
College of Business
Florida International University
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, MANGO 443
Miami, FL 33199
Phone: (305) 348-8243
Email: sfainshm@fiu.edu
Stav Fainshmidt
AI 360 Research Fellow
Professor, Department of International Business
College of Business
Florida International University
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, MANGO 443
Miami, FL 33199
Phone: (305) 348-8243
Email: sfainshm@fiu.edu
Education
Ph.D. in Business Administration
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Master of Finance and Management
College of Management, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business Administration
College of Judea and Samaria, Ariel, Israel
Areas of Expertise
- Dynamic capabilities
- Institutions and governance
- international business
Courses Taught
- Advanced Management Research
- Doc Res In Bus Admin
- Emerging Markets
- Fundamentals of International Business
- General Business
- Global Strategy and Business Models
- International Business
- Master's Seminar in International Business
- Master's Seminar in Management
- Navigating in a Globalizing World
- Ph.D. Dissertation
- Strategic Management
Publications
Mallon M., & Fainshmidt S.
(2025).
Ethnic Fractionalization and Informal Entrepreneurship: An Institutional Logics Perspective.
Journal of Business Venturing
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Andrews D., Fainshmidt S., & Cuervo-Cazurra A.
(2025).
The home country effect on between- and within-firm performance differences.
Journal of World Business
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Kavadis, N., Hermes, N., Oehmichen, J., Zattoni, A., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2024).
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors.
Journal of World Business
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Askarzadeh, F., Lewellyn, K., Fainshmidt, S., & Judge, W.
(2024).
Entrepreneurial Orientation and Underconformity to Female Board Representation Norms.
Journal of Management Studies
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Andrews D., & Fainshmidt S.
(2024).
A “Necessary” Component in Advancing International Business Research.
AIB Insights
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Andrews D., Fainshmidt S., Witt M., & Gaur A.
(2024).
Foreign policy: implications for multinational firms.
Journal of International Business Policy
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Drori N., Andrews D., Fainshmidt S., & Gaur A.
(2024).
Industry Offshoring and Firm Internationalization: Complementarities in External Learning.
Journal of Management
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Drori N., Andrews D., Fainshmidt S., & Xu L.
(2024).
Foreign competition and business diversification options.
Global Strategy Journal
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Stefanidis, A., Banai, M., Newburry, W., Fainshmidt, S., Richter, U. H., Schnitzel, U., Kong, Y., Erkus, A., Shakirova, S., Ozbek, M. F., Goelzner, H., Shetach, A., & Sigri, U.
(2023).
Managers' dispositions toward formal contracts: A cross-country examination.
Journal of Business Research
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Andrews, D. S., Fainshmidt, S., Fitza, M., & Kundu, S.
(2023).
Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance.
Strategic Management Journal
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Andrews, D. S., Fainshmidt, S., Newburry, W., Parente, R., & Haensel, K.
(2023).
What determines subunit integration in the multinational firm? A meta-analysis.
Journal of International Management
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Mallon, M. R., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2023).
Breaking new ground in family business research with neoconfigurational theorizing and analysis.
Journal of Family Business Management
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Schaper, T., Jung, C., Foege, J. N., Bogers, M. L., Fainshmidt, S., & Nuesch, S.
(2023).
The S-shaped relationship between open innovation and financial performance: A longitudinal perspective using a novel text-based measure.
Research Policy
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Tarba, S. Y., Frynas, J. G., Liu, Y., Wood, G., Sarala, R. M., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2023).
Strategic agility in international business.
Journal of World Business
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Andrews D. S., Fainshmidt S., Gaur A., & Parente R. C.
(2022).
Does Decision-making Autonomy Lead to Foreign Subsidiary Product Innovation? The Roles of Knowledge Complementarities and Institutional Distance.
Long Range Planning
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Fainshmidt, S., Andrews, D. S., Schotter, A. P., & Gaur, A.
(2022).
Formal institutional context in global strategy research: A layer cake perspective.
Global Strategy Journal
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Smith, A. W., Aguilera, R. V., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2022).
Where Do Born Globals Come from? A Neoconfigurational Institutional Theory.
