Monica Cavalcanti Sa de Abreu is a Lecture of operations management in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Ceara – Brazil. She possesses a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering and my Ph.D. is in Industrial Manufacturing. Monica is currently a Visiting Researcher at Institute for Manufacturing (University of Cambridge) working with Dr. Claire Barlow. Her research interests include firm self-regulation; emerge of global standards and their effect on firm strategy, and international diffusion of environmental management practices and corporate social responsibility. (back to top of page)

Ruth V. Aguilera is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Business Administration and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, and a Center for Professional Responsibility of Business and Society Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds courtesy appointments at the Department of Sociology  and the College of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received a Graduate Diploma in Business Analysis from the University of Lancaster (1990), a Licenciatura in Economics (1992) from the University of Barcelona, and M.A. (1996) and Ph.D. (1999) degrees in Sociology from Harvard University.

Professor Aguilera specializes in comparative corporate governance, organizational theory, and historical comparative methods. Her research interests lie in the intersection of economic sociology and international management. She has spent considerable time conducting re-search at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) in Berlin, the Università Luigi Bocconi in Milan, the Juan March Institute in MaDr.id, and the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI-MITI) in Tokyo.

Her research has been published in scholarly journal such as Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, Academy of Management Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, British Journal of Management, Corporate Governance: International Review, Economic Sociology, European Sociological Review, International Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization Science, and Organization Studies, as well as in several conference proceedings and numerous book chapters. She is also the co-editor with Michal Federowicz of the book “Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment: Trajectories of Institutional Change” (Palgrave McMillan, 2004), in which Eastern and Western European corporate governance systems are compared.

At the University of Illinois, Professor Aguilera has taught courses in International Management, and Global Strategy to undergraduates, MBA students, and global executives. In addition, she teaches a course in Comparative Employment Systems in the Masters in Human Resources Management Program, and a seminar on corporate governance at the European Union Center.

Dr. Aguilera has received numerous research grants from a number of institutions, including the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS), the Center for International Business Research and Education (CIBER), Center for International Education and Research in Accounting (CIERA), the European Union Center at the University of Illinois, as well as Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Krupp Foundation Fellowship, the Minda da Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University.

Professor Aguilera was a Beckman Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study, and served on the Executive committee of the Center of Human Resource Management (CHRM).  She currently serves on the Executive Board of the European Union Center at the University of Illinois. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives at the University of Illinois.

Dr. Aguilera currently serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Academy of Management Review, Corporate Governance: International Review,  Journal of International Business Studies, and Strategic Management Journal. (back to top of page)

Emin Akcaoglu has been in the banking sector for over ten years, and now works for Turk Eximbank as a Senior Country Risk Specialist. He earlier served as a research assistant at the Loughborough University Business School and as an adjunct lecturer at Cankaya University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Hacettepe, a MPhil from Loughborough, and a Ph.D. in international business from Ankara Universities. He has two books, Financial Innovation in Turkish Banking, and Turk Firmalarinin Dis Yatirimlari: Saikler ve Stratejiler (FDI by Turkish Firms: Motivations and Strategies). He has also consulted for UNCTAD on FDI-related issues. (back to top of page)

Samuel Yaw Akomea is a Lecturer in International Marketing at the KNUST School of Business, a faculty of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He joined the faculty in 2005.

He holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Ghana Business School. He is also a practicing lawyer and a member of the Ghana Bar Association in Ghana. His areas of research include Foreign Direct Investments, Exporting, Market Orientation, Corporate Social Responsibility and Multilateral Trade Agreements. (back to top of page)

Helena Allman is a first year Ph.D. student in the Marketing Department at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina.  Her research interests are in the area of marketing strategy in the international business context.  Helena is originally from Slovakia.  Her business experience includes international marketing and sales, new product development, export-import, international business logistics and pricing, real estate, retail management, travel and tourism, and entrepreneurship.

Education:

• Ph.D.in Business Administration, Marketing Emphasis, Expected May 2011, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina 
• Master of International Business Studies (MIBS, now IMBA), 2003, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.), 2000, Major: Finance, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina (back to top of page)

Victor Almeida

Associated Professor of Marketing and International Business
COPPEAD Graduate School of Business Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

COPPEAD Director of the Global Partners MBA, a global MBA offered by Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in partnership with COPPEAD Graduate School of Business, Brazil, and Paris Institut d'Administration des Entreprises at Sorbonne University, France.

Education

• Ph.D., Business Administration, COPPEAD - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• M.Sc., Business Administration, COPPEAD - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Research Scholar in Marketing and International Business at Temple University (back to top of page)

Siah Hwee Ang is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management International Business at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand. His main research interests are in the fields of corporate strategy, international business strategy and technology strategy. He also has special interests in biotechnology, venture capital, reputation dynamics, evolution of ideas and knowledge, and management research methods. He teaches strategy courses at the executive, postgraduate and undergraduate levels and also postgraduate research methods. Siah Hwee has published in (or forthcoming) Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Management International Review and Long Range Planning. (back to top of page)

Seiko Arai has been an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore since 2008. She received a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford, bachelors degrees in law and political science from the University of Tokyo and a masters degree in public policy from Harvard University. She worked for the Japanese government and for the headquarters of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in France in the field of science and technology and education policies for ten years. The topic of her doctoral dissertation is the internationalization of the research and development of Japanese and European multinationals, in particular their management at home and in the United States. Her study relies on multiple data sets including patents, company reports, and other secondary sources as well as 50-page long questionnaire survey and interviews.

Among the academic awards she has received, Dr. Arai recently won the Best Paper Award of the 2007 annual conference of the Association of the Japanese Business Studies (AJBS) in USA and the Outstanding Student Paper Award of the 2007 annual conference of Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) in USA. Her doctoral dissertation was selected as one of the finalists of the Gunnar Hedlund Award for doctoral dissertation at the annual European International Business Academy (EIBA) conference held in Italy in 2007 and also as a finalist of the Barry Richman Dissertation Award of the International Management Division (IMD) of Academy of Management (AOM) conference held in USA in August, 2008. (back to top of page)

Marian Perry Asiedua Ofosu holds a Higher National Diploma in Accounting from the Takoradi Polytechnic, Ghana, and a Bsc. in Accounting and Information Systems from the Regent University of Science and Technology, Ghana. She works in the Investment Unit of Ghana Cocoa Board. She is currently enrolled to pursue Msc in International Business Economics in Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research interests are in the area of Finance and International Business. (back to top of page)

Caner Bakır is an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Koç University, Turkey. Previously, he was an Assistant Lecturer in Accounting and Finance Department at Monash University, Australia. Dr. Bakir has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, USA.

He teaches International Business for Executive MBA and International Political Economy for MA students.

