Rick Molz
Professor, Department of Management
Dr. Molz has research interests in international business strategy, particularly in developing, emerging and transitional economies. He is the chair of the Montreal Local Global Research Group. Dr Molz has published three books relating to international business and strategy, the most recent The Multinational Enterprise in Developing Countries: Local versus Global Logic (Routledge, 2010) was co-edited with Catalin Ratiu, and Ali Taleb.Dr. Molz has published more than twenty refereed journal articles, including the Journal of Socio-Economics, International Journal of Management Reviews, Advanced Management Journal, Journal of East West Business, Latin American Business Review, Global Business and Economic Review, Journal of International Management, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Government and Policy, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Advances in International Comparative Management, Columbia Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Business Strategy.
In 2011 he gave an invited lecture at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Center Berlin) on topics relating to his research on Multinational Corporations in Developing Economies. He has been visiting professor at Donau-Universität Krems, Austria; African Development Bank, Tunis, Tunisia; Czech Management Center, Celakovice, Czech Republic; Institute of Management, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Hautes Études Commerciales Montreal; Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India; and the Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland.
Dr. Molz works regularly with Doctoral Students. He has supervised five PhD students to completion and currently has two others completing their thesis. He has served on more than 20 PhD committees and ten MSc committees.
Selected Research
Refereed Journal Articles
Logics of Local Actors and Global Agents: Divergent Values, Divergent World Views. Critical Perspectives on International Business. Vol 8, no 3. 2012. P. 225-240. Co-authored with Catalin Ratiu.
Doing Business in Emerging, Developing, and Transitional Economies: A Heterodox Interpretation. International Studies of Management and Organization. Vol 41, no 1. 2011. P. 3-11. Co-authored with. With Mehdi Farashahi.
Doing Business in Emerging, Developing, and Transitional Economies: A Heterodox Interpretation. International Studies of Management and Organization. Vol 41, no 1. 2011. P. 3-11. Co-authored with. With Mehdi Farashahi.
Book Chapters
A comparison of foreign acquisitions in the Brazilian Electricity Industry: What determines success? In R. Molz, C. Ratiu and A. Taleb (eds.) Local versus Global Logic: The Multinational Enterprise and Developing Countries. London: Routledge. 2010. With Marcos Bosquetti and Taïeb Hafsi.
Strategy Implementation in Emerging Countries: Three Theoretical Approaches In R. Molz, C. Ratiu and A. Taleb (eds.) Local versus Global Logic: The Multinational Enterprise and Developing Countries. London: Routledge. 2010. With Claude Marcotte, Sid Ahmed Soussi, Mehdi Farashahi, Taïeb Hafsi.
Multinationals and corporate environmental strategies: Fostering subsidiary initiative. In R. Molz, C. Ratiu and A. Taleb (eds.) Local versus Global Logic: The Multinational Enterprise and Developing Countries. London: Routledge. 2010. With C. Ratiu.
The challenges of developing competitive advantage from local and the differential logics In R. Molz, C. Ratiu and A. Taleb (eds.) Local versus Global Logic: The Multinational Enterprise and Developing Countries. London: Routledge. 2010. With C. Ratiu and A. Taleb.
Strategy Implementation in Emerging Countries: Three Theoretical Approaches In R. Molz, C. Ratiu and A. Taleb (eds.) Local versus Global Logic: The Multinational Enterprise and Developing Countries. London: Routledge. 2010. With Claude Marcotte, Sid Ahmed Soussi, Mehdi Farashahi, Taïeb Hafsi.
Multinationals and corporate environmental strategies: Fostering subsidiary initiative. In R. Molz, C. Ratiu and A. Taleb (eds.) Local versus Global Logic: The Multinational Enterprise and Developing Countries. London: Routledge. 2010. With C. Ratiu.
The challenges of developing competitive advantage from local and the differential logics In R. Molz, C. Ratiu and A. Taleb (eds.) Local versus Global Logic: The Multinational Enterprise and Developing Countries. London: Routledge. 2010. With C. Ratiu and A. Taleb.
Invited Research Talks and Workshops
Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) Local-Global Dynamics in Mature and Emerging Countries. Berlin, March 2011
Rick Molz
Professor, Department of ManagementPhD (University of Massachusetts)
Contact Information
John Molson School of Business1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal (Quebec)
Canada H3G 1M8
Office: MB 13.127
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext 2933
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Area of Expertise
- International strategy
- Developing and transitional economies
