Event Description

International Business & Global Strategy (IB&GS) Hub Workshop

Department of Strategy and Innovation

Building Bridges across CBS Scholars Researching in International Business & Global Strategy

November 17, 2025

Room: Kilen K.150

Background

We recognize that many scholars across CBS departments conduct research on international business and global strategy. Building on its ambition to provide a forum for sharing ongoing work and new ideas, and to foster collaboration, the IB&GS Hub at SI invites members of this community to connect, exchange insights, and explore potential partnerships. To this end, the Hub will host a full-day workshop on November 17, 2025, offering an opportunity to present research and engage in constructive discussion.

Workshop Format

The program will include paper sessions featuring presentations of accepted, fully developed papers, followed by audience feedback as well as an idea paper session where accepted early-stage paper projects will be presented and discussed.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM
10.00-10.15: Opening remarks, Grazia Santangelo (SI) & Marcus M. Larsen (SI))

10.15-11.45: Session 1: Geopolitics, Power, and Global Corporate Strategy

• “When innovation meets security: Firms’ disclosure of military uses of their technologies under geopolitical risk” Fabio Busicchia (SI) & Larissa Rabbiosi (SI)
• “Structural bargaining power in MNE-state bargaining: A matching approach” Laurenz Tinhof (WU Vienna), Thomas Lindner (EGB), & Sinziana Dorobantu (NUY)
• “When Does Foreign Aid Generate Investment Opportunities for MNEs?” Salma Mahamed (EGB) & Flladina Zilja (EGB)
• “The Rise and Rise of Geotechnopolitics: Shifting Leadership in the Dance Between Apple and China” Sun Hye Lee (Surrey U) & Michael Mol (SI)

• “Contested Adaptation of Supranational Institutions in Multi-Level Governance Systems: Exploring the Role of National Governments” Tanusree Jain (MSC), Manuele Citi (MSC), & Ruth Aguilera (Northeastern U)
• “Policy Frameworks for South–South FDI: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Investment Attraction Strategies” Felipe Alfonzo-Cordero (EGB)
• “Competitive Interactions between Multinational Corporations in Corporate Social Responsibility: The Contingencies of Observability and Coordination” Der-Ting Huang (EGB), Fiona Kun Yao (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• “Supply and demand side of populism: populist rhetoric and their effects on MNE investment” Vera Kunczer (EGB)

• 
  “Why is MNC Subsidiary Performance Better in Developing Countries than in Developed Countries?” Michael Wendelboe Hansen (MSC), Henrik Gundelach (MSC), & Michael Hedegaard (DTU)
• “MNC metamorphosis in a complex world: a dynamic multilayer network view” Ornela Vladi (EGB) & Bent Petersen (EGB)
• “Beyond subsidiary growth: Conceptualizing Retrenchment as a Mechanism of MNE Evolution” Daniel Pedroletti (SI), Ulf Andersson (Mälerdalen U), & Klaus Meyer (Ivey BS)
• “When Do Rivals Hold Back? Examining Multimarket Contact Between Foreign and Local MNEs” Bersant Hobdari (EGB), Klaus Meyer (Ivey BS), & Evis Sinani (EGB)

• “The Liabilities of Foreignness of Immigrant Entrepreneurs” José Mata (SI) & Joshua K. Bedi (U Wisconsin)
• “When talent can’t cross borders: Human capital constraints, and the incentive to build ai capabilities” Ali Mohammadi (SI), Coco Sheng (SI), & Wolfgang Sofka (SI)
• “Homophily sapiens: CEO immigrant status, ingroup bias, and organizational conflict” Steffen Brenner (EGB) & Michael Müller (EGB)