People detail

Oleksandra Kochura is a Ph.D. candidate in Strategy at the University Toulouse I Capitole affiliated to the Toulouse Business School Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department. Prior to enrolling to the Ph.D. program, she received the education and worked in the fields of air transportation and international management.

Oleksandra’s primary research interests are corporate divestitures, especially their implications during the post-deal period. She presented her works at the EURAM, AIMS, SMS and BAM conferences. Also, she was a member of the organization committee for the AIMS 2020 and the CIFEPME 2018 conference. Currently, Oleksandra is representative of the Ph.D. students at the Doctoral Council. Also, she is teaching growth strategies and business strategy. 

• Corporate divestitures
• Corporate restructuring
• Process research

• Strategy

• The corporate divestiture process: influential factors and performance outcomes

• The best developmental paper award in an inter-organizational collaboration track, British Academy of Management, United Kingdom, 2019

• Articles (ranked journals)
  • From a dyadic to a triadic perspective: Divestiture research implications for understanding pre- and post-acquisition processes
    Kochura, O., N. Mirc, D. Lacoste, "From a dyadic to a triadic perspective: Divestiture research implications for understanding pre- and post-acquisition processes", European Management Journal, 2022, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 943-951
• Chapters of books
  • What follows what? Sequences and combinations of acquisitions and divestitures
    Kochura, O., N. Mirc, D. Lacoste, "What follows what? Sequences and combinations of acquisitions and divestitures" in Acquisitions and Corporate Strategy., D. King (ed.), Routledge, 2022

• International conferences
  • An investigation of factors driving changing tie strength in corporate development activities – analysis of alliance and acquisition networks in the global airline industry
    Mirc, N., P.-X. Meschi, P. Chiambaretto, O. Kochura, A. Ghods, "An investigation of factors driving changing tie strength in corporate development activities – analysis of alliance and acquisition networks in the global airline industry" in International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) Sunbelt, 2022, Cairns, Australia
• Conferences, symposiums, workshops
  • Intrafirm and Interfirm Networks: Dynamics in Divestitures
    Kochura, O., "Intrafirm and Interfirm Networks: Dynamics in Divestitures" in British Academy of Management, 2019, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • The corporate divestiture process: influential factors and performance outcomes
    Kochura, O., "The corporate divestiture process: influential factors and performance outcomes" in Strategic Management Society, 2019, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Corporate divestiture and M&A - just a simple mirror image?
    Kochura, O., "Corporate divestiture and M&A - just a simple mirror image?" in European Academy of Management, 2018, Reykjavík, Iceland
  • A process view on corporate divestiture - a prospect for explaining underlying outcomes
    Kochura, O., "A process view on corporate divestiture - a prospect for explaining underlying outcomes" in AIMS Association Internationale de Management Strategique, 2018, Montpellier, France

• 2017 - MSc in International Management / Toulouse School of Management
• 2016 - Master, Engineering, Air Transportation Management
• 2016 - Master, Business administration, International Management of Air Transport and Tourism / Université Toulouse Paul Sabatier
• 2015 - Bachelor, Engineering, Transportation technologies (air transport)
• Since 2017 - Ph.D. in Strategy / Toulouse School of Management