His forthcoming book is entitled Banking in Australia: Globalisation, Governance and Public Policy (Pagrave MacMillan). He is the author of a research book entitled, Bank in the Center: The Central Bank of Republic of Turkey and a Comparative Analysis (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2007, in Turkish). (back to top of page)

Dr. Saikat Banerjee (MBA & Ph.D) is currently working as Assistant Professor in Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT-Deemed University under Ministry of Commerce), New Delhi, India. Before joining academic seven years ago, he worked in industry for more than five years. He has contributed research papers, articles and working papers in well-known international and national publications like Cross Cultural Management-An International Journal, Journal of Brand Management, International Journal of Commerce and Management, Vision, South Asian Journal of Management, ARTnET and SSRN. His areas of interest are Consumer and Business Marketing, International Business and Cross Cultural issues. Beside teaching and research, he conducts MDPs/EDPs in the area of international business for working Executives, governments and corporate. (back to top of page)

Jean Boddewyn is Emeritus Professor of Marketing and International Business and former Coordinator of the International Business Program in the Zicklin School of Business of Baruch College, City University of New York.

He holds a Commercial Engineer degree from the University of Louvain (Belgium), a MBA from the University of Oregon, and a Ph. D. in Business Administration from the University of Washington (Seattle). His current research interests center on business political behavior, international public affairs, the regulation and self-regulation of advertising around the world, international business strategy and competitive dynamics.

He received the 2002 Academy of Managements Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his service as Editor of International Studies of Management & Organization since 1971; his pioneering research on comparative management, foreign divestment and international business-government relations, and his leadership roles as an early Chair (1974) of the AOM?s International Management Division as well as Vice President (1975-1976) and President (1993-1994) of the Academy of International Business. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Management and the International Academy of Management. He currently (2005-2008) serves as Dean of the AIB Fellows. (back to top of page)

Professor Mikelle A. Calhoun is on the Management and Human Resources faculty at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in International Business and Management from the Stern School of Business, New York University. 

Before entering academia, Dr. Calhoun was a commercial litigation attorney and, briefly, an assistant judge.  She received her B.A. in Communications Studies from Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in Speech Communications from the University of Minnesota.  She later received a joint J.D./M.B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina. Her research interests include liability of foreignness, corruption, country risk and international CSR expectations. (back to top of page)

Jorge Carneiro holds a D.Sc degree in Business Administration from Coppead Graduate School of Business / The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering both from the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He is currently an Assistant Professor at PUC-Rio. His research interests are in International Business, Strategic Management and Organizational Performance Measurement. (back to top of page)

Dr. S. Tamer Cavusgil specializes in international marketing strategy, early internationalization, and emerging markets. He has authored over 170 refereed journal articles and three dozen books including International Business: Strategy, Management, and the New Realities, co-authored with Gary Knight and John Riesenberger (2008, Prentice-Hall), and Doing Business in Emerging Markets with Pervez Ghauri (Sage). His work is among the most cited contributions in international business.  He is the founding editor of the Journal of International Marketing and Advances in International Marketing.  He serves on the editorial review boards of a dozen professional journals.

Professor Cavusgil is an elected Fellow of the AIB. He served as Senior Fulbright Scholar to Australia and taught at Monash University. He is a Visiting Professor at Manchester Business School, and served as Gianni and Joan Montezemolo Visiting Chair at the University of Cambridge, the U.K. In 2007, he was named an Honorary Fellow of the Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge. (back to top of page)

Sea-Jin Chang is a Kumho Asiana Group Endowed Chair Professor of Business Administration at Korea University, and a Visiting Professor, Wharton School, during 2008-09. He received his BA and MA in economics from Seoul National University, and Ph.D. in strategic management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Dean’s Fellow. Prior to his return to Korea, he was a professor at the Stern School of Business of the New York University. He also had visiting appointments at Stanford Business School, INSEAD, London Business School and Hitotsubashi University. He used to work for large telecommunication companies in Korea and Japan. Professor Chang is primarily interested in the management of diversified multinational firms.  His current research focuses on understanding the process of creating operating synergies among diversified lines of business and building a strong local organization after foreign entry. His other research interests include organizational learning, corporate growth through joint ventures and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, and comparative management studies of Japan, Korea, and China.  His research has been published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Industrial Economics. He is an Editor of Journal of International Business Studies, a premier academic journal in international business and sits on the editorial boards of several other leading journals such as Strategic Management Journal. His recent book, The Rise and Fall of Chaebols: Financial Crisis and Transformation of Korean Business Groups (Cambridge University Press, April 2003) explores the strategies Korean business groups have pursued, examines various aspects of their structures, and assesses their performance. His edited volume, Business Groups in East Asia: Crisis, Restructuring and New Growth (Oxford University Press, 2006), examine the post-crisis restructuring activities of large business groups in eight East Asian countries. His forthcoming book, Sony vs. Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics’ Giants Battle for Global Supremacy (Wiley, forthcoming) compares and contrasts these two firms’ global strategy. A native Korean, Professor Chang, is married to Kyungmee, a composer of modern classical music, and they have two daughters, Melody and Harmony. (back to top of page)

Chang Hwan Choi is a Senior Manager at Korea Asset Management Corporation.   He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Dongguk.  His research has been published in many journals, such as Journal of Korea Academy of Establishment Information, Journal of International Association of Area Studies, Journal of arbitration studies and Journal of International Association of Area Studies.   Choi has also received many honors and awards, including “Best Poster Paper” from the Academy of International Business Journal of International Business Studies (AIB/JIBS). (back to top of page)

Dilene R. Crockett, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Management at Northeastern State University outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.   Dr. Crockett’s core research interests include corporate/international entrepreneurship, and time/timing. Her primary teaching responsibilities include global business strategy and management/leadership skills.   Dr. Crockett received a Ph.D. in Management (strategy and information systems emphases) from the University of Texas in Arlington in 2004, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago (accounting emphasis) in 1993, and a Bachelor of Science (communications and computer science emphases) from the University of Tulsa in 1986.  Most of Dr. Crockett’s 20-year career in business practice was in the areas of research, marketing and general management. (back to top of page)

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra (Ph.D. Universidad de Salamanca; Ph.D. MIT) analyzes how firms become competitive by developing their technological capabilities and how then they overcome the difficulties in internationalization to become multinational enterprises. He also studies governance issues, with a special interest on corruption. Recently he has started a long-term research project analyzing the emergence of developing country multinationals. His geographical area of expertise is Latin America. He is Assistant Professor in International Business at the University of South Carolina, USA. He can be contacted at acuervo@moore.sc.edu. (back to top of page)

Since graduating in 1986 from the University, Erzsébet Czakó has been working at the Corvinus University of Budapest. She obtained her Ph.D. in Business and Management from the CUB in 2002. Serving in different positions, she was chairperson of Department of Business Economics between 2000-2004, and from 2005 she is the Director of Institute of Business Economics. She led several university and faculty committees on strategy formulation.
She teaches Business Economics, Strategic Management and International Business.

