Adina Dabu

Adina Dabu is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Management & Organization at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the Smith School her previous academic experience included being an Assistant Professor at HEC Paris France and an Assistant Research Professor at the Wake Forest University School of Business, NC. Her non-academic experience includes work as an expert for World Bank economic and institutional reform projects in Eastern Europe and a consultant on German markets in the private sector. Her primary research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurship, the diffusion of management knowledge in less developed economies, new markets creation, the ethics of market processes, and the methodology of grounded theory and comparative analysis. Her teaching portfolio includes Organization Theory, Business Ethics and Qualitative Research Methods. Currently, she works as a Research Affiliate of the Smith School’s Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets on a project analyzing best practices, aspects of supply chain configuration and entrepreneurial, market-based solutions to post-harvest loss in three Sub-Saharan African countries. Her work has been published in Organization Science, Journal of Industrial Relations and Eastern European Economics and presented at the meetings of Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), and European Academy of Management (EURAM).