Ruth Aguilera

Ruth V. Aguilera is a Distinguished Full Professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and a Visiting Professor at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. She spent the 2014-2015 academic year as a Visiting Full Professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy, at the National University of Singapore Business School. Before going to South East Asia, she was a Professor at the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—where she had been since receiving her PhD in Sociology at Harvard University. Ruth’s research interests lie at the intersection of strategic organization, economic sociology and global strategy, specializing in international and comparative corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and firm internationalization. She has over 50 articles published in top peer reviewed management journals, several book chapters and an edited book.

She is a Senior Editor at Organization Science, an Associate Editor at Corporate Governance: An International Review, a Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies, and Guest Editor for special issues at Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of World Business, and more recently Advances in Strategic Management. She also serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Review, Global Strategy Journal, Organization Studies, and Strategic Management Journal. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society and the International Corporate Governance Society, and in 2016 was inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.