Her special fields of interest are contents of and approaches to competitiveness researches and programs, competitiveness of various industries and enterprises, and international business.

Professor Czakó is general secretary of the Competitiveness Research Center, which coordinates competitiveness surveys in Hungary since 1996. She has been elected member of the Committee of Industry and Business Economics of Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2002. (back to top of page)

Timothy Devinney (BSc Carnegie Mellon; MA, MBA, PhD Chicago) is Professorial Research Fellow at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM). He has held positions on the faculties of The University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University and UCLA and has been a visiting faculty member at universities in Europe (Copenhagen Business School and Hamburg, Trier, Konstanz, Ulm & Frankfurt) and Asia (HKUST & City University).  He has published six books and more than seventy articles in leading journals including Management Science, The Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science  and the Strategic Management Journal.  He is a 2007-2008 recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship.  He is Chair of the International Management Division of the AOM and an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Perspectives.  He is on the editorial board of over 10 of the leading international journals. (back to top of page)

Marleen Dieleman holds a master degree in business administration from Rotterdam School of Management and a Ph.D. from Leiden University, both in The Netherlands. She is currently affiliated with NUS Business School in Singapore. Marleen’s research interests are in emerging market business groups and family business, in particular in Southeast Asia. Marleen’s current empirical work is aimed at doing in-depth case studies of family groups in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, supported by a grant from NUS. She recently published a book on the Salim Group of Indonesia, as well as several as articles in academic journals. (back to top of page)

Dr. Desislava Dikova is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests include international market entry and establishment modes, strategic fit models, pre-merger & acquisition phases and competitive market strategies with a specific focus on transition economies. She is a part of JIBS New Editorial Review Board since 2007, and referees for IBR, JIM, and TIBR journals. (back to top of page)

Madalena Domingues graduated from University of Minho, Portugal, in German and English in 2000 and, since then, she has taught both languages essentially at secondary school level. She also graduated in International Business from the same university in 2006 and is, from that period onwards, attending a Master Degree Programme in Economics and International Management at Faculty of Economics from University of Porto. Currently she is working on her thesis with the topic “Language Strategies by Multinational Corporations.” From 2004 till recently she has lectured at School of Business Science from Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo and, since January 2008 she works for the MNC Delphi-Grundig in Braga, Portugal, at the department of Production Control & Logistics. (back to top of page)

Peter J. Dowling (Ph.D, The Flinders University of South Australia) is Professor of International Business in the School of Marketing & International Business at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and a Senior Research Affiliate of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at Cornell University. Peter is a co-author of International Human Resource Management: Managing People in a Multinational Context (5th Ed) and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, International Journal of Human Resource, Management Journal of International Management and Thunderbird International Business Review. (back to top of page)

Lorraine Eden is a Professor of Management and Mays Research Fellow at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on multinational enterprises, particularly in the areas of transfer pricing (the pricing of intrafirm transactions within multinational enterprises), multinational-state relations and economic integration. She teaches courses on Multinational Enterprises, Transfer Pricing, and the Economics of International Business. Prof. Eden is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies. (back to top of page)

Dr. Marc Fetscherin is a Harvard Kennedy School Visiting Scholar and Asia Fellow. He is also an Assistant Professor of the Crummer Graduate School of Business and an Associate of the Rollins China Center. He teaches various courses related to International Business and International Marketing. Marc was a Post-Doc at Harvard University as well as a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Economics and Social Science from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He also holds a master degree in from the London School of Economics (LSE), UK; as well as a one from the University of Lausanne, Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Switzerland. He has extensive international experience and speaks 5 languages. He is a former McKinsey & Company consultant and a member of various review boards and professional associations. (back to top of page)

Jos Gamble is a Reader in Asia Pacific Business at the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London.  During 1988 to 1990, he studied Chinese at Fudan University in Shanghai.  He graduated subsequently with a PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and has undertaken extensive field research in China, as well as Japan, South Korea and Malaysia.  He is the author of Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and has published papers in a variety of journals.  He recently concluded a four year long ESRC/AHRC funded project, ‘Multinational Retailers in the Asia Pacific’, as a part of the Cultures of Consumption programme. (back to top of page)

Regina A. Greenwood is Professor of Management in the Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University. She is the Co-Historian and Co-Archivist for the Academy of Management and a member of the Executive Committee of the Management History Division. Dr. Greenwood served as Director of Membership for the Academy from 2003 – 2006.  Her research interests are Lean Management and implementation strategies, international culture, values, and entrepreneurship, and management history. Dr. Greenwood serves on five editorial boards including the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. She is a founding member of the Global Culture and Entrepreneurship Research Group. (back to top of page)

Steven Globerman is the Kaiser Professor of International Business and the Director of the Center for International Business in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University. His research interests include international business and multinational corporations, trade and investment policies, and his work has been widely published.  Dr. Globerman has consulted for major international organizations including the World Bank and the OECD.  He has also served on two Canadian Government Royal Commissions on the economy.  Professor Globerman was previously a faculty member at York University in Toronto, and Simon Fraser University. He is listed in Who’s Who Among Economists and Who’s Who in International Business. Education:  BA - Brooklyn College; MA - University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D. - New York University. (back to top of page)

Christoph Grimpe has been a Senior Researcher in the department of industrial economics and international management at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) since May 2005. At ZEW he is engaged with issues in the internationalisation of innovation activities, technology management and the market for corporate control. Furthermore, he is a guest professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He studied Business Administration and Political Sciences at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany, and obtained his Ph.D. in Management from WHU – Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Managemen in Koblenz, Germany. (back to top of page)

Johanna Hallbäck is a Ph.D. Student in International Business at the University of Vaasa. Her main research interests lie in the fields of international business and entrepreneurship, taking a cross-disciplinary approach to researching internationalization and firm performance in the context of SMEs and small new ventures. Hallbäck’s special focus areas in these firm contexts are related to the entrepreneurial and managerial characteristics and experiential learning. She also works as a lecturer in the fields of export marketing, internationalisation and market research. E-mail: johanna.hallback@uwasa.fi. (back to top of page)

Witold J. Henisz is an Associate Professor of Management at The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley and previously received a M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His research examines the impact of political hazards on international investment strategy. He analyzes (1) the political and economic determinants of government attempts to redistribute investor returns to the broader polity; (2) the strategic responses by organizations to such pressure; and (3) the determinants of the success of individual organizations in withstanding such pressure. (back to top of page)

