Ruth V. Aguilera is an Associate Professor and a Fellow at the Center for Professional Responsibility for Business and Society at the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds courtesy appointments at the School of Labor and Employment Relations, the College of Law and the Department of Sociology at Illinois. She received her Masters and PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. Her research interests fall at the intersection of economic sociology and international business, specifically in the fields of comparative corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. She has co-edited a book with Prof. Federowicz entitled Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment (Palgrave McMillan, 2004), and published articles in academic journals such Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, and Organization Science.

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Ulf Andersson is Professor of Strategy and International Management at the Center for Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School. He has been a Professor of International Business at Uppsala University where he also earned his Doctoral degree. His research focuses on subsidiary development, knowledge governance and transfer, network theory, strategy and management of the MNC. His research is published in, among other journals, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, International Business Review, Management International Review and Organization Studies. He has more than 20 years experience in teaching courses at all levels. Andersson serves in several Editorial Review Boards for, among others, JIBS, IBR and MIR.

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Preet S. Aulakh is the Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business and Director, of the PhD Program at York Univeristy. He holds a BSc and MA from Punjab, India and a PhD from Texas-Austin His research focuses on three broad areas. First, he studies how the interactions of governance structures and relational dynamics improve performance of dyadic as well as portfolio of firms’ international alliances. Second, he examines international technology licensing with particular emphasis on studying the motivations behind using licensing as a foreign entry strategy, structuring of licensing contracts, and effective ways to transfer knowledge in licensing partnerships. Third, and much of his recent research focus, is to understand the internationalization of firms from emerging economies. Within the geographical contexts of India, China, and Latin America, he explores how firm and institutional factors influence the extent and diverse paths of organic and inorganic growth of organizations from these countries.

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Daniel Bello (Georgia State University). EDUCATION: Ph.D., Michigan State University, M.B.A., University of Wisconsin, B.B.A., University of Wisconsin SPECIALIZATIONS: Marketing distribution systems, Export channels of distribution, Marketing strategy and research. His areas of interest are in the design and management of marketing distribution systems. His research focus is on the efficiency and effectiveness of domestic and international distribution arrangements. He has expertise in special distribution methods such as trade shows and export channels. Bello’s research has been published in professional journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Industrial Marketing Management, and Journal of Advertising. He has served on the editorial boards of various professional journals, including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, and Journal of Business Research.

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Rabi S. Bhagat is a Professor of International Management and Organizational Behavior at the Fogelman College of Business and Economics of the University of Memphis. Professor Bhagat received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977. His M.A. is in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois (1974), and he holds another M.A. (with honors) in Industrial Relations from the Xavier Institute in India (1972). He completed a B.S. (with honors) in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur (1969). His current research interests are focused in the international and cross-cultural variations of organizational and management processes with special emphasis on the interaction of cultural variations and globalization.

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Mousumi Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor at Fairfield University. She received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University. Her current research interests are strategic human resource management, international human resource management, business strategy, and entrepreneurship.

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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.

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Dirk Boehe - Assistant professor at Insper Institute of Education and Research (ex IBMEC São Paulo). Researcher in international management / international business. Doctor in business administration (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2005). Master of Arts (M.A.) in Latin American Studies, Management and Political Sciences (Freie Universitat Berlin, 1999). Current research projects on multinational corporations in Brazil, export and internationalization strategies. Professional work experience in international business in Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela), Germany and Britain.

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Marcelo Bucheli: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). PhD Stanford University (2002). He studies international business history with particular focus on the political economy of multinational corporations in less developed countries. His research has focused on the banana and oil industries in Latin America. He was the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School in 2004-2005 and received the Newcomen Award for the best article of the year published in Business History Review and the Article of the Year Award from the Petroleum History Society for the best article in petroleum history published in 2009.

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Paula Caligiuri, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, is a Professor of Human Resource Management Department in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, where she is the Director of the Center for Human Resource Strategy (CHRS). She has lectured in numerous universities in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Professor Caligiuri researches, publishes, and consults in three primary areas: strategic human resource management in multinational organizations, global leadership development, and global assignee management and was listed among the most prolific authors in the field of International Business according to a 2005 study conducted by Michigan State University.

