Moore School of Business - Tatiana Kostova

Dr. Tatiana Kostova, associate professor of international business, was recently featured on the Web site, www.in-cites.com, for the attention her research articles have received in the field of business. Essential Science Indicators, which tracks research performance and trends, has named Kostova a “Rising Star” in the field of economics and business for the number of article citations she has received. According to the “in-cites” Web site, “Seven of her original articles published between January 1996 and December 2006 have been designated as Highly Cited Papers in this field, with 243 total citations to date.”

What is the focus of her research and why does it attract attention? Said Kostova in her interview with “in-cites”:

“Broadly, I study multinational corporations (MNCs). Since MNCs conduct operations across borders, they are faced with tremendous complexity in their external environments as well as their internal organization. Externally, they are embedded in multiple institutional and cultural contexts, which present different and possibly contradictory requirements and business models. Internally, MNCs are characterized by similarly complex organization structures, networks, and processes.

“These conditions of complexity, unique to the MNC, challenge traditional management theories, as many of their assumptions and boundary conditions don’t hold in the case of the MNC. Studying MNCs therefore presents opportunities to validate and expand existing management theories and to develop completely new theoretical ideas borne out of this context.”

URL to article: http://www.in-cites.com/scientists/TatianaKostova.html

Gail Crouch
May 2007

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