CONSULTING EDITORS' PROFILES
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Paul Beamish
University: University of Western Ontario
Email: pbeamish@ivey.uwo.ca
Research Interests: Equity joint ventures, Japanese FDI, the internationalization process, and emerging markets.
Jean Boddewyn
University: City University of New York
Email: Jean_Boddewyn@baruch.cuny.edu
Research Interests: International business political behavior and MNE international public affairs.
Peter J. Buckley
University: University of Leeds
Email: pjb@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Research Interests: The theory of the multinational enterprise (MNE), aspects of foreign direct investment in China, foreign direct investment by emerging country MNEs with special emphasis on Indian and Chinese firms, international joint ventures and strategic alliances, knowledge management within MNE, theoretical analysis of globalization ("The Global Factory"), productivity and innovation in MNEs.
S. Tamer Cavusgil
University: Michigan State University
Email: cavusgil@bus.msu.edu
Research Interests: International marketing strategy, international collaborative ventures, and coordination/integration in the multinational. Exporting, the internationalization process of the firm, and decision support systems for international business expansion. Governance issues in cross-border inter-firm relationships, including conflict and destructive acts in international channels. Coordination-integration within the contemporary MNE. International business education and pedagogy.
Joseph Cheng
University: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: jlcheng@uiuc.edu
Research Interests: 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.
Farok J. Contractor
University: Rutgers University
Email: farok@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Research Interests: The internationalization processes of firms, the link between degree of multinationality and performance, international corporate alliances, outsourcing, valuation of intangible assets, the technology transfer process, licensing, and foreign direct investment.
José R. de la Torre
University: Florida International University
Email: Jose.delatorre@business.fiu.edu
Research Interests: The organizational approaches used by multinational firms to optimize regional operations, including the use of regional offices, the trade-offs between local autonomy and regional coordination, and the adoption of multi-country centers of excellence to extract economies of scale and efficiency at the regional level. The management of inter-organizational alliances and, in particular, the substitution of trust-based mechanism for contractual arrangements in the structure of these alliances.
Yves Doz
University: INSEAD
Email: yves.doz@insead.edu
Research Interests: Global innovation ; the location of innovative activities in the global economy, the location and configuration choices of MNCs, the coordination and integration mechanisms for distributed (multi-site) innovation networks and projects. Knowledge intensive strategic alliances and multi-party innovation networks. Strategic agility; how firms are able to succeed from discontinuity and disruption and why some do and others do not.
Vihang R. Errunza
University: McGill University
Email: vihang.errunza@mcgill.ca
Research Interests: Theoretical and empirical research contributions on international financial market integration and segmentation, emerging markets finance, international portfolio diversification, international asset pricing, and international corporate finance and governance.
Cheol S. Eun
University: Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: cheol.eun@mgt.gatech.edu
Research Interests: International portfolio investment, international capital market theory, cross-border M&As, foreign exchange markets, and currency risk management. Global financial convergence, corporate governance and valuation around the world, currency comovement, international diversification with factor funds, cross-border listings and trading of securities, financial intermediation and security design, and Chinese stock markets.
Pankaj Ghemawat
University: Harvard University
Email: PGhemawat@iese.edu
Research Interests: Works on globalization and strategy, which focus on strategies for creating cross-border advantage, competition between emerging and established multinationals, organizational coordination of complex global strategies, and the globalization of business education
Jean-François Hennart
University: Tilburg University
Email: J.F.Hennart@uvt.nl
Research Interests: The application of transaction cost theory to an understanding of the comparative efficiency of firms and markets in an international context.
Robert E. Hoskisson
University: Arizona State University
Email: Robert.Hoskisson@asu.edu
Research Interests: International strategy (internationality or multinationality), large diversified business groups, international corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, strategy in emerging economies, privatization and cooperative strategy. The antecedents and performance implications of product and international diversification strategy in China. The performance and restructuring of Korean Chaebols (business groups). The clustering of small to medium sized firms in the Argentine furniture industry. Governance characteristics in venture capital versus non-venture capital backed IPOs among US firms. Governance characteristics of SME, especially in international settings. Japanese banking industry studying how relationship banking influences the internationalization of Japanese banks.
Geoffrey Jones
University: Harvard University
Email: gjones@hbs.edu
Research Interests: The history of globalization and international business. The globalization of services and consumer products, the economic, social, political and cultural impact of globalization on host economies, and the historical development of global businesses based in emerging markets.
Tarun Khanna
University: Harvard University
Email: tkhanna@hbs.edu
Research Interests: Understanding the drivers of entrepreneurship worldwide. How the institutional context of emerging markets affects the strategy and organization of multinationals, indigenous companies and investors. The rise of world-class companies from developing countries, and the rise of investment in developing countries from other developing countries. Emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Comparisons between China and India.