Robert E. Hoskisson currently holds the W. P. Carey Chair in Strategic Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on: corporate and international diversification strategies; governance and innovation, and entrepreneurship; acquisitions and divestitures, business groups and strategies of emerging economy firms; and cooperative strategy. Professor Hoskisson's research has appeared in over 90 publications including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Executive and California Management Review among others. He is currently an Associated Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies as well as on the Editorial Review board of the Academy of Management Journal. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society. (back to top of page)

Dr. Qihai Huang is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University.  Prior to this appointment, he worked with the project of ‘Multinational Retailers in the Asia Pacific’ as a part of the ESRC/AHRC funded Cultures of Consumption programme. He has published in journals such as Regional Studies and International Journal of Human Resource Management.  His research interests include innovation and cluster, comparative management, and human resource management in the retail sector. (back to top of page)

Ayşe Karaevli is a faculty member in strategic management at the Faculty of Management at Sabanci University. Before she joined to Sabanci University, she had been a post-doctoral fellow at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree from Boston University (2003), a masters of labor and industrial relations from Michigan State University (1998), and a B.A. in psychology from Bo?aziçi University. Her current research focuses on strategic restructuring & adaptation, diversification, M&As, and divestitures in emerging markets. She has also published in CEO successions and executive careers. (back to top of page)

Dr. Marcus M. Keupp is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and leads the organisational unit 'Research Lab' at this institute. He obtained his Master's degree in business administration and economics from the University of Mannheim (Germany) and Warwick Business School (Great Britain). He worked for the German Diplomatic Service in Thailand and New Zealand before returning to academia in 2004. His research activities focus on the areas of firm-level innovation, management of intellectual property, international R&D, and international entrepreneurship. His research has been published in Journal of World Business and Journal of Management. (back to top of page)

Dr. Susanna Khavul (UC Berkeley, Boston University) is an Assistant Professor of strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington. Herresearch focuses on explaining the innovative performance of high technology firms operating in a global economy. Dr. Khavul’s work on emerging economies includes China, India, Mexico, Israel, and South Africa.  She is the winner of the Academy of Management’s Heizer Award for “Outstanding Research in the Field of New Enterprise Development” and the Taylor & Francis Publishers Award for “Best Research on Venture Capital.”  Prior joining UTA, she was a faculty member at the London Business School. (back to top of page)

Shaista E. Khilji is Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Studies at the George Washington University (GWU), Washington, DC. She earned her Ph.D. in International Management from University of Cambridge, UK. Dr. Khilji's research interests are focused upon making sense of the complexities and transformations surrounding management of contemporary organizations. She has published her work in scholarly journals, including the International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Business Review and the Journal of Product Innovation Management, and presented findings of her research at several international conferences. (back to top of page)

Andreas Klossek has been a member of the Department of General Business Studies at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology since 2003, focusing particularly on corporate management and human resources. He teaches management, organization, human resources and strategy, and conducts research in the field of international management, specializing in successful international joint venture and alliance formation and management in China. As part of his activities at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, he has conducted a variety of consulting projects with locally and internationally active companies. (back to top of page)

Minnie Kontkanen is currently a Program Director / Coordinator with the program on International Business, Vaasa School of Economics, University of Vaasa, Finland. The primary teaching responsibilities are in the same program. Courses which she teaches include: International business operation modes, Internationalisation strategies of the firm and Master thesis seminars. She has also held a position of a professor at the University of Kuopio, Finland. She completed her doctoral thesis in 2006 at the University of Vaasa. Her research interest includes international entry mode choices and internationalization process. Kontkanen has presented her research at several academic conferences including European International Business Academy, Academy of International Business and Academy of International Business UK Chapter. (back to top of page)

Dr. Sumit K. Kundu is the Knight-Ridder Research Professor of International Business in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University.

Dr. Kundu has taught several international business courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Florida International University, Saint Louis University, State University of New York, Northeastern University, and Rutgers University. His extensive international experience includes teaching at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), City University of Hong Kong (China), Saint Louis University Madrid Campus (Spain), and the Indian Institute of Management. He currently serves as the faculty director for the Colleges Executive MBA program and is the Ph.D. coordinator for the department of Management and International Business. Dr. Kundu has been the recipient of several teaching awards namely, Best Professor in International MBA program (2007), Best Professor award in Masters in International Business program (2006), Outstanding Teacher in Executive MBA program (2004). Dr. Kundu was named Outstanding Graduate Teacher of the Year (2003), Teacher of the Year for Executive Masters in International Business program (2003), and Teacher of the Year for the full-time MBA program (2003) at Saint Louis University.

On the research front, Dr. Kundu sits on the editorial board of several premier journals, Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review and Journal of International Management. Dr. Kundu has published several articles in prestigious journals, namely, Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Small Business Economics. He has served as a Chair and member on many dissertation committees. Dr. Kundu has presented numerous papers in the Academy of International Business and Academy of Management conferences. He served as the track chair for its annual conference in Stockholm, Sweden in July 2004, and in Milan, Italy in June 2008. Dr. Kundu organized the Junior Faculty Consortium at the annual Academy of International Business 2006 conference in Beijing, China. He has also served as the president and program chair for the Midwest Academy of International Business Conference in 2003 and 2002.

His corporate experience includes cash flow management and international marketing for Unilever PLC, Fedders Lloyd PLC, and Phillips Petroleum PLC. Dr. Kundu has been a consultant to several multinational corporations - MasterCard International, Ingersoll Rand-Hussmann International, Boeing, and CPI-Sears Portrait Studio. (back to top of page)

Anna Lamin is an Assistant Professor of strategy at Northeastern University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (2007).  Her research interests include examining the effect of business group affiliation on firm strategy, the international strategies of firms from emerging markets, and the technological strategies of high-tech firms.  (back to top of page)

Gloria Lan Ge (Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and International Business, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She received her Ph.D. from City University of Hong Kong. Before she joined the University of Auckland, Gloria had worked in Australia for almost six years. Her research interests include strategic marketing management, human resource management, entrepreneurship and internationalization of Chinese firms. (back to top of page)

Johan Lindeque is a Lecturer at Queen's University - Belfast Management School. His research seeks to understand the relationship between business and government, specifically with respect to the regulation of international trade. Currently his research is focused on understanding firms' corporate political strategies for seeking to influence policy outcomes with respect to the prosecution of antidumping and countervailing duty cases in the United States of America. (back to top of page)

Jiangyong Lu graduated from University of Hong Kong in the field of Economics and Business Strategy, and joined Tsinghua SEM as an Assistant Professor in 2006. Lu’s research interests include Privatization of SOEs, MNEs in China, Chinese outward direct investment, economics geography, etc. Lu’s publication appears in American Economics Review Papers and Proceedings, Economics of Transition, Journal of Business Venturing, Regional Studies, and Chinese Economy. As a beginner in International Business, Lu’s basic research idea is to deep people’s understanding of MNEs by integrating some ideas from the IB and economics fields. (back to top of page)

Dr. Arvind Mahajan is the Lamar Savings Professor of Finance at Texas A&M University where he served as the Associate Director of the Center for International Business Studies and the Center for International Business Education and Research. His articles have appeared in leading finance journals as well as in the Journal of International Business Studies. He is associate editor or on the editorial boards of JIBS, Global Finance Journal, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business and Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness and was Associate Editor of Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Journal of International Finance and North American Journal of Economics and Finance. He was Vice President of the North American Economics and Finance Association and has served on the Fulbright Scholars Awards Advisory Committee in Washington, D.C.

