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Der-Ting Huang

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

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Office: +4538152491
Departments
Department of International Economics, Government & Business
Room: POR/24.B-1.54
Subjects
Strategy Management Organisation

Primary research areas

In­ter­na­tion­al Busi­ness
- R&D in­ter­na­tion­al­iz­a­tion
- Trade & FDI
Cor­por­ate Strategy
- Loc­a­tion strategy
- Re­source al­loc­a­tion
Non­mar­ket Strategy
- Cor­por­ate so­cial respons­ibility
- Sustain­ability
- So­cial polit­ic­al ac­tion
Supra­na­tion­al In­sti­tu­tions
- In­ter­na­tion­al eco­nom­ic agree­ments

Bio­graphy

Der-Ting Huang is an As­sist­ant Pro­fess­or of In­ter­na­tion­al Busi­ness at Copen­ha­gen Busi­ness School.

Her research investigates the re­la­tion­ship between firms’ in­vest­ment strategies and their ex­tern­al en­vir­on­ments. Em­bra­cing a multi-level spir­it, she aims to understand how mul­tina­tion­al cor­por­a­tions (MNCs) nav­ig­ate and re­spond to di­verse in­sti­tu­tion­al en­vir­on­ments across dif­fer­ent levels.

Her work has been re­cog­nized with sev­er­al pres­ti­gi­ous awards. She was the win­ner of 2024 AIB Best Doc­tor­al Dis­ser­ta­tion Pro­pos­al Award and the finalist of 2024 AIB Alan Rug­man Most Prom­ising Schol­ar Award. Her dis­ser­ta­tion is sup­por­ted by the Strategy Re­search Found­a­tion's Will Mitchell Dis­ser­ta­tion Re­search Grant by the Strategic Management Society and the TOP Grants by the Na­tion­al Sci­ence and Tech­no­logy Coun­cil, ROC (Taiwan).

Der-Ting holds a PhD in Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion from the Gies College of Business at the Uni­ver­sity of Illinois Urb­ana-Cham­paign, an MA in Eco­nom­ics from Columbia Uni­ver­sity in the City of New York, and a BBA in In­ter­na­tion­al Busi­ness from Na­tion­al Cheng­chi Uni­ver­sity in Taipei. 

Edu­ca­tion

PhD

Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MA

Economics, Columbia University

BBA

International Business, National Chengchi University       

 

Pro­fes­sion­al Ex­per­i­ence

Session Chair

  • Academy of International Business
  • Strategic Management Society

Discussant

  • Workshop on IB & Geopolitics: Innovation and Technology in a Fragmented World, Copenhagen Business School

Ad-hoc Reviewer

  • Journal of Management Studies
  • International Business Review 

Re­think­ing Mul­tina­tion­al­ity and Loc­a­tion Strategy

Why do some MNCs avoid es­tab­lished in­dustry clusters when op­er­at­ing in a host coun­try? Der-Ting Huang, who re­cently joined CBS as an As­sist­ant Pro­fess­or in Fall 2025, stud­ies how MNCs lever­age dis­persed re­sources to sup­port op­er­a­tions out­side of in­dustry clusters.

This re­search was also fea­tured in an in­ter­na­tion­al schol­arly event. Earli­er, on Decem­ber 27, 2024, it was a true home­com­ing as Huang was in­vited back to de­liv­er her work at her under­graduate alma ma­ter, Na­tion­al Cheng­chi Uni­ver­sity (NCCU). Her present­a­tion offered fresh in­sights into how mul­tina­tion­al­ity shapes where MNCs choose to in­vest, and why those choices mat­ter.

“It was mean­ing­ful to vis­it NCCU again as I pre­pared to be­gin the next stage of my aca­dem­ic ca­reer at CBS," Huang said. "I ap­pre­ci­ated the op­por­tun­ity to re­con­nect with fac­ulty who shaped my early aca­dem­ic de­vel­op­ment.”