Organization Science
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Fainshmidt, S., Witt, M. A., & Aguilera, R. V.
(2022).
Our Board, Our Rules: Nonconformity to Global Corporate Governance Norms.
Administrative Science Quarterly
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Andrews, D. S., Ambos, T., Haensel, K., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2022).
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda.
Journal of World Business
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Andrews, D. S., Gaur, A., Parente, R., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2022).
Configuring knowledge connectivity and strategy conditions for foreign subsidiary innovation.
Long Range Planning
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Kafouros, M., Cavusgil, S. T., Devinney, T. M., Ganotakis, P., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2022).
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework.
Journal of World Business
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Mallon, M. R., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2022).
Who’s Hiding in the Shadows? Organized Crime and Informal Entrepreneurship in 39 Economies.
Journal of Management
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Pezeshkan, A., Smith, A., Fainshmidt, S., & al, e.
(2022).
A neo-configurational institutional analysis of international venture capital attractiveness and performance: insights for Asia-Pacific.
Asia Pacific Journal of Management
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Fainshmidt, S., Andrews, D. S., Gaur, A., & Schotter, A.
(2021).
Recalibrating Management Research for the Post-COVID-19 Scientific Enterprise.
Journal of Management Studies
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Fainshmidt, S., Geleilate, J. G., & Zollo, M.
(2021).
More (new) products, more problems? A systems perspective on increased capability deployment and organizational errors.
Long Range Planning
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Fainshmidt, S., Zhao, Y., Parente, R., & Carnovale, S.
(2021).
MNE host-country alliance network position and post-entry establishment mode choice.
Journal of International Business Studies
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Halliday, C. S., Paustian-Underdahl, S. C., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2021).
Women on Boards of Directors: A Meta-Analytic Examination of the Roles of Organizational Leadership and National Context for Gender Equality.
Journal of Business and Psychology
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Haensel, K., Andrews, D. S., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2021).
Bringing Research Closer to Reality: Configurational Analysis and Practical International Business Research.
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Geleilate, J. G., Andrews, D. S., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2020).
Subsidiary autonomy and subsidiary performance: A meta-analysis.
Journal of World Business
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Judge, W. Q., Brown, J. L., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2020).
Institutional Systems for Equitable Wealth Creation: Replication and an Update of Judge et al. (2014).
Management and Organization Review
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Witt, M. A., Aguilera, R. V., Verbeke, A., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2020).
The contributions of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to international business research.
Journal of International Business Studies
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Fainshmidt, S., Pezeshkhan, A., Smith, A., & Zhang, J.
(2019).
Risk, capabilities, and international venture capital syndication in China.
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research
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Guldiken, O., Mallon, M. R., Judge, W. Q., Clark, C. E., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2019).
Beyond tokenism: How strategic leaders influence more meaningful gender diversity on boards of directors.
Strategic Management Journal
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Wenger, L., Pezeshkan, A., Mallon, M. R., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2019).
When do Dynamic Capabilities Lead to Competitive Advantage? The Importance of Strategic Fit.
Journal of Management Studies
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Judge, W. Q., Aguilera, R. V., Smith, A., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2018).
Varieties of institutional systems: A contextual taxonomy of understudied countries.
Journal of World Business
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Putzhammer, M., Puck, J., Slangen, A., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2018).
To elevate or to duplicate? Experiential learning, host-country institutions, and MNE post-entry commitment increase.
Journal of World Business
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White III, G. O., Rajwani, T., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2018).
Antecedents and Outcomes of Political Tie Intensity: Institutional and Strategic Fit Perspectives.
Journal of International Management
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Zattoni, A., Witt, M., Judge, W., Talaulicar, T., & Chen, J.
(2017).
How Does Board Independence Influence IPO Financial Performance? The Moderating Role of the National Business System.
Journal of World Business
, 52(5)
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Fainshmidt, S., Nair, A., & Mallon, M. R.
(2017).
MNE performance during a crisis: An evolutionary perspective on the role of dynamic managerial capabilities and industry context.
International Business Review
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Fainshmidt, S., Smith, A., & Guldiken, O.
