Andreea N. Kiss

Andreea Kiss is associate professor in the management department and director of the entrepreneurship minor program at Lehigh University. Prior to joining Lehigh University she was a tenured associate professor of management at Iowa State University and assistant professor of global economics and management at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Andreea’s research is situated at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategy, and international business and is focused on understanding how firms, in particular new firms, adapt to dynamic and uncertain environments. She often takes a social-cognitive perspective in her research and is primarily interested in the role of founders and CEOs in processes of firm adaptation. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Strategic Management Journal among others.

Andreea’s research, teaching, and reviewing activities were rewarded with several awards including the Academy of Management Best Conference Paper Award (HKUST Award for Best Paper in International Management), Academy of International Business CEE Chapter Best Paper Award, the BSG Master Professor Teaching Award, the Matthew A. Melone Faculty Award and the Journal of World Business Best Reviewer Award. In 2022, Andreea was selected as one of the Best 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants.

Prior to joining academia Andreea worked for new ventures and established firms that operate in the tourism industry, financial and educational services, and the medical equipment industry in both Europe and the U.S.

Education

• Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, B.A.
• Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, M.A.
• Georgia State University, Ph.D.

Research Interests

• New venture strategic adaptation 
• Managerial/Entrepreneurial cognition 
• Firm innovation 
• New and small firm internationalization 
• Emerging economies

• Kiss, A.N, Yu, Q., Neville, F. Ward, A. Breaking through? The divergent impact of CEO political ideology on firm breakthrough inventions. Journal of Management (forthcoming).
• Snihur, Y., Zott, C. Kiss, A.N. Incumbent response to business model innovation: The role of CEO opportunity framing. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (forthcoming).
• Cortes, A. F., & Kiss, A. N. (2023). Is managerial discretion high in small firms? A theoretical framework. Small Business Economics, 60(1), 157-172.
• Kiss, A.N., Cortes A. F, and Herrmann, P. (2022) CEO proactiveness, innovation, and firm performance: The Leadership Quarterly – special issue on Strategic Leadership and Strategic Management, 33(3). 
• Kiss A.N., Libaers, D., Barr, P.S Tang, W. Zachary, M. (2020). CEO cognitive flexibility, information search, and organizational ambidexterity: Strategic Management Journal 41(12), 2200-2233.
• Kiss A. N., Danis, W. M., and Nair, S., Suddaby, R (2020). Accidental tourists? A cognitively anchored exploration of serendipitous foreign market entries: International Small Business Journal 38(2), 65-89.
• Kiss, A. N., Fernhaber, S., McDougall-Covin, P. (2018). Slack, innovation, and export intensity: Implications for SMEs. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 42(5), 671-697
• Kiss, A. N., Barr, P. S. (2015).  New venture strategic adaptation: The interplay of belief structures and industry context. Strategic Management Journal, 36(8), 1245-1263.
• Kiss, A. N., Barr, P. S. (2017). New product development strategy implementation duration and new venture performance: A contingency perspective. Journal of Management 43(4), 1185-1210.
• Kiss, A. N., Williams, D.W., Houghton, S. M (2013). Risk bias and the link between motivation and new venture post-entry international growth. International Business Review, 22(6), 1068-1078.
• Kiss, A. N., Danis W. M., Cavusgil, S. T. (2012). International entrepreneurship research in emerging economies: A critical review and research agenda. Journal of Business Venturing, 27(2), 266-290.
• Kiss, A. N., Danis, W. M. (2010). Network composition and speed of new venture internationalization during economic transition: A theoretical model. The Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 8(3), 273-287.
• Kiss, A. N., Danis, W. M. (2008). Country institutional context, social networks and new venture internationalization speed. European Management Journal, Special Issue on International Entrepreneurship, 26(6), 388-399.