Professor Esther Tippmann
Professor of Strategy, Leadership and Change; Head of Discipline of Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Growth and Scaling (CEGS)
J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway
Among other topics, Esther's research concerns the international strategies of organisations, especially globally-scaling and digital businesses. Scaling businesses deliver solutions at large scale for positive impact on economic, environmental and social objectives. In addition, scaling businesses are the engine for job creation, thereby turbo-charging economic development. Esther has worked closely with several scaling firms in Ireland, France, the UK and the US on case studies and research projects.
Esther is also passionate about teaching and strives to enable students and executives to critically evaluate how decisions influence long-term organisational success in a global context. This includes a detailed analysis of how organisations can balance economic, social and environmental objectives as they move sustainability to the heart of strategy.
Esther's work contributes to these SDGs
Esther is frequently an invited speaker on Scaling, for example, at the Enterprise Europe Network Conference (European Commission), Prague, Czech Republic, October 2002. The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions.
Key Target: 8.3 Promote policies to support job creation and growing enterprises
Esther has co-written a Teaching Case which allows students to critically analyse Signify Health’s strategy and present ideas for how they might have scaled and structured the company’s R&D operations differently.
This teaching case gives students a meaningful example of real-world decision-making. It offers students unique insights into the company’s motivations for looking abroad to scale up operations, the key factors informing the choice to move to Galway, and the different management structures considered for the company’s first overseas hub.
Esther has received numerous awards as an outstanding reviewer for leading academic journals.
Teaching
Strategic Management is a module on the MBA programme. Esther discusses in detail how businesses that pioneered in their pivot towards sustainability embraced this in their organisational objectives and capabilities as well as their business models. With the students she discusses in detail how firms can move further faster as they embrace sustainable strategies.
Supporting Targets: 8.1 Sustainable economic growth, 8.3 Promote policies to support job creation and growing enterprises; 4.7 Education for sustainable development and global citizenship
Global Strategy Through the combination of lectures, case studies and company engagement, this module develops the ability of postgraduate students to formulate and critically evaluate strategies of internationally operating organisations. The focus is on sustained success in terms of delivering on the triple bottom line of profit, people and planet in a global context.
Supporting Targets: 8.1 Sustainable economic growth, 8.3 Promote policies to support job creation and growing enterprises; 4.7 Education for sustainable development and global citizenship
Engagement
In her role as co-director of CEGS, Esther has delivered workshops on “Coaching scaling businesses” to more than 40 scale-up advisors of the Enterprise Europe Network, funded by the European Commission. The training was organised by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and took place in Brussels. More than 45 scale-up advisors from across Europe attended and brought back the lessons learned to their client companies. In October 2021 Esther was a panel speaker at UNCTAD’s World Investment Forum on “Digital Globalization”.
Direct impact SDG Targets
8.1 - Sustainable economic growth
8.3 - Promote policies to support job creation and growing enterprises
Indirect SDG Targets
4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship
8.5 - Full employment and decent work with equal pay
9.5 - Enhance research and upgrade industrial technologies
Esther has also co-written one of the most read articles on RTE Brainstorm.
Research
Featured Publications
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Monaghan, S. and Tippmann, E. (2018). Becoming a multinational enterprise: Using industry recipes to achieve rapid multinationalization. Journal of International Business Studies, 49(4), 473-495. |
9.2, 9.5; 8.1, 8.3 |
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Reuber, A. R., Tippmann, E. and Monaghan, S. (2021). Global scaling as a logic of multinationalization. Journal of International Business Studies, 52(6), 1031-1046. |
8.1, 8.3 |
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Piaskowska, D., Tippmann, E. and Monaghan, S. (2021). Scale-up modes: Profiling activity configurations in scaling strategies. Long Range Planning, 54(6). |
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Tippmann, E., Monaghan, S. and Reuber, R. A. (2023). Navigating the paradox of global scaling. Global Strategy Journal, 13(4), 735-773. |
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Tippmann, E., Ambos, T. C., Del Giudice, M. and 2 more (...) (2023). Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context. Journal of World Business, 58(1). |
9.2, 9.5; 8.1, 8.3 |
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Bohan, S., Tippmann, E., Levie, J. and 2 more (...) (2024). What is scaling? Journal of Business Venturing, 39(1). |
9.2, 9.5 |