Stephen J. Kobrin
University: University of Pennsylvania
Email: kobrins@wharton.upenn.edu
Research Interests: globalization; global governance; the political-economy of multinational corporations; government-MNE interaction; multinationals and human rights; the regulation of direct investment; and economic nationalism.
Donald Lessard
University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: dlessard@mit.edu
Research Interests: Risk management at the project and enterprise level and on the interplay between firms' global strategies and their organization and processes, with special emphasis on firms based in "middle" countries as well as in the Chinese economies. Published extensively on risk management, global strategy, international corporate finance, and finance for development countries
Kwok Leung
University: City University of Hong Kong
Email: mgkleung@cityu.edu.hk
Research Interests: Justice and conflict, culture and business, and cross-cultural research methods. He is also interested in the management of MNE operations in developing countries, especially cross-cultural interactions and human resources issues.
Yadong Luo
University: University of Miami
Email: yluo@exchange.sba.miami.edu
Research Interests: Research interests are global corporate strategy, global corporate governance, international joint ventures, foreign direct investment, multinational corporations in and from emerging economies, and management in transition economies. Current research interests are business process outsourcing (BPO), government bureaucracy and international business, co-opetition in international business, and opportunism in international exchange, and MNCs from emerging economies.
Marjorie A. Lyles
University: Indiana University
Email: mlyles@iupui.edu
Research Interests: The emerging economies particularly Eastern Europe, Hungary, and Asia (China, Southeast Asian countries), organizational learning and knowledge development (but not knowledge information systems), alliances, partnerships, global strategies, outward FDI from emerging economies.
Thomas Murtha
University: University of Minnesota and University of Illinois at Chicago
Email: tmurtha@uic.edu
Research Interests: Global interfirm collaboration, global technological innovation, designing international strategies and organization structures for knowledge creation, leveraging complementary assets globally for technology commercialization, new industry creation, country-specific sources of international competitiveness, national industrial strategy and technology policy, the global flat panel display industry, Japanese industry, international entrepreneurship, comparative institutional analysis, and global mindsets. International strategic management and international political economy.
Kendall Roth
University: University of South Carolina
Email: kroth@moore.sc.edu
Research Interests: Theory and research that incorporates or develops multidisciplinary approaches to understanding international business phenomena. The integration of economic and sociological perspectives as well as approaches that incorporate multilevel considerations. Both intra- and inter- organizational phenomena, diffusion of organization practices and routines within multinational enterprises. Cultural frameworks from a methodological perspective, and applied to understanding behaviors within the multinational enterprise context.
J. Myles Shaver
University: University of Minnesota
Email: mshaver@csom.umn.edu
Research Interests: The management and economics of international expansion and corporate strategy choices.
Donald S. Siegel
University: University at Albany, SUNY
Email: DSiegel@uamail.albany.edu
Research Interests: University technology transfer, economic and strategic implications of entrepreneurship and technological change, productivity analysis, corporate social responsibility.
Stephen B. Tallman
University: University of Richmond
Email: stallman@richmond.edu
Research Interests: Global strategy, international diversification strategies, capabilities-based strategies in MNEs, the theory of the MNE, knowledge strategies in MNEs, organizational learning by MNEs, analysis of industry clusters, entry strategies, international offshoring and outsourcing, and international business alliances and joint ventures.
David Tse
University: Hong Kong University
Email: davidtse@business.hku.hk
Research Interests: Market entry strategy, product innovation strategy, China marketing, services marketing, channel strategy, services marketing and cross-cultural consumption behavior.
Daniël Van Den Bulcke
University: University of Antwerp
Email: daniel.vandenbulcke@ua.ac.be
Research Interests: Developments in the emerging economies and the multinationalization of their companies both by inward and outward direct investment. The increasing integration of China in the world economy and the role of foreign owned enterprises in the Chinese economy. Intra-organizational and Inter-organizational issues of multinational enterprises.
Mary Ann Von Glinow
University: Florida International University
Email: vonglino@fiu.edu
Research Interests: The management of globally distributed work. General interest in most topics related to International Human Resource Management, particularly on China and India.
Bernard Yeung
University: New York University
Email: byeung@stern.nyu.edu
Research Interests: International corporate finance, institutional development and economic development, foreign direct investment, and strategy. Exposing the impact of institutions on the informativeness of asset prices and thus the functionality of capital markets, the influence of concentrated corporate control on resources allocation and institutional development. Links slow economic growth to the long term dominance of large firms and the institutional explanation for the lack of creative destruction. Implication of these works on on firm level strategic behavior.
