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Der-Ting Huang

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Emner
Strategi 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 Management
  • Strategic Management Society

Discussant

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

Ad-hoc Reviewer

  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • 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. 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.”

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