Featured Authors

Dr. Jeffrey A. Krug holds the Jack and Vada Reynolds Chair in International Business and is Professor of Management at Loyola University New Orleans, where he teaches international business and strategic management. He has taught in a variety of executive and international programs at Penn State, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Indiana University, The College of William & Mary, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, The University of Memphis, Appalachian State University, and University of Münster in Germany.

Dr. Jürgen Weber is the Management Accounting Chair at the Finance and Accounting Department (as well as Director of the Institute of Management Accounting and Control) at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He has trained numerous top controllers of large MNEs, and is founder and cohead of CTcon, a leading consultancy firm specializing in management accounting and control projects. Prof. Weber serves as the head of the advisory board of the International Association of Management Accountants (ICV), and has written numerous books.

Tamer Cavusgil specializes in the internationalization of the firm, global strategy, emerging markets, and buyer-seller relationships in cross-border business. His professional career spans teaching, research and administrative responsibilities in international business at Michigan State University, Bradley University, University of Wisconsin, and the Middle East Technical University (Turkey). In addition, he served as Senior Fulbright Scholar to Australia and taught at Monash University.

Andrew Kilner, BSc (Imperial, London), PhD (Cambridge), MBA (City, London) has had an extremely varied career thus enabling him to treat this topic from very diverse points of view. He spent over 15 years as Business Planning Manager in large international companies (both manufacturing & service) in several countries, acted as a consultant to small UK firms and the British Foreign Office aid projects for Poland, created his own automotive research bureau in Brussels, and ultimately became Professor, Head of Department and first MBA director at the Rennes Graduate School of Business in France.

Shaomin Li is the Haislip-Rorrer Fellow and Professor of International Business at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, and Associate Editor for Corporate Governance: An International Review.

John Girard, PhD, is a tenured full professor of management at Minot State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate business classes. He is the founder and Chief Knowledge Strategist of Sagology (www.sagology.com), a firm dedicated to connecting people with people to facilitate collaboration, learning, and knowledge sharing through keynotes, workshops, and consulting.

Dr. Nikolaos G. Panagopoulos is currently a Lecturer of Marketing at the Department of Marketing & Communication, Athens University of Economics & Business. His research, teaching and consulting interests revolve around personal selling & sales management, customer relationship management (CRM), marketing strategy, and advanced analytical techniques.

Cornelis A. “Kees” de Kluyver is Dean and the James and Shirley Rippey Distinguished Professor of Management at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. Prior to coming to Eugene, Oregon, he was the Masatoshi Ito Professor of Management at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. From 2000–2006 he served there as the Henry Y. Hwang Dean of the School and as Executive Director of the Peter F. Drucker Research Library and Archives.

Kim Warren has been teaching Strategic Management in MBA and Executive programs at London Business School since 1990. There he has developed powerful frameworks for strategy analysis and strategic management that go beyond the simple, static tools that are more commonly used. Known as ‘Strategy Dynamics’, this method focuses on improvements to the time-path of business performance that is so crucial to the concerns of investors and other stakeholders. The method also provides a sound basis for strategy development in public-service and non-commercial organizations.

Ken Merchant, holder of the Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair of Accoutancy at the University of Southern California, has been doing performance measurement-related research for over 30 years. He has authored eight books, including Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives (published by Pearson/Financial times), scores of articles, and over 100 teaching cases on the topic. Professor Merchant has won multiple research awards. He serves on 11 academic editorial boards.

Gwendolen B. White is Associate Professor of accounting at Ball State University. She has been teaching environmental and sustainability reporting at the graduate and undergraduate levels for the past 5 years. She is the author of Sustainability Reporting – Doing Well by Doing Good published by Kendall/Hunt, 2009.

Arnold Kransdorff was the first to identify the phenomenon of corporate amnesia in the early 1980s, soon after the flexible labor market started to make a significant impact on jobs tenure. His first book on the subject (“Corporate Amnesia”, Butterworth Heinemann, 1998) was short listed for the UK’s “Management Book of the Year” in 1999 and selected as one of 800 titles worldwide to launch Microsoft Reader eBooks program in 2000.

Sanjyot Dunung is president of Atma Global, a publisher of innovative educational products for the corporate, higher education and k-12 markets. The company’s mission is to create engaging, best-of-class, global learning products for key markets around the world. Its solutions deliver high-quality knowledge to help people of all ages understand and successfully interact with people from other cultures.