Staff Profile:

Name:

Professor Rajneesh Narula

Job Title:

Professor of International Business Regulation

Responsibilities:

Professor of International Business Regulation and Director of the John H. Dunning Centre for International Business at Henley Business School, Professor Narula is also a Non-Residential Fellow at the OECD Development Centre, Paris and the United Nations University - MERIT in the Netherlands, and Editor-in-chief of The European Journal of Development Research.

He obtained an MBA and PhD from Rutgers University, USA and has previously held posts at at the Copenhagen Business School, University of Oslo, BI Norwegian School of Management and the University of Maastricht. Before academia, Professor Narula worked as an Engineer in Nigeria, and later as a Planning Analyst at IBM Asia/Pacific Headquarters in Hong Kong. He regularly acts as a consultant for UNCTAD, UNIDO, the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD. He has undertaken research and consultancy projects or taught in Tanzania, Uganda, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Russia, India, Qatar, UAE, in addition to almost all the countries of the EU.

Professor Narula's research and consulting have focused on the internationalisation of innovation, R&D alliances and the role of multinational firms in industrial development. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Globalization and Technology (Polity Press) and Multinationals and Industrial Competitiveness (with John Dunning, Edward Elgar). He is also programme director for the School's MSc International Business and a PhD supervisor.

Areas of Interest:

• The organisation and management of technological activities of firms.
  
• R&D alliances and outsourcing.
• Technology policy and globalisation.
  
• Globalisation and marginalisation of the south.
  
• Technology linkages and spillovers from FDI.
  
• Innovation systems, institutions and lock-in.

Research groups / Centres:

• John H Dunning Centre for International Business

Publications:

(2005 onwards)

Papers 

• Keeping the eclectic paradigm simple, Multinational Business Review, Vol 18, pp35-50, 2010
• MNEs and Local contexts: location, control and value creation, Journal of Management Studies, forthcoming 2010 (with Ram Mudambi and Klaus Meyer)
• Multinational enterprises, development and globalisation: Some clarifications and a research agenda, Oxford Development Studies, Vol 38, pp 263-287, 2010 (with John Dunning)
• Location, Collocation and R&D alliances in the European ICT Industry, Research Policy, Vol 38, pp 393 - 403, 2009 (with Grazia Santangelo)
• EU enlargement and consequences for FDI assisted industrial development, Transnational Corporations, Vol 18, pp 69-89, 2009 (with Christian Bellak)
• A novel approach to national technological accumulation and absorptive capacity: aggregating Cohen and Levinthal, European Journal of Development Research, Vol 21, pp 62-88, 2008 (with Paola Criscuolo)
• Using multi-hub structures for international R&D: organizational inertia and the challenges of implementation, Management International Review, Vol 47, 639-660, 2007 (with Paola Criscuolo)
• Globalization, new ecologies, new zoologies and the purported death of the eclectic paradigm, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Vol 23, pp 141-156, 2006
• Foreign Direct Investment Through Acquisitions and Implications for Technological Upgrading: Case Evidence from Tanzania, European Journal of Development Research, Vol 18, pp 62-88, 2006
• Measuring knowledge flows among European and American multinationals: a patent citation analysis (with Bart Verspagen and Paola Criscuolo), Economics of Innovation and New Technologies, Vol. 14(5), pp. 417-433, 2005  

Chapters in books 

• Multinational Firms, Globalization and Innovations for New Members States of the EU, in S. Radosovic (ed), Challenges Of Innovation Policy on European Periphery: Schumpeterian Perspective, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2010
• Global R&D Trends and Implications for Europe, in P. Ahrweiler (ed) Innovation in Complex Social Systems, Routledge, 2010 (with Julie Michel)
• A novel approach to national technological accumulation and absorptive capacity: aggregating Cohen and Levinthal In K. Meyer (ed) Multinational Enterprises and Host Economies, Edward Elgar, Adershot (with Paola Criscuolo), 2009
• Multinational enterprises from small economies. Internationalization patterns of large corporations from Denmark, Finland, and Norway, D. Van Den Bulcke, A. Verbeke and Y. Yuan Handbook on Small Nations in the Global Economy, Edward Elgar, 2009
• Do multinationals matter for emerging markets, or vice versa? in Multinationals and Emerging Economies , edited by Wilfred Dolfsma, Geert Duysters and Ionara Costa, Edward Elgar, 2009
• Multinational enterprises', in in Ramkishen S. Rajan and Kenneth A. Reinert, eds., Princeton Encyclopaedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press (2008)
• Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development: Opportunities and Limitations from a Developing Country Perspective in L .Piscitello and G. Santangelo (eds) do multinationals feed local development and growth? Elsevier; Amsterdam, 2007 (with Brian Portelli)
• Knowledge creation and why it matters for development, in Globalization of R&D and developing countries, UNCTAD, Geneva, 2006
   

Books 

• Globalisation and Technology: interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy, Intellectual publishing house, Beijing, 2010 (Chinese edition)
• Multinationals and the Periphery (with Gabriel Benito), Palgrave, London, 2007
• Understanding FDI-Assisted Economic Development (With Sanjaya Lall), Routledge, London 2006 (paperback published 2009)

Qualifications:

BEng Electrical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria; MBA and Ph.D. from Rutgers University , Newark, USA

Affiliations:

Copenhagen Business School, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK centre) at the University of Oslo in Norway and a research associate of MERIT (Maastricht Economic Research Institute for Innovation and Technology) at Maastricht University.