Susan Perkins
- MIT Sponsors:
- Ray Reagans, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Denise Lewin Loyd, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Scholar Link:Susan Perkins on LinkedIn
Through our scientific and technological genius, we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood.
Background
Susan Perkins is an international business strategy scholar and assistant professor of management and organizations & international business and markets at Northwestern University. Perkins earned her PhD in business administration from New York University, following a master’s degree in management and MBA also from NYU. She completed her bachelor’s of business administration at Howard University.
Interests
Perkins’ research focuses on cross-country variations in the institutional environment and their effects on firms’ performance, strategic responses, alliance formations and broader societal outcomes. Her research has interdisciplinary implications traversing the fields of strategy, and organizations, political science, law and economics, which all play a part in solving complex institutional puzzles.
As an MLK visiting assistant professor, she visited in the Organization Studies Group and worked closely with Profs. Ray Reagans and Denise Lewin Loyd in the Sloan School of Management. Perkins expanded her research agenda to better understand how multinational corporations leverage prior institutional experience as a source of competitive advantage.
Sample Work
Publication
Innocents Abroad: The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms
Perkins, Susan E, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung. Forthcoming. Innocents Abroad: The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms. Global Strategy Journal.
Publication
When Does Prior Experience Pay? Institutional Experience and the Case of the Multinational Corportation
Perkins, Susan E. 2014. When Does Prior Experience Pay? Institutional Experience and the Case of the Multinational Corportation. Administrative Science Quarterly. 59(1): 145-181.
Publication
Cross-National Variations in Industry Regulation: A Factor Analytic Approach with an Application to Telecommunications
Perkins, Susan E. 2013. Cross-National Variations in Industry Regulation: A Factor Analytic Approach with an Application to Telecommunications. Regulation and Governance.
Publication
Ethnic Diversity, Gender, and National Leaders
Perkins, Susan E, Katherine W. Phillips and Nicholas Pearce. 2013. Ethnic Diversity, Gender, and National Leaders. Journal of International Affairs. 67(1): 85-104.