
Dr. Frances Fabian joined vlog in 2008. Her work stresses knowledge and information and the business environment, which is applied across strategy, entrepreneurship, international business and human resources. She serves as the MBA Program Director for FCBE.
Dr. Fabian serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. She teaches the MBA capstone and will teach AI Strategy starting Spring 2027.
Dr. Fabian concentrates on strategic decision making. This interest has led to research on the industry environment, and the nature of information, knowledge and wisdom for organizations.
Recent work has incorporated complexity theory to describe and depict the nonlinearities of modern decision-making environments.
Dr. Fabian has published articles in several leading journals including Journal of International Business Policy, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of World Business. She has taught in strategy, entrepreneurship and international management, and in recent years has participated in the African Academy of Management with recent PhD students and long-loved coauthors.
Recent Publications
- Datta, A. & Fabian, F. Online first. FDI Resilience During Global Polarization: MNE
Location Choice and Uneven Impacts on Low-Income Countries. Journal of International Management. Online at ;
- Jorgensen, D. Fabian, F., Leonel, R., Schill, R. & Innis, B. 2026. Threat, Mortality,
and Rigidity: How Terror Management and Threat Rigidity Shaped Small Business Responses
to the COVID-19 Crisis. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship.
- Fabian, F., Plečnik, J. & Wang, S. 2026. Diversity Matters: Overcoming the Friction
of Different Functional Backgrounds. California Management Review, 08 Apr 2026
- Fabian, F., Plečnik, J. & Wang, S. 2025. When does top management team diversity matter
in large organizations? Journal of Organizational Behavior,
- Aissaoui, R., Norbert, S. & Fabian, F. 2025. A culturally contingent view of the RBV
in SMEs Internationalization. Online first, Journal of International Management.
- Renn, R., Preston, F., Fabian, F., & Steinbauer, R. 2024. A definition and process model of employee work habits. Human Resource Management Review. 34 (2)
- Montague-Mfuni, M., Fabian, F., & Scheepers, C. B. 2023. Advancing Technological Hub Cooperation to Advance Transnational African Communities. In Swartz, E., Scheepers, C.B., Lindgreen, A., Yousafzai, S., & Matthee, M. Technology Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa: Digital Transformation and Opportunity for the Next Growth Continent. Edward Elgar, London. ISBN: 978-1-80037-038-8.
- Clampit, J., Gaffney, N., Fabian, F. and Stafford, T. 2023. Institutional misalignment
and escape-based FDI: A prospect theory lens. International Business Review, 32,(3).
- Aissaoui, R. and Fabian, F. 2022. Globalization, economic development, and corruption: A cross-lagged contingency perspective. Journal of International Business Policy, 5:1-28
- Reddy, R. and Fabian, F. 2020. Information Asymmetry and Host Country Institutions in Cross-Border Acquisitions. Management International Review, 60, 909-938.
- Kang, T., James, S. and Fabian, F. 2020. Real options and strategic bankruptcy. Journal of Business Research, 117:152-162.
- Trusty, J., Allen, D.A., and Fabian, F. 2019. Hunting while Working: An Expanded
Model of Employed Job Search. Human Resource Management Review. 29 (1) 28-42. DOI:
Selected Research
- Ndofor, H., Fabian, F, and Michel, J. 2018. Chaos in Industry Environments. IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management. DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2017.2787860
- Aissaoui, R. and Fabian, F. 2015. The French Paradox: Implications for variations in global convergence. Journal of International Management. 21 (1): 31-48.
- Clampit, J., Kedia, B. Fabian, F. and Gaffney, N. 2015. Offshoring satisfaction: The role of partnership credibility and cultural complementarity. Journal of World Business, 50 (1): 79-93.
- Steinbauer, R., Rhew, N., Kinnamon, E. and Fabian, F. 2014. The Conflicting Drivers of Entrepreneurial Ethics, Journal of Ethics & Entrepreneurship 4 (1) 57-72.
- Wakolbinger, T., Fabian, F., Kettinger, W.J. forthcoming. IT-enabled Interorganizational Information Sharing Under Co-opetition in Disasters: A Game-Theoretic Framework. Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
- Bryant, P., Fabian, F., Kinnamon, E. and Wright, P. 2012. Tailoring Entrepreneurship Education: Exploring Components of Entrepreneurship Education for Underrepresented Groups. Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, 23 (2): 1-24.
- Fabian, F.H., Molina, H., and Labianca, G. 2009. Understanding Decisions to Internationalize by Small- and Medium-Sized Firms in an Emerging Market. Management International Review. 49, (5): 537-564.
- Miller, K., Fabian, F.H., and Lin, S-J. 2009. Strategies for Online Communities, Strategic Management Journal, 30 (3): 305-322.
- Fabian, F.H. and Dhillon, G. 2007. Losing Managerial Discretion: The Unexplored Risk
of Collaborative Information Sharing. Journal of Information Science and Technology, 4 (1): 50-62.
- Black, J.A., Hinrichs, K. and Fabian, F.H. 2007. Fractals of Strategic Coherence. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 17 (4): 421-442.
- Dhillon, G. and Fabian, F.H. 2005. A Fractal Perspective on Competencies Necessary for Managing Information Systems. International Journal of Technology Management, 31 (1/2): 129-139.
- Black, J., Fabian, F.H. and Hinrichs, K. 2005. Fractals, Stories and the Development of Coherence in Strategic Logic. Competence-Based Strategic Management Applications 7: 421-441, Elsevier.
- Golden, B.R., Dukerich, J.M. and Fabian, F.H. 2000. Issue Interpretation on the Resolution of Ethical Dilemmas in Professional Organizations. Journal of Management Studies, 8 (37): 1157-1187.
- Fabian, F.H., 2000. Keeping the Tension: Pressures to Keep the Controversy in the Management Discipline. Academy of Management Review, 24 (2): 350-371.
- Black, J. and Fabian, F.H. 2000. Fractals, Nested Resources and Competence Based Competition. In Theory Development for Competence-Based Strategic Management, JAI Press series of Advances in Applied Business Strategy Series, 1-30, John Wiley and Sons.
- ogilvie, d., and Fabian, F.H. 1999. Decision Making Requirements for Future Organizational Leaders. In J. Hunt (Ed.) Leadership Challenges of the Twenty-First Century Army, 63-89, JAI Press.
- ogilvie, d., and Hauge, F.H. 1998. Strategic Decision Making in the 21st Century Army: A Creative Action-Based Approach. In Stephen J. Havlovic (Ed.) Fifty-eight Annual Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, San Diego, CA, 1-7.
- Ashmos, D.P., Duchon, D., Hauge, F.H. and McDaniel, R.R. 1997. The Nature of Internal Complexity in Unusual Organizations: A Study of Environmentally Sensitive and Insensitive Hospitals. Hospital and Health Services Administration Journal, 41 (4): 535-55.