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Dr. John Cantwell is Professor of International Business at Rutgers University, having arrived from the UK in 2002. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy), the University of the Social Sciences, Toulouse (France), and the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna (Austria). He is recognized as a pioneer in the field of research on multinational companies and technology creation, beyond merely international technology transfer. He was the President of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) in 1992, and in 2001 he was elected as one of four EIBA Founding Fellows. Fellowships recognize outstanding achievements in research and education in the field of international business, and the number of Fellows is restricted to no more than 20.

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Dominic Chai is an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Business Economics at Manchester Business School. Born in Seoul, Korea and raised in California, Dominic received his B.A. in Political Science from University of California, Berkeley. Subsequently, he received M.Sc. in International Political Economy and Ph.D. in Management from the London School of Economics. During his doctoral studies, he spent two years as a Research Fellow in an interdisciplinary Law and Finance project at Cambridge’s Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School. His current research projects aim to consider the mechanisms by which legal institutions shape national financial systems and firm-level governance, so as to identify the implications of legal reforms for corporate strategic developments.

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Masud Chand is an Assistant professor of International Business at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. He completed his PhD in International Business from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC in 2009. His dissertation topic was " How does the Indian diaspora help drive trade and investment ties between India and North America? An exploratory study". His research interests include the role of diasporas in driving trade and investment between their home and host countries, as well as how entrepreneurship is similar and different across different immigrant communities.

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Shih-Fen Chen is the William Shurniak Professor in International Business at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. He earned his BBA from National Cheng Kung University, MBA from Michigan State University, and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Chen teaches Global Strategy at Ivey and conducts case teaching/writing workshops for Ivey’s Asian Management Institute. Prior to joining Ivey, he was on the faculty of Brandeis University and Kansas State University, and taught executive training courses in the US and Asia. He held several executive positions in business over a period of eight years before returning to school to pursue a PhD.

His research interests cover foreign investment, entry mode choice, global banding, and offshore outsourcing. He has published five articles in the Journal of International Business Studies (four of them sole-authored). His other work has also been published in the Strategic Management Journal, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Retailing, and Journal of Business Research.

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Wenjie Chen graduated with a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI and went on to obtain my MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. I am currently an assistant professor of international business at the George Washington School of Business in Washington, DC. My research examines the impact of foreign direct investment on corporate performance with a particular focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions by firms in emerging markets. I am member of the American Economic Association and the Academy of International Business.

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Joseph L. C. Cheng is Professor of International Business and Management and Director of the Illinois Global Business Initiative in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Ilinois. He is a former director of the Illinois Center for International Business Education and Research (1999-2006), and a past chair of the Academy of Management’s International Management Division (2002-03). Professor Cheng received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has previously taught at the Ohio State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (visiting), Virginia Tech, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During the Spring 2003 semester, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Cheng's current research interests include strategy and organization design for transnational firms, global competition and multinational management, foreign R&D investment, societal influence on business and management practice, and organizational change and innovation.

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Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Ph.D., Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999, joined the University of South Carolina in 2005. Before then, he was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota. From 2003-2004, he was a visiting professor at Cornell University. Dr. Cuervo-Cazurra analyzes how firms internationalize. Specifically, he studies how firms become internationally 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 in corruption in international business. Recently, he has started a long-term research project analyzing the emergence of developing-country multinational firms. His geographical area of expertise is Latin America. He has done fieldwork in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Spain.

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Pavlos Dimitratos is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; and, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow to the Centre of Internationalization and Enterprise Research of the Department of Management, University of Glasgow, UK. His research interests include small and medium-sized internationalization, international entrepreneurship and multinational subsidiary activities. He has published over 20 articles in journals such as the Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Business History, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Management International Review, International Small Business Journal, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Human Resource Management, and Environment and Planning. He is also the coeditor in six books by international publishing houses.

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Susan P. Douglas is the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Marketing and International Business at New York University Stern School of Business. She received her Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. Prior to joining New York University in 1978, Professor Douglas taught at Centre-HEC, Jouy-en-Josas, France and was a faculty member of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels. She has also taught in executive programs in France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Taiwan, Singapore, India, South Africa and the former Yugoslavia. Her research interests focus on global marketing strategy, cross-cultural consumer research and methodological issues in international marketing research. Her work on global marketing strategy focuses on the competitive and spatial dimensions of strategy as well as global branding strategy. Her cross-cultural research interest relates to the changing dynamics of cultural influences and the implications for marketing as well as the methodological aspects of the research.

