ד"ר אבי זילביגר

B.Sc in Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, 1978.

M.Sc in Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, 1983.

Master’s Thesis – Stabilization of the Israeli Power System by Local Control.
Advisor: Prof. Julius Preminger.

Awarded twice the Gutwirt excellence prize.

Ph.D. in Business Administration, School of Management, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, 2011.

Ph.D. Thesis – Expatriate Adjustment from the Perspectives of Attachment Theory and Regulatory Focus Theory.
Advisor: Prof. Ayala Malach-Pines.

2008- Senior Lecturer, Lev Academic Center, Electronics Department

Best Lecturer Award, 2011.

Teaching courses in communication, such as: Random Signals and Noise, Digital Communication.

Areas of interest: Communications; Automatic Control

Student academic advisor.

2010-2013 Adjunct Lecturer, Lander Institute, Jerusalem, Israel. Teaching Research Methods to MBA students.

2016 Adjunct Lecturer, College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel. Teaching Research Methods to undergraduate students.

1984-1989 System Engineering and Navigation Group Manager, Space Technologies, Israel Aircraft Industries.

Leader of the Navigation group, responsible for design, algorithm development, sensor specification, simulation and integration of the attitude control and navigation systems for the OFEK surveillance satellite and AMOS communication satellite.

1989-1992 Software Engineer, Luz Solar Systems, Israel

1992-1994 System Engineer and Project Manager, Tank simulator for IDF, Dantec Multimedia Systems, Israel

1994-1995 System Engineer, Elbit Systems, Israel

Concept definition, algorithm development, error budget and specification of a Merkava Tank viewfinder nullification project.

1996-2004 Associate Vice President – RnD Project Manager, ECI Telecom, Israel

Responsibility for the overall RnD activity of a large cross-connect product, sales $300M. This included stages from concept definition, through hardware and software development and testing, and eventually full scale production.

Responsible for multiple multidisciplinary teams: System Engineering, Embedded Software, Hardware, Integration, Validation, Engineering, Production and Customer Support.

Excellent Employee Award, 1998.

2004-2010 Director - Product Management and Solution Architect, Alcatel-Lucent, Israel

Responsibility for the overall activities and life-cycle related to data communication products developed in the Israeli site.

Among those activities:

• Designing strategic or customer-tailored solutions.
• Market analysis, applications and business cases.
• Defining products, product functionality, specification and roadmap.
• Strategic and tactic decision making

The product line is a set of network elements involving several technologies: SONET/SDH, Ethernet, IP, MPLS, control plane and network management.

Extensive familiarity with various applications such as mobile backhaul, VPN and 3Play and the related network topologies.

1981, 1982: Awarded twice the Gutwirt Excellence Prize. Technion – graduate studies.

1998: Best Employee Prize. ECI / Tadiran Telecom.

2011: Best Lecturer Award. Lev Academic Center.

2015: Best Paper Award. Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference, Penang, Malaysia, 2015.

2018: Best Lecturer Award. Lev Academic Center.

Peer-Reviewed Papers in Refereed Journals

Silbiger, A., & Pines, A. M. (2014). Expatriate stress and burnout. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25, 1170-1183. IF=1.3. Q1
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/U66SxCCyTGqYfJIXWTQ3/full

Berger, R., Silbiger, A., Herstein, R., and Barnes, B. R. (2015). Analyzing business-to-business relationships in an Arab context. Journal of World Business, 50, 454-464.
doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2014.08.004. IF=2.8. 5-Year IF=3.7. Q1

Berger, R., Herstein, R., Silbiger, A., and Barnes, B. R. (2015). Can Guanxi be created in Sino-Western relationships? An assessment of Western firms trading with China using the GRX scale. Industrial Marketing Management, 47, 166-174.IF=1.9. 5-Year IF=3.1. Q1

