Associate Professor
Filip De Beule
Universities & Institutions
- KU Leuven
Areas of Expertise
- Internationalisation
- Social entrepreneurship
- Innovation
- Developing economies
Biography
Filip De Beule is a Professor of International Business with the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven. He is a senior member of the Leuven Center for Global Governance Studies, and board member of both the KU Leuven Centre for Russian Studies and the Flanders Business School. He was academic secretary of the Western European Chapter of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and board member of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) for ten years, where he served as national representative for Belgium.
He focuses his research on internationalisation, international and social entrepreneurship, innovation and developing economies. He was a research fellow at the China Europe Management Center and an Erasmus Mundus scholar at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He has won several AIB and EIBA best paper awards, and has edited several books on globalisation, innovation and multinationals. His research has been published in the Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, European Management Journal, Journal of Economic and Social Geography, Transnational Corporations Journal, International Business Review and Management International Review, among others.