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Douglas Dow is an Associate Professor in Business Strategy, and is one of the founding faculty members in the Mebourne Business School's Centre for the Practice of International Trade, University of Melbourne. After ten year career in the private sector, first as a engineer with Pratt & Whitney Canada, then as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, Professor Dow moved into academia. After an initial series of peer-reviewed publications concerning ISO 9000 and the performance implications of TQM, Professor Dow shifted his research focus to international business issues, with a particular interest in the concept of psychic distance and its in=mpact on market selection, entry mode and international performance. As a result Professor Dow has published in a wide variety of journals ranging from the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of International Marketing, to the Journal of Management, the Journal of Operations Management and the Production and Operations Management journal.

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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.

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Nicolas Forsans is a Lecturer in Strategic Management at Leeds University. His research interest is centred on three main areas, i) the impact of regional trade agreements on the foreign market servicing strategies of multinational firms (exports, licensing, FDI), in particular in North America, ii) corporate strategies of multinational firms with regard to emerging economies such as India, and iii) the emergence of "third world" multinationals, the increasing importance of Indian business groups and their internationalization strategies.

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Roberto Galang is a fourth-year doctoral student from the IESE Business School in Barcelona, where he is currently completing his dissertation research on the impact of state governance on international technology diffusion. He is concurrently an adjunct professor of economics and strategy at the Asian Institute of Management in Manila. He obtained his master's degree in development economics from Oxford University. In addition to being an academic, he has close to ten years of professional experience as an economic consultant in the United States and the Philippines; his work focused mainly on the analysis of regulatory issues for private corporations.

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Dr. Axèle Giroud is Senior Lecturer in International Business at Manchester Business School. She has previously worked in the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Bradford University School of Management. She has conducted several research projects on Asian and multinational firms' activities in the region. She is interested in issues of knowledge transfer, multinational firms’ linkages in host economies and multinational strategies. She is regularly invited as a keynote speaker (recently invited to events organised by the World Bank, the United Nations, and Bank of America) and has published articles and book chapters as well as completing several research reports for major organizations such as the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation, the British Department for International Development and the ASEAN Secretariat. She recently published Transnationals, Technology and Economic Development (Edward Elgar, 2003) and Multinationals and Asia: Organizational and Institutional Relationships (Routledge, 2005). She is currently leading a cross-country research project on MNEs in Small Economies, with data being collected in 6 different countries.

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Sid Gray is Professor of International Business and Co-Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the University of Sydney. His research interests include the global convergence of accounting standards, international corporate governance and transparency, internationalization processes and business performance, and the effectiveness of cross-cultural and expatriate management. Sid was formerly a professor at the Universities of Glasgow, Warwick and New South Wales. He has also been a visiting professor at many schools including the University of Amsterdam, Stockholm School of Economics, National University of Singapore, and Waseda University.

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Christoph Grimpe is a project leader in the department of industrial economics and international management at the ZEW Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim (Germany). Moreover, he is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). At ZEW he is engaged with issues in innovation policy research, technology management and international business. He is a policy advisor and consultant to the European Commission and to the German government. In 2005, he received his PhD from WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar (Germany). He holds an MA in political sciences and an MBA from the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt (Germany).

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Xia Han is a doctoral student at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her main research interests lie in the area of firm’s entry mode choice, in particular in the international context. She investigates the post-entry implications of international expansion by service multinational corporations; the development of host country’s institutions in the emerging markets; the legal aspects of market entry and operation. At present, Xia Han is undertaking research about the entry mode choice of service MNCs in emerging market with emphasis on the international hotel firms in China. Xia Han started her doctoral study at Smurfit School of Business, University College Dublin from 2008. She holds a Bachelor degree of Commerce from University College Dublin where she specialised in international business and a Master of Commercial Law from the University of Edinburgh (UK) where she completed her thesis in Competition Law. Xia Han also has keen interests in the field of law with particular focus on the implementation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services [GATS] and also the recently enforced Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law. Both of these are extensively related to her current research of service firm’s foreign market modal choice and performance.

