Rate My Professor Alexandra Kriz

Dr Alexandra Kriz is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business within the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at The University of Queensland. She holds a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the University of Sydney Business School. Kriz has been a visiting researcher at the Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku and the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. In industry, she worked as a Consultant at Mercer Consulting and Research Manager at Incept Labs, co-developing a groundbreaking diversity and inclusion blueprint for Australia's investment banking industry and project-managing a research initiative for the Australian Institute of Company Directors involving over 100 Chairs. For her Honours thesis on ambidexterity—the capacity for both radical and incremental innovation—she received the University of Sydney's Canon Honours Scholarship. During her PhD studies, she contributed to a CSIRO innovation project, conducting over 50 interviews with stakeholders. She is part of the International Business Discipline and the Practice and Process Studies Team at UQ Business School.

Kriz's research specializations include ambidextrous innovation, early firm growth, internationalisation of technology-based SMEs, human-centred design, and dynamic capabilities, with a focus on science-based start-ups and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Key publications are 'The dynamic capability of ambidexterity in hypercompetition: qualitative insights' (Journal of Strategic Marketing, 2014), 'Innovation and internationalisation processes of firms with new-to-the-world technologies' (Journal of International Business Studies, 2018, co-authored with Catherine Welch), 'Why history matters: Micro- and macro-foundations in a corporate de alio spinoff' (Industrial Marketing Management, 2021), 'Business model–dynamic capabilities and open innovation initiatives in research-intensive organisations: A case of Australia's national science agency' (Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2023), 'How science-based start-ups and their entrepreneurial ecosystems co-evolve: A process study' (Industrial Marketing Management, 2022), and 'When does the internationalization process begin? Problematizing temporal boundaries in international business' (Journal of World Business, 2023, co-authored with Maria Rumyantseva and Catherine Welch). She secured CSIRO funding for 'Investigating barriers to impact from R&D commercialisation' (2021–2022) and supervises PhD students on innovation in biotechnology clusters, agricultural SMEs, post-merger emotions, human-centred design for resilient cultures, and family firms.