The Visiting Scholars Program is an important component of the Entrepreneurship Division. It offers a chance for Faculty and Visiting Scholars to collaborate on research publications and teaching materials.
This program builds teamwork and cross-school collaboration among faculty and staff which results in academic partnerships in research, case writing and other publications. Visiting Scholars have the opportunity to be engaged in the life of the school and participate in classes and work with students during their visit.
Due to the significant number inquires we receive from candidates interested in coming to the Arthur M. Blank Center as a visiting scholar, candidates are accepted based on availability and must meet a specific set of criteria.
Candidates must have a doctoral degree and currently be working on research relevant to entrepreneurship. Preference is given to senior faculty desiring to visit during their sabbatical. Candidates must have a sponsoring faculty member within the Entrepreneurship Division and appropriate funding and work / travel visas as necessary. Visitors are responsible for their own lodging during their stay. Visiting Scholar applicants must also submit a research proposal outlining the research they will work on while at Babson, current curriculum vita, one or two copies of published articles and completed an application. Feel free to contact the Entrepreneurship Division or the Office of International Programs with any additional questions.
For the academic year of 2007/2008 we are proud to host: Amanda Elam
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
aelam@babson.edu
781-239-4332
Amanda Elam is a PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research to date has involved the application of sociological theories of social structure and societal change to the multilevel analysis of crosscultural patterns of gender and entrepreneurship. She brings rigorous training in social theory, research methods, and advanced statistical modeling to the study of entrepreneurship. Amanda spent the past year as a postodoctoral fellow at a leading Australian school of management. Her interest in entrepreneurship and management, however, emerged many years ago out of her first post-college employment experience working in HR and marketing & sales for an international logistics software start-up in North Carolina. Amanda spent five years working at this corporate joint venture which grew from 38 to well over 200 people and from zero to multi-million dollars in revenue during her tenure. It left her hooked on entrepreneurship!
Ru-Mei Hsieh
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
p924010015@student.nsysu.edu.tw
781-239-4420
Ru-Mei Hsieh is a doctoral candidate at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. The main focus of her research is in the field of entrepreneurial opportunities, entrepreneurial alertness and knowledge management.
Young Soo Kim
Soongsil University, South Korea
ykim@babson.edu
781-239-4420
Young Soo Kim is currently an Associate Professor of the School of Entrepreneurship & Small Business at Soongsil University, which is the largest and ranked #1 in its entrepreneurship program in South Korea. Kim earned his DBA in Strategy at the School of Management at Boston University. He has also received a B.A. at Korea University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on entrepreneurship and global strategy of international joint ventures.
Young Soo Kim began his business career at the Samsung Human Resource Development Center and Samsung Economic Research Institute. As a leader and Chief Researcher of Samsung, Kim was actively involved for three years in the strategic planning, diversification, and internationalization of the company. He was also involved in several of Samsung’s venture projects and taught strategic management courses at Samsung's Human Resource Development Center globally.
His research interests center around three inter-linked themes: corporate entrepreneurship, global inter-firm alliances, and technological innovation. In particular, his research looks at entrepreneurial differences between the East and West. Furthermore, he is interested in effective knowledge creation in technology alliances. He has published many cases in international strategy and corporate entrepreneurship and has presented his research at several international conferences. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business. He teaches many courses, including “Entrepreneurship”, "Strategic Management," and "International Business."
Mattias Nordqvist
Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden
mnordqvist@babson.edu
781-239-4332
Mattias Nordqvist is Assistant Professor and Co-Director of CeFEO (Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership) at Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden where he received his PhD in 2005. He is Visiting Scholar and Co-Director of the Global STEP Project at Babson College, USA. He received his PhD from Jonkoping International Business School. His research has appeared in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Family Business Review, Strategic Organization, Small Business Economics, International Studies in Management and Organization, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, and the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. He is a regular presenter at leading international research conferences and focuses his research on governance, entrepreneurship and strategy, particularly in family business contexts. He was recently selected as a FOBI Scholar for 2007-2008 by The Family Owned Business Institute located at the Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids in the USA. Nordqvist's research has been awarded with the FSF-Nutek Award for Outstanding Young Entrepreneurship researcher in Sweden (2006) and with FFI's prize for best unpublished research paper of the year (2005). Mattias teaches strategy, entrepreneurship and family enterprising at undergraduate, master and executive levels since 1999.
Li Yaokuang
Thomas Zellweger
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
tzellweger@babson.edu
781-239-4332
Thomas Zellweger got his PhD from the University of St. Gallen. His work has been published in several academic journals, amongst others Family Business Review and Financial Markets and Portfolio Management. His PhD thesis was awarded best dissertation in 2006 at the University of St. Gallen and got the Honorable Mention Award at the Family Firm Institute, Boston. Thomas is Global Co-Director of the STEP Project and is Research Fellow at Babson College. Thomas Zellweger has studed at the University of St. Gallen and at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. After completion of his studies he worked in investment banking for two years. He has co-founded and currently directs the Center for Family Business at the University of St. Gallen. Thomas Zellweger's primary research interest is performance, attachment, strategy and long-term success of family firms.