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James Hodder is the Charles and Laura Albright Professor of Finance, a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Business and Director of the Quantitative Master’s in Finance (QMF) Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, he was on the faculty at Stanford University from 1978 to 1992 and also was a visiting scholar in the Economics Department at Osaka University in 1986. In recent years, most of his teaching has been in options and other derivative securities. Hodder also has taught courses in corporate finance and multinational financial management. His research interests include derivative pricing, international capital structure, Japanese corporate finance, real options and credit risk. He is working on several projects that involve valuing derivatives on controlled stochastic processes, as well as a project studying capital structure decisions by large Japanese firms during 1984-2000, a period of economic turbulence n Japan. Hodder holds a BSIE and a Ph.D. (economics) from Stanford University as well as a M.A. (economics) from the University of California (Berkeley) and a MBA from the University of Michigan.

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Zeng-Yu Victor HUANG is completing his final stage of Doctoral studies at Ireland’s leading business school the Smurfit School of Business, University College Dublin. He received his Masters Degree from the same institute, and studied at Jilin University (China) and EHL (Switzerland). His research interests include: radical innovation, entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, multicultural experience, Chinese Management & Organisations, Entry Mode Choice of Service MNEs, etc.; Victor was a China national award recipient and held a visiting scholarship to China’s elite Tsing-hua University in 2007. He is a founding member of International association of Chinese management research (IACMR); a member of the AOM (U.S.A), and AIB (U.S.A).

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Yujin Jeong is assistant professor of International Business at HEC Montréal (starting from June, 2010). Her PhD in Business Administration (expected this summer) is from The George Washington University. Coming from a Washington DC business school with a policy focus, Her dissertation addresses interactions between firms and governments in global markets where firms compete for a vital natural resource in the world (oil). In her dissertation, she focuses on roles that home-country institutions play in firms’ decisions when managers face external influences, such as bribe requests and government pressure. Her research interests broadly fall into corporate governance, institutions and the business-government relationship therein through an economics and finance perspective.

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Dr. Paul Kalfadellis is a Lecturer in the Department of Management at Monash University in Australia. His research and teaching strengths lie in the area of international business and cross-cultural management communication and teaches both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Paul was awarded his PhD in 2009. His thesis addressed the issue of location and the factors that encourage repeat investment by foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Australia. His research interests also lie in the area of the political/economic history of FDI in Australia and in the area of cross-cultural communication. Paul has presented his work at international conferences and has been published in academic journals and book chapters.

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Constantine S. Katsikeas is the Arnold Ziff Research Chair in Marketing and International Management at Leeds University Business School, Leeds University. Prior to this, he held the Sir Julian Hodge Chair in Marketing and International Business at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He holds a B.Sc. from Athens University of Economics and Business, an M.A. from Lancaster University and a Ph.D. from Cardiff University. His main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of marketing and sales management, strategic management, international marketing, strategic alliances and competitive strategy.

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Aurélia Lefaix-Durand (Native of France) completed her M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Business Management at Université Laval (Québec, Canada). During her doctoral studies, she has been a visiting student at University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) for 4 years. Since 2008, Aurelia is a full time Visiting Professor at the Torcuato Di Tella Business School (Buenos Aires, Argentina) where she teaches International Marketing in the Undergraduate Program in Business Economy and International Business Management to regular and in-company M.B.A. students. Her research interests revolve around the management of exchange between customers and suppliers in inter-cultural contexts for enhancing value creation and competitiveness.

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Kwok Leung obtained his Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is currently a chair professor of management at City University of Hong Kong. His research areas include justice and conflict, cross-cultural research methods, international business, and social axioms.

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Vinh Lu completed the PhD program in Marketing and International Business at the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 2009. He is now a Lecturer in International Business in the College of Business and Economics at the Australian National University, Australia. In his PhD dissertation, Vinh investigated the key success drivers of service exports, taking into account the role of several organizational characteristics, market characteristics, and the governance mechanisms deployed in the management of cross-border inter-firm relationships.

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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.

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Ashraf Abdelaal Mahmoud is appointed Assistant of Vice Chairman of General Authority for Investment and Free zones in Egypt in March 2007 till present , after acting as Senior Economic Researcher at The Chairman Technical Office from 2001. He has interest in the areas of Financial Economics, FDI, Poverty, Finance and Growth, Monetary Policies, International Business. He was born in Egypt in 1978. In 1999, He received his Bachelor of Commerce and Business Administration from Helwan University, Egypt. In 2005, he received a Master in International Business and public policy, University of Catania, Italy (Italian Ministry of foreign affairs scholarship) , and in 2007, he win the University of Rome scholarship to do Ph.D. in Economics (Money and Finance) . He speaks English, Italian, and Arabic.

