Sokol Celo, PhD

Biography

Professor Celo teaches various international business courses both at undergraduate and graduate level as well as Strategic Management and Global Innovation. His research has been published in the leading management and international business journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Management, Business History, and Socio-Economic Review. His current research focuses on modeling multinational corporations as complex adaptive systems and applying simulation methods to answer questions about the effects of structure and internal and external complexity on performance. Professor Celo’s areas of expertise include also international location decisions, cognition and managerial decision making, and institutions and institutional change. He is a member of the Academy of International Business.

Publications

Recent Intellectual Contributions

Celo, S., & Lehrer, M. 2025. Orchestrating Decentralized Evolution: Multinational Corporations as Complex Adaptive Systems. AIB Insights.

Celo, S., Lehrer, M., & Zinoviev, D. 2024. Modeling serendipity in opportunity search by born-global firms: Performance implications from a computer simulation of evolutionary drift using NKC methodology. International Business Review, 102361.

Celo, S., & Newburry, W. 2024. Mental Models and Cognitive Frames in International Business. AIB Insights, 24(4).