Liliana Pérez-Nordtvedt, Ph.D.

Liliana Pérez-Nordtvedt is a Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Texas at Arlington. Before joining UTA, Dr. Pérez-Nordtvedt worked as a research assistant in the Robert Wang Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at The University of Memphis, where she received her Ph.D.  Dr. Pérez-Nordtvedt also has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and an M.B.A. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her research appears in a number of academic and practitioner journals including Organization Science, Strategic Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Human Resource Management, Management International Review, Journal of International Management, Management International Review, International Business Review, Group & Organization Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Business Horizons, Journal of Global Business Research and Competitiveness Review. She has published book chapters in the Handbook of International Management Research (B.J. Punnett and Oded Shenkar, eds.) and Multinational Corporations and Global Poverty Reduction (S. Jain, ed.).  Dr. Pérez-Nordtvedt has also presented a number of articles at the national meetings of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business and the American Society for Competitiveness. She is the President of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Chapter 300 at UTA and a member of the Honor Society of Beta Gamma Sigma, where she served Chapter Advisor at UTA.  Dr. Pérez-Nordtvedt has been invited to present her work at The University of Texas at Dallas and The University of Missouri, and Umm Al-Qura University, Effat University and University of Business and Technology in Jedah, Saudi Arabia. She has also served as a contributor to Fox Morning News, Telemundo Dallas and Univision 23. Dr. Nordtvedt has served as a panelist for the LATINA Style Business Series and The Pacific Alliance Business Forum.  In 2015, she was named Ford’s 2015 Mujer Legendaria. Her research interests include organizational entrainment, temporal strategies, multinational organizational learning and knowledge transfer, innovation and entrepreneurship.