Dr. Theodore A. Khoury is a Professor of Management & Strategy at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon and is a Visiting Professor at Vlerick Business School in Belgium. He holds a Ph.D. in International Management Studies from the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, a B.S.E. from the University of Michigan and an M.S.E. from the University of Texas at Austin, both in mechanical engineering, and an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
His research focuses on the role of institutions and social forces within entrepreneurship and innovation processes. With the motivation to understand how entrepreneurship can contribute to the relief of societal challenges, he explores how legal and political systems and social and cultural institutions enable or constrain entrepreneurial actors within developing countries, refugee/diaspora situations, and nascent market environments. His work has been published in Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Perspectives, Research Policy, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of World Business, Business & Society, and Management Decision.
He teaches strategy and social innovation courses that involve students doing outreach within communities to support various governmental, non-profit, non-governmental, and entrepreneurial organizations. Currently, he is conducting studies of early-stage entrepreneurship in North Africa, refugee camps, developing country incubators, and through social movements and grassroots organizations.
He has consulted on projects for the European Commission on the development of entrepreneurship interventions and entrepreneurship education policy reform throughout the Middle East (Lebanon, Palestine) and North Africa (Tunisia, Morocco) and has also supported the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in programs to support African diaspora entrepreneurship. Further, he supports humanitarian and development-based NGOs through training workshops on intervention/program design and implementation.
Prior to pursuing his doctorate, he worked for over 12 years in the area of micro-nanotechnology development in various senior management and consulting roles related to research and innovation strategies and is the inventor of 42 U.S. patents and over 70 patents issued in other countries.
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