International Business
Faculty Profile
Tatiana Kostova
Professor International Business Department Contact Information Phone: (803) 777-3553 Fax: (803) 777-3609 kostova@moore.sc.edu |
Biography
Tatiana Kostova is a Professor of International Business and a Moore Research
Fellow at the University of South Carolina Moore School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. from
the University of Minnesota. Prior to coming to the United States, Dr. Kostova was on the faculty
of the Department of Management at the University of Economics in Varna, Bulgaria and was the
associate director of the Graduate School of Management at the university. In 1988/1989 she was a
Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Kostova completed her Ph.D. degree in 1996. Her dissertation "Success of the transnational transfer of organizational practices within multinational companies" was awarded the Barry Richman Best Dissertation Award of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management and the Richard Farmer Best Dissertation Award of the Academy of International Business. Her areas of specialization include international management, macro-organizational behavior, and organization theory. More specifically, she studies institutional and cultural embeddedness of multinational corporations (MNC), cross-border transfer of management practices within MNCs, knowledge management, organizational legitimacy, and social capital as a source of competitive advantage in MNCs. She has also done research on organization-based self-esteem, psychological ownership, dual identification, and extra-role behavior in organizations. Her research projects have been funded by the University of Minnesota, University of South Carolina, CIBER, Riegel and Emory Foundation, and the Carnegie Bosch Institute.
Dr. Kostova has taught international management in the IMBA and PMBA programs at the Moore School of Business, the IMBA European Program jointly run by the Moore School of Business and Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (Vienna, Austria), and the Executive IMBA program jointly run with Tech de Monterey, Guadalajara, Mexico. She also teaches in the Faculty Development in International Business Program at the University of South Carolina Moore School of Business where she helps colleagues from other business schools develop their international management courses. She is a regular guest professor in the Summer Program of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is actively involved in the executive programs offered by the Daniel-Mikel Center at USC and some other schools.
Dr. Kostova has published articles in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Group and Organization Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Journal of International Management, and others. In 2007 she was recognized as the “Rising Star” in Economics & Business by Incites for the high impact of her publications. She has served as a Department Editor and member of the Editorial Board of Journal of International Business Studies, the leading academic journal in international business in the world. She is also on the Editorial Boards of Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of World Business, Multinational Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Asian Pacific Business, and is a reviewer for Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of International Management, Organization Science, and others. She is Vice president of the Academy of International Business and Incoming Chair of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management
Education
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
- M.S., Kiev State University, Ukraine
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