Anthony Goerzen

Select Journal Publications

Goerzen, A., Van Assche, A., Zhan, J., Zhang, L. 2025. “Global sustainability reporting standards and the future of international business. Journal of International Business Policy.

Li. S., & Goerzen, A. 2024. “Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within fragile contexts”. Journal of World Business.

Goerzen, A., Asmussen, C., & Nielsen, B. 2024. “Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business”. Journal of International Business Studies.

Elia, S., Goerzen, A., Piscitello, L., & Valentino, A. 2024. “Re-evaluating the offshoring decision: A behavioral approach to the role of performance discrepancy”. Journal of Management Studies.

Goerzen, A., Sartor, M., Brandl, K., & Fitzsimmons, S. 2023. “Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance”. Journal of International Business Studies.

Chakravarty, D., Goerzen, A., Musteen, M., & Ahsan, M. 2021. “Global cities: A multi-disciplinary review and research agenda”. Journal of World Business.

Hofstetter, J., Fiske, L., & Goerzen, A. 2021. “From sustainable global value chains to the circular economy—Different silos, different perspectives but many opportunities to build bridges”. Circular Economy and Sustainability.

Goerzen, A., Iskander, S., & Hofstetter, J. 2020. “The effect of institutional pressures on business-led interventions to improve social compliance among emerging market suppliers in global value chains”. Journal of International Business Policy.

Select Work-in-Progress

Goerzen, A., Zhang, L., & Kano, L. Environmental upgrading in the furthest reaches of the global supply chain: Towards a more inclusive view of who counts.

Special Issue Co-editor of “MNEs in the age of resilience and sustainability imperatives and tensions” (with G. Benito, V. De Marchi, T. Pedersen, L. Piscitello, & R. Aguilera) in Journal of International Business Studies.

“A transaction cost approach to ESG hazards and socially responsible GVC governance structures” (with S. Iskander). Target journal: Strategic Management Journal.

“On socially responsible GVC governance structures: Outsourcing vs internalization in the first mile” (with S. Iskander). Target journal: Strategic Management Journal.

“Multinational responsibility boundaries and supranational policy instruments: How actors influence the relationship between policy means and policy ends” (with L. Fiske) Target journal: Administrative Science Quarterly.

“Stop violence in global value chains! A comparative analysis of interventions to reduce gender-based violence in conflict-affected regions” (with S. Li) Target journal: Journal of International Business Studies.

“Empowering women through the collective action of community and social governance in three African countries.” (with S. Li) Target journal: Journal of International Business Studies.

“Sustainability certifications as boundary-spanning objects mitigating differently perceived social risks”. (with L. Fiske) Target journal: Journal of Business Ethics.

Visiting Scholar, Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas, Costa Rica, 2025

Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2018

Visiting Professor of Management, Universität St. Gallen, School of Management, Switzerland, 2017

Visiting Scholar of International Business, Bocconi University, Italy, 2017

Visiting International Business Scholar, University of Sydney, Australia, 2016

Visiting Scholar of International Business, Luiss University Guido Carli, Italy, 2016

Distinguished Visiting Winspear Scholar, University of Victoria, Canada, 2014-2016

Visiting Scholar, ESC Groupe—Rouen School of Management, France, 2008-2009

Visiting Scholar of International Management, Kobe University, Japan, 2003

Mentorship & Graduate Supervision

Supervisor: five current PhD students, Smith School of Business - Queen's University

Co-Supervisor: five PhD students, various schools in Europe

Supervisory Master’s thesis: +30 students

Select Awards

Research Excellence Award, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, 2025

Best Reviewer 2003, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2025 awarded by the Editorial Board of JIBS

Shortlisted for the 2024 That’s interesting! Award at AIB annual conference

Winner of the 2023 JIBS Decade Award by the Journal of International Business Studies

Winner of the 2023 That’s interesting! Award at AIB annual conference in Warsaw.

Graduate Student Research Supervision Award 2023.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Temple/AIB Best Paper Award at AIB conference in Warsaw.

Shortlisted for the 2023 UNCTAD-AIB Award for Research on Investment and Development

Shortlisted for the 2018 Academy of International Business “That’s Interesting!” Award

Shortlisted for Best Paper Award 2015 by the European International Business Association.

Shortlisted for the 2007 Carolyn Dexter Award

Outstanding Researcher 2006-2007 awarded by the University of Victoria Faculty of Business.

Outstanding Researcher 2005-2006 from the University of Victoria Faculty of Business.

Finalist for the 2005 Doug Nigh Award

Best Conference Paper 2002 awarded by the Academy of International Business

Udayan Rege Best Dissertation Award 2000-2002. PhD thesis competition held by the ASAC.

Gunnar Hedlund Best Dissertation Award Finalist 2002.

Barry Richman Best Dissertation Award Finalist 2002. PhD thesis competition held by the Academy of Management.

Ivey Top 10 Best Selling Case in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 presented by Ivey Publishing.

Select External Funding

$154,996 as Principal Investigator in 2023 by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

$83,816 as Principal Investigator in 2021 by SSHRC

$136,390 as Co-Investigator (with A. Van-Assche, HEC) in 2021 by SSHRC

$30,000 as Principle Investigator in 2020 by MITACS

$25,000 as Principal Investigator in 2019 by SSHRC

$7,000 as Principal Investigator in 2019 by SSHRC

Select Academic Leadership

Chair, Academy of International Business Association—Canada, 2016-2023

Organizer & Moderator, Academy of International Business “Burning Issues” webinar series 2019 - present