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Associate Professor Meena Chavan Macquarie University

Macquarie University

Research areas: Business, Management and Accounting · Management of Technology and Innovation · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · International Business and FDI

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Meena Chavan is an Associate Professor of International Business and Entrepreneurship and Program Director of the Master of Research (Management) at Macquarie Business School, Sydney, Australia. Her internationally recognised research and academic leadership across international business, entrepreneurship and sustainability contributes to interdisciplinary solutions for global issues. She is a member of the Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Research Centre, Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence and Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre at Macquarie University. Meena is a carbon-literate, economic anthropologist who studies how diverse people produce, distribute,trade, consume, and exchange goods and services within their cultural, historical, and geographical contexts. She seeks to understand the social cause and effect of various economic phenomena to understand how entrepreneurs from immigrant, refugee, women and Indigenous communities make their lives meaningful.

She brings a strong industry background to her academic role, having previously worked as a merger and acquisition analyst and auditor with KPMG and Ernst & Young. Her international academic experience includes research fellowships at EMLV – École de Commerce et de Management à Paris, France, an internationally accredited Grande École at the Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci, and at the University of Hamburg, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Germany.

Meena is an active and methodologically pluralist researcher, employing both qualitative and quantitative research designs at the intersection of international business and entrepreneurship. Her International Business research focuses on the interface between international business, entrepreneurship, government–MNE strategy, and broader societal issues, with particular attention to how macro, meso, and micro level factors interact within institutional contexts to shape firm strategies and outcomes.

Her research has been published in leading international journals, including Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of World Business, Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of International Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, International Business Review, Business Strategy and the Environment, Technovation, International Marketing Review, Habitat International, and International Journal of Intercultural Relations, among others.

She is also the author and editor of four scholarly books :

Intercultural Management in Practice: Learning to Lead Diverse Global Organisations, Emerald Publications, 2021,
Exploring the Economic Opportunities and Impacts of Migrant Entrepreneurship: Success Stories and Case Studies IGI Global, 2022,
Indigenous women entrepreneurs in Australia--shooting for the stars: stories of culture, resilience and success. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2025,
Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Asian Region- Building Sustainable and Responsible business Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2025.
Meena serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of International Management, Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, and the European Journal of International Management. She has also served as Editor for a special issue on “Underdog Entrepreneurs” in the Journal of Business Research and in the Journal Entrepreneurship & Regional Development - An International Journal, "Deciphering Indigenous Entrepreneurship: A Global Driver of Sustainable Regional Development". In addition, she has successfully delivered and implemented eleven complex, interdisciplinary international and domestic research and consultancy projects in collaboration with Australian and international governments, academic institutions, governmental agencies, and industry partners. She is a member of the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business and has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for sustained leadership in experiential and work-integrated learning in International Business. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), she has demonstrated sustained excellence in higher degree research supervision, with over a decade-long record as principal supervisor of ten doctoral completions and several honours and Master of Research theses.

Her scholarly contributions have also been recognised through six Best Paper Awards at leading international conferences, including the Academy of Management (INDAM, 2023; AoM, 2017), EURAM (2016), ANZAM (2015), IHRM (2015), and ICSB (2005).

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