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Shreeram R. Mudambi

  • Fox School of Business and Management

    • Strategic Management

      • Frank M. Speakman Professor

Biography

Ram Mudambi is Professor and Perelman Senior Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Previously he served on the faculties of Case Western Reserve University, the University of Reading (UK) and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He is a visiting Professor at Henley Business School, University of Reading, an Honorary Professor at the Center of International Business, University of Leeds (CIBUL) and a member of advisory council of the University of Bradford Centre in International Business (BCIB). He has served as a Visiting Professor at a number of universities including Bocconi (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Sydney (Australia) and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). He holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

His current research projects focus on the geography of innovation and the governance of knowledge-intensive processes. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Global Strategy Journal (2010-2013) and is an Area Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies (2013-2016). He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, including work in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Geography, the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Business Studies. He has been a special issue editor for the Journal of Economic Geography, the Journal of Management Studies and the International Business Review. He serves on the editorial boards numerous journals.

Research Interests

  • Technology and innovation management
  • studying both multinational as well as entrepreneurial firms and the geography of innovation.

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

IB 3101

Fundamentals of International Business

Undergraduate

BA 9803

Navigating the Global Marketplace

Graduate

BA 9883

Directed Reading/Study

Graduate

Selected Publications

Featured

  • Mudambi, R., Mudambi, S., Mukherjee, D., & Scalera, V. (2017). Global connectivity and the evolution of industrial clustersFrom tires to polymers in Northeast Ohio. Industrial Marketing Management, 61, 20-29. doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2016.07.007.

Recent

  • Sinkovics, N., Liu, C., Sinkovics, R., & Mudambi, R. (2021). The dark side of trust in global value chains: Taiwan's electronics and IT hardware industries. Journal of World Business, 56(4). doi: 10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101195.

  • Onuklu, A., Darendeli, I., & Mudambi, R. (2021). Regulative distance, international connectivity and innovation systems: Turkey’s links to the EU. Competitiveness Review, 31(2), 231-249. doi: 10.1108/CR-04-2020-0051.

  • Autio, E., Mudambi, R., & Yoo, Y. (2021). Digitalization and globalization in a turbulent world: Centrifugal and centripetal forces. Global Strategy Journal, 11(1), 3-16. doi: 10.1002/gsj.1396.

  • Moreira, S., Mudambi, S., Carleton, M., & Fare, T. Letter to the Journal: The COVID-19 Innovation Race, a Case Study. Journal of Precision Medicine. Retrieved from https://www.thejournalofprecisionmedicine.com/the-journal-of-precision-medicine/letter-to-the-journal-the-covid-19-innovation-race-a-case-study/.

  • Marino, A., Mudambi, R., Perri, A., & Scalera, V. (2020). Ties that bind: Ethnic inventors in multinational enterprises’ knowledge integration and exploitation. Research Policy, 49(9). doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2020.103956.

  • Lorenzen, M., Mudambi, R., & Schotter, A. (2020). International connectedness and local disconnectedness: MNE strategy, city-regions and disruption. Journal of International Business Studies, 51(8), 1199-1222. doi: 10.1057/s41267-020-00339-5.

  • (2020). International Connectedness and Local Disconnectedness: MNE Strategy, City-Regions and Disruption. Bangalore.

  • McWilliam, S., Kim, J., Mudambi, R., & Nielsen, B. (2020). Global value chain governance: Intersections with international business. Journal of World Business, 55(4). doi: 10.1016/j.jwb.2019.101067.

  • Berman, A., Marino, A., & Mudambi, R. (2020). The global connectivity of regional innovation systems in Italy: a core–periphery perspective. Regional Studies, 54(5), 677-691. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1672865.

  • Kim, J. & Mudambi, R. (2020). An ecosystem-based analysis of design innovation infringements: South Korea and China in the global tire industry. Journal of International Business Policy, 3(1), 38-57. doi: 10.1057/s42214-019-00038-5.

  • Moreira, S., Mudambi, R., Carleton, M., Fare, T., & Majors Organizational Legitimacy and Rents from Blockbuster Innovation in the Biopharma Industry. Journal of Precision Medicine.