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Mona V. Makhija is an Assistant Professor of Management & Human Resources at Ohio State University. Her research examines the institutional features of national environments that affect the structure and strategy of firms, the nature of competition and the behavior of managers. She also studies the structure and evolution of global industries, and the international strategies and organization of multinational firms competing in these industries. Much of her work utilizes primary data on managers and firms from around the world, including Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School of Business.

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John M. Mezias, Ph.D. 1998 NYU. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami. His specialties are strategic management, innovation, leadership development, networking, and team process/dynamics. Research interests include legal liability of firms, international HRM, and corporate governance.

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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.

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Santiago Mingo holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree from Harvard University. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Management in the School of Business Administration at the University of Miami. His research explores the interactions among entrepreneurial activity, corporate strategy, and the surrounding institutional and business environment. More specifically, he is concerned about how institutions and public policy affects industry competitiveness and new venture development in emerging markets. Most of his work uses Latin America as a research setting. Santiago has published in top management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, and has presented his research in numerous conferences and universities around the U.S. and Europe.

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Surender Munjal is a Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Leeds. He is also a Assistant Professor at MLNE College, University of Delhi (INDIA), currently on leave to pursue his PhD. His current research work focuses on the outbound activities of Indian MNE and internationalisation frameworks. His research interests are broad and range across accounting, taxation, finance and marketing, which is mainly due to his former qualifications. He has completed M.Phil in Marketing from Delhi School of Economics and also holds the professional qualifications of Chartered Accountancy and Management Accountancy, both from India.

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Lilach Nachum, Professor of International Business and Management, Baruch College, City University New York.

My major professional interests and expertise are the theory of the MNE and its distinctiveness as an organizational form, technology and value creation across distance, and location decisions and firms’ strategy. I am the author of two books and a large number of articles, published in journals such as Management Science, Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Business Studies, among others.

Prior to joining Baruch College in 2002, I was a Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge University, UK. Earlier, I held a Senior Member position in the Research Division on Foreign Investment and Transnational Corporations at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. In conjunction with these positions, I have been acting as consultant to a number of national and international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union, London's Westminster City Council. I have been holding visiting research and teaching positions at universities in Austria, China, Hong-Kong, Israel, Italy, Poland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK. I am a Consulting Editor and a Board Member of the Journal of International Business Studies and a Board Member of the Global Strategy Journal (of the Strategic Management Society) and Management International Review.

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William Newburry is an Associate Professor and the Knight Ridder Center Research Professor in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University. He received his PhD in international business and management from New York University. His areas of expertise are managing international subsidiaries and joint ventures, international environmental management, and employee attraction to global firms.

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Zhaleh Najafi Tavani is a third year PhD student in international business at Manchester Business School. Her focus is on reverse knowledge transfer and subsidiary knowledge development within the context of knowledge intensive business services. Her first and second degree was in computer hardware engineering and industrial engineering respectively. Before coming to the UK, she was a hardware/network manager in a consultant company. Since the early stage of her PhD, she has been accepted in the best conferences in the field of international business including Academy of International Business and European International Business Association annual conference.

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Dr. Mark F. Peterson is the Internet Coast Adams Professor of Management and International Business at Florida Atlantic University. His principal interests are in questions of how culture and international relations affect the way organizations should be managed. He has published over 80 articles and chapters, a similar number of conference papers, and several books. Specific topics in his writings include the role different parties play in decision making in organizations throughout the world, the effects that culture has on the role stresses that managers experience, the way immigrant entrepreneur communities operate, and the way that intercultural relationships in multicultural teams and across hierarchical levels should function. Since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1979, Prof. Peterson has held faculty positions at Wayne State University, the University of Miami, Texas Tech University and Florida Atlantic University.

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Anke Piepenbrink is a third year PhD student of International Business at Rutgers Business School. Her focus of interest is innovation and technology management in the international context. In her dissertation Anke studies standard development organizations and their impact on the evolution of technology and the internationalization strategy of MNCs and their subsidiaries' evolution.. Prior to joining academia she worked for 17 years in a S&P top 500 headquartered in Germany with various positions in R&D, sales and strategy, including a four years' stay in China. Anke has a science background with a PhD in astrophysics.

