Ram Mudambi

Ram Mudambi is the Frank M. Speakman Professor of Strategy and Perelman Senior Research Fellow in Strategic Management at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. He has published over eighty refereed journal articles and six books on the multinational strategies of entrepreneurial firms; the location and research and development strategies of multinational firms, and the politics of international business. Mudambi serves as a Department Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, and on the Editorial Boards of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Industry and Innovation and the Journal of International Management.

Prior to joining Temple University, Mudambi taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He taught in Europe for seven years at the University of Reading and the University of Buckingham. He retains a Visiting Professorship at the University of Reading Business School and is a Fellow of the Academy of the University of Messina in Italy. He completed his Masters degree at the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom and his Ph.D. at Cornell University.

Selected publications

Books

• The organisation of the firm international business perspectives. by Ram Mudambi; Martin J. Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-203-28225-6 (446 libraries hold, according to WorldCat)
• Rules and reason : perspectives on constitutional political economy ed by Ram Mudambi; Pietro Navarra; Giuseppe Sobbrio. : Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-65057-7 (192 libraries hold)
• Economic and management methods for tourism and hospitality research. by Tom Baum; Ram Mudambi Wiley, ©1999. ISBN 0-471-98392-6
• Rules, choice and strategy : the political economy of Italian electoral reform by Ram Mudambi; Pietro Navarra; Giuseppe Sobbrio. Edward Elgar, ©2001.
• Economic welfare, international business, and global institutional change by Ram Mudambi; Pietro Navarra; Giuseppe Sobbrio Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, ©2003.
• Privatization and globalization : the changing role of the state in business by Ram Mudambi. Edward Elgar, ©2003. ISBN 1-85898-951-5

Journal articles

• MNE competence-creating subsidiary mandates, (with J.A.Cantwell). Strategic Management Journal, vol.26(12), pp. 1109–1128, 2005.
• Is knowledge power? Knowledge flows, subsidiary power and rent-seeking within MNCs (with P.Navarra). Journal of International Business Studies, vol.35(5), pp. 385–406, 2004.
• Balancing private and state ownership in emerging markets telecommunications infrastructure: Country, industry, and firm influences (with J.Doh and H.Teegen). Journal of International Business Studies, vol.35(3), pp. 233–250, 2004.
• The strategy of going public: How UK firms choose their listing contracts (with M.Goergen and A.Khurshed). Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, vol.33(1&2), pp. 306–328, 2006.
• The role of duration in MNE investment strategies. Journal of International Business Studies, vol.29(2), pp. 239–262, 1998.
• The "close but adversarial model" of supplier relations in the US auto industry (with S.Helper). Strategic Management Journal, vol.19(8), pp. 775–792, 1998.
• Estimating turning points using polynomial regression. Journal of Applied Statistics, vol.24(6), pp. 723–732, 1997.
• A non-parametric investigation of duration-dependence in the American business cycle (with L.W.Taylor). Journal of Political Economy, vol.99(3), Jun., pp. 654–656, 1991.
• Branding time: Swatch and global brand management. ICFAI Journal of Brand Management, Vol.2(2), pp. 39–54, June 2005.

White paper

Flatness - The Global Disaggregation of Value Creation for IEEC/Temple University Singapore

External links

• Ram Mudambi's Temple website
• Full List of Publications
• Fox School of Business website