Faculty Research Grants

David Sherman 
Professor, Accounting
D'Amore McKim School of Business
Project: Chinese entrepreneurs listing on US stock exchanges: Improving governance, communication with stakeholders, and valuation.
Market: China

Venkat Kuppuswamy
Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
D'Amore McKim School of Business
Project: Saris on Boards? Diversity and the Transformation of Indian Corporate Governance
Market: India

Sophie Bacq
Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Out of Sight but not Out of Mind: A Close(r) Look at Informal Entrepreneurship in South African Townships
Markets: South Africa

Yakov Bart
Assistant Professor, Marketing
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Impact of Technology Adoption on Competitive Advantage: A Study of E-Commerce Firms in Emerging Markets
Markets: Asia- China

Luis Alfonso Dau
Associate Professor, International Business & Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Emerging Market CSR Strategies in a Globalizing World
Markets: Various emerging markets

Xiaotao (Kelvin) Liu
Associate Professor, Accounting
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Measuring the Quality of Online Data: Data Acquisition for Small Businesses in China
Markets: China

Yang Lee
Associate Professor, Supply Chain and Information Management
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Measuring the Quality of Online Data: Data Acquisition for Small Businesses in China
Markets: China

Jay Mulki
Associate Professor, Marketing
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Drivers of Tax Avoidance by Family Businesses in Emerging Markets
Markets: India

Kimberly Eddleston
Professor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Drivers of Tax Avoidance by Family Businesses in Emerging Markets
Markets: India

Koen Pauwels
Professor, Marketing
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Giving versus Receiving Word-of-Mouth across Emerging Markets: How do Growth Dynamics matter?
Markets: India, Thailand, and Japan

Alexander Roth
Executive Professor, International Business and Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Banking on Women
Markets: UAE, Malaysia, India, China

C. Annique Un
Associate Professor, International Business and Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Dare to Learn: The Achievements of Southeast Asian Refugees in America
Markets: South-east Asia

Ruth Aguilera
Professor, International Business and Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Conflicting Expectations toward Inside Monitoring: The Case of Board Secretary in China
Markets: HK & China

Elitsa Banalieva
Associate Professor, International Business & Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Prisoners of the Past or Builders of the Future? Evidence from Transition Economy Firms' Outward Foreign Direct Investment
Markets: Central/Eastern European transition economies

Sara Minard
Executive Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Project: Comparative research on social innovations in India and Senegal: exploring the linkages between impact measurement and availability of impact investing opportunities for small-scale entrepreneurs
Markets: India & Senegal

Margaret Woo
Professor of Law
Project: Study the justifiability of social and economic rights in emerging economies, specifically efforts to litigate employment discrimination cases in China and India.
Markets: China & India

Valentina Marano
Assistant Professor, International Business and Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Research on ESG performance for developed and emerging market firms.
Markets: Multiple

Edward F. McDonough III
Professor, International Business and Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Relationship between strategic ambidexterity, firm specific uncertainity, and business performance.
Markets: Taiwan

Sheila Puffer
University Distinguished Professor
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Russians in the innovation economy: Contributions to silicon valley and implications for Russia
Markets: Russia

Ravi Sarathy
Professor, International Business and Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Factors effecting the choice of causation and effectuations strategies among entrepreneurs in Brazil and India.
Markets: Brazil and India

Gavin Shatkin
Associate Professor
School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs
Project: Urban real estate megaprojects and urban change in Asian cities.
Markets: China

Luis Dau
Assistant Professor, International Business
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Regulatory change and internationalization
Markets: Peru, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela

Nikos Passas
Professor of Criminology
College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Project: Compliance programs in multinational firms in Latin America
Markets: Argentina, Brazil, Chile

Sonia Rolland
Associate Professor
School of Law
Project: What future for Vanuatu at the World Trade Organization?
Markets: Vanuatu

Burna Turam
Associate Professor, Sociology and International Affairs
School of Social Studies and Humanities
Project: Internationalization of Muslim business networks: From Turkey across the globe.
Markets: Turkey

Matt Allen
Professor, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Adoption of and performance implications for strategic HRM in developing countries: Case of South-east Asia
Markets: Southeast Asia

Jeff Born
Professor, Finance
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Energy independence in the developing world: The role of bio-fuels in the South Pacific
Markets: South Pacific

Adenekan Dedeke
Executive Professor, Supply Chain and Information Management
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Exploring the impact of an improved environmental performance index on the rankings of emerging market economies
Markets: Multiple

Denise Dunlap
Professor, International Business & Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: The geographicorganization of a firm's R&D activities and its influence on innovation: Evidence from Indian R&D pharmaceutical labs
Markets: India

Denise Horn
Associate Professor, International Affairs
College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Project: Social entrepreneurship, civic participation, and the future of democracy
Markets: Cambodia, India, Thailand

Grigorios Livanis
Professor, International Business & Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Location and organizational determinants of R&D lab closure: An examination of Indian R&D labs
Markets: India

Denis Sullivan
Professor, Political Science
College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Project: Getting back to business in Egypt
Markets: Egypt

Luis Alfonso Dau
Associate Professor, International Business & Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Pro-market reforms, internationalization strategy, and performance
Markets: Latin America

Edward F. McDonough III
Professor, International Business and Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: Independent innovation in China
Markets: China

Margaret Woo
Professor of Law
Project: China's Open Government Information regulation
Markets: China

Gordon Adomdza
Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: “Understanding the Socio-cultural Factors that Influence the Design Innovations for Emerging Markets”
Markets: Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa

Denise Garcia
Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Affairs
College of Arts and Sciences
Project: “Tackling Climate Change: The Role of Emerging Countries”
Markets: Brazil

Anna Lamin
Assistant Professor, International Business and Strategy
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: “Agglomeration, Firm Heterogeneity and R&D Investment Under Weak Appropriability Regimes”
Markets: India

Karthik Krishnan
Assistant Professor, Finance
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Project: “Cross-Border Venture Capital in Emerging Markets”
Markets: India