Professor Mahajan’s many recognitions include the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Scranton, the George H.W. Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in International Teaching, the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University's Distinguished Achievement Award, among others. His industry experience includes serving as Vice President of a printing and publishing concern and Senior Consultant to Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company of New York, and he has conducted numerous seminars for senior executives in Europe, Asia and the Americas. (back to top of page)

Xavier Martin (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Professor of Strategy and International Management, a Fellow of the CentER for Research in Economics and Business, and cofounder of the Center for Innovation Research at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). His research examines how corporate strategies, interfirm relationships, and knowledge-based assets affect each other and jointly affect firm performance. His papers have appeared in Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science and Research Policy, among others, as well as in the Journal of International Business Studies. Xavier Martin is a recipient of several research awards, including the Best International Paper Award (now Dexter Award) from the Academy of Management and both the Haynes Prize for Best Paper and the Richard N. Farmer Best Dissertation Award from the Academy of International Business, as well as several teaching awards. He serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Management as well as the Journal of International Business Studies. He is currently chairing the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society and has served on executive and research committees of two Academy of Management divisions (Business Policy & Strategy and Technology & Innovation Management). (back to top of page)

Candace A. Martinez is an Assistant Professor of international business at the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University.  She received her Ph.D.in strategic management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining the faculty at Saint Louis University, she taught at the Ohio State University. Her current research interests include the role of political risk in firms’ foreign direct investment decisions as well as topics related to the institutional environments across countries. (back to top of page)

Steve McGuire is an Associate Professor of international business at the School of Management, University of Bath.  He studied political science in Canada before moving to Oxford University for his doctorate.  His research interests lie in the area of business and public policy, particularly the interaction of firms and governments in the development of international regulatory regimes.  He has edited or authored four books on international trade and European – American economic relations.  His work has been published in both management and political science journals including, International Business Review, Journal of Common Market Studies, Management International Review and Organization Studies. (back to top of page)

Kamel Mellahi is a Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Sheffield Management School, UK. His current work focuses on the factors that result in a loss of competitive advantage and how firm-level political resources contribute to corporate success or failure in emerging economies. His work has appeared in a number of journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of World Business, Long Range Planning, British Journal of Management, and International Journal of Human Resource Management. He has published three books, the most recent being Global Strategic Management with Oxford University Press. (back to top of page)

Stewart Miller is an Associate Professor of Management at The University of Texas – San Antonio. He received Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University, and earned M.B.A. and B.A. degrees from Northwestern University.  His research focuses on multinational enterprises, particularly in the areas of liability of foreignness (foreign subsidiary performance) and internationalization. It appears or is forthcoming in Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Academic of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Long-Range Planning and International Business Review among others. He teaches courses on International Strategy and Strategic Management. Stewart is a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of International Business Studies. (back to top of page)

Dr. Janet Y. Murray is E. Desmond Lee Professor for Developing Women Leaders and Entrepreneurs in International Business and Professor of Marketing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  She has previously held faculty positions at Saint Louis University, Cleveland State University, and City University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Murray's research interests focus on global sourcing and international marketing strategies, and competitive strategy in transitional economies.  Her research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of World Business, Management International Review,and others. She was a recipient of four Best Paper Awards.

Dr. Murray has provided consulting and executive training services to Fortune 500 and other firms.  Dr. Murray serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of International Management, International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets, and Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal.  She is serving a two-year term as the Vice President of the Women in the Academy of International Business. (back to top of page)

Thomas P. Murtha is Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  He is the co-author of Managing New Industry Creation: Global Knowledge Formation and Entrepreneurship in High Technology, a book about the corporate strategies and business history of the Flat Panel Display Industry (Stanford University Press, December, 2001), and an Amazon Top-25-selling technology management book for 2002.  He currently serves as co-coordinator of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research network on globalization of industries.  Tom received his Ph.D. from New York University and has served on the faculty and as coordinator of doctoral studies in international business at the University of Michigan Business School.  He has given hundreds of presentations on such topics as global new industry creation and national competitiveness for industry, government, and academic audiences across Asia, Europe and North America.  His academic articles have appeared in such outlets as The Strategic Management Journal, The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, The Academy of Management Journal, and The Journal of International Business Studies.  He is a former associate editor and department editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, responsible for the Technology and Innovation department.  He currently serves on the JIBS ERB. (back to top of page)

Dr. Bo Nielsen holds a Ph.D. in international business from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.  He has been a visiting scholar at University of Washington and an Assistant professor at Western Washington University.  Bo is currently an Associate professor of international business and strategy at the Center for Strategic Management and Globalization at Copenhagen Business School.

Dr. Nielsen has published in several international journals within three major research streams: (1) international strategic alliances and collaboration in general: (2) the multinational enterprise and internationalization strategies: (3) effective management of knowledge and intellectual capital in both alliances and multinational enterprises. (back to top of page)

Sabina Nielsen is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School. She received her Ph.D. from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and was a visiting scholar at University of Washington, Seattle and Copenhagen Business School. Her research interests are in the intersection of governance and international management. Her work focuses on the composition, dynamics and effects of top management teams and boards of directors, as well as diversity in multinational corporations. (back to top of page)

Michael Nippa (mnippa@marshall.usc.edu) is a Professor of Management, Leadership, and Human Resources at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology and had been a visiting scholar at the MOR department (USC, L.A.). He has also served as a Visiting Professor at the CCC (AGSM, Sydney). His research integrates international management, strategic leadership, organization, innovation, management consulting, and corporate governance. Prior to his academic career, he had been Managing Director of a Management Consulting firm and collaborated with several leading corporations, especially in the areas of strategy formulation and implementation, business process reengineering, and transnational organization. (back to top of page)

