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Professor Noemi Sinkovics

Professor of Sustainable and Responsible Business, Associate Dean Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability

Background

Profile


My research focuses on how businesses can balance their social, environmental, and economic objectives. I explore this question through various frameworks, including global value chains, the business-responsibility matrix, business model innovation, and the Sustainable Development Goals. I am Visiting Professor at the University of Vaasa in Finland (InnoLab). I have a master's degree from WU Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business) and a PhD from the University of Manchester. I previously worked at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.



Editorial roles

  • 2025 to present – Senior Associate Editor, European Management Journal
  • 2022 to present – Associate Editor, Critical Perspectives on International Business
  • 2023 to 2025 – Associate Editor, European Management Journal
  • 2022 to 2024 – Co-editor in Chief, Data in Brief
  • 2021 to 2022 Section Editor for Data in Brief
  • 2019 to 2022 – Social Media Editor, Critical Perspectives on International Business


Editorial review board member


Service for Academic bodies

  • 2025 to present, President Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB) Shared Interest Group
  • 2024 to present, Chair Academy of International Business UK and Ireland Chapter
  • 2023 to 2025, Vice President Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB) Shared Interest Group
  • 2022 to 2024, Executive Board Member and Secretary Academy of International Business UK and Ireland Chapter
  • 2021 to 2023, Executive Board Member and Communications Officer of the Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB) Shared Interest Group
  • 2021 to 2022, Vice President Communications of the Academy of International Business Oceania Chapter (AIB Oceania)
  • 2018 to 2021, Executive Board Member and Communications Officer, Academy of International Business UK and Ireland Chapter


Awards and honors

  • Best Reviewer Award (2023) – International Business Review
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award (2022) – Emerald Literati Network for review contributions to the journal Critical Perspectives on International Business.
  • Temple/AIB Best Paper Award 2022 – Nominee, for the paper Sinkovics, Kim, Sinkovics "Business-Civil Society Collaborations in South Korea: A Multi-Stage Pattern Matching Study"
  • Academy of Management (AoM) Seattle Conference 2022 - Journal of World Business, 2021 Best Phenomenon-based paper award – Nominee, for Sinkovics, Liu, Sinkovics, Mudambi "The dark side of trust in global value chains: Taiwan's electronic and IT hardware industries"
  • Outstanding paper award (2022) – Emerald Literati Award for “The business responsibility matrix: a diagnostic tool to aid the design of better interventions for achieving the SDGs”, Multinational Business Review.
  • Outstanding Paper Award (2021) – Emerald Literati Network Awards for “The social value creation of MNEs – a literature review across multiple academic fields” Critical Perspectives on International Business, 1/2, 7-46. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-06-2017-0038
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award (2020) – Emerald Literati Network for review contributions to the journal Critical Perspectives on International Business.
  • Palgrave Macmillan Prize for best conference paper (2019) for Chia-Ling Liu, Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, and Ram Mudambi “Knowledge connectivity in global value chains: lessons from Taiwan’s electronics and IT hardware industries”, Academy of International Business UK and Ireland Chapter Conference, Sussex.
  • Best Reviewer Award (2019), Academy of International Business (AIB) conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award (2017) – Elsevier Reviewer recognition for outstanding contribution in reviewing to the Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Outstanding Paper Award (2016) - Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for Sinkovics, Noemi, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Samia Hoque, and Laszlo Czaban (2015), "The reconceptualization of social value creation as social constraint alleviation," Critical Perspectives on International Business 11(3/4): 340-363. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-06-2014-0036
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award (2015) – Emerald Literati Network for review contributions to the journal Critical Perspectives on International Business.


