This module focuses on International Strategic Management, the study of multinational firm scope, how it is set, and its relationship with firm performance. It connects classic and emerging perspectives, highlights methodological practices shaping contemporary IB research, and emphasizes the role of related business disciplines. Participants strengthen their ability to analyze, evaluate, and contribute to research at the intersection of international business and strategy. Participants gain deeper knowledge of international strategic management, develop stronger engagement with research streams, and expand their methodological toolkit for IB and strategy scholarship.

Professor Xavier Martin

Xavier Martin (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is the Research Professor and Professor of Strategy and International Business in the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship of the School of Economics and Management at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). He was previously on the faculty of New York University (Stern School of Business) and Columbia University (Graduate School of Business). His research examines how corporate international strategies, interfirm relationships, and knowledge-based assets affect each other and jointly affect firm performance. He also does research on methodology as applied to strategic management.

His papers have appeared in Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, the Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, the International Journal of Management Reviews and Small Business Economics, among others. He is a recipient of multiple research awards, including the Best International Paper Award (now Dexter Award) from the Academy of Management, both the Haynes Prize for Best Paper and the Richard N. Farmer Best Dissertation Award (now Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award) from the Academy of International Business, and several Best Paper / Best Student Paper awards from the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

He is the founding Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Scientific Reports (launched in 2022). He has held several elected positions in leadership of the foremost academic associations in his field, including as Chair of the Strategic Management division of the Academy of Management and earlier on the executive committees of two Academy of Management divisions (then-Business Policy & Strategy and Technology & Innovation Management). He also served elected terms as member of the Board of the Strategic Management Society and previously as the Chair of its Competitive Strategy Interest Group.

He has taught courses in strategic management, international business, innovation management and research methods at the Bachelor, M.Sc., Full-Time through Executive MBA and Ph.D. levels. He is the recipient of Best Teacher and Best Course awards from New York University and Tilburg University.

Contact information:

Xavier Martin

Tilburg University

School of Economics and Management

PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 (0)13-466-8098 (secretariat: +31 (0)13 466 2315)

x.martin@tilburguniversity.edu