Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, BA, PhD is Chaired Professor of International Business and Head of the Department of Marketing and International Business at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is also Visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School, UK.
Before she joined the University of Vienna, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki was Professor of International Business at the University of Leeds, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, UK where she subsequently remained as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. Her doctoral studies were supported by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation, while her Post-doctoral research was funded by the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK. Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki currently serves as Associate Editor in the British Journal of
Management. Her research interests refer to qualitative research in International Business; SME and family firm internationalization and international entrepreneurship. She also seeks to understand and problematize the role of time, context and space in International Business theorizing. She has published in highly ranked academic journals including the Academy of Management Review, British Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business and Journal of Management Studies. Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki has been awarded the Medal for Research of the British Academy of Management (BAM) in 2023. In 2021, she received the prestigious Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Decade Award for her co-authored paper entitled “Theorising from Case Studies: Towards a Pluralist Future for International Business Research”. She is regularly invited as a guest Professor and keynote speaker at leading international universities and conferences and provides supervision for PhD Theses.