Tatiana Kostova

Tatiana Kostova holds the Buck Mickel Chair and serves as Carolina Distinguished Professor of International Business at the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business. With over 27,000 citations, her research examines multinational corporation management, institutional embeddedness, knowledge transfer, and corporate governance.

Kostova's influential contributions include:Theoretical frameworks for institutional distance and MNC legitimacyMicro-macro models of social capital formationContextualized agency problems in headquarters-subsidiary relations

Recent work explores CSR implementation in emerging market MNEs, sustainability governance in global supply chains, and family firm performance under varying institutional conditions.

Honors include the Academy of Management's Hyundai Eminent Scholar Award, AIB Fellowship, and recognition among the top 1% of business/economics researchers worldwide. She has editorial roles at AMJ, AMR, JIBS, and JMS.