(2017).
Orchestrating the flow of human resources: Insights from Spanish soccer clubs.
Strategic Organization
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Frazier, M. L., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2017).
What Facilitates Dynamic Capabilities? The Role of Organizational Climate for Trust.
Long Range Planning
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Frazier, M. L., Klinger, R. L., Pezeshkan, A., Vracheva, V., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2017).
Psychological Safety: A Meta-Analytic Review and Extension.
Personnel Psychology
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Lewellyn, K. B., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2017).
Effectiveness of CEO Power Bundles and Discretion Context: Unpacking the ‘Fuzziness’ of the CEO Duality Puzzle.
Organization Studies
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Mallon, M. R., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2017).
Assets of Foreignness: A Theoretical Integration and Agenda for Future Research.
Journal of International Management
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Paustian-Underdahl, S. C., Zhang, H., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2017).
The role of economic development and perceived growth opportunities in employee reactions to M&As: A study of the merger syndrome across 29 countries.
Group and Organization Management
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Zattoni, A., Witt, M. A., Judge, W. Q., Talaulicar, T., Chen, J. J., Fainshmidt, S., & al, e.
(2017).
Does board independence influence financial performance in IPO firms? The moderating role of the national business system.
Journal of World Business
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Erkan, A., Judge, W. Q., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2016).
Variance decomposition of the country, industry, firm, and firm-year effects on dividend policy.
International Business Review
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Fainshmidt, S., Pezeshkan, A., Frazier, M. L., Nair, A., & Markowski, E.
(2016).
Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analytic Evaluation and Extension.
Journal of Management Studies
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Fainshmidt, S., Pezeshkan, A., Smith, A., & Sedeh, A. A.
(2016).
National business systems and firm innovation: A study of developing economies.
Journal of Business Research
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Frazier, M. L., Tupper, C., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2016).
The path(S) to employee trust in direct supervisor in nascent and established relationships: A fuzzy set analysis.
Journal of Organizational Behavior
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Smith, A., Judge, W. Q., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2016).
National Competitiveness and Porter's Diamond Model: The Role of MNE Penetration and Governance Quality.
Global Strategy Journal
.
Pezeshkan, A., Fainshmidt, S., Nair, A., Frazier, M. L., & Markowski, E.
(2016).
An Empirical Assessment of the Dynamic Capabilities-Performance Relationship.
Journal of Business Research
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Fainshmidt, S., Nair, A., Guldiken, O., & Pezeshkan, A.
(2015).
Innovation in India: A review of past research and future directions.
Asia Pacific Journal of Management
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Judge, W. Q., Witt, M. A., Zattoni, A., Fainshmidt, S., & al, e.
(2015).
Corporate governance and IPO underpricing in a cross-national sample: A multilevel knowledge-based view.
Strategic Management Journal
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Bao, S., Nair, A., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2014).
Women in upper echelons of management, tenure and legal risk.
British Journal of Management
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Judge, W. Q., Brown III, J. L., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2014).
Which model of capitalism best delivers both wealth and equality?
Journal of International Business Studies
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Nair, A., Rustambekov, E., McShane, M., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2014).
Enterprise Risk Management as a Dynamic Capability: A test of its effectiveness during a crisis.
Managerial and Decision Economics
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White III, G. O., Cangioni, C., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2014).
Legal distance, cognitive distance, and conflict resolution in international business intellectual property disputes.
Journal of International Management
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Fainshmidt, S., Frazier, M. L., & Johnson, P. D.
(2013).
Development and validation of a propensity to trust scale.
Journal of Trust Research
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White III, G. O., Hadjimarcou, J., Posthuma, R. A., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2013).
MNE home country cultural norms and conflict strategy fit in transnational business contract disputes.
International Business Review
.
Frazier, M. L., & Fainshmidt, S.
(2012).
Voice Climate, Work Outcomes, and the Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment: A Multilevel Examination.
Group and Organization Management
.
Books
- Judge, W., Brown, L., & Fainshmidt, S. (2014). Piketty's big flaw? Capitalism isn't the same the world over. The Conversation.