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Biography
Christian Felzensztein holds the David D. Reh Family Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership. His experience includes work with private-elite business schools and start-ups in Europe. Previously he was the Dean's Chair in Strategy at Massey University in New Zealand, leading new research and internationalization; founding-director of the Global Entrepreneurship Development Centre at Kingston University in London UK; founder-director of the Research Center for International Competitiveness at Universidad Adolfo Iba帽ez (UAI) in Latin America; head of a Graduate Business School in Chile and founder of two consultancy firms.
His research is multidisciplinary having practical impact for managers and policy makers. He has done expert work on internationalization and strategy for the European Parliament in Brussels, The Centre for Strategy & Evaluation Services in London and has advised start-ups, universities and incubators in diverse countries.
His 95+ plus publications appear in journals like Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Long Range Planning, International Business Review, Journal of Strategic Marketing, Journal of Small Business Management, and Journal of Business Research, among many others.
Felzensztein's received his Ph.D. in marketing/entrepreneurship and M.Sc. in international marketing from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, his MBA and B.S. in business & economics from Universidad Austral, a postgraduate diploma in economic development & entrepreneurship from Weitz Center for Development Studies in Israel, and the executive leadership program at the Sa茂d Business School, University of Oxford.
Research Interests
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Industry clusters
- Internationalization of small firms
- Family businesses
- Emerging economies
- Latin America
Publications
- Felzensztein, C., Bagheri, A. and Lechner, C., (2025) A Research Agenda for Startups鈥 Scale-up, Scale-down and Re- scaling Strategies, Edward Elgar,
USA. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/a-research-agenda-for-startups-scale-up-scale-down-and-re-scaling-strategies-9781035344567.html - Felzensztein, C., Venter, R., Salloum, C. (2025) 鈥淩esilient informality and the role of family support in township entrepreneurship鈥. International
Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 1-2 https://www.emerald.com/ijebr/article-abstract/doi/10.1108/IJEBR-03-2025-0266/1269930/Resilient-informality-and-the-role-of-family - Magrez, I. and Felzensztein (2025) 鈥淚mplementing coopetition within small firms in emerging economies鈥 in Handbook on Coopetition. De Gruyter
Business and Economics, Boston. - Xu, R. and Felzensztein, C. (2025) 鈥淗ow and when does *coopetition *affect innovation in industrial clusters? the role of firm agility and government
intervention鈥. SSRN http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4730519 - Felzensztein, C. and Xu, R. (2025) "Do conflicts in cooperation matter to open innovation? A study of industrial clusters in China", Journal of Business Research, Vol 196, 2025, 115427,
- Felzensztein, C., Tretiakov, A., & Velez-Ocampo, J. F. (2024) "Parentalistic leadership and crisis responses by small entrepreneurial firms", Small Enterprise Research, 31(2), 198鈥216
- Felzensztein, C. and Bagheri, A. (2024), "Start-ups鈥 scaling-up strategies at the regional periphery", International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-05-2023-0507
- Xu, R., Zhu, X., Wang, Y., Gu, J. and Felzensztein, C. (2024), "Inter-firm coopetition and innovation in industrial clusters: the role of institutional support", Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 39 No. 4, pp. 832-856.
- Felzensztein, C. and Fuerst, S. (2023) A Research Agenda for International Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar, UK
- Xu, Zhu, Wang, Gu, Felzensztein, C. (2023) 鈥淚nter-firm coopetition and innovation in industrial clusters: The role of institutional support' Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (forthcoming).
- and . (2023) "Technology adaptation: micro new ventures in a COVID-19 lockdown",, Vol. 29 No. 4, pp. 1007-1026.
- Felzensztein, C., Crick, D., Gonzalez, M, Jurado, T., Etchebarne, M. (2022) 鈥淐apabilities and the internationalisation of smaller-sized, service-oriented firms in the southern hemisphere鈥, Journal of Strategic Marketing, 533-561, DOI:
- Mika, J., Felzensztein, C., Tretiakov, A., & Macpherson, W. (2022). Indigenous entrepreneurial ecosystems: A comparison of Mapuche entrepreneurship in Chile and M膩ori entrepreneurship in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Management & Organization, 1-19.
