Sheila Puffer

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1985
MBA, University of Ottawa, 1979
Walsh Research Professor and Cherry Family Senior Fellow of International Business, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
617.373.5249  
spuffer@comcast.net

Research Interests
Russian business and management

Current Projects
Russian multinationals and Russian entrepreneurships

Selected Publications
McCarthy, Daniel J., Puffer, Sheila M., and Vikhanski, Oleg V. "Russian multinationals: Natural resource champions." In Ravi Ramamurti and Jitendra Singh (eds.), Emerging Multinationals from Emerging Economies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming, 2008.

McCarthy, Daniel J., and Puffer, Sheila M. "Interpreting the ethicality of corporate governance decisions in Russia: Utilizing integrative social contracts theory to evaluate the relevance of agency theory norms." Academy of Management Review, January 2008, 33 (1), 11-31.

Puffer, Sheila M., and McCarthy, Daniel J. "Can Russia’s state-managed, network capitalism be competitive?: Institutional pull versus institutional push." Journal of World Business, 2007, 42 (1), 1-13.

McCarthy, Daniel J., Puffer, Sheila M., and Shekshnia, Stanislav V. (eds.) Corporate Governance in Russia. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, US: Edward Elgar, 2004.

Puffer, Sheila M., McCarthy, Daniel J., and Naumov, Alexander I. The Russian Capitalist Experiment: From State-Owned Organizations to Entrepreneurships. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, US: Edward Elgar, 2000.