Silbiger, A., Berger, R., Barnes, B. R., and Renwick, D. R. (2016). Improving expatriation success: The roles of regulatory focus and burnout. British Journal of Management, 0, 1-17. IF=2.2.Q1

Berger, R., Silbiger, A., Herstein, R., and Barnes, B. R. (2017). Developing international business relationships in a Russian context. Management International Review, 57, 441-471. IF=1.2. Q1

Berger, R., Silbiger, A., Herstein, R., and Barnes, B. R.  (2018). Is Guanxi universal in China? Some evidence of a paradoxical shift. Journal of Business Research, 86, 344-355. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.07.016 . IF=3.4. Q1

   Peer-Reviewed Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

Preminger, J., and Silbiger, A. (1984). Stabilization of the Israeli power system by local feedback. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Automatic Control, Tel-Aviv, 1984.

Silbiger, A. (2002). A practical product validation methodology. INCOSE 1st System Engineering Conference, Tel-Aviv, 2002.

Barnes, B. R., Berger, R., Silbiger, A., & Herstein, R. (2015). Ethics and diamonds: Paradoxical issues surrounding Guanxi relations in China. Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference, Penang, Malaysia, 2015. Best paper award.

Berger, R., Barnes, B. R., Whitla, P., & Silbiger, A. (2016). Ethics and diamonds: Paradoxical issues surrounding Guanxi relations in China. Global Marketing Conference, Hong Kong, 2016.

Silbiger, A., Berger, R., Barnes, B. R., and Douglas, R. W. S. (2016). Improving expatriation success: The roles of regulatory focus and burnout. 21st Euroasia Business and Economics Society Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 2017.

Puffer, S. M., Berger, R., Herstein, R., McCarthy, D. J., Silbiger, A. (2017). Doing Business in the Arab World: The Role of Wasta and Networking in Relationship Satisfaction and Performance. 2017 Annual Meeting Academy of International Business, Dubai, UAE.

Berger, R., Silbiger, A., Herstein, R., and Barnes, B. R. (2017). Analyzing business-to-business relationships in an Arab context. 7th Economics and Finance Conference, The International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2017.

Silbiger, A., Berger, R., Barnes, B. R., and Renwick, D. R. (2017). It’s not just cultural distance: The effect of regulatory focus on expatriate adjustment. International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development, Madrid, Spain, 2017.

Renwick, D. R., Berger, R., Silbiger, A., and Barnes, B. R. (2017). It’s not just cultural distance: The effect of regulatory focus on expatriate adjustment. Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference, Chinag Mai, Thailand, 2017.

Silbiger, A., Barnes, B. R., Berger, R., and Renwick, D. R. (2019) The Role of Regulatory Focus and its Influence on the Cultural Distance - Adjustment Relationship for Expatriate Managers. Academy of International Business, Cebu, Philippines, 2019.

Barnes, B. R., Berger, R., Silbiger, A., and Herstein, R.  (2020). Is Guanxi universal in China? Some evidence of a paradoxical shift. Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference, Hong Kong, 2020.

A switching system for telecommunications system. US06747988; HK1031163; EP1039775-A2

Trade Publications

Silbiger, A. (2008). “Ten Commandments” for relocation success. Mashabei Enosh, 241, 74-76 (in Hebrew).

Cohen, M., and Silbiger, A. (2010). Selecting expatriates: Is it worth the effort? Mashabei Enosh, 266, 70-76 (in Hebrew).

Journal Refereeing

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

British Journal of Management

Educational Activities

Development of a new Communication Lab.

Development of a new course “Modern Communication”.

Initiated and a key participant in the introduction and development of a new Power Engineering Track within the Electronics Department. Among other activities, this included: Renaming the department’s name to Electrical and Electronics Department; Finding appropriate staff members; Accreditation by the Ministry of Economics to the new track.

Student Academic Advisor (“רכז חוג”) of the Electronics Department (formerly).

Member of the departmental Curriculum Committee.