Academic Advisors

Marina O. Latukha

Professor

Member of AIB (Academy of International Business), AOM (Academy of Management), EIBA (European Academy of International Business)

Author of papers published in leading academic journals, among them: Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Research, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, European Management Journal, Thunderbird International Business Review, Human Resource Development International, European Journal of International Management

marina.latuha@gsom.spbu.ru

Research Directions:

• Diversity&Inclusion and its influence on firm performance. The impact of management of diverse talent groups on firm performance in emerging market context
• Talent diversity: gender and generations. Management of culturally diverse employees
• Determinants of talent mobility from and in emerging markets: A multi-level perspective
• The role of talent management in organizational ambidexterity: Evidence from emerging market firms
• Absorptive capacity in Russian MNEs: human capital, performance outcomes and knowledge flows

Andrei Yu. Panibratov

Professor

Board member of EIBA (European International Business Academy)

Member AIB (Academy of International Business), SMS (Strategic Management Society)

Author of papers published in leading academic journals, among them: The British Journal of Management, International Business Review, Thunderbird International Business Review, Multinational Business Review, European Journal of International Management, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Journal of East-West Business, Journal for East European Management Studies

panibratov@gsom.spbu.ru

Research Directions:

• Modalities of state influence on the internationalization of Russian firms
• Political relations between host and home country shaping EMNEs’ strategies
• The role of national diasporas for internationalization of emerging market firms
• Emerging market firms’ inter-regional dynamics within global value chains

Tatiana A. Gavrilova

Professor

Member of IAKM (International Association for Knowledge Management), AWC (Association for Women in Computing), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) и ACM (Association for the Computing Machinery)

Author of papers published in academic journals, among them: Journal of Knowledge Management, Knowledge and Process Management, Measuring Business Excellence, International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, International Journal of Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Strategic Change

gavrilova@gsom.spbu.ru

Research Directions:

• Business Ontologies Formation from Heterogeneous Sources for Knowledge Management Systems
• Cognitive Aspects of Conceptual Modeling in Data and Knowledge Science

Elena K. Zavyalova

Professor

Member AHRD (Academy of Human Resource Development)

Author of papers published in academic journals, among them: Human Resource Development International,  European Journal of Training and Development, Journal of European Industrial Training, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

zavyalova@gsom.spbu.ru

Research Directions:

• Human Resource Development in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
• Innovative Human Resources Management/Development technologies in the New Economy

Maria M. Smirnova

Associate Professor

Member of EMAC (European Marketing Association)

Author of papers published in leading academic journals, among them: Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management

smirnova@gsom.spbu.ru

Research Directions:

• Marketing strategies, capabilities and resources in shaping competitive advantage in emerging markets context
• Marketing and innovations: collaborative innovations, user-driven innovations
• Customer orientation: conceptualization and measurement in the context of Russia
• Marketing in the context of economy digitalization (e-commerce, multi/omni-channel strategies, sharing economy)
• Consumer behavior in the context of emerging markets (market knowledge, skepticism, consumption culture, behavior models)

Joan Freixanet

Associate Professor

Author of papers published in leading academic journals, among them: Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Journal of Small Business Management

j.freixanet@gsom.spbu.ru

Research Directions:

• Family firms’ performance
• Innovation: antecedents and effects in firm internationalization and performance
• International new ventures and born-globals
• Entrepreneurship effects
• Alliances
• Foreign market entry methods
• Export promotion programs

Mustafa Denis Dalman

Associate Professor

Author of papers published in leading academic journals, among them: Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Marketing Studies, Innovative Marketing Journal

m.dalman@gsom.spbu.ru

Research Directions:

• Consumer behavior in the context of consumer-brand relationships
• Moral judgments
• Word-of-Mouth effects

Sergey A. Yablonsky

Associate Professor

Member of Russian Association of Artificial Intellegence; The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM); The Association for the Computational Linguistics (ACL); The Global WordNet Association (GWA).

Author of papers published in academic journals, among them: Systems Research and Behavioral Science, The International Journal of Technology Marketing, Marketing and Marketing Research, International Journal Multilingual Computing & Technology

yablonsky@gsom.spbu.ru

Research Directions:

• Digital business, platform business models and ecosystems, enterprise platform architecture
• Data governance
• Digital assets management
• Digital transformation and digital innovations, namely blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT)
• Digital marketing: sentiment analysis and analytics

Dmitry V. Kudryavtsev

Associate Professor

Member of Business Architecture Guild, IEEE (Business Informatics and Systems Society, Learning Technology Society, Semantic Computing Society, Services Computing)

Author of papers published in academic journals, among them: Strategic Change, Knowledge and Process Management

d.v.kudryavtsev@gsom.spbu.ru

Research Directions:

• Enterprise architecture modeling for managing enterprise transformation
• Enterprise architecture modeling and/or enterprise ontologies for creating a digital twin of an organization
• Enterprise architecture patterns, archetypes and reference models (e.g. for management capabilities, for knowledge-driven companies, for sustainability, for certain industries)
• Methods and technologies of knowledge audit (including knowledge mapping)

Irina V. Berezinets

Associate Professor

Member of EBES, ЕАА, ICGS

Author of papers published in academic journals, among them: Corporate Ownership & Control, Eurasian Economic Review, Managerial Finance, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, Journal of Intellectual Capital

berezinets@gsom.pu.ru

Research Directions:

• Methods of Optimization
• Econometrics
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Finance

Yulia B. Ilina

Associate Professor

Member of European Academy of Management (EURAM), International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES)

Author of papers published in academic journals, among them: Corporate Ownership & Control, Managerial Finance, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, Journal of Intellectual Capital

jilina@gsom.pu.ru

Research Directions:

• Corporate Governance
• Financial Markets