Research
Research interests
- International Business / Global Strategy
- Innovation and Technology Management
- Corporate Governance and Sustainability
- Science of Science
Current research
Prof. Krammer's research interests evolve at the intersection of International Strategy and Innovation Management. Broadly, these endeavours can be clustered into several interconnected streams.
The first includes work on innovation in transition economies from Eastern Europe and Central Asia that examines their systemic deficiencies in relation to innovation, the mechanisms and inhibitors of foreign R&D spillovers, as well as the complex interactions with institutional idiosyncrasies in place and the bottlenecks facing practitioners when implementing new policies (e.g., smart specialization) in these settings.
The second stream of research focuses on the drivers and contingencies of partnering strategies in international technological alliances. Here, Sorin pays close attention to firm-specific explanations in terms of diversification profiles and distance in product and technology space between firms and their effects on formation of alliances. In addition, I examine the effects of macro-contingencies (such as institutional differences and the historical background of countries) and their direct and indirect effects on firms’ preferences for international alliances.
The third research stream looks at the effects of institutions (formal and informal) and various institutional deficiencies (e.g., corruption, crime, political volatility, political connections) on organizational performance. These theoretical conjectures are developed and tested in heterogeneous emerging market contexts such as Sub-Saharan Africa, BRICs, South-East Asia, or Central and Eastern Europe.
Finally, the fourth stream focuses on answering fundamental questions related to the “deep” drivers of innovation and creativity, as well as environmental issues, gender and racial biases, socio-economic inequality, or poverty—issues that can be broadly fitted under the SDG umbrella. These research initiatives seek to develop new insights into the role of organizations in society and their potential contributions towards tackling these “grand societal challenges” using large datasets and state-of-the-art quantitative techniques.