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Lilach Nachum
Professor of International Business
lilach_nachum@baruch.cuny.edu 
Selected Scholarly Works
Education:
BA Tel Aviv University Arts 1985 MBA Tel Aviv University Business Administration
(Concentration in International Marketing)1990 PhD Copenhagen Business School International Business and Management 1994
Areas of Expertise:
Multinational corporations and international competition, particularly of companies in knowledge-intensive, professional service industries
Selected Publications:
L. Nachum, S. Zaheer and S. Gross. Does it matter where countries are? Distance from knowledge, markets and resources and MNE location choices. Management Science 2008, Vol. 54, Issue 7R. Laud, A. Grein and L. Nachum. Global learning hubs: Move beyond markets to find growth from major cities. MIT Sloan Management Review Summer 2008 (Intelligence section)
L. Nachum and S. Zaheer, The persistence of distance? The impact of technology on MNE investment motivations. Strategic Management Journal 2005, Vol. 26, Issue 8, pp. 747-768. (Reprinted in J.A. Krug and J.D. Daniels (Eds.), Multinational Enterprise Theory, Sage Publications, 2007, Vol. 1).
L. Nachum and C. Wymbs, Product differentiation, external economies and MNE location choices: M&As in global cities. Journal of International Business Studies, 2005, Vol. 36, Issue 4, pp. 415-434.
L. Nachum, Geographic and industrial diversification of developing country firms. Journal of Management Studies 2004, Vol. 41, No.2, pp. 273-294
L. Nachum, Liability of foreignness in global competition? Financial service affiliates in the City of London. Strategic Management Journal 2003, Vol. 24, Issue 12, pp. 1187-1208
L. Nachum and D. Keeble, Neo Marshallian nodes and global networks: The external linkages of media firms in Central London. Long Range Planning 2003, Vol. 36, issue 5, pp. 459-480
L. Nachum, Does nationality of ownership make any difference, and if so under what circumstances? Professional service MNEs in global competition. Journal of International Management 2003, Vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-32 (lead article)
L. Nachum, G.G. Jones and J.H. Dunning, The international competitiveness of the UK and its multinational corporations. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 2001, Vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 277 - 294
L. Nachum, Economic geography and the location of TNCs: Financial and professional service FDI to the US. Journal of International Business Studies 2000 Vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 367-385 (lead article)
Y. Aharoni and L. Nachum (eds.), The Globalisation of Services: Some Implications for Theory and Practice 2000, Routledge, London and New York, 338 pp.
L. Nachum, The Origins of the International Competitiveness of Firms: The Impact of Location and Ownership in Professional Service Industries 1999, Edward Elgar, Aldershot and Brookfield
Academic Activities:
Visiting research and teaching positions at universities in Austria, China, Hong-Kong, Israel, Poland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK.
Senior research fellow at Cambridge University, 1997-2002
Senior staff member of the research division on Foreign Investment and Transnational Corporations of the United Nations 1994-1997
Editorial Board Member, Journal of International Business Studies, 2007 –
Editorial Board Member, Management International Review, 2007 –
Book Review Board Member, Journal of International Business Studies, 2005 – 6.
Board Member and Book Review Editor, Transnational Corporations (published by the Division on Transnational Corporations and Investment, United Nations) 1996-1998
Associate Member, International Research Program on ‘The Concentration of Economic Activity in World Space’, organized by Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and financed by the French Ministry of Research, 2004 -
Advisor, Board of Advisors on Foreign Direct Investment, the Development Gateway Community, MIGA, World Bank, 2003 -
Associate Member, Center for International Business and Management (CIBAM), Cambridge University, Judge Institute of Management, 2001 -
Professional Activities:
Consultant to UNCTAD on issues related to Multinational Corporations and Foreign direct investment
Consultant to the division on business services, The European Commission, the international competitiveness of business service firms.
Consultant, London's Westminster City Council, The international competitiveness of London's film producers
Awards, Honors, etc.:
Finalist, the Temple/AIB Best Paper Award, Academy of International Business, L. Nachum, The impact of nationality of ownership on the networking intensity of firms. Indianapolis 2007.
Outstanding Reviewer Award, International Management Division, Academy of Management, 2002, 2006, 2007Finalist, Excellence in Service Presidential Award, Baruch College, 2007
Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, International Management Division, L. Nachum, What constitutes the liability of foreignness? Atlanta, Georgia, August 2006
Faculty Recognition Award, Baruch College, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Finalist, the Temple/AIB Best Paper Award, Academy of International Business, L. Nachum, S. Zaheer and S. Gross, Does it matter where countries are? Distance from knowledge, markets and resources and MNE location choices. Beijing 2006.
Finalist, William H. Newman Award for outstanding papers, Academy of Management, International Management Division, L. Nachum and D. Keeble, Networking of foreign affiliates as a distinctive alternative to markets and hierarchies: Foreign and local professional service firms in Central London. New Orleans, August 2004
Finalist, Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award, Academy of Management, L. Nachum and D. Keeble, The linkages of foreign and indigenous firms in the media cluster of Central London. Washington D.C., August 2001
Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, International Management Division, L. Nachum and D. Keeble, The linkages of foreign and indigenous firms in the media cluster of Central London. Washington D.C., August 2001
First prize in the R.M. Siegel Fund's annual competition for student research in marketing, Tel- Aviv University, Israel 1990.