Dr. Alfredo Valentino is an Associate Professor in International Business at ESCE International Business School in Paris. He got his Ph.D. in Management from Luiss Guido Carli University in Italy. He is currently a Global Research Champion of the STEP Project Global Consortium. His research interests include family firms internationalization, Headquarter-Subsidiary relations, location and relocation decisions of multinational enterprises, and internal and external embeddedness of subsidiaries. His work has been published in major journals of International Business such as the Journal of World Business and International Business Review.