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I am Professor of International Business (level 2) at emlyon business school and Bayu Chair Professor selected by Chongqing Municipality Education Commission (China) as an only scholar in Business Administration. Currently, I also serve as Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS; ABS 4*/FT50/UTD24) & Lead Guest Editor of JIBS Special Issue on Microfoundations of International Business and Associate Editor of The International Journal of Human Resource Management (ABS 3), Journal of Business Research (ABS 3), and Asian Business & Management (ABS 2). Previously I also served on the Editorial Board of Journal of Management Studies. I was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wharton School and Visiting Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School. My research focuses on International Business, HRM, Marketing and Entrepreneurship of MNEs and New Ventures. My research has been published in the JIBS, Journal of Management (ABS 4*/FT50), Research Policy (ABS 4*/FT50), and Human Resource Management (ABS 4/FT50), among many others.
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Published 01/07/2025
Research policy, 54, 6, 105242
Drawing on the extended agency model of narcissism and upper echelons theory, we develop a theoretical framework that examines the interface between chief executive officers (CEOs) and foreign subsidiary top management teams (TMTs) and the radical digital innovation of multinational enterprises (MNEs). We posit that CEO narcissism and the international diversity of foreign subsidiaries' TMTs positively influence an MNE's radical digital innovation. However, we also argue that this international diversity of foreign subsidiaries' TMTs weakens the influence of CEO narcissism on radical digital innovation. These hypotheses gain support from empirical analyses of a sample of 3064 firm-year observations comprising 769 CEOs from 347 South Korean MNEs between 2011 and 2020. Our findings underscore the importance of CEO personality traits, i.e. narcissism, and TMT composition, i.e. international diversity, at the intersection between strategic leadership and radical digital innovation.