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Susan Perkins

MLK Visiting Scholar 2011-2013 Assistant professor, Management and Organizations & International Business and Markets, Northwestern University
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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