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Charlie Reuter worked and studied in a number of Western countries, traveled further than that and learned from a variety of academic disciplines. He developed a practical and intimate understanding of the challenges and opportunities brought about by multi-nationality. He is currently completing his PhD dissertation in finance on the topic of culture and finance. His research aims at building an understanding of the connections between these two disciplines. This objective is a challenge because culture has had a major influence on epistemology in sociology, in anthropology, in psychology, in the political sciences, etc. and it stands, somewhat, at the opposite of Finance in methodological terms (fuzziness, non linearity, no continuity, qualitative blend).

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Matthew Robson is Professor of Marketing at Leeds University Business School. He earned his Ph.D. from Cardiff University. His teaching and research interests focus on international, strategic, and relationship marketing.

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Thelma Rocha is a Researcher and Professor of International Business and Marketing from ESPM Sao Paulo - Brazil. She has a PhD in Business from University of Sao Paulo, and a Master in Business Administration from EAESP/FGV with specialization in International Business from Handels SSE (Stockholm School of Economics) Sweden. She has worked for fourteen years in management roles in multinational companies. She published articles in magazines, congress, and Journals. She published six books and chapters in Marketing and Business. Her research areas are International Marketing, Relationship Marketing and Transfer of Knowledge. Contact: tvrocha@espm.br.

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Omar Salgado has a PhD in International Manufacturing from the University of Cambridge. His Expertise areas include Business Consulting: Supply Chain, Manufacturing, ERP; Operations Manager: Distribution Centre, Production Management.

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Erica Salvaj is Assistant Professor of General Management and Strategy at ESE Business School, Chile. Dr. Salvaj holds a Master degree in Science and Technology Management from Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), and completed his Ph.D. in Business Administration at IESE Business School. Dr. Salvaj primary fields of research are corporate governance, strategy and social networks with particular focus in Latin America.
She has received fellowships and research grants from Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), IESE Business School-Universidad de Navarra and Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica de Chile (CONICYT).

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Lemma W. Senbet has been an influential member of the global community of finance scholars for over twenty five years. He holds the William E. Mayer endowed chair professorship in finance at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. Prior to his arrival at the University of Maryland, Professor Senbet had held two successive endowed professorships at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and served as a visiting professor at Northwestern University, UC Berkeley, and NYU. He was also a distinguished research visitor at the London School of Economics. Professor Senbet is internationally recognized for his widely cited contributions to corporate and international finance, which have appeared in such premier journals as Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Review of Financial Studies, etc. He has published over sixty papers. The 1986 survey ranked him third among world-wide contributing authors to the Journal of Finance for the period 1976-1985. The 2005 Journal of Financial literature survey cited him among the most prolific authors for a half century of contributions to the leading finance journals, 1953 through 2002 [ranked #26 among 5811 world-wide contributing authors]. Professor Senbet has supervised numerous doctoral students and placed them on the faculty of leading institutions, including Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Florida, and Minnesota. Professor Senbet has received numerous professional honors and recognitions for his impact on the profession. He has been elected twice as director of the American Finance Association and is a past president of the Western Finance Association. In 2006, Prof Senbet was inducted Fellow of the Financial Management Association International in recognition of career-long distinguished scholarship and professional service. In 2005, Professor Senbet was awarded an honorary doctor of Letters Honoris Causa by Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia’s flagship institution of higher learning and his alma mater. In 2000, he was inducted into the Financial Economists Roundtable, a distinguished group of world-wide financial economists who have made significant contributions to finance and seek to apply their knowledge to current policy debates. Professor Senbet has been appointed to over a dozen journal editorial boards, including extended tenures with the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Financial Management. In 1999 he was named executive editor of Financial Management and served two terms until 2005. In 2006 he was appointed Editor (Finance) for the Journal of International Business Studies. He has served as a consultant for the World Bank, the IMF, the UN, and various governmental and private agencies in USA, Canada, and Africa on issues relating to financial sector reforms and capital market development. He was a director of Fortis Funds and is currently an independent director for the Hartford Funds.

