Sylvie Chetty
Visiting professor at Department of Business Studies; Professors, teachers, researchers
- E-mail:
- sylvie.chetty@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- PhD
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-7654-8174
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Short presentation
Honorary Doctor and Visiting Professor in the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden.
I have been associated with Uppsala University since 1997 when I spent my research leave for a year. I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Social Science by Uppsala University in January 2017 in recognition of my 20 years collaboration with the Department of Business Studies.
Visiting Professor Gothenburg University, Sweden and University of Eastern Finland.
Biography
Professor Sylvie Chetty is currently a visiting professor at Uppsala University, Gothenburg University and University of Eastern Finland.
Sylvie has worked in Iran, South Africa, Swaziland and New Zealand. She was the Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. She was the Principle Investigator in the Effectuation and Networking project funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, Marsden Fund. She has held academic positions at Massey, Canterbury and Victoria universities in New Zealand. While working at Victoria University she joined the Competitive Advantage New Zealand project which was funded by the Foundation for Research Science and Technology. This project studied how firms from small open economies such as New Zealand developed their capabilities and competitive advantage. She extended this project to include Swedish, Danish and Finnish firms.
Sylvie's research interests are in the internationalisation of firms, export performance, business networks and social capital. She has been associated with Uppsala University since 1997 when she spent her study leave at Uppsala University for a year.
Sylvie has published widely in the international business/international marketing area in such journals as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, Regional Studies, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, International Business Review, International Small Business Journal, European Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, as well as several chapters in edited books.
E-mail: sylvie.chetty@fek.uu.se
Publications
Recent publications
- Dynamic improvisation capabilities as a learning mechanism in early internationalizing firms (2024)
- Causal foreign market selection and effectual entry decision-making (2024)
- Pace of innovation and speed of small and medium-sized enterprise international expansion (2023)
- The Relationship Between Timing, Speed, and Performance in Foreign Market Network Entry (2022)
- Foreign market entry knowledge and international performance (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Dynamic improvisation capabilities as a learning mechanism in early internationalizing firms (2024)
- Causal foreign market selection and effectual entry decision-making (2024)
- Pace of innovation and speed of small and medium-sized enterprise international expansion (2023)
- The Relationship Between Timing, Speed, and Performance in Foreign Market Network Entry (2022)
- Foreign market entry knowledge and international performance (2022)
- Social Media Firm Specific Advantages as Enablers of Network Embeddedness of International Entrepreneurial Ventures (2021)
- Institutional knowledge in Latin American SMEs (2021)
- Perceived export performance (2021)
- Building absorptive capacity through firm openess in a context of a less open country (2019)
- Where to search for process innovations? The mediating role of absorptive capacity and its impact on process innovation (2019)
- Where to search for process innovations? (2019)
- Building absorptive capacity through firm openness in the context of a less-open country (2019)
- Multilevel psychic distance and its impact on SME internationalization (2019)
- Opportunity Discovery and Creation as a Duality (2018)
- Network embeddedness in the internationalization of biotechnology entrepreneurs (2018)
- Disentangling the effects of post-entry speed of internationalisation on export performance of INVs (2018)
- Disentangling the effects of post-entry speed of internationalisation on export performance of INVs (2018)
- Effectuation and foreign market entry of entrepreneurial firms (2015)
- Effectuation and foreign market entry of entrepreneurial firms (2015)
- Effectuation and Networking of Internationalizing SMEs (2015)
- Speed of internationalization (2014)
- Contextualising case studies in entrepreneurship (2014)
- A tandem approach to conducting a longitudinal cross-country case study examining SME growth (2014)
- Innovation Types and Network Relationships (2014)
- Strength of ties involved in international new ventures (2013)
- Building international entrepreneurial virtual networks in cyberspace (2013)
- Geographical proximity and inter-firm collaboration: The role of knowledge access and knowledge acquisition (2011)
- Internationalization and innovation in a network relationship context (2010)
- Internationalisation of small to medium-sized manufacturing firms: a network approach (2000)
Chapters
- Networks and Social Capital (2014)
- Cluster membership, knowledge and SMEs' internationalization (2011)
- The Binary Choice Facing SME Internationalisation (2010)
- The binary choice facing SME internationalization (2010)
- The role of business networks in the internationalisation of manufacturing fimrs: a longitudinal case study (2000)