Joshua Ault
Assistant Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Joshua K. Ault is an assistant professor in the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. He holds a Ph.D. in international business from the University of South Carolinas Moore School of Business. Prior to joining the Thunderbird faculty, he taught at the University of Victoria in Canada, where he was the research co-chair for the Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation.
His areas of specialization include international strategy, international entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and emerging and developing countries. More specifically, he studies how national differences in state fragility influence managers ability to transfer promising business models across the developing world to reach global scale. He also explores specific strategies that managers can adopt to deal with fragile states in order to improve the likelihood of a successful transfer. Ault has published articles on these topics in some of the worlds top business journals, including Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, and the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
Ault has taught international business, global strategy, social issues in management, and international entrepreneurship at the undergraduate, master, and doctoral levels. He has also taught in numerous executive programs, including the University of Victorias International Summer Institute for Business Managers, the University of Victorias Summer Graduate Business Studies, and the National Sun Yat-Sen Universitys Summer Management Program.
His research, teaching, and service have won numerous awards, including the Academy of International Business (Southeast Chapter) Best Non-Thematic Paper Award; the Academy of International Business Best Reviewer Award; the University of Victoria Award for Highest Performing Faculty Members; the University of Victorias Student Choice Award for Best Instructor; the Moore School of Business Promising Researcher Award; the Moore School of Business Outstanding PhD Student Fellowship; and the Ivey PhD Sustainability Academy Best Paper Prize.
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Ph.D. International Business, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
Videos
What is the role of business in the fight against Poverty? Josh Ault at TEDxUVic
Thunderbird Professor Joshua Ault COVID-19 FOX Interview
Citizen's Forum Interviews Joshua Ault discuss microfinancing
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