Salma Soliman

Biography

Salma Soliman is an Assistant Professor in Management at Edinburgh Business School. Salma's research interests centre on extending institutional theory to emerging market contexts for new insights into Grand Challenges (e.g. refugee crisis, digitization, and sustainable development) and her work is published in reputable journals, e.g. Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of International Management. Before joining academia, she worked in management consulting in the UK. Salma joined Heriot-Watt University, Dubai from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Research interest:

• Digitalization
• Entrepreneurship
• Institutional theory
• Emerging Markets of the Middle East

Academic leadership and affiliations:

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.
• Program lead on the Academy of International Business (AIB) Digitalization Shared Interest Group
• Co-Investigator of the ‘Global Responsible AI Lab’, Edinburgh Business School

Qualifications:

• Post-graduate Certificate for Higher Education, Middlesex University, London
• PhD, Public policy & Human capital development (awarded a full scholarship by Middlesex University, London)
• MSc. Research Methods in Business and Management (Merit) (awarded a Masters scholarship by Middlesex University, London)
• B.A. Marketing and International Business (First class honours), MSA & Middlesex University, Egypt & UK
• Mandarin Chinese, Hua Hsia Chinese School, London

Publications:

Journals & Books:

• Soliman, S., Keles, J. and Fattouh, N., 2023. Refugee entrepreneurship and institutional voids: The case of Syrian refugees in Egypt. Academy of Management Discoveries, https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amd.2020.0200
• Soliman, S., Papanastassiou, M. and Saka-Helmhout, A., 2023. The role of subsidiaries in Global Value Chains (GVCs): An institutional voids perspective on LVC upgrading and integration. Journal of International Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2022.101003
• Soliman, S. 2023. Beyond neoliberal terrains: A historical institutional perspective to Vocational Education and Training development in Egypt, Journal of Vocational Education and Training, https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2023.2258496
• Soliman, S. 2017. Food security and ineffective VET: Exploring the links in the Egyptian case. In Mergos, G. and Papanastassiou, M. (Ed.) Food Security and Sustainability: Investment and Financing along Agro-Food Chains. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Selected conference papers:

• Soliman, S.; Gooderham, P. (2023) MNE Responses to Institutional Voids: The Case of International Hotel Chains in Emerging Markets, Academy of International Business, Warsaw.
• Soliman, S.; Papanastasiou, M.; Saka-Helmhout (2018) The Integration of Egyptian Small Farmers into Agro-Food Global Value Chains: The Role of MNEs in Egyptian Agribusiness, the Case of Heinz, The Academy of Management, Chicago.