Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Edwards, Tony, Kyoungmi Kim, Philip Almond, Philipp Kern, Olga Tregaskis, and Ling Zhang (2023) Forgotten Globalizing Actors: Towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies. Journal of International Business Studies, in press.

Zhang, Ling Eleanor, Shasha Zhao, Philipp Kern, Tony Edwards, Zhi-Xue Zhang (2022) The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm. International Business Review, in press.

Kern, Philipp, Priscilla Alamos-Concha, Tony Edwards, Mabel Machado-Lopez, Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Ling Eleanor Zhang (2022). Social Innovation in Multinational Companies: Activists, Practices and Social Skills. AIB Insights, 22(1).

Edwards, Tony, Luda Svystunova, Phil Almond, Philipp Kern, Kyoungmi Kim and Olga Tregaskis (2022) Whither National Subsidiaries? The need to refocus International Management research on structures and processes that matter. Journal of International Business Studies, 53, 203–210.

Almond, Phil, Tony Edwards, Philipp Kern, Kyoungmi Kim, Olga Tregaskis (2021) Global norm-making processes in contemporary multinationals. Human Resource Management Journal, early view.

Kern, Philipp and Gerhard Schnyder (2021) Corporate networks in post-war Britain: Do finance-industry relationships matter for corporate borrowing? Business History, 63(6), 966-987.

Kern, Philipp and Howard Gospel (2020) The Effects of Strategy and Institutions on Value Creation and Appropriation in Firms: A Longitudinal Study of Three Telecom Companies. Strategic Management Journal, early view.

Book Chapters

Kern, Philipp, Ling Eleanor Zhang, Tony Edwards, Liudmyla Svystunova (2022) The transfer of employment practices across borders in multinational companies: from context to actors. Chapter in International Human Resource Management (6th edition), edited by B. Sebastian Reiche, Helene Tenzer, and Anne-Wil Harzing. SAGE.

Kern, Philipp, Phil Almond, Tony Edwards, and Olga Tregaskis (2019) Multinational and Transnational Organizations. Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas, edited by Andrew Sturdy, Stefan Heusinkveld, Trish Reay, and David Strang. Oxford University Press.

Invited Talks

The Effects of Strategy and Institutions on Value Creation and Appropriation in Firms: A Longitudinal Study of Three Telecom Companies. Invited paper presentation at Cass Business School, December 2020.

The Effects of Strategy and Institutions on Value Creation and Appropriation in Firms: A Longitudinal Study of Three Telecom Companies. Invited paper presentation at University of Florence, November 2019.

Conference Symposia

Nationalism and Institutions: Perspectives and Opportunities for Future Research. Organizer and moderator. Panel symposium held at the 80thAnnual Meeting of the Academy of Management, online, August 2020.

Globalizing Actors and Norm-Making in Multinationals. Organizer and moderator. Panel symposium held at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, online, August 2020.

Conference Presentations

Institutional Mediation of Value Distribution Among Stakeholders: The Microfoundations of Income Inequality. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, June 2018, and at WINIR’s Symposium, Loughborough University London, UK, December 2019.

Formality and Informality in Global Norm-Making in MNCs. Paper presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, August 2019.

A Contextual Perspective on Emerging Market Multinationals’ Liability of Foreignness. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), The New School, New York, June 2019.

Varieties of Globalizing Actor: Towards an Understanding of the Multiple Roles of Those Involved in the Enactment of Global Norms. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, June 2018.

The Effects of Strategy and Institutions on Value Distribution: A Study of Three Telecom Companies. Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, August 2018, and at the Third Annual Conference of the International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Rome, February 2017.

Globalizing actors in multinational companies: The creation, diffusion, implementation and contestation of global organizational norms. Paper presented at the 3rd Global Conference on International Human Resource Management, St John’s University, New York, May 2017.

The Public Antecedents of Institutional Change: The Relationship Between Public Discourse and Corporate Practice. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), London School of Economics, July 2015.

Institutional Change in Times of Crisis: Corporate Practice as a Driver of Incrementalism. Paper presented at the inaugural Annual Meeting of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR), University of Greenwich, September 2014.

The Great Divide? Bank–industry relationships and corporate networks in Britain, 1904-2010. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), University of Chicago / Northwestern University, July 2014, and with Gerhard Schnyder at the Understanding the Transformation of Economic Elites in Europe workshop, University of Lausanne, June 2014.

Institutional Change After the Financial Crisis: Why A Whimper, Not A Bang? Paper presented at the Management in the 21st Century forum, University of South Australia, November 2013, and at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Università Degli Studi di Milano, June 2013.

Assessing Institutional Change after the Financial Crisis: A Micro-Macro Approach. Paper presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2012.

Anticipation and Management of Restructuring in the United States of America. Paper presented at the Socially Responsible Restructuring Worldwide forum hosted by the European Commission and the ILO, Brussels, December 2011.