Rian Drogendijk
Associated Researcher at Företagsekonomiska institutionen
- Mobile phone:
- +46 76 823 44 43
- E-mail:
- Rian.Drogendijk@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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- PhD, Docent
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Short presentation
Rian Drogendijk is Associate Professor in International Management. She is currently at the Department of Global Economics and Management at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is associated to the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University as a visiting researcher.
Biography
Rian Drogendijk has been appointed at Uppsala University from 2006 to 2014. She moved to the University of Groningen, where she joined the Department of Global Economics and Management in 2014 (see website). She remains connected to Uppsala University as a visiting researcher.
Expert Areas
- Internationalization processes, Knowledge transfer, Headquarters-subsidiary relations, Communication in MNCs
- Cultural distance and cultural differences.
Research Focus
Rian's main research interests include internationalization strategies of companies, organizational learning, and knowledge transfer within multinational organizations, and the impact of cultural differences on international management. Rian has published her research amongst others in the Journal of International Business Studies, the International Business Review, the Management International Review, and the International Journal of Intercultural Relations and is a regular reviewer for journals like the Journal of International Business Studies, the International Business Review and the Management International Review.
Current Projects
- The frustration of subsidiary managers: communicating about opportunities in the MNC
- The multiple internationalization processes of MNCs
- Chinese Outward Investments
- Leveraging Culture in Teams
Publications
Recent publications
- Headquarters' attention, subsidiary voice and strategic change in multinational corporations (2017)
- Intra-organizational Communication of Business Ideas (2017)
- Attention in words, not in deeds (2017)
- Flying under the radar: minimizing corporate resistance to subsidiary initiatives. (2016)
- Attention engagement matters: Impact of headquarters’ attention on subsidiary voice. (2016)
All publications
Articles
- Attention in words, not in deeds (2017)
- Chinese outward foreign direct investments in Europe (2016)
- Relevant dimensions and contextual weights of distance in international business decisions (2015)
- Psychic Distance, Innovation, and Firm Performance (2014)
- Country Distance (COD) (2014)
- The Impact of Psychic Distance on Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investments (2013)
- Relationship development in Greenfield expansions (2013)
- Drivers and Motives for Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investments in Africa (2013)
- Processes of International Collaboration in Management Research (2013)
- Cultural distance or cultural positions? (2012)
- Internationalisation of Bank Enterprises in New Emerging Markets (2008)
- Internationalising in small, incremental or larger steps? (2007)
- Hofstede, Schwartz, or Managerial perceptions (2006)
- The public affairs of internationalisation (2004)
- Expansieprocessen in Oost-Europa: de rol van risicoperceptie (Expansion processes in Eastern Europe: the role of risk perception) (2001)
Chapters
- Intra-organizational Communication of Business Ideas (2017)
- Foreign market entry - exploring and exploiting opportunities (2015)
- Foreign Market Entry – Exploring and Exploiting Opportunities (2015)
- The Future of Global Organizing How Subsidiaries Attempt to Direct HQ Attention to New Business Opportunities (2015)
- Subsidiaries attempt to direct HQ attention to new business opportunities (2015)
- How subsidiaries attempt to direct HQ attention to new business opportunities (2015)
- Introduction: Three organizational challenges for multinational enterprises (2015)
- Foreign Market Entry – Exploring and Exploiting Opportunities. (2012)
- Foreign Market Entry – Exploring and Exploiting Opportunities (2012)
- Foreign Market Entry – Exploring and Exploiting Opportunities. (2012)
- Does cultural distance influence Chinese outward foreign direct investmetns? (2012)
- The role of national culture in the headquarters-subsidiary relationship in the multinational corporation: the effect of power distance (2010)
- Walking the cultural distance: in search of direction beyond friction (2010)
- The internationalization processes of the firm: a new research agenda (2009)
- The international processes of the firm: a new research agenda (2009)
- Internationalization of Services Companies (2009)
- Internationalization and Service Banking Firms (2009)
- Local expansion processes of Dutch Firms in Central and Eastern Europe (2002)
Conferences
- Headquarters' attention, subsidiary voice and strategic change in multinational corporations (2017)
- Flying under the radar: minimizing corporate resistance to subsidiary initiatives. (2016)
- Attention engagement matters: Impact of headquarters’ attention on subsidiary voice. (2016)
- Attention Dissonance in Emerging Market Subsidiaries and Its Effects on Communication in Multinational Corporations. (2015)
- Effects of attention dissonance on communication in multinational corporation. (2015)
- How subsidiaries attempt to direct HQ attention to new business opportunities. (2014)
- National culture meets the headquarters-subsidiary relationship in the multinational corporation: the effect of power distance (2008)
- The Internationalization Processes of the Firm (2008)
- The internationalization processes of the firm (2008)
- Country Distance (2008)
- Hofstede, Schwartz, or Managerial Perceptions? (2005)
- Hofstede, Schwartz, or Managerial Perceptions? (2005)
- The role of experience in creating profitable operations in eastern and central europe (2003)
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