Dimitri joined KEDGE Business School following a distinguished 23-year career in the UK at Hull, Manchester Metropolitan, Lincoln, and Sunderland Universities along with several international visiting professorships in Austria, Denmark, France, and Colombia. His research focuses on the interface between local and global business. In particular, he is interested in clusters and regions; internationalization (especially SMEs) and FDI/M&A; multi-level governance and policy, firms and institutions, growth and competitiveness, productivity and wealth; innovation and entrepreneurship, microfinance, organizational excellence, knowledge and sustainability, workforce diversity and firm performance, systems theory and research methodology.