Claude Obadia is an Associate Professor of marketing at Advancia-Negocia, Paris, France. He focuses his research efforts on the management of export relationships and on strategic issues in international marketing. He has published articles in various journals such as Journal of European Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, International Marketing Review (forthcoming) and others, and presented his research at various international conferences.  He teaches subjects such as Marketing Management, International Marketing, Export Management and International BtoB Marketing. He regularly holds courses at other universities, e.g., at the WU-Vienna, Austria, the MIB in Trieste, Italy and at the University of Northern Colorado. Before joining academia, Claude Obadia spent over 20 years as an executive and consultant in various countries of Europe and South America. (back to top of page)

Dr. Nitin Pangarkar received his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan in 1993.  His research interests lie in the areas of strategic management and international business—specifically cross-border strategic alliances, mode of entry and global strategy.  Nitin’s research has been published in the form of several international journal articles in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, International Business Review, Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management and Journal of International Marketing.  He is a co-author of Business Strategy in Asia: A casebook published by Thomson Learning in 2001 and 2004 (re-printed in 2006).  He is also a co-author (with Loizos Heracleous and Jochen Wirtz) of Flying High in a Competitive Industry (McGraw Hill, 2006). (back to top of page)

Dr. Mark F. Peterson is a Professor of Management and International Business at Florida Atlantic University and holds a part-time Professor position supported by the Hofstede Chair in Cultural Diversity at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His principal interests are in questions of how culture and international relations affect the way organizations should be managed. He has published over 90 articles and chapters, a similar number of conference papers, and several books. The articles have appeared in major management and international management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, and Organization Science. He has also contributed international management themes to the basic social science literature through chapters in the Annual Review of Psychology, the Communication Yearbook, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. (back to top of page)

Peter Ping Li (Ph.D., George Washington University) is a Professor of Management at California State University, Stanislaus. His primary academic interest lies in the development of holistic, dynamic and dialectical frameworks concerning the impact of informal factors and dynamic changes on global strategic management. In particular, his recent research focuses on reexamining the extant Western theories international business and strategic management from the cultural and social perspective of China and East Asia, especially by adopting the duality lens of formal-informal interplay. He is currently on the editorial boards of Management & Organizational Review and Asia Pacific Journal of Management, the two leading academic journal devoted to the managerial issues in Asia. (back to top of page)

Nathalie Prime is an Associate Professor of Marketing at ESCP-EAP, European School of Management (Paris Campus). She is specialized in International marketing and cross-cultural management. She published articles in various journals such as International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, Journal of Euro-Marketing, Revue Française du Marketing and others, and presented her research at various international conferences. Her book, Marketing International (co-authored with Jean-Claude Usunier, Vuibert Editions) has been awarded the prize of the Académie des Sciences Commerciales 2004. She teaches Intercultural Marketing Management, Management Across Cultures, International Business Negotiation, International Strategy and International Marketing. Most of her professional experience and interest relates to fast growing markets in South India, Africa and Middle-East. She has taught in many different countries over the last 20 years and she currently holds courses in Vietnam, Lebanon and Algeria. She has been a regular visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in India over the last 10 years. (back to top of page)

Larissa Rabbiosi (lr.smg@cbs.dk) is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Strategic Management and Globalization at Copenhagen Business School. She earned her Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano. Her current research interest lies in strategy, knowledge and innovation, with a focus on issues related to knowledge transfer in multinational corporations, complementarities between technological innovation and organizational change, and relationships between management response in post-acquisition integration and post-deal innovative activity. (back to top of page)

Until this summer, Taco Reus is an Assistant Professor in strategic management at Florida Atlantic University, after which he will join Erasmus University.  He earned a Masters degree in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, and a doctoral degree in Strategic Management from Florida State University.  For his dissertation, he was recognized as a Finalist in the Organization Science 2003 Dissertation Proposal Competition, and a Finalist for the 2005 Gunner-Hedlund Dissertation Competition in International Business.  Taco’s research interests include knowledge management, post-merger integration, and international strategies. (back to top of page)

Tiina Ritvala received her Ph.D. in international business from the Helsinki School of Economics, Finland in 2007. Prior to joining academic life, she worked in the consulting business for 10 years.
Her research interests include industry emergence, institutional entrepreneurship, interaction between firms, public authorities and NGOs, as well as the impact of globalization on health and nutrition issues.

Her industry focus covers food and health industry, concentrating on the functional foods markets.

She is currently engaged in research and teaching activities on international business and case study research at the Department of Marketing and Management of the Helsinki School of Economics.

E-mail: tiina.ritvala@hse.fi. (back to top of page)

Kendall Roth holds the J. Willis Cantey Chair of International Business and Economics and serves as Chair of the Sonoco International Business Department at Moore School of Business (MSB) at the University of South Carolina.  He received his Ph.D. in International Business from the University of South Carolina in 1986 and has been on the faculty of MSB since that time. He teaches global strategic management at the masters level and doctoral seminars in international business theory, international management, and cultural frameworks and methods. He has received the Alfred G. Smith Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Roth’s current research focuses on institutional and sociocultural approaches to understanding organization practices and routines within multinational enterprises. His interests include cultural frameworks from a methodological perspective, and applied to understanding behaviors within the multinational context.  Dr. Roth’s research has been published in numerous academic journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal.  He is a member of the Board of Senior Consulting Editors for Journal of International Business Studies and also serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal. He has been active in the Academy of International Business, most recently as the chair of the Richard Farmer Dissertation Award Committee and as a member of the AIB Best Paper Award Committee.  He is also involved in the Academy of Management, serving in roles such as a member of the Research Committee in the International Management Division, and chairing the AMJ Best Paper Committee. (back to top of page)

Stephen Rudman received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 2003, following a business career in which he worked in international ocean shipping, multimodal transportation, manufacturing and international banking. His case-study research on management of the China affiliates of US Multinationals is the first in-depth treatment of this subject. Rudman’s book, The Multinational Corporation in China: Controlling Interests was published by Blackwell in 2006 and was nominated for the George R. Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management. He has taught at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, and served on the staff of the University's Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center. Rudman has lectured extensively before professional audiences and in management training programs in the USA, China and South Africa. (back to top of page)

Professor Jane E. Salk is a 2006 winner of the Decade Award, given by the Academy of International Business for the publication having the most impact on its area within the field of International Business.  She joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Dallas in 2002 after serving as a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, The Essec Business School in Paris, and The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Her PhD is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and she has been the recipient of Fulbright and Kenan Fellowships.

Her areas of expertise include joint venture and acquisition strategy, implementation and integration, executive training in strategy for global companies and cross-cultural team-building. 