  • Barnard, H., Deeds, D., Mudambi, R., & Vaaler, P. (2019). Migrants, migration policies, and international business research: Current trends and new directions. Journal of International Business Policy, 2(4), 275-288. doi: 10.1057/s42214-019-00045-6.

  • Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Mudambi, R., & Pedersen, T. (2019). Subsidiary power: Loaned or owned? The lenses of agency theory and resource dependence theory. Global Strategy Journal, 9(4), 491-501. doi: 10.1002/gsj.1362.

  • Saranga, H., Schotter, A.P., & Mudambi, R. (2019). The double helix effect: Catch-up and local-foreign co-evolution in the Indian and Chinese automotive industries. International Business Review, 28(5), 101495. doi: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.03.010.

  • Bhagavatula, S., Mudambi, R., & Murmann, J. (2019). Innovation and Entrepreneurship in India: An Overview. Management and Organization Review, 15(3), 467-493. doi: 10.1017/mor.2019.52.

  • Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Mudambi, R., & Pedersen, T. (2019). Clarifying the relationships between institutions and global strategy. Global Strategy Journal, 9(2), 151-175. doi: 10.1002/gsj.1342.

  • Meouloud, T., Mudambi, R., & Hill, T. (2019). The metropolitan effect: Colonial influence on the internationalization of francophone african firms. Management and Organization Review, 15(1), 31-33. doi: 10.1017/mor.2019.3.

  • Sinkovics, N., Choksy, U., Sinkovics, R., & Mudambi, R. (2019). Knowledge Connectivity in an Adverse Context: Global Value Chains and Pakistani Offshore Service Providers. Management International Review, 59(1), 131-170. doi: 10.1007/s11575-018-0372-0.

  • Knighton, J., Mudambi, R., & Deeds, D.L. (2018). Biosimilars: A New Look on Process Innovation and the Impact of Competitive Dynamics. 2018 Engaged Management Scholarship Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Retrieved from http://ems2018temple.org/.

  • Bathelt, H., Cantwell, J., & Mudambi, R. (2018). Overcoming frictions in transnational knowledge flows: Challenges of connecting, sense-making and integrating. Journal of Economic Geography, 18(5), 1001-1022. doi: 10.1093/jeg/lby047.

  • Foss, N.J., Mudambi, R., & Murtinu, S. (2018). Taxing the multinational enterprise: On the forced redesign of global value chains and other inefficiencies. Journal of International Business Studies, 50(9), 1644-1655. doi: 10.1057/s41267-018-0159-3.

  • Mudambi, R. (2018). Knowledge-intensive intangibles, spatial transaction costs, and the rise of populism. Journal of International Business Policy, 1(1-2), 44-52. doi: 10.1057/s42214-018-0005-0.

  • Tandon, V., Mudambi, S., & Awate, S. (2017). Multiplex Ties and Distributed R&D in Cross Border Teams. Venice, Italy.

  • Awate, S. & Mudambi, R. (2017). On the geography of emerging industry technological networks: The breadth and depth of patented innovations. Journal of Economic Geography, 18(2), 391-419. doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbx032.

  • Mudambi, R., Smith, S.W., & Deeds, D. (2017). Ability, Stigma, and Entrepreneurship. doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2017.16787abstract.

  • Perri, A., Scalera, V.G., & Mudambi, R. (2017). Corrigendum: What are the most promising conduits for foreign knowledge inflows? innovation networks in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry. Industrial and Corporate Change, 26(4), 745-745. Oxford University Press (OUP). doi: 10.1093/icc/dtx025.

  • Fuchs, M., Henn, S., Franz, M., & Mudambi, R. (2017). Synopsis: Building a "global" company: Challenges of interspace and regional embeddedness. doi: 10.4324/9781315681207.

  • Cano-Kollmann, M., Hamilton, R., & Mudambi, R. (2017). Public support for innovation and the openness of firms' innovation activities. Industrial and Corporate Change, 26(3), 421-442. doi: 10.1093/icc/dtw025.

  • Qiu, X., Cano-Kollmann, M., & Mudambi, R. (2017). Competitiveness and connectivity in design innovation: a study of Norwegian furniture industry. Competitiveness Review, 27(5), 533-548. doi: 10.1108/CR-03-2017-0025.