PhD: Strategic Management, Old Dominion University, 2020

MSc: Finance, EDHEC Business School, France, 2015

Biography:

Dr. M. Mahdi Moeini Gharagozloo considers his research focus to be in areas of Corporate Strategy, Financial Markets and Global Digitalization, exploring topics related such as the effect of digitalization on Merger & Acquisition transactions. He is interested in examining the digitalization of economies around the world and the effect it has on Corporate Strategy. Regarding the Corporate Strategy, he normally studies subjects such as Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances as well as Corporate Innovation.

Research Interests:

Corporate Strategy, Merger and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances, Corporate Innovation, R&D Strategies and Stock Price Synchronicity

Recent Publications:

Moeini Gharagozloo, MM., Forghani, M., Moeini Gharagozloo, A., Amini Sedeh, A., Askarzadeh, F. The Role of Digitalization in Decreasing Gender Gap in Opportunity Driven Entrepreneurship. Information Technology for Development (2023).

Moeini Gharagozloo, MM., Forghani, M., Chen, C. Long-term Compensation and Risk Taking: Exploring the Role of Crisis in CEO’s Behavior Towards Mergers and Acquisitions. International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior (2023).

Moeini Gharagozloo, MM., Chen, C., Nair, A., Moeini Gharagozloo, A. A Digitalized Global Economy: Studying the Effect of Digital Readiness of Countries on International Merger and Acquisition Flows. Journal of Global Information Technology Management (2022).

Chen, C., Moeini Gharagozloo, MM., Darougar, L., Shi, L. The Way Digitalization is Impacting International Financial Markets: Stock Price Synchronicity. International Finance (2022).

Bennett, A. A., Lanivich, S. E., Moeini Gharagozloo, MM. Appraisals matter: relationships between entrepreneurs' stress appraisals and venture-based outcomes. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research (2021).

Moeini Gharagozloo, MM., Askarzadeh, F., Moeini Gharagozloo, A. More Power for International Entrepreneurs: The Effect of Digital Readiness of Economies on Channeling National R&D Resources to Entrepreneurship. Journal of International Entrepreneurship (2021).

Moeini Gharagozloo, MM., Chen, C., Sabzalipoor, F. The Effect of Change Readiness of Economies on International M&A Capital Flows. Review of International Business and Strategy (2021).

Moeini Gharagozloo, MM., Nair, A., & Chen, C. The Effect of Digital Readiness of Economies on International M&A Performance. Journal of Enterprise Information Management (2020).