 My name is Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra.
Since 2005 I have been a faculty member of the Sonoco International Business Department at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Before that, I was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota. In 2003-2004 I was a visiting professor at Cornell University.
I study how companies internationalize. Specifically, I analyze how companies become internationally competitive by developing their technological capabilities and how they overcome the difficulties in internationalization to become multinational companies. I also study governance issues, with a special interest on corruption in international business. Recently, I have started a long-term research project analyzing the emergence of developing-country multinational companies. My geographical area of expertise is Latin America. I have done fieldwork in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Spain. My research appears or will appear in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal, among others, and in several edited books. I serve on the editorial boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies, and Strategic Management Journal, among other journals. My research has received numerous awards. Three of my papers have been nominated for best papers
awards at the Strategic Management Society annual conference and at the
Academy of Management annual meeting. My dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received the award for best dissertation in strategy from the Academy of Management, and was finalist for the award for best dissertation in international management from the Academy of Management and for the Hedlund Award for best dissertation in international business. A paper from my dissertation at the University of Salamanca received the best Ph.D. student paper award in strategy from the Academy of Management. |