Previous Employment


  • Aug 2023 – Aug 2024, Reader in International Business, University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School, United Kingdom
  • Jan 2022 – July 2023, Senior Lecturer in International Business, University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School, United Kingdom
  • Jan 2020 – Dec. 2021,Senior Lecturer (above the bar) in Management and International Business, The University of Auckland, Business School, New Zealand
  • Feb 2013 – Dec.2019, Lecturer in International Business and Management, Alliance Manchester Business School, United Kingdom




Research

Noemi Sinkovics (PhD, RFSA, FHEA) is Professor of Sustainable and Responsible Business at Newcastle University, United Kingdom and Visiting Professor at University of Vaasa in Finland (InnoLab). She previously worked at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on how businesses can balance their social, environmental, and economic objectives. She explores this question through various frameworks, including global value chains, the business-responsibility matrix, business model innovation, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Noemi is Associate Editor for Critical Perspectives on International Business and European Management Journal, and serves on several editorial review boards.


For prospective PhD Students


I am interested in supervising students in the following areas, but am open to discussing your ideas


  • Migration and Migrant Entrepreneurship
  • Forced migration (climate change or conflict driven)
  • Sustainable Business Model Innovation
  • Responsible Business Practices
  • NGO-Business Collaborations
  • Cross-sectoral Partnerships
  • Environmental and Social Issues in Global Value Chains
  • Digital transformation and Industry 4.0 technologies


Completed PhD Students


Current PhD Students


Visiting appointments

  • 2023 - 2027, Visiting Professor, University of Vaasa, InnoLab
  • Sept 2024 to Jan 2025, Visiting Professor, University of Murcia, Spain
  • Nov - Dec 2022, Visiting Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
  • June 2020, Visiting Professor (Gastdozent), University of Bayreuth, Germany
  • Sept 2018 – Dec 2020, Adjunct Professor, Executive DBA Programme, Temple University, The Fox School of Business, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Aug. 2017 – Aug 2019, Fox Visiting Scholar, Temple University, The Fox School of Business, Philadelphia, PA, USA