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Amir Shoham (PhD) holds degrees in Economics and Business Administration from Ben-Gurion University. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Business Administration, College of Management Israel. Shoham teaches for Rutgers university EMBA program and Baruch college Executive MS programs. The courses he teaches include Managerial Economics, Introduction to Finance, and International Financial Strategies. His research interests include international finance and international economics and he has recently published articles in Journal of International Business Studies, The Global Economy Journal, International Journal of Business and Economics, and Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy.

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Paulo Renato Soares Terra - Ph.D. in Management from McGill University (Montreal, Canada), M.Sc. in Management and B.Sc. in Business Administration from the Federal University of the Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, RS). Researcher and Associate Professor of the Graduate Program in Management of the School of Management of the Federal University of the Rio Grande do Sul (PPGA/EA/UFRGS). Associated researcher of École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal (HEC-Montreal). Visiting professor and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, USA). Visiting professor at Catholic University of Uruguay Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga (Montevidéu, Uruguay) and at Portucalense University Infante Dom Enrique (Oporto, Portugal).

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Elvira Sojli is an Assistant Professor of Finance and a Marie Curie Fellow in Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. She has a PhD and MSc from Warwick Business School and a BSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. Her research interests lie in empirical finance, focusing on international finance and market microstructure. Currently she is working on Sovereign Wealth Funds. Her work is published in the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking and has been presented in top conferences in the field like Western Finance Association, European Finance Association.

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Rajeev Sooreea is a Clinical Assistant Professor of International Business at The Pennsylvania State University. Previously, I taught economics at Penn State, and worked with the VP and CIO of Kellogg Foundation in Michigan in areas of financial management. My research interests encompass foreign markets entry strategies (in particular, FDI) and knowledge spillovers. I am also interested in finance-related issues such as international contagion and stock market volatilities. I hold a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Western Michigan University, a Master’s degree from Leeds University Business School from the U.K. and a Bachelor’s degree from Bombay University from India. I also hold a Professional Master’s degree in Management from Harvard University.

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Dr. Christina Stringer is Senior Lecturer in International Business in the Department of Management and International Business at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests include the agri-food and forestry industries; benchmarking and certification standards with a particular interest in the impact of standards on governance relationships; global value chains; and foreign direct investment in Latin America and Asia by New Zealand companies.

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Ciara Sutton defended her dissertation Foreign Indirect Investment in the Venture Capital Industry in May 2008 at the Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of Economics (Opponent was Professor Ram Mudambi, Temple University). Since then she has continued to explore the venture capital industry in Sweden and is currently involved in starting up a multi-disciplinary data collection project with the SVCA.

Currently on an awarded Wallander post-doc stipend, Ciara is affiliated with the Stockholm School of Economics and Uppsala University. She is also the Area Principal for Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics in Russia, and had various teaching responsibilities at the graduate and undergraduate level.

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Betina Szkudlarek is Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. She obtained her PhD in Management cum laude from the RSM. In her PhD research Betina looked at the phenomenon of cross-cultural re-entry training for intercultural sojourners. Her research, teaching and training expertise is in the areas of cross-cultural management, intercultural communication and international HRM. Her recent research interests include intercultural training and the reentry transition. Her work has been published in international journals including Organization Studies, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, and Management Learning.

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Pooja Thakur is a recent graduate from Rutgers University and she will join Virginia Tech as an assistant professor in Fall 2010. She received her PhD in International Business and her dissertation focuses on the externalization of core activities and their geographic coverage. She is specifically looking at the outsourcing and offshoring of clinical trials in the pharmaceutical industry. She received the Promising Dissertation Proposal award at the International Management Division of Academy of Management and the Best Doctoral Proposal Thesis Award at the European International Business Academy. She was also the second place runner up for Best Dissertation Proposal at the third annual PhD Consortium at Texas A&M International University. She has presented her work at numerous conferences including the Academy of International Business (AIB), Academy of Management (AOM) and European International Business Academy (EIBA) annual conferences. She has a recent publication in the International Journal of Human Resource Management and also has a few papers under review at reputed journals. Her research interests focus on off shoring, outsourcing, cross border M&As, and subsidiary performance. She has also taught international business and business policy and strategy to undergraduate and graduate students at the Rutgers Business School.

