Dr Janja Tardios
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and International Business
Eastern Gateway Building 107
- Email: janja.tardios@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268768
- Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management
- Brunel Business School
Summary
Janja Annabel Tardios (PhD, University of Leeds) is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategy and International Business at Brunel Business School. Before joining Brunel, Janja was a Research and Teaching Fellow at King's Business School, King’s College London (International Business and Management Group). Janja also has professional experience in the banking and governmental sectors, working on various projects focused on comparing the operations of European firms in China and Chinese firms in Europe for the Directorate-General for Trade, European Commission.
Janja's primary research interest are multinational companies and the determinants and implications of their activities abroad, specifically those related to value appropriation. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing on literatures from political economy, sociology, management science and economic geography. Her work has been published in leading journals including Journal of International Business Studies, British Journal of Management, Journal of Economic Geography and Journal of World Business, among other outlets.
Janja serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of International Business Policy and is a member of the Sustainability Shared Interest Group of the Academy of International Business. Janja is also the academic lead for the AIB Sustainable International Business Global Poster Competition at Brunel. Her professional affiliations include membership of the Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade and the invite-only SIBP x Moody’s Forum on Sustainability Data Analytics. Janja is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (RSA) and member of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network.
Qualifications
PhD in Business and Economics (Centre for International Business, University of Leeds)
MSc in International Business (University of Essex)
BA in Economics and Business (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Fellow, Higher Education Academy, Brunel University of London
Responsibility
I am the Programme Leader of the International Business MSc at Brunel and teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules.
Newest selected publications
Tardios, JA. and Clegg, LJ. (2024) 'Outbound Profit Shifting and the Propensity to Engage in CrossâBorder Acquisitions'. British Journal of Management, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 24. ISSN: 1045-3172 Open Access Link
Kesidou, E., Plakoyiannaki, E. and Tardios, JA. (2024) 'Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement'. Journal of Economic Geography, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 28. ISSN: 1468-2702 Open Access Link
Mostafiz, MI., Ahmed, FU., Tardios, J., Hughes, P. and Tarba, SY. (2024) 'Configuring international entrepreneurial orientation and dynamic internationalization capability to predict international performance'. International Business Review, 34 (2). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 0969-5931 Open Access Link
Stoian, M-C., Tardios, JA. and Samdanis, M. (2024) 'The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions'. International Business Review, 33 (2). pp. 1 - 25. ISSN: 0969-5931 Open Access Link
Kafouros, M., Hashai, N., Tardios, JA. and Wang, EY. (2022) 'How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability'. Journal of International Business Studies, 53 (7). pp. 1420 - 1448. ISSN: 0047-2506 Open Access Link