Capacity building and Mentoring

  • 2025, Mentoring for PhD students and early career researchers at the AIB UK&I Conference 2025 Surrey, 24-26 April (organised by WAIB)
  • 2025, Writing protocol-based literature review papers, AIB UK&I Conference 2025 Surrey, 24-26 April
  • 2024, Pattern matching in qualitative research, Workshop at the University of Murcia, Spain, November 2024
  • 2024, Literature Reviews in the Age of Information Overload, 28th McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, August 15th to 17th, Lappeenranta, Finland
  • 2024, Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo, 28th McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, August 15th to 17th, Lappeenranta, Finland.
  • 2024, Pattern matching in qualitative research, EIBA Summer School, University of Sussex, Falmer Campus, UK, July 22-26.
  • 2024, Paper Coaching Workshop Mentor at the AIB 2024 Conference Seoul, South Korea, 2-6 July (organised by WAIB)
  • 2024, Mentoring for PhD students and early career researchers at the AIB 2024 Conference Seoul, South Korea, 2-6 July (organised by WAIB)
  • 2024, Literature Reviews in the Age of Information Overload, AIB UKI Methods Workshop at the AIB UKI 2024 Conference, Aston Business School, 4-7 April 2024
  • 2024, ELDERs (Editorial Desk Review) PDW Mentor, AIB UKI Methods Workshop at the AIB UKI 2024 Conference, Aston Business School, 4-7 April 2024
  • 2023, Women in EIBA mentoring, EIBA 2023 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2023, An Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis with Nvivo, Workshop at the University of Murcia, Spain, October 2023
  • 2023, Mentoring for PhD students and early career researchers at the AIB 2023 Conference Warsaw, Poland, 5-9 July (organised by WAIB)
  • 2023, Women in the Academy of International Business Paper Coaching Workshop, July 5 2023, AIB World, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2023, Literature Reviews in the Age of Information Overload, AIB UKI Methods Workshop at the AIB UKI 2023 Conference, University of Glasgow, 13-15 April
  • 2022, Paper Development Workshop Mentor at the AIB Oceania 2022 Conference Brisbane, Australia, 24-25 November
  • 2022, Literature Reviews in the Age of Information Overload, Post-Conference Methods Workshop at the AIB Oceania 2022 Conference Brisbane, Australia, 26 November
  • 2022, Mentoring for PhD students and early career researchers at the AIB 2022 Conference Miami, 6-9 July (organised by WAIB)
  • 2022, International Doctoral Consortium mentor, EAFIT University
  • 2022, Journal of International Business Studies Paper Development Workshop Mentor, 48th AIB-UKI Conference Reading - "Contemporary Issues in International Business: Inequality, Geography and GVCs"
  • 2022, Mentoring for Women in AIB, co-chair, 48th AIB-UKI Conference Reading - "Contemporary Issues in International Business: Inequality, Geography and GVCs"
  • 2021, Mentoring for PhD students and early career researchers at the AIB 2021 Online Conference (organised by WAIB)
  • 2021, Workshop for Faculty and PhD researchers, “The art of literature review in the age of information overload”, Birla Global University (BGU), Bhubaneswar (62 participants)
  • 2021, Journal of International Business Studies Paper Development Workshop Mentor, 48th AIB-UKI Online Conference - "International Business: Mega Trends and the need of rethinking current terminologies"
  • 2021, Doctoral Colloquium Mentor, ANZIBA Online Conference – “International business in a virtual world: People, prospects and resilience”
  • 2020, Women in AIB Speed Mentoring, AIB World, July 2-8
  • 2020, Journal of International Business Studies Paper Development Workshop Mentor, 46th EIBA Online 2020 Conference - "International Business in the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era"
  • 2020, critical perspectives on international business Paper Development Workshop Mentor, 46th EIBA Online 2020 Conference - "International Business in the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era"
  • 2020, Doctoral Colloquium Mentor, 46th EIBA Online 2020 Conference - "International Business in the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era"
  • 2020, Workshop for Faculty, PhD researchers, and master students, “The art of literature review in the age of information overload”, University of Bayreuth, Germany (33 participants)
  • 2019, Doctoral Colloquium Mentor, 46th AIB-UKI 2019 Conference – Multinational Enterprises and their Non-market Social and Political Strategies, Brighton, UK: University of Sussex
  • 2019, Workshop for Faculty and PhD researchers, “Theorizing and theory building with SmartPLS”, The University of Manchester, UK, (20 participants)
  • 2019, Workshop for Faculty and PhD researchers, “The art of literature review in the age of information overload”, The University of Nottingham, UK, (20 participants)
  • 2019, Workshop for Faculty and PhD researchers, “The art of literature review in the age of information overload”, University of Murcia, Spain (33 participants)
  • 2019, Workshop for Faculty and PhD researchers, “The art of literature review in the age of information overload”, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, (90 participants)
  • 2019, Webinar workshop for Faculty and PhD researchers, “The art of literature review in the age of information overload” S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
  • Business school in Mumbai, India (12 participants)
  • 2019, Workshop for Faculty and PhD researchers, “The art of literature review in the age of information overload”, in collaboration with Utkal University PMIR department and Parameter Software, Bhubaneswar, India (16 participants)
  • 2019, Women in AIB Speed Mentoring, AIB World, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 24-27
  • 2017, Workshop for Faculty and PhD researchers, “From theorizing to model building” organized by The Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) in collaboration with TERI University and The India and Sustainability Standards Conference, New Delhi, India (30 participants)
  • 2017, Workshop for Faculty and PhD researchers, “Theory building and theory testing in Business and Management” sponsored by SmartPLS, AIB-UKI, BAM, IBNorthWest, and The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (30 participants)
  • 2015, Doctoral Colloquium Mentor, 42nd AIB-UKI 2015 Conference – International Business Research: For the bookshelf or the board room and corridors of power?, Manchester, UK: Manchester Metropolitan University


