
Overview
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Professor Chacar is an expert on Global Business Strategy. She studies the impact of institutions on global business strategy, firm performance, leadership, and value appropriation. She is the chairwomen of the Academy of Management International Management (IM) Division and a member of the Executive Committee (Board). She also serves on the board of the Journal of International Business Studies, the Global Strategy Journal and Industry & Innovation. Previously she was an Assistant Professor at the London Business School, and had visiting appointments at INSEAD, H.E.C., Ohio State University, the University of Utah and Balamand University.
Professor Chacar earned her PhD from UCLA. Her research has been published in top journals and has been featured in a New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell. It has also received numerous accolades including the Best Paper Award from both the Academy of International Business and the Academy of Management International Management Division. Her PhD students have also won best paper and proposal awards. She has received awards and grants including awards from CIBER and the Kauffman Foundation. Aya Chacar has taught in various face-to-face and online executive and graduate programs and company-specific programs and has received the Best Course Award.
Professor Chacar is committed to service and has served the field in numerous leadership roles. In 2017, she served as the Research Capacity Workshop co-chair and the Research Committee Chair at the AIB meeting; in 2016, as the AIB Junior Faculty Consortium co-chair; in 2015 as PDW Chair for IM; in 2014 as track chairwoman at the 2014 AIB conference and chair of the AOM IM Division Junior Faculty Consortium; in 2011 as the Associate Chair for the Strategic Management Society Meeting in Miami 2011, and other. She also serves or has served on numerous university committees including Screen and Search, and Ph.D. programs, and chairs the Research Committee, organizing a seminar series for the South Florida Community for over 10 years.
research interests
- Global Business Strategy; Innovation and Value Creation; Leadership and Chief Executives; Strategic and Institutional Change and its Management; Mergers Acquisitions and Integrations
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2020Global strategic context and CEO appointments: The importance of a global mind-setFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1313 Web of Science: 000583799900002
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2019The Rise of the CFO from Humble Origins to a CEO Partner and FoeFull Text via DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2019.19659abstract
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2015International coherence and MNE performanceFull Text via DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2015.4 Web of Science: 000356106400006
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2015Exploring the Impact of Country Differences and Home Country EffectFull Text via DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2015.18959abstract
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2015Globalization And The Appointment Of Internationally Oriented CeosFull Text via DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2015.18990abstract
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2012NETWORK COORDINATION AND PERFORMANCE AMONG MNEs IN LATIN AMERICAFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1020 Web of Science: 000209239700002
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2011Communities, alliances, networks and knowledge in multinational firms: A micro-analytic frameworkFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2011.05.003 Web of Science: 000294343600004
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2010Bringing institutions into performance persistence research: Exploring the impact of product, financial, and labor market institutionsFull Text via DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2010.3 Web of Science: 000281605900003
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2009LEVERAGING TIES: THE CONTINGENT VALUE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAMS' EXTERNAL ADVICE NETWORKS ON INDIAN SOFTWARE VENTURE PERFORMANCEFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/smj.785 Web of Science: 000270442500003
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2009A Survey Of New Product Development: Can Decentralization Alone Deliver?Full Text via DOI: 10.19030/rbis.v13i4.4315
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2008Research Note On The Incremental Value Of Knowledge WorkersFull Text via DOI: 10.19030/rbis.v12i3.4353
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2008Institutional Settings and Rent Appropriation by Knowledge-based Employees: The Case of Major League BaseballFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/mde.1395 Web of Science: 000213322200004
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2004Innovations and value creation in major league baseball, 1860-2000Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/0007679042000219184
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Book
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2003ORGANIZING FOR TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN THE U.S. PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY. Ed. 20.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0742-3322(03)20011-5
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Book Chapter
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Conference
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2012Country relatedness and international coherence. 1544-1549.Full Text via DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2012.162
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Review
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2011Knowledge Accumulation and Dissemination in MNEs: A Practice-Based Framework. 278-304.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2010.00971.x Web of Science: 000287396700003
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2005Are emerging economies less efficient? Performance persistence and the impact of business group affiliation. 933-946.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/smj.478
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Thams, Yannick, Foreign-born CEOs, Country-Specific Skills, Selection, and Strategic Consequences 2013
- Wang, Yu-Kai, The Impact of Institutional Complexity and Top Management Characteristics on Executive Compensation and Firm Performance 2011
- Celo, Sokol, A Fresh Look at Decision Making in International Investment Choices: Firm International Coherence and Home-Host Country Relatedness 2011
Contact
full name
- Aya Chacar
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