)

Katkalo, V.S., Pitelis, C.N. and Teece, D.J. (2010) "Introduction: on the nature and scope of dynamic capabilities." Industrial and Corporate Change, 19(4): 1175-1186 (DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq026)

Munir, K., Ansari, S. and Gregg, T. (2010) "Beyond the hype: taking business strategy to the 'bottom of the pyramid'." In Baum, J.A.C. and Lampel, J. (eds.): The globalization of strategy research. (Advances in Strategic Management Series, vol.27) Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing, pp.247-276

Nolan, P. and Zhang, J. (2010) "Global competition after the financial crisis." New Left Review, 64: 97-108

Pitelis, C.N. and Teece, D.J. (2010) "Cross-border market co-creation, dynamic capabilities and the entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise." Industrial and Corporate Change, 19(4): 1247-1270 (DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq030)

Pitelis, C. (ed.) (2010) "Special issue on dynamic capabilities and beyond." Industrial and Corporate Change, 19(4)

Williamson, P.J. (2010) "Cost innovation: preparing for a 'value-for-money' revolution." Long Range Planning, 43(2-3): 343-353

Bantimaroudis, P., Zyglidopoulos, S. and Symeou, P.C. (2010) "Greek museum media visibility and museum visitation: an exploration of cultural agenda setting." Journal of Communication, 60(4): 743-757 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01512.x)

Ansari, S.M. and Garud, R. (2009) "Inter-generational transitions in socio-technical systems: the case of mobile communications." Research Policy, 38(2): 382-392

Hadida, A. (2009) "Motion picture performance: a review and research agenda." International Journal of Management Reviews, 11(3): 297-335

Pitelis, C.N. (2009) "IB at 50: a semi-celebration, challenges and ways ahead." AIB Insights, 9(1): 2-8

Pitelis, C.N. and Teece, D.J. (2009) "The (new) nature and essence of the firm." European Management Review, 6(1): 5-15 (DOI: 10.1057/emr.2009.1)

Mahoney, J.T., McGahan, A.M. and Pitelis, C.N. (2009) "The interdependence of private and public interests." Organization Science, 20(6): 1034-1052 (DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0472)

Pitelis, C.N. (2009) "The co-evolution of organizational value capture, value creation and sustainable advantage." Organization Studies, 30(10): 1115-1139 (DOI: 10.1177/0170840609346977)

Runde, J., Jones, M., Munir, K. and Nikolychuk, L. (2009) "On technological objects and the adoption of technological product innovations: rules, routines and the transition from analogue photography to digital imaging." Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33(1): 1-24 (DOI: 10.1093/cje/ben023)

Williamson, P. and Zeng, M. (2009) "Value-for-money strategies for recessionary times." Harvard Business Review, 87(3): 66-74

Zyglidopoulos, C.S., Fleming, P. and Rothenberg, S. (2009) "Rationalization, overcompensation and the escalation of corruption in organizations." Journal of Business Ethics, 84(Suppl.1): 65-73 (DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9685-4)

Seminars

The Strategy & International Business group runs a regular seminar series during term time. Some recent seminars have included:

Date	Seminar title	Speaker
Dec 2012	Entrepreneurial Entry Thresholds Download the abstract and speaker bio for this seminar (pdf, 15KB)	Professor Timothy Folta, Purdue University
Apr 2012	Connect and Contrast: Developing and Strengthening Organisation Theory Download the abstract and speaker bio for this seminar (pdf, 24KB)	Professor Joep Cornelissen, VU University Amsterdam
Feb 2012	The Politics of Corporate Responsibility and the Responsibility of Corporate Politics: Examining Spillover Effects between CSR and CPA Download the abstract and speaker bio for this seminar (pdf, 11KB) in association with the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN)	Professor Frank den Hond, VU University, Amsterdam
Jan 2012	Why Do Countries Like Their Corporations? The Effects of Institutional Development and National Culture on Cross-national Differences in Corporate Reputations Download the abstract and speaker bio for this seminar (pdf, 11KB)	Professor David Deephouse, University of Alberta
Oct 2011	An American Perspective on CSR Download the abstract and speaker bio for this seminar (pdf, 11KB) in association with the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN)	Professor Duane Windsor, Rice University

Industry engagement

Members of the group have advised various governments and multilateral agencies, including the World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, UNCTAD, and the governments of Greece, Pakistan and more.