- Felzensztein, C. and Gimmon, E. (2021), "Facilitating entrepreneurship in the failing Cuban economic model?" Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
- Felzensztein, C., Saridakis, G., Idris, B., Elizondo, G. (2021) 鈥淒o economic freedom, business experience, and firm size affect internationalization speed? Evidence from small firms in Chile, Colombia, and Peru鈥 Journal of International Entrepreneurship,
- Gimmon, E. and Felzensztein, C. (2021) 鈥淭he emergence of family entrepreneurship in the transition economy of Cuba鈥, International Journal of Emerging Economies,
- Macpherson, W., Tretiakov, A., Mika, J., Felzensztein, C. (2021) 鈥淚ndigenous entrepreneurship: Insights from Chile and New Zealand鈥, Journal of Business Research, 127, 77鈥84
- Felzensztein, C., Crick, D., Gonzalez, M, Jurado, T., Etchebarne, M. (2020) 鈥淐apabilities and the internationalisation of smaller-sized, service-oriented firms in the southern hemisphere鈥, Journal of Strategic Marketing,
- Tretiakov, A., Felzensztein, C. Mika, J. and Mcpherson, W. (2020) 鈥淔amily, community and globalization: entrepreneurs as n-cultural", Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, 1-22
- Pino, C., Felzensztein, C., Chetty, S. (2019) 鈥淚nstitutional knowledge in Latin American SMEs鈥, Journal of Small Business Management,
- Brache, J. and Felzensztein, C. (2019) 鈥淓xporting firm's engagement with trade associations鈥, International Business Review, 28(1), 25
- Felzensztein, C. Deans, K. and Dana, L. (2019) 鈥淪mall firms in regional clusters: Local networks for internationalization in the southern hemisphere鈥, Journal of Small Business Management, 57(2), 496-516
- Brache, J. and Felzensztein, C. (2019) 鈥淕eographical co-location and SME麓s export performance鈥, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 105, 310-321
- Felzensztein, C. and Fuerst, S. (2018) 鈥淓ntrepreneurship and SMEs internationalization in Latin America鈥, Academia, 31(4), 626-632
- Felzensztein, C. Gimmon, E., Deans, K. (2018) 鈥淐oopetition in regional clusters: Keep calm and expect unexpected changes鈥 Industrial Marketing Management, 69, 116-124
- Nicholson, J., Gimmon, E., & Felzensztein, C. (2017) 鈥淓conomic geography and business networks: Creating a dialogue between disciplines鈥, Industrial Marketing Management. 61, 4-9
- Geldes, C., Felzensztein, C., Palacios, J. (2017) 鈥淭echnological and non-technological innovations for propensity to innovate: The case of an emerging economy鈥, Industrial Marketing Management. 61, 55-66
- Geldes, C. Heredia, J and Felzensztein, C. (2017) 鈥淧roximity as determinant of business cooperation for technological and non-technological innovations鈥 Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 32, 167-178
- Pino, C., Felzensztein, C. Zwerg, Arias, L. (2016) 鈥淣on-technological innovations: Market performance of exporting firms in South America鈥, Journal of Business Research 69, pp. 4385鈥4393
- Felzensztein, C. (2016) 鈥淚nternational entrepreneurship in and from emerging economies鈥 Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Vol 14, No1, pp. 5-7
- Amoros, Etchebarne, Torres, Felzensztein, C. (2016) 鈥淚nternational entrepreneurial firms in Chile鈥, Journal of Business Research, Vol 69, Issue 6, pp. 2052-2060
- Felzensztein, C., Ciravegna, L., Robson, P., Amor贸s, E (2015). 鈥淭he international strategy of Latin American SMEs: the effects of networks and entrepreneurship orientation鈥, Journal of Small Business Management, 53, S1, p. 145鈥160
- Little, C., Felzensztein, C., Gimmon, E., Mu帽oz, P. (2015) 鈥淭he business management of the salmon farming industry鈥, Marine Policy, Vol. 54, pp. 108鈥117
- Geldes, C., Felzensztein, C., Turkina, E., Durand, A. (2015) 鈥淗ow does proximity affect marketing cooperation? A study of clusters in emerging economies鈥, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 68, Issue 2, pp. 263鈥272
- Felzensztein, C., Stringer, C., Benson-Rea, M., Freeman, S. (2014) "International Marketing Strategies in Industrial Clusters: insights from the southern hemisphere", Journal of Business Research, Vol. 67, Issue 5, pp 837-846
- Dimitratos, P., Amoros, E., Etchebarne, S., Felzensztein, C., (2014) 鈥淢icro Multinational or Not? The Effects of International Entrepreneurship, Networking and Learning鈥, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 67, Issue 5, 908鈥915
- Felzensztein, C. and Gimmon, E. (2014) "Competitive advantage in global markets", European Business Review, special issue on Sustainability, Vol. 26, Issue 6, pp. 568 鈥 587
- Felzensztein, C. Brodt, S., Gimmon, E. (2014) 鈥淒o Strategic Marketing and Social Capital Really Matter in Regional Clusters?鈥, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 67, Issue 4, pp. 498-507