His research primarily focuses on how multinational enterprise respond to conflicting institutional pressures of different country environments. Employing insights from organizational institutionalism and strategy, Edman’s work has focused on how MNE subsidiaries’ foreignness generates both advantages and liabilities in host country institutional settings. Edman’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations, among others. Edman received his Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2009. He currently serves on the JIBS Editorial Review Board.