Dr Carmen-Elena Dorobat

My profile

Biography

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategic Management. My areas of interest include Strategic Management, International Trade, Monetary Theory and Policy, as well as Institutional Economics, Global Business, and Political Economy. I have worked with higher education institutions and think tanks in the United Kingdom, United States of America, and Eastern Europe.

Academic Positions

Manchester Metropolitan Business School, United Kingdom
Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability
August 2019 – present

Other academic service (administration and management)

Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, United Kingdom
Programme Leader, MSc Management, Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability
March 2023 – present

Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, United Kingdom
Assessment Lead, Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability
July 2021 – present

Professional duties, fellowships, and affiliations

Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute

External Examiner, Staffordshire Business School
External Examiner, Westminster Business School

Contributing Editor, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Associate Editor, Review of Social and Economic Issues
Assistant Editor, Journal of Philosophical Economics

Awarded 2015 and 2022 O.P. Alford III Prize in Political Economy
Awarded 2017 Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Excellence in Research and Teaching

Teaching

I currently teach on strategy and research project units within our department. 

Topics I am interested in supervising include: Microfoundations (institutions, monetary theory, dynamic capabilities); international trade and global business, strategy, strategic entrepreneurship, political entrepreneurship, history of management science.

Research outputs

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Dorobat, C.E. 2023. A Note on Money Neutrality, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 25(3):297-301

Foss, N.J., McCaffrey, M. and Dorobat, C.E. 2022. “When Henry Met Fritz”: Rules as Organizational Frameworks for Emergent Strategy Process, Journal of Management Inquiry, 31 (2), 135-149.

Salerno, J.T., Dorobat C.E. and McCaffrey M., 2021. Monopoly as a “Culture-History Fact”: Knight, Menger, and the Role of Institutions, Journal of Institutional Economics, 17(1), 1049–1064.

Salerno, J.T., Dorobat C.E. and Israel, K-F., 2020. Two views on neutral money: Wieser and Hayek versus Menger and Mises, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 27(5), 682-711.

Salerno, J.T. and Dorobat C.E., 2018. Currency Depreciation and the Monetary Adjustment Process. Oxford Economic Papers 70(3), 699-718.

Dorobat, C.E., 2016. Division of Labor and Society: The Social Rationalism of Mises and Destutt de Tracy. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 18(4), 436-55.

Dorobat. C.E. and Topan, M.-V., 2015. Entrepreneurship and Comparative Advantage. Journal of Entrepreneurship 24(1), 1-16.

Dorobat. C.E., 2015. Foreign Policy and Domestic Policy Are but One System: Mises on International Organizations and the World Trade Organization. The Independent Review 19(3), 357-78.

Chapters in books

Dorobat, C.E. and McCaffrey, M. 2022. “A Passage to Asia: What the future of international trade partnerships can learn from the past”, in  The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century, edited by Annette Godart-van der Kroon and Joseph T. Salerno, Springer Verlag, pp 255–275.

Salerno, J.T. and Dorobat, C.E. 2022, “Gottfried Haberler: 1900-1995”, in The Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics, edited by Robert Cord, Palgrave MacMillan, Forthcoming.

McCaffrey, M. and Dorobat, C.E. 2015, “’We Do Not Sow’: The Economics and Politics of A Song of Ice and Fire”, in Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature, edited by Ed Younkins, Lexington Books, pp. 385-398.

Recent conferences and working papers

Crowder, M. and Dorobat, C.E. 2021.  Problem-Based Learning in Postgraduate Business Studies: Aligning student and industry needs. Delivered at Learning and Teaching Conference, Chartered Association of Business Schools, 29-30 June. Published in LTSE 2021 Conference Proceedings, pp. 78-82.

Topan, M.-V., McCaffrey, M. and Dorobat C.E. 2020. Capitalism without the Profit Motive: Insights from the Economics of Entrepreneurship, British Academy of Management Conference, September.