Biography
Ram Mudambi is the Frank M. Speakman Professor of Strategy at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He previously served on the faculties of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Reading (UK). He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and the European International Business Academy (EIBA). His research focuses on the geography of innovation, with a recent emphasis on issues of migration, ethnicity, and gender. He is currently a Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of World Business, and an Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Policy. He previously served as a Co-Editor of the Global Strategy Journal.
His research has been published in major academic outlets including the Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, the Journal of Economic Geography, the Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of International Business Studies. His articles for practicing managers have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and California Management Review. His media appearances include the New York Times, The Atlantic magazine, and numerous radio and TV programs including National Public Radio.
He writes fiction under the pen name R.M. Burgess and has published several novels.
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
BA 4102 | Strategic Management | Undergraduate |
IB 3101 | Fundamentals of International Business | Undergraduate |
BA 9683 | Research Project I | Graduate |
BA 9783 | Research Project II | Graduate |
BA 9803 | Navigating the Global Marketplace | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Featured
Mudambi, R. (2008). Location, control and innovation in knowledge-intensive industries. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(5), 699-725. doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbn024.
Recent
Belderbos, R., Lee, G.H., Mudambi, R., Du, H.S., & Somers, D. (2024). When does international knowledge connectivity of global cities attract R&D investments? The role of concentrated ownership through organizational pipelines. Research Policy, 53(9), 105083-105083. Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105083.
Gupta, S., Roy, A., Kumar, S., & Mudambi, R. (2023). When Worse Is Better: Strategic Choice of Vendors with Differentiated Capabilities in a Complex Cocreation Environment. Management Science, 69(5), 2833-2851. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). doi: 10.1287/mnsc.2022.4490.
Benito, G.R., Cuervo‐Cazurra, A., Mudambi, R., Pedersen, T., & Tallman, S. (2022). The future of global strategy. Global Strategy Journal, 12(3), 421-450. Wiley. doi: 10.1002/gsj.1464.
Cano-Kollmann, M., Mudambi, R., & Tavares-Lehmann, A.T. (2022). The geographical dispersion of inventor networks in peripheral economies. ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 66(1), 49-63. Walter de Gruyter GmbH. doi: 10.1515/zfw-2022-0002.
Berman, A., Cano-Kollmann, M., & Mudambi, R. (2022). Innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: fintech in the financial services industry. Review of Managerial Science, 16(1), 45-64. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1007/s11846-020-00435-8.
Somé, H., Cano-Kollmann, M., Mudambi, R., & Cosset, J. (2021). The effect of privatization on the characteristics of innovation. Financial Management, 50(3), 875-898. doi: 10.1111/fima.12311.
Anand, J., McDermott, G., Mudambi, R., & Narula, R. (2021). Innovation in and from emerging economies: New insights and lessons for international business research. Journal of International Business Studies, 52(4), 545-559. doi: 10.1057/s41267-021-00426-1.
Sinkovics, N., Liu, C., Sinkovics, R., & Mudambi, R. (2021). The dark side of trust in global value chains: Taiwan's electronics and IT hardware industries. Journal of World Business, 56(4). doi: 10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101195.
Onuklu, A., Darendeli, I., & Mudambi, R. (2021). Regulative distance, international connectivity and innovation systems: Turkey’s links to the EU. Competitiveness Review, 31(2), 231-249. doi: 10.1108/CR-04-2020-0051.
Autio, E., Mudambi, R., & Yoo, Y. (2021). Digitalization and globalization in a turbulent world: Centrifugal and centripetal forces. Global Strategy Journal, 11(1), 3-16. doi: 10.1002/gsj.1396.
Moreira, S., Mudambi, S., Carleton, M., & Fare, T. (2020). Letter to the Journal: The COVID-19 Innovation Race, a Case Study. Journal of Precision Medicine. Retrieved from https://www.thejournalofprecisionmedicine.com/the-journal-of-precision-medicine/letter-to-the-journal-the-covid-19-innovation-race-a-case-study/.
Marino, A., Mudambi, R., Perri, A., & Scalera, V. (2020). Ties that bind: Ethnic inventors in multinational enterprises’ knowledge integration and exploitation. Research Policy, 49(9). doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2020.103956.
McWilliam, S., Kim, J., Mudambi, R., & Nielsen, B. (2020). Global value chain governance: Intersections with international business. Journal of World Business, 55(4). doi: 10.1016/j.jwb.2019.101067.
Berman, A., Marino, A., & Mudambi, R. (2020). The global connectivity of regional innovation systems in Italy: a core–periphery perspective. Regional Studies, 54(5), 677-691. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1672865.
Kim, J. & Mudambi, R. (2020). An ecosystem-based analysis of design innovation infringements: South Korea and China in the global tire industry. Journal of International Business Policy, 3(1), 38-57. doi: 10.1057/s42214-019-00038-5.
Moreira, S., Mudambi, R., Carleton, M., Fare, T., & Majors (2020). Organizational Legitimacy and Rents from Blockbuster Innovation in the Biopharma Industry. Journal of Precision Medicine.
Lorenzen, M., Mudambi, R., & Schotter, A. (2020). International connectedness and local disconnectedness: MNE strategy, city-regions and disruption. J Int Bus Stud, 51(8), 1199-1222. England. 10.1057/s41267-020-00339-5