Sara McGaughey

 

Education: PhD(Management), University of Queensland; MBA(International Business), Monash University; BA(Japanese Studies), Monash University, Australia.

Sara's research explores several related areas of international management, including:

• international entrepreneurship, particularly in the context of portfolio entrepreneurship and inter-firm flows of knowledge and legitimacy spillovers in international new venturing
• institutional entrepreneurship in the context of regional and international standards and the legitimation of new technologies, with a particular interest in emerging nanotechnology standards
• the management of knowledge and information in multinational enterprises
• approaches to portraying research (e.g. narratives, dramas and cartoons) that might better represent the experience of the international entrepreneurs

Many of these interests are reflected in her recent monograph, Narratives of Internationalisation: Legitimacy, Standards and Portfolio Entrepreneurs.

Sara is an editorial board member of Journal of World Business, and Director of the Strathclyde International Business Unit (SIBU). As director, Sara's ambition is to continue SIBU's 25 year tradition of shaping the direction of academic work, policy debate and practice in international business, and to create a forum for dialogue and research collaborations in international business / international management that transcends traditional disciplinary and functional boundaries.

Before joining Strathclyde Business School as Professor of International Management in July 2007, Sara held tenured positions at the University of Leeds, UK (Principal Research Fellow), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (Associate Professor), and the University of New South Wales, Australia (Senior Lecturer). Prior to entering academe, Sara worked in small businesses in Japan and Mexico, with this experience continuing to inform both her research and teaching endeavours. Current teaching includes International Business Management and Research Methods at postgraduate levels, and doctoral and masters research supervision. Prior teaching and programme management experience in undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific includes courses in International Business, Strategy and the MNE, International Entrepreneurship, International Business Environment, International Human Resource Management, Cross-Cultural Management and Research Methods.

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Research Publications

View a list of Sara's recent research publications.

View a list of Sara's archived Publications

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