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April 1, 2022

AHMED, Kashif
Email: k_ahmed@rieb.kobe-u.ac.jp
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
Kobe University, Japan
Doctoral Degree—Major: International business

April 2018 – March 2021 (graduated)

Kobe University, Japan
Master’s Degree—Major: International business

April 2016 – March 2018 (graduated)

Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
September 2011 – July 2012 (graduated)
School of International Liberal Studies—Undergraduate Exchange Student
Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Bachelor of Science (Honors)—Major: Accounting and Finance

August 2009 – May 2013 (graduated)

WORK HISTORY
Part-time Jobs
Part-time lecturer
April 2022 – September 2022
College Of Business Administration, Ritsumeikan University
Part-time lecturer
April 2022 – March 2023
Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Tutor
September 2021 – March 2022
College of Global Liberal Arts, Ritsumeikan University
Part-time lecturer
April 2021 – September 2021
Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Tutor
September 2020 – March 2021
College of Global Liberal Arts, Ritsumeikan University
Teaching AssistantApril 01, 2017 – March 2021
Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University
Research AssistantAugust 03, 2020 – August 31, 2020
Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe UniversityFull-time Job
Academic Researcher
December 16, 2021 – Present
Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University
Trainer and Marketing Executive
June, 2013 – Feb, 2015
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Internship
Ernst & Young—Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder (Audit Department)

June 13, 2011 – July 26, 2011

RESEARCH FIELD KEYWORDS
International business; mergers and acquisitions; cross-border acquisitions; business strategy; emerging
country multinationals; developed country multinationals; institutional distance; acquisition premium
MEMBERSHIP AND AWARDS• I am a member of Japan Academy of the Business Administration (JABA).
• I received the Best Paper Award at Conference on Interdisciplinary Business and Economics Research(CIBER), Osaka, 4th - 5th July 2019, organized by The Society of Interdisciplinary Business Research(SIBR), for the research article entitled “Effect of disaggregated formal institutional distance variableson the choice of partial versus full acquisitions”.
• I received the Outstanding Paper Award for the paper “Formal institutional uncertainty and equity
sought on foreign market entry: Does industry matter?” published in “Review of International
Business and Strategy” at 2021 Literati Award by Emerald Publishing.
LIST OF RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS
Forthcoming publication
Ahmed, K., & Bebenroth, R. (forthcoming). Do company size and strategy matter in the choice of partial
or full acquisitions? Journal for Global Business Advancement.
• List of forthcoming papers in this journal can be seen at the following link:o https://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/forthcoming.php?jcode=jgba• It is a peer-reviewed paper
Publications
Umer, H., Ahmed, K., & Jadoon, M. N. (2021). Individual Investments Biased by the Size of a Foreign
Investor: An Experimental Study. Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies, 12(1), 27-50.
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https://doi.org/10.15388/omee.2021.12.46
It is a peer-reviewed paper

Bebenroth, R., & Ahmed, K., (2021). Japanese Firms’ Overpayments for Cross-border Acquisitions.
International Finance.
• https://doi.org/10.1111/infi.12387• It is a peer-reviewed paper
Ahmed, K., Bebenroth, R., & Hennart, J.F. (2020a). Formal institutional uncertainty and equity sought onforeign market entry: Does industry matter? Review of International Business and Strategy, 30(3),421-440.
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https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-01-2020-0005
It is a peer-reviewed paper

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Ahmed, K., & Bebenroth, R. (2020). Strategy impact on the choice of partial versus full acquisitions.
International Journal of Management Practice, 13(4), 373-400.
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https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMP.2020.10029575
It is a peer-reviewed paper

Ahmed, K., & Bebenroth, R. (2019a). Acquisition behavior of emerging versus developed market
multinationals. Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies, 10(1), 9-30.
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https://doi.org/10.15388/omee.2019.10.00001
It is a peer-reviewed paper

Chen, F., Ahmed, K., & Bebenroth, R. (2020). Chinese Cross-Border Acquisition Strategies in Japan –Changing from a Resource-Driven to a Market-Driven. Organizations and Markets in Emerging
Economies, 11(1), 35-54.
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https://doi.org/10.15388/omee.2020.11.22
It is a peer-reviewed paper

Discussion paper
Ahmed, K., Bebenroth, R., & Hennart, J.F. (2020b). Formal institutional uncertainty and equity sought onforeign market entry: Does industry matter? Discussion Paper Series, RIEB, Kobe University, DP202003, 421-440.
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https://www.rieb.kobe-u.ac.jp/academic/ra/dp/English/DP2020-03.pdf
It is not a peer-reviewed paper. However, an updated version of this paper was published in“Review of International Business and Strategy” after the peer-review process. Please refer toAhmed, Bebenroth, & Hennart (2020a) above.

Conference paper
Ahmed, K., & Bebenroth, R. (2019b). “Effect of disaggregated formal institutional distance variables on
the choice of partial versus full acquisitions", presented in English language at Conference on
Interdisciplinary Business and Economics Research (CIBER), Osaka, 4th - 5th July 2019, organized by
The Society of Interdisciplinary Business Research (SIBR).
• It is a peer-reviewed paperBook review
Ahmed, K. (2019). Japanese outbound acquisitions: explaining what works. Asia Pacific Business Review,25 (3), 450-454.
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2019.1614374
It is a peer-reviewed publication