Rate My Professor Mehmet Demirbag

Professor Mehmet Demirbag is a Professor of International Business and Deputy Dean of Essex Business School at the University of Essex. Prior to joining Essex, he served as Vice Dean (internationalisation) and head of the Department of Strategy and Organisation at Strathclyde Business School, and as Chair in International Business at the University of Sheffield Management School, where he taught for more than ten years. He holds a master’s degree in Business Analysis from the University of Leicester and a PhD from the University of Bradford Management School. Professor Demirbag has extensive experience in research and teaching in International Business and International Strategic Management in the UK and abroad, and he has served as the principal advisor for the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Trade. He teaches International Business and International Strategic Management at undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive levels.

His research interests include the internationalisation of R&D activities, offshore R&D, FDI location choice, product and regional diversification strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs), multinationals from emerging countries, international mergers and acquisitions, and reverse knowledge transfer by emerging country MNEs. Professor Demirbag is a consulting editor of the Journal of International Management and an advisory editor of Eurasian Business Review. He has co-guest edited special issues on emerging market MNEs, MNEs in emerging markets, the transitional periphery, uncertainty, and human resource management in uncertain contexts for journals including the British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Employee Relations, Journal of East-West Business, and Journal of Management Development. He is an editorial review board member of the British Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Asia Business Studies, and Journal of Global Analysis. His research has contributed to REF impact cases at the University of Bradford and the University of Sheffield. He has also completed research projects for funding bodies including the European Commission.