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Preet Aulakh
University: York University
Email: paulakh@schulich.yorku.ca
Research Interests: Comparative foreign entry modes, structuring and managing cross-border alliances and partnerships, technology licensing, and strategies and performance of firms from emerging economies.
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.
René Belderbos
University: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Email: Rene.Belderbos@econ.kuleuven.be
Research Interests: International business economics and strategy, with particular interest in the following areas: International technology transfer and international R&D; innovation and technology alliance strategies; science and innovation; foreign investment and divestment strategies; location strategies; strategic investments; the relationship between FDI, trade, and trade policy.
Gabriel R.G. Benito
University: BI Norwegian School of Management
Email: gabriel.r.g.benito@bi.no
Research Interests: The dynamics of foreign direct investment and foreign operation methods, with an emphasis on issues such as divestment, changes of foreign operation methods, and the global configuration and re-configuration of companies. The organization and management of MNEs, particularly headquarter-subsidiary relationships.
John Cantwell
University: Rutgers University
Email: cantwell@rbsmail.rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Technological innovation and MNEs, theory of the evolution and dynamics of international business, international location of R&D by MNEs, evolution of local competence-creating activities in MNE networks, two-way knowledge spillovers between MNEs and other actors.
S. Tamer Cavusgil
University: Georgia State University
Email: stcavusgil@gsu.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@illinois.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.
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.
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: Rice University
Email: robert.hoskisson@rice.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.
G. Andrew Karolyi
University: Cornell University
Email: gak56@cornell.edu
Research Interests: International financial markets, including international investment and international corporate financial management.
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.
Arie Y. Lewin
University: Duke University
Email: ayl3@duke.edu
Research Interests: Firm wealth creation in chaotic environments through strategies of exploitation and exploration, coevolution of organizations and their environments, designing the super adaptive firm.
Klaus Meyer
University: University of Bath
Email: K.Meyer@Bath.ac.uk
Research Interests: Strategies of multinational enterprises and domestic firms in emerging economies, especially entry and growth strategies in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Thomas Murtha
University: 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.
Lilach Nachum
University: City University of New York
Email: Lilach_Nachum@baruch.cuny.edu
Research Interests: The multinational enterprise as a distinctive organizational form; The interaction between firms' and environmental resources; Technology and value creation across distance; Location decisions and firms' strategy.
Mark F. Peterson
University: Florida Atlantic University and Maastricht University
Email: mpeterso@fau.edu
Research Interests: All aspects of comparative culture research including cultural boundaries (nations, national subcultures, multiple-nation regions) and cross-cultural research methods; international OB and OT topics related to multinational organizations, particularly decision making structures, cognition theory, and multicultural teams.
David A. Ralston
University: University of Oklahoma
Email: dralston@ou.edu
Research Interests: Cross-cultural issues in management, with particular interest in work values, influence ethics, corporate social and environmental responsibility and workplace stress.
Jeffrey Reuer
University: Purdue University
Email: jreuer@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Organizational economics and firms' external corporate development activities; applications of information economics and real options theory to the study of firms' investment and governance choices and their performance implications; the design of international joint ventures and acquisitions; implications of foreign direct investment for organizational risk and performance.
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.
Alan Rugman
University: University of Reading, UK
Email: a.rugman@henley.reading.ac.uk
Research Interests: The theory of the multinational enterprise; regional aspects of multinationality and performance; the regional strategies of multinationals; born regional, not born global; subsidiary specific advantages; flagship firms; and NAFTA.
J. Myles Shaver
University: University of Minnesota
Email: mshaver@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.
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.
Shaoming Zou
University: University of Missouri - Columbia
Email: zou@missouri.edu
Research Interests: Marketing strategy, global marketing strategy, determinants of export performance, product and promotion adaptation, international market entry strategy, global account management, international joint ventures, and international advertising.
