Serghei Musaji

Serghei Musaji joined the Faculty of Management in 2020 as an Assistant Professor of International Business. His PhD comes from IE Business School, IE University in Madrid, Spain, where he defended with Honors in 2018. His dissertation is focused on Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the context of International Business. While at IE Business school, Serghei was focused on researching business success of international new ventures and of immigrant entrepreneurs. Specifically, he studied such aspects as economic geography of location choices, the success in collaborative international environments; cross-country differences and their effects on the organizational outcomes; organizational learning in the context of partner selection process; the effects of the immigration profile on the post-immigration business success, to name just a view.

Serghei’s work in that area has been regularly presented at the top international conferences hosted by the Academy of Management, Babson, American Sociological Association; Strategic Management Society; and the Academy of International Business. He was also distinguished with a number of international awards as, for example, Ewing Marion Emerging Scholar Best Paper Award (2016) or ITC-Emerald Best Dissertation Award (Finalist) (2019). His work has also been published in such outlets as Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Proceedings; the Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, but also as chapters in books.

Dr. Musaji’s research interests are rather multidimensional and broadly focus on various strategic issues in organizational life (ex: learning; geographical expansion; collaboration; resource consumption efficiency). He also has rather ample managerial experience in various domains ranging from corporate research and marketing to finance/accounting and intellectual property management.

Prior to joining the faculty of Management, Serghei had a research stay at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (2017), and then worked as Post-Doctoral Research fellow the Department of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at UNB (2018-2020). While at TME-UNB, Dr.Musaji has been studying the determinants of environmental performance in firms with a focus on the energy efficiency aspect.

Publications

Musaji, S., Schulze, W. S., & De Castro, J. O. (2019). HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO “GET TO” THE LEARNING CURVE? Academy of Management Journal, (Published online: February, 2020).

Musaji, S., & De Castro, J. O. (2019). THE CONTINGENT EFFECT OF TEAM COMPOSITION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAMS. Oxford Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Collaboration (July, 2019).

Musaji, S., & De Castro, J. O. (2018, July). SOOTHE MY FEARS, BUT PUSH ME FORWARD. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2018, No. 1, p. 11428). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

Musaji, S., & De Castro, J. O. (2017). INTER-ROLE DIFFERENCES, SELF-IDENTIFICATION BATTLES, AND PERFORMANCE OF IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2017, No. 1, p. 12098). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

Musaji, S. (2017). INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION OF BORN-GLOBAL FIRMS WITH FRANCHISING BUSINESS MODEL: MOVES THAT LEAD TO SUCCESS (SUMMARY). Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 37(12), 6.

Musaji, S., & de Castro, J. (2016). DETERMINANTS OF THE IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS’ SUCCESS: IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS IN THE EUROPEAN REMITTANCES MARKET. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 36(12), 2.

Musaji, S., & De Castro, J. O. (2016). Home and Host Country Differences as Determinants of the Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Business Growth. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2016, No. 1, p. 12513). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

Conference presentations

Musaji, Serghei, Julio O. De Castro, and William Schulze. “Immigrant entrepreneurs’ business success: the role of national tolerance and access to social support.”. Presented at: Wharton Immigration Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2019)

Musaji, Serghei, and Julio O. De Castro. “Soothe my fears, but push me forward: Host country’s social safety net, tolerance towards immigrants, and immigrant entrepreneurs’ business success”. Presented at: AOM, Chicago, US (2018); Babson Conference, Waterford, Ireland (2018)

Musaji, Serghei, and Julio O. De Castro. “Inter-Role Transitions: Inter-Role Differences, Self-identification Battles, and Performance of Immigrant Entrepreneurs”. Presented at: ASA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2017); AOM (including Entrepreneurship Doctoral Consortium), Atlanta, Georgia, US (2017); AIB (including JIBS PWD), Dubai, UAE (2017); SMS, Banff, Alberta, Canada (2017)

Musaji, Serghei, and Julio O. De Castro. “International Expansion of Born-Global Firms: Moves That Lead to Success”. Presented at: Babson Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, US (2017)

Musaji, Serghei, and Julio O. De Castro. “The Dynamic Contextual Relationship Between Team Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams”. Entrepreneurship and Collaboration Conference, Boulder, Colorado, US (2017)

Musaji, Serghei, and Julio O. De Castro. “Home and Host Country Differences as determinants of the immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Business Growth”. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, US (2016)

Musaji, Serghei, and Julio O. De Castro. “Path-dependence in the International Expansion of the Born-global Firms”. Academy of International Business Annual Meeting (JIBS PDW), New Orleans, Louisiana, US (2016)

Musaji, Serghei, and Julio O. De Castro. “Determinants of the Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Success: Immigrant entrepreneurs in the European Remittances Market”. Babson Conference, Bodø Norway (2016)

Musaji, Serghei, and Julio O. De Castro. “Entrepreneurial Idea Disclosure. When Likely?” Doctoral Consortium, IE Business School, Madrid, Spain (2016)

Musaji, Serghei, and Julio O. De Castro. “A Dynamic Contextual Model of Diversity Impact on Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams”. SMS Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, US (2015)

Musaji, Serghei, and Julio O. De Castro. “The contingent impact of diversity on performance in entrepreneurial teams”. Doctoral Consortium, IE Business School, Madrid, Spain (2015)