Sessions Chairs confirmed.

The PREBEM team starts the New Year announcing the confirmed Sessions Chairs for the Keynote Lectures.


Suzana B. Rodrigues is Professor of International Business and Organization at the Department of Strategic Management and Business Environment, Rotterdam School of management, Erasmus University. Prior to joining Erasmus University, Suzana was Professor of International Management and Organization at Birmingham University, UK and at UFMG, Brazil. At Birmingham, Suzana was one of the founders and Director of MSc International Business. She was also founder and Director of CIBOR - Centre for International Business and Organization Research at the University of Birmingham. She was elected a Visiting Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Suzana received her PhD from the University of Bradford Management Centre, UK, for a study of strategic decission making in British companies. Suzana was in the Directorship and was President of the Brazilian Academy of Management from 1986 - 1990.


Geert Duysters is a professor of entrepreneurship at Eindhoven University of Technology and Tilburg University. He currently acts as the scientific director of the Brabant Center of Entrepreneurship. He also holds a professorial fellowaffiliation with UNU-MERIT. He holds a PhD in economics and has worked at the University of Maastricht and the TU Eindhoven as subsequently, researcher, assistant professor, associate professor and full professor. He worked as an alliance expert for the European Commission and the OECD. From 2000-2003 he has been the Director of the Eindhoven Centre for Innovation studies (ECIS). He also acted as Associate Dean of the faculty of technology Management from 2004-2006. His academic research mainly concerns international business strategies, innovation strategies, corporate entrepreneurship, mergers and acquisitions, network analytical methods and strategic alliances.


Sjoerd Beugelsdijk is full professor International Business and Management at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research interests are in the fields of international business, institutional economics and comparative economic organization theory. He received a PhD from Tilburg University (The Netherlands) in 2003, for a thesis concerning the relationship between culture and economic behavior. In 2004 Sjoerd visited Copenhagen Business School, the European University Institute in Florence, and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. And in 2006 received a three year research grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, that allowed him to spend some time at the Center for Strategic Management and Globalisation in Copenhagen in 2007, and IGIER research institute of Bocconi University (Milan) in 2008. His current research concentrates on three main areas: Institutions and the geography of the multinational firm; Culture, institutions and economic performance; Innovation, social capital and institutions. His main methodological approach is empirical.

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