Her research topics include international alliances in acquisitions, cross-national management team integration and organizational learning and knowledge management.  She has been a guest lecturer at leading institutions including INSEAD, St. Gallen, University of Vienna, Tilburg, and Tel Aviv Universities.  She has over 25 publications that have appeared in leading journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Comparative Political Studies and Journal of International Business Studies as well as books from Oxford University Press and Wiley. Current Interests include the impact of Web 2.0 on innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging economies and the socially construction of knowledge. (back to top of page)

Jan H. Schumann graduated in Psychology from University of Potsdam, Germany. He now is as a Ph.D.-student at the Department of Services and Technology Marketing at Technical University of Munich. He currently is a Visiting Scholar at Thunderbird School of Global Management. His research interests are cross-cultural differences in the antecedents and consequences of trust in relational service exchange. His research has been accepted at diverse conferences, including the AMA Winter Educator`s Conferences 2007 and 2008, and the 2008 AMS Conference on Cross-Cultural Issues in Marketing. He also won a student scholarship award at the 2007 DSI Miniconference on Service Science. (back to top of page)

Sandra Seno-Alday has been teaching in management and international business for 15 years, specializing in strategy, organization development, competitive intelligence and risk.  She has also been a business development consultant for a variety of medium to large organizations from a broad spectrum of industries, providing strategic research and organization development solutions.

Her current research interests are in MNE theory and internationalisation and performance.  She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Economics at the Discipline of International Business, Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney in Australia. (back to top of page)

Roger Smeets is a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Nijmegen School of Management of the Raboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. In his Ph.D. thesis he investigates the role of multinational heterogeneity in knowledge diffusion from and to MNEs and their subsidiaries. The paper he has submitted for the JIBS PD workshop is part of the thesis and specifically deals with the relationship between firm heterogeneity and technology seeking strategies. (back to top of page)

Oxana Smochin been admitted as a Ph.D. student at Goteborg University in Sweden since January 2007. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, she was enrolled in Master of Science Degree in International Business, at Graduate Business School, GoteborgUniversity, Sweden. During her Master degree studies, Smochin had the opportunity to accumulate knowledge and experiences participating in projects at Akzo Nobel Surfactants, Sweden and Philips Medical Systems. In addition, in 2002 she volunteered as a teacher of the “Young Leader Development” course in schools of Republic of Moldova. (back to top of page)

Wolfgang Sofka is a Research Fellow of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany. He holds a doctoral degree in innovation management from the University of Hamburg, Germany. His research focuses on the opportunities and challenges from open innovation strategies in a globalized environment. It has recently been recognized by the Journal of International Management, Research Policy and MIT Sloan Management Review.  Areas of Specialization include Internationalization of innovation activities, Open Innovation and Competitiveness in a globalized business environment.  Education: Dr. University of Hamburg, Germany; Visiting scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; MA, Wayne State University, Detroit; MBA, University of Augsburg, Germany. (back to top of page)

Dr. Pei Sun is an Associate Professor in Industrial Economics at the School of Management, Fudan University. He received his Ph.D. in business and management economics from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, U.K. Before he joined Fudan in November 2007, he was a Lecturer in Industrial/Managerial Economics at Nottingham University Business School between 2005 and October 2007 (tenured in November 2006). He is currently undertaking research on corporate governance and strategy, industrial organization, and industrial policy in emerging markets and transition economies, especially China. He has published papers in renowned academic journals such as Cambridge Journal of Economics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Economics Letters, and World Development. His book – The Chinese Steel Industry: Government Policy and Competitiveness Build-up – is to be published by Routledge in London and New York. (back to top of page)

Catherine Sutton-Brady is a Senior Lecturer in marketing in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney. She holds an MBS from the National University of Ireland and was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Western Sydney in Australia.  Her research interests lie in the area of international marketing, business to business marketing (with a particular focus on relationships and networks), and marketing education. She has published articles in the Journal of Business Research and Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education and various other journals. She has also presented papers at many international conferences and invited seminars. (back to top of page)

Anand Swaminathan is Goizueta Chair and Professor of Organization and Management in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Prior to joining Goizueta, he taught organizational theory and strategy at the University of California at Davis. Before that, he taught corporate strategy at the University of Michigan Business School. His research touches a wide range of organizational issues, including industry evolution, strategies for niche/specialist firms, and applications of social network theory. His current research explores the structure and history of the American brewing and wine industries, the structure of open source software development communities, as well as career mobility among winery managers and NFL coaching staff. (back to top of page)

Laszlo Tihanyi is Associate Professor of Management and Mays Research Fellow in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He received a Ph.D. in strategic management from Indiana University and a Doctorate in business economics from Budapest University of Economic Sciences in his native Hungary. His current research explores the involvement of board of directors in foreign direct investment, the institutional environment of internationalization decisions, and the effects of social movements on multinational firms.  His papers have been published or are forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and others. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of World Business. (back to top of page)

Rob van Tulder holds a PhD degree (cum laude) in social sciences from the University of Amsterdam. He published in particular on the following topics: European Business, Multinationals, high-tech industries, Corporate Social Responsibility, the global car industry, issues of standardisation, network strategies, smaller industrial countries (welfare states) and European Community/Union policies. Van Tulder acted as consultant for various international organisations (like the European Union, UNCTAD, IMF, OECD), Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs), ministries and companies. He is the research director of the ERIM (Erasmus Research Institute of Management) research project “International Business-Society Management” , the SCOPE databank project (that compiles the lists of the largest transnational firms in the world together with UNCTAD) and co-founder of the Expert Centre on Sustainable business and development cooperation (www.ecsad.nl). Van Tulder taught executive courses on International Strategic Management with (executive) managers and academics and has been visiting professor at several international universities. Van Tulder’s latest books include “international business-society Management: linking corporate responsibility and globalization” (Routledge, 2006: www.ib-sm.org) and ‘Skill Sheets: an integrated approach to research, study and management” (Pearson international, 2007: www.skillsheets.com). (back to top of page)

Rosalie L. Tung is Professor of International Business at Simon Fraser University (Canada).  She holds the Ming and Stella Wong Chaired Professorship.  Through an election of her peers of over 13,000 professors of management and practitioners worldwide, Prof. Tung has been elected to serve a five-year term beginning with the position of Vice President-elect of the Academy of Management in 2000-2001, progressing to the positions of President in 2003-2004 and past President in 2004-2005.  She has also been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, as a Fellow of the Academy of Management, and as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. She is the winner of the 1998 Vancouver YWCA Woman of the Year Award in Management, the Professions and the Trades. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of British Columbia in 1977.  She was formerly a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, Business Administration, with the University of Wisconsin System.  She also held the position of Director, International Business Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  She has served on the faculties of the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), University of Oregon, and as a visiting professor at Harvard University, University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (England), the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University, and China Europe International Business School (Shanghai, China).  She has taught at the Foreign Investment Commission (now known as the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations).  She has served on the United Nations’ Task Force on Human Resource Management.