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David C. Thomas is Professor of International Management and Director of the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He also currently serves as Director of the PhD Program in Business Administration. Research interests centre on the behaviour of culturally different individuals in organizational settings. Current topics include: cross-cultural leader-member interactions, multi-cultural teams, and cultural differences in the relationship of employees with their employer. He received his Ph.D. from S. Carolina in International Business.

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Laszlo Tihanyi has been the organizer of the JIBS/AIB Paper Development Workshop since 2007. He is the B. Marie Oth Associate Professor in Business Administration in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in strategic management and international business from Indiana University and a Doctorate in business economics from Corvinus University of Budapest in his native Hungary. He is also an honorary professor in the Institute of Business Economics at Corvinus University.

His papers on internationalization, corporate governance in multinational firms, and organizational adaptation in emerging economies have been published or are in press in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, and others. His current research interests include 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.

Laszlo is an associate editor of the Journal of Management Studies and a co-editor of the Advances in International Management series (with Timothy Devinney and Torben Pedersen). He serves as an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of World Business.

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Renata Trinca Colonel: A graduate of Bocconi University in economic science, since 2002 I work as an Assistant Professor and then as a Lecturer at SDA Bocconi School of Management, Quantitative Methods Competence Center, in particular for international master programs of SDA Bocconi. My research focuses on application of data mining and of quantitative methods to international marketing and CRM, data analysis and business modeling. I also manage research activities and data analysis for applied research projects for Italian and international companies. My publications are focused on sampling, marketing research for Internet-based strategies and data mining for markets segmentation. In 2009 I attended the ITP - International Teachers Program in Milan and I am considering a PhD program for 2011 in an IB-related field.

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Ekaterina Turkina is currently a visiting professor at the Department of Political Science, McGill University, and starting from June 2010 she will work as an assistant professor at the Department of International Business, HEC Montreal.

Dr. Turkina has a PhD and an MA from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, specializing in public policy and international economics. She has won numerous grants and awards, including the European Union Dissertation Fellowship, U.S. State Department Young Russian Leaders Scholarship, and British Chevening Award. Dr. Turkina also has extensive experience working in international organizations such as American Councils, International Marketing Solutions, and Council of Europe.

Her research interests include international political economy, economic and business integration, inter-firm networks, effects of EU enlargement on trade, business and investment in Eastern Europe, and geopolitics of energy.

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Sushil Vachani is a Professor of Strategy and Policy at the Boston University School of Managament. Prof. Vachani's areas of research interest include the impact of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on international business, the role of governments, NGOs and multinational enterprises (MNEs) in reducing poverty, impact of globalization and global governance on MNEs, MNE-government relations, management of diversified MNEs, management in developing countries, and the internationalization of small firms.

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Sonya H. Wen (PhD, National Taiwan University) is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Tamkang University in Taiwan. Since her MBA 93 at Yale University, Dr. Wen has more than a decade executive-experiences in consulting, financial and telecommunication industries. Her research interests include strategic alliances and co-evolutionary dynamics of technological innovation.

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Sachiko YAMAO (Ph.D., Monash University) is a lecturer in International Business in the Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research has appeared in Human Resource Management and has been presented at international conferences. Her research interests include human resource management (HRM) in subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs), knowledge management within MNCs, and knowledge sharing between expatriate and local staff members at MNC subsidiaries. She also has experience in cross-cultural training and has worked for a bilateral aid organization funded by the Japanese government and industry.

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Srilata Zaheer (Sri) is the Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Global Corporate Social Responsibility and the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Sri received a Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management, MIT, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Her research focuses on the legitimacy of multinational enterprises and the liability of foreignness, and on the influence of technology on international organization. She also has a strong interest in spatial and temporal phenomena in international management.

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Lena Zander (Ph. D.) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden and an Honorary Research Associate at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand. She has earlier held positions as Professorial Fellow at VUW, Assistant and Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, and she has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Lena conducts research on leadership, teams, language, as well as leveraging and managing cultural differences in multinational organizational settings. Her research has been awarded with several dissertation and best-paper awards at AOM, AIB, and ANZAM.

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Jörg Zimmermann is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, Germany. In his PhD thesis he combined the international business literature with entrepreneurship. He identified means by which firms overcome the inherent sources forming their liability of foreignness, finding an advantage for new ventures negotiating information asymmetries within host markets. Currently, he is focusing on issues like decision making under risk and uncertainty in an international context, liability of foreignness, and ownership.

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