Keynotes

  • 2025, Grand Challenges: What are they, how do they interact and how do firms respond?, AIB UK&I and SAMS Workshop, 27 April 2025
  • 2025, Charting Your Course: Navigating the Many Paths of Academic Success, Keynote, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu, Wrocław, Poland, January 15, 2025


Presentations at practitioner and policy conferences and public talks

  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2023), “Digitalisation and Global Village”, United Nations 75 dialogue platform organized by Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2022), “To enclave or not to enclave”, United Nations 75 dialogue platform organized by Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2022), Panelist at “Geopolitical Narratives in the Process of Global (Dis)Ordering” conference, organized by The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2022), “Why is data sharing important?”, CAS/Science Data Bank Webinar (412 Chinese scientists)
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2021), “Contextual analysis of migrant work and migrant entrepreneurship”, United Nations 75 dialogue platform organized by Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom https://www.ntu.ac.uk/c/un751-at-ntu-challenge-of-change
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2021), “Migrant Entrepreneurship: Classifications and Narratives”, presented in Competing Narratives in the Global Disorder debate: Migration and Integration – British Academy Deep Dive
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2020), “Migrant Entrepreneurship: A Multifaceted Phenomenon”, United Nations 75 dialogue platform organized by Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom https://www.ntu.ac.uk/c/un75-at-ntu
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2020), “Covid 19 – climate and sustainability: social and economic effects?”, online panel exploring the Covid 19 landscape from immediate changes to future opportunities, The Sustainability Society, New Zealand
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2017), “The path to resilience: tackling constraints to social enterprise versus encouraging social entrepreneurialism”, Prometheus: Executive Leadership Education for the 3rd Sector conference, University of Manchester, UK
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2016), “Recognizing the fundamental nature of business environments – a constraint-based view. The challenge the 3rd Sector faces in identifying internal organizational constraints”, Prometheus: Executive Leadership Education for the 3rd Sector conference, University of Manchester, UK
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2015), “How to position yourself in the market”, Prometheus: Executive Leadership Education for the 3rd Sector conference, University of Manchester, UK
  • Martikke, Susanne and Noemi Sinkovics (2015), “Skills for Change”, Local Area Research and Intelligence Association (LARIA) conference, Manchester, UK
  • Sinkovics, Noemi (2014), “Community and business development”, KYTA conference, London, UK
  • Sinkovics, Rudolf and Noemi Sinkovics (2014), “How can the Higher Education sector enhance its engagement and contribution to the Social Economy”, Higher Education and the Social Economy, public seminar at the University of Manchester, UK


Conference and Symposium organisation

  • Re-imagining Methodological Training in the International Business Community - An Agenda-Setting Symposium, 2 May 2025 (hosted by AIB UK&I and Newcastle University Business School in collaboration with AIB Research Methods SIG and RRBM), 2 May 2025, Newcastle University Business School
  • 49th AIB UK & Ireland Chapter Conference “International Business and SDG 8 – Are we on course?”, 13 – 15 April 2023, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow (organizing committee: Margaret Fletcher, Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Mehdi Boussebaa)


Grant income

  • 2024, Euro 10,000 Fundación Séneca within their Regional Programme for Mobility, Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange "Jiménez de la Espada” at the Universidad de Murcia.
  • 2023, £ 9,988 British Academy/Leverhulme “Developing firm level management tools for net-zero action” (Co-Investigator)
  • 2022, £ 6,000 Adam Smith Business School Pump-priming fund
  • 2021, NZ$ 9,400 PBRF Strategic Research Support Fund
  • 2020, NZ$ 4,300 PBRF Strategic Research Support Fund
  • 2016, £ 1,000 Manchester Business School Research Support Fund
  • 2015, £ 266,660 Lord Alliance Fund Globalisation and Responsible Production Network (Co-investigator)
  • 2015, £ 16,760 ESRC IAA, Principal investigator (fEC £41,978) “Social and commercial enterprise resilience assessment tool”
  • 2014, £ 5,000 Manchester Business School Research Support Fund “Skills for change in the social enterprise sector”
  • 2013, £ 2,000 seed funding from FairWRC “Exploring voluntary servitude”



