Family international entrepreneurship discussed in a webinar organised by the International Business Research Centre
On 28 November 2024, KEDGE's Lab International Management and MNEs from the International Business Research Centre hosted Dr Maria Andrea De Villa, Editor-in-Chief of Long Range Planning, a leading international journal in strategic management, for a research webinar aimed at KEDGE professors and PhD students.
During the session, Dr De Villa presented the special issue she is co-editing for the Journal of International Business Studies, one of the top journals in international business, titled “Family Business Research on International Business in a Changing World.” The call for papers is open until 30 January 2026.
Dr. Maria Andrea De Villa is Professor of Strategy at Universidad EAFIT and Visiting Professor at University of Michigan-Flint. She received her Ph.D. from Cranfield University (UK).
She studies the internationalization of firms, particularly from emerging markets, and how firms manage socio-political risks and relations through nonmarket strategies (corporate political strategies and corporate social responsibility) and strategize to address grand challenges such as climate change.
She is also interested in qualitative research methods, particularly the use of the case study from process, practice, and variance perspectives, and qualitative comparative analysis.
She is member of the Qualitative Research Center at Aalto University and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of the America’s Conference. She is co-editor of a special issue in the Journal of International Business Studies and Communications Editor for Long Range Planning.
She serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Global Strategy Journal, Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning, and Multinational Business Review. Her work has been published in Global Strategy Journal, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, among others.
