I am a management scholar conducting research on corporate responsibility in the global setting drawing on strategy and organization theory.
In my research, I strive to understand the ways by which firm-stakeholder interactions between (multinational) corporations and civil society lead to constructive solutions to address crucial social and environmental problems. As such, my work contributes to addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
Papers:
(1) [Name & co-author disguised]. First round R&R at AMJ.
(2) [Name & co-authors disguised]. Under review at SMJ.
(3) How does mediation help reach agreement in antagonistic MNE-stakeholder interactions? Data collection and analysis.
(4) Headquarters' responses to accusations of subsidiary misconduct. Early stage.
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The dynamic response process to conflicting institutional demands in MNC subsidiaries: An inductive study in the Sub‐Saharan African E‐commerce sector (lead author)
with Benoît Decreton, Phillip Nell and Patricia Klopf, Global Strategy Journal (2017)
Before working in the public policy sector and starting the PhD, I published my Master Thesis in the Global Strategy Journal (2017).
In this paper, we investigate the process by which subsidiary managers respond to requests from the headquarters that conflict with local context options. I conducted a 6-months participant-observation study in Côte d'Ivoire, working as a Business Development Manager for a Food Delivery e-commerce company headquartered in Germany.
This study contributes to the literature on responses to conflicting institutional demands in showing that they follow a dynamic process. The theoretical framework of this paper inspired me to continue studying corporate responses to situations marked by conflict.