Teaching

Courses

  • Advanced Sustainability Management Project, NBS8660 (MSc Sustainability Management, Newcastle University Business School)
  • Advanced Management Practice, NBS8654 (MSc Management, Newcastle University Business School)
  • Research Practice in Management and Business Studies, NBS8561 (PGR, 4 sessions, Newcastle University Business School)
  • Management Inquiry and Analysis, NBS8646 (MSc Management, Newcastle University Business School)
  • Management Research Briefing for Sustainable Organisational Futures, BUS3009 (UG, Newcastle University Business School)
  • Sustainable Management (UG Honors, University of Glasgow)
  • Managing for a Sustainable World (MSc International Business, University of Glasgow)
  • Internationalisation of SMEs (MSc Management, University of Glasgow)
  • Contemporary Themes in Global Management and Innovation (MCom GLMI, University of Auckland)
  • Global and Regional Business (Stage III UG, University of Auckland)
  • Organisational ethics and sustainability (Stage III UG), University of Auckland Business School
  • Research Process (PhD), University of Manchester, UK
  • Frontiers in International Business (MSc IB&M), University of Manchester, UK
  • Responsible Business in a Global Environment (MSc IB&M), University of Manchester, UK
  • Fundamentals of International Business (MSc IB&M), University of Manchester, UK
  • Multinational Management (MSc IB&M), University of Manchester, UK
  • Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis in NVivo (PhD), University of Manchester, UK
  • Advanced Qualitative Data Analysis in NVivo (PhD), University of Manchester, UK


Teaching and learning related presentations and workshops

  • Disciplinary Track Chair for International Business and Management, The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Global Forum 2024
  • Panel and workshop (2023): An agenda for sustainable international business, University of Leeds Business School, 20 November 2023, the recording of the public event can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlVGOP8crtw
  • Panel presentation (2023): Diverse Perspectives on the Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching International Business in a Post-COVID Era, jointly organised by the WAIB and Teaching and Education SIGs of the Academy of International Business
  • Teaching Café (2023 July), Teaching Critical Perspectives in International Business, organised by the Teaching and Education SIG of the Academy of International Business, 5-9 July 2023, Warsaw, Poland
  • Teaching Café (2023 April), (joint initiative AIB Sustainability SIG and AIB Teaching and Education SIG) “Incorporating SDG8 in IB teaching”, AIB UKI Chapter Conference
  • Teaching Café (2022 November) (joint initiative of AIB Teaching and Education SIG and WAIB SIG) “Building belonging through inclusive and authentic pedagogy”, AIB Oceania Chapter conference, Brisbane, Australia
  • Noemi Sinkovics (2020 September 8), “Teaching and learning design in covid 19 times: how to ride two horses at the same time”, Learn, Do, Share seminar series, University of Auckland


Invited Guest Lectures

  • International Management Institute (IMI) Bhubaneshwar: “Managing responsibility in global value chains” (postgraduate course on CSR and sustainable development), India, 2022
  • University of Vienna (2022, April 25): Responsible and sustainable management in global value chains” (MSc International Business)
  • Workshop for DBAs, Applied Qualitative Methods, Fox School of Business, Temple University, USA, 2021
  • Workshop for DBAs, Literature reviews and software tools, Fox School of Business, Temple University, USA, 2020


Teaching grants and funding

  • October 2023, £ 5,000 PGR Opportunities Hub staff-led funding for supporting Early Career Researcher employability
  • December 2022, £ 5,000 PGR Opportunities Hub staff-led funding for developing future leaders
  • April 2016, £ 2,000 Social Responsibility in the Curriculum competition
  • April 2015, £ 2,000 Social Responsibility in the Curriculum competition


Publications