Prof. Tung is the author or editor of ten books. She has also published widely on the subjects of international management and organizational theory in journals such as the Columbia Journal of World Business, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Executive, California Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management, Wharton Annual, Pacific Basin Economic Review (a publication of The Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates), Multilingua (a publication of the European Economic Community), and Euro-Asia Business Review (INSEAD, France).  Her research has been cited in leading national and international newspapers and news magazines, including the International Herald Tribune, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and East Asian Executive Reports.

Professor Tung has served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management, as past chairperson of the International Management Division, Academy of Management, and as a Treasurer and member of the Executive Board, Academy of International Business.  She is the editor of International Human Resource Management for the Journal of World Business (formerly Columbia Journal of World Business) and is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies.  She also sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals.  Dr. Tung has lectured widely at leading universities throughout the world and is active in the internationalization efforts of business schools worldwide.  She has been appointed as a member of the Commercial Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association, and is actively involved in management development and consulting activities around the world.   Prof. Tung is the recipient of the 1997 American Society for Advanced Global Competitiveness Research Award. (back to top of page)

Jean-Claude Usunier is a graduate of HEC (Paris, international business). He holds a Master in international Law and a Ph.D. in international economics from the University of Paris. Currently at the School of Business of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, his research interests are cross-cultural consumer behaviour, cultural aspects of international marketing, comparative management, and international business negotiations. He serves on the editorial board of several international business journals (JIBS, MIR, IBR, JWB, IJCCM, JBR). His 2007 research was published in International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Research in Personality, Time and Society, and Journal of International Marketing. (back to top of page)

Arjen van Witteloostuijn is a Research Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Antwerpen in Belgium, where he is director of the Antwerp Centre for Evolutionary Demography. Moreover, he is Professor of Institutional Economics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Professor of Strategy at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. He holds degrees in business, economics and psychology. In 1996-1998, he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Maatricht University (the Netherlands). He is (former) member of the editorial board of, e.g., Academy Management Journal, British Journal of Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies, and Strategic Organization. Apart from many (chapters in) books, and articles in Dutch dailies and journals, he has published widely in such international journals as the Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Accounting, Organizations & Society, American Sociological Review, Economica, Economics of Education Review, European Journal of Political Economy, History of Political Economy, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Management Science, Metroeconomica, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Organization Studies, Personality and Individual Differences, Strategic Management Journal and Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv. On a regular basis, he is involved in consultancy and training activities for private and public organizations. His research interests range from international macroeconomics and personality psychology to industrial economics and organizational behavior. (back to top of page)

Irena Vida is an Associate Professor of marketing at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana (FELU) in Slovenia. She focuses her research efforts on application of consumer behavior theories and models in cross-cultural settings and on strategic issues in international marketing. She published articles in various journals such as Journal of European Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, International Marketing Review, International Business Review and others, and presented her research at various international conferences.  She teaches subjects such as Marketing Management, International Marketing, Consumer Behavior and Cross-cultural Communications Management at FELU. In addition, she regularly holds courses at other universities, e.g., at the WU-Vienna, Austria, the MIB in Trieste, Italy, at the ESCP-EAP in Paris, France as well as in Finland, Bosnia and Croatia. (back to top of page)

Susan Wong is completing her PhD degree in International Business at  the University of Sydney (under a three-year scholarship).  She presented papers at the AIB conferences (2005, 06) and the AoM meeting 2007.   Wong won the Best Thesis Proposal Award at the ANZIBA Conference 2006.  She is involved in the teaching and research activities of the International Business Discipline at Sydney University.  Previously, she taught at the University of Auckland, NZ.  Prior to teaching and research, her business experience (marketing) includes working for American Express.  Wong’s research interests include, strategic management, interfirm network, international entrepreneurship, knowledge/value/wealth creation and creative industries (export). (back to top of page)

Dr. Xiaohua Yang is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.   She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, USA.  Dr. Yang’s scholarship has centered on firms’ competitive strategies intersected with international institutional environments.  She has published and presented numerous papers in international journals, books and conferences.  She has taught and lectured in four continents: North America, Asia, Australia and Europe.  She serves on the editorial review board of Asia Pacific Journal of Management and is a co-editor for the Journal’s Special Issue on Varieties of Asian Capitalism: Indigenization and Internationalization.  Dr. Yang is an elected executive officer of International Association for Chinese Management Research. (back to top of page)

Lin Yuan is currently a Doctoral Candidate of Business Policy at National University of Singapore, and fully expected to complete her Ph.D. degree requirements by August 2009. Her research interest focuses on diversification strategy of developing country MNCs. Till now, she has published 7 conference papers in this area at the most selective conferences (Academy of Management and Academy of International Business).  One of her papers has also been selected for inclusion in the AOM Best Papers this year. She is also the William H. Newman Award nominee of AOM 2008. With excellent academic records, she received a full research scholarship from 2004 till now. (back to top of page)

Dr. Ulku Yuksel is an Academic Lecturer and researcher in Marketing at The University of Sydney, Faculty of Economics and Business since 2004. Previously she worked as an Assistant Professor & Visiting Scholar in Marketing, at the Michigan State University.

Dr. Yuksel is a research active academic member of the faculty. Her research interests include international marketing, cross-cultural marketing and consumer behavior, culture and consumption, and anti-consumption behavior of consumers (public policy, political marketing and boycott behavior). Her research explores consumers’ evaluations and decisions as they involve counting on, trusting, and following others, brands, and products together with consumer information processing in relation to brand, corporate, country image and cultural perceptions.

Dr. Yuksel is full member of professional associations such as AIB, AM, ANZMAC, EMAC, and CIMAR. She is on the editorial board of The E-Journal Of Ethnic Marketing: http://www.joemonline.org/, http://www.joemonline.org/editorial%20board.htm and International Academy of E-Business (IAEB), http://www.iaeb.org, (adm@iaeb.net),. Dr. Yuksel works as ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Consumer Behavior, and ANZMAC conferences. (back to top of page)

Sri Zaheer (Ph.D., MIT) is the Associate Dean of Faculty and Research at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, and Reviewing Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies.  She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and a past Chair of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management.  Sri’s research focuses on the influence of technology on global organization and the legitimacy of multinational enterprises. Her recent work includes “Does it Matter Where Countries Are?  Proximity to knowledge, markets and resources and MNE location choices,” (with L. Nachum and S. Gross), forthcoming, Management Science.  Prior to joining academics, Sri worked for major MNCs including Sandoz (India) and the Tatas. (back to top of page)

Lena Zander is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Sweden, and currently Visiting Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. Her academic background includes studies at the SSE and visiting scholarships at Stanford University and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Journal of International Business Studies’, and the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management’s (IJCCM) editorial review boards. Following Lena’s multiple awarded Ph. D. dissertation she has published chapters and articles in international books and academic journals, edited books and special issues of IJCCM and International Studies of Management and Organization. (back to top of page)