Susan Perkins
Associate Professor
Department of Managerial Studies
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About
Susan Perkins, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Managerial Studies in the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on how firms strategically navigate the cross-country variations in institutional environments between countries. Professor Perkins areas of expertise include nonmarket strategy, industry regulation, corporate governance and ownership structures, institutional change and leadership models that lead to enhanced firm performance and market growth. She has been published in peer reviewed journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Global Strategy Journal and Regulation and Governance.
Selected Publications
Perkins, S. (2022). “Institutional Distance versus Intra-Country Differences: Capturing and Leveraging the Diversity Within.” AIB Insights, Vol. 22, Issue 3.
Toosi, N., Perkins, S., Cho, J., and Phillips, K.W. (2020). “Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Female Leadership: A Look at Nations, Organizations, and Teams, Research in Social Issues in Management.“
Perkins, S. and Phillips, K. W. (2019) “Are Women Better at Leading Diverse Countries Than Men?” Harvard Business Review.
Perkins, S. (2019). “The Dominance of Pyramidal Business Groups in Latin America Persist,” AIB Insights, Volume, 19(2).
Perkins, S. and Minefee, I. (2015) “Jeitinho Brasileiro: Adopting Nonmarket Strategies in Brazil,” Routledge Companion to Nonmarket Strategy, Lawton, T.C. and Rajwani, T. (Eds.), Oxford, UK and New York, NY.
Perkins, S., Morck, R. and Yeung, B. (2014). “Innocents Abroad: The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms,” Global Strategy Journal, 4: 310–330.
Perkins, S. (2014). “When Does Prior Experience Pay? Institutional Experience and the Case of the Multinational Corporation,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 59(1):145-181.
Perkins, S. (2014). “Cross-national Variations in Industry Regulation: A Factor Analytic Approach with an Application to Telecommunications, Regulation & Governance,” 8: 149–163. Downloadable Data and Appendix
Perkins, S., Phillips, K.W. and Pearce, N. (2013). “Ethnic Diversity, Gender, and National Leaders,” Journal of International Affairs, 67(1): 85-104.
Education
New York University New York, NY
Stern School of Business
PhD in Business Administration, Strategy and International Business
New York University New York, NY
Stern School of Business
MBA, International Business/Management
Fundação Getulio Vargas Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
International Management Program (joint MBA)
Howard University Washington, D.C.
School of Business
BBA, Marketing, Beta Gamma Sigma (Honors)