Alex Settles
Associate Professor | University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, UNITED STATES
Alex Settles studies international sanctions on Russia and Russian firms, emerging market multinationals from Russia, China, and Brazil.
Biography
Alex Settles is a clinical associate professor of entrepreneurship, the research director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center, the academic director of the Masters of Science in Entrepreneurship, and the academic director of the Blackstone LaunchPad Program. He studies international sanctions on Russia and Russian firms, emerging market multinationals from Russia, China, Brazil, and South Africa, the role that non-market forces shape the internationalization process of firms, emerging market multinationals, management practices in emerging market firms, entrepreneurship education practices, and the development of entrepreneurial intentions of university students. He has served as an expert witness for legal cases involving sanctions on Russian firms.
Areas of Expertise (7)
China
Emerging Markets
International Business
Sanctions
International Management
International Trade and Tariffs
Russia
Articles (1)
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Journal of Management StudiesAjai Gaur, et. al
2023-06-01
This study examines the impact of sanctions on Russian firms and the strategies these firms adopt to counter the effects of targeted sanctions. We utilize institutional theory to explain how firms shape their strategic responses as they balance the institutional pressures from their home environment vis-à-vis sanctioning countries. We gather longitudinal data on Russian firms that faced foreign sanctions from the start of the invasion of Crimea in 2014 until 2020.
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