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Research
Research interests
- International Business / Global Strategy
- Innovation and Technology Management
- Corporate Governance and Sustainability
- Science of Science
Current research
Prof. Krammer's research interests evolve at the intersection of International Strategy and Innovation Management. Broadly, these endeavours can be clustered into several interconnected streams.
The first includes work on innovation in transition economies from Eastern Europe and Central Asia that examines their systemic deficiencies in relation to innovation, the mechanisms and inhibitors of foreign R&D spillovers, as well as the complex interactions with institutional idiosyncrasies in place and the bottlenecks facing practitioners when implementing new policies (e.g., smart specialization) in these settings.
The second stream of research focuses on the drivers and contingencies of partnering strategies in international technological alliances. Here, Sorin pays close attention to firm-specific explanations in terms of diversification profiles and distance in product and technology space between firms and their effects on formation of alliances. In addition, I examine the effects of macro-contingencies (such as institutional differences and the historical background of countries) and their direct and indirect effects on firms’ preferences for international alliances.
The third research stream looks at the effects of institutions (formal and informal) and various institutional deficiencies (e.g., corruption, crime, political volatility, political connections) on organizational performance. These theoretical conjectures are developed and tested in heterogeneous emerging market contexts such as Sub-Saharan Africa, BRICs, South-East Asia, or Central and Eastern Europe.
Finally, the fourth stream focuses on answering fundamental questions related to the “deep” drivers of innovation and creativity, as well as environmental issues, gender and racial biases, socio-economic inequality, or poverty—issues that can be broadly fitted under the SDG umbrella. These research initiatives seek to develop new insights into the role of organizations in society and their potential contributions towards tackling these “grand societal challenges” using large datasets and state-of-the-art quantitative techniques.
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Teaching
Prof. Krammer's teaching expertise and experience spans across different subjects (e.g., International Business, Strategy, Innovation and Technology Management, Research Methods, and Economics) and settings (from small, specialised Ph.D. courses to large and very large MSc. and BSc. classes).
MANG6277 Global Strategies for Growth
MANG2107 Principles of International Business
MANG6396-Managing Global Challenges
MANG6281-Current Trends in Strategy and Innovation Management
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Biography
Sorin Krammer is Professor of Strategy and International Business at Southampton Business School. Prior to joining Southampton, Sorin was a Full Professor of Strategy and International Business at the University of Surrey (UK) and also at the University of Exeter (UK), Associate Professor in International Business and Innovation at the University of Leeds (UK), and Assistant Professor of International Economics and Business at the University of Groningen (Netherlands).
Sorin is currently an Otto Mønsted Visiting Professor with the Department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), and has also held previously visiting positions at D'Amore-McKim School of Business - Northeastern University (Boston, MA, USA), Sloan School of Management - MIT (Cambridge, MA, USA), and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research- Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA).
Besides academia, Sorin was involved as well as an expert consultant in several World Bank projects dealing with innovation and international competitiveness (of regions and sectors) in less-developed countries.
His research has been published in outlets such as Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Organization Studies, Leadership Quarterly, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Ethics, and many others. His research has also been recognized in terms of excellence by various international professional associations, such as the Academy of International Business (Alan Rugman Most Promising Young Scholar Award-2014), the European Academy of Management (Best Paper Award - 2022) and the Academy of Management (IM Division Best Paper in International Business and Policy Award - 2023) and the British Academy of Management Best Paper in International Management (2024).
Sorin currently serves in Editorial roles for Academy of Management Discoveries, and the Journal of International Business Policy, and as a member of several Editorial Boards, including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
He is also involved in the leadership of professional organizations, as a member of the Executive Committee and a Secretary (Vice-Chair) of the Academy of International Business - United Kingdom and Ireland chapter (AIB UKI) and as the Chair of Scholarship and Engagement Committee for Academy of Management (AOM), International Management (IM) division.
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