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She holds degrees in economics (BBA) and business administration (MA, 1992) from the University of Barcelona, Spain. [7] She obtained her master's (AM, 1996) and PhD (1999) degrees in sociology from Harvard University. [8] Her doctoral thesis is titled "Elites, Corporations, and the Wealth of Nations". [8]
After completion of her doctorate, she began academic work as a faculty fellow at the College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she remained as a tenured professor until 2014. [9] In 2014-15, she was a professor at the Business School, National University of Singapore. [10] Since 2015, she has been a distinguished professor at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. [5] Concurrently, since 2020, she has been a visiting professor at the Department of Strategy and General Management, Esade Business School, Universitat Ramon Llull, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [6]
She has been an active editor in many academic journals, [5] [6] [11] including Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives , Administrative Science Quarterly, Business Ethics: A European Review, Corporate governance: An International Review, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management and Governance, Management International Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Organization Theory, Oxford Handbooks/Oxford Research Reviews, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategy Insights.
She has successively been inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (2016), [11] a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society (2018), [12] and a Fellow of the Academy of Management (2022). [13]
Her most cited papers are:
She has authored many book chapters whose title list may be reached on Researchgate. [20]
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