Featured Authors

Dr. Gary May brings a unique background and perspective to the subject of strategic planning for small businesses.  He grew up working in a family wholesale distribution business, May & Company, Inc.  Joining the business full time after graduating from Duke University with a degree in business, Gary helped lead the company to consistent sales and profit growth over an 18-year period.

Sandy Edwards is Associate Professor and MBA Director at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Her main teaching areas are quantitative analysis and organizational leadership. Dr. Edwards also teaches as adjunct faculty in the summer sessions for the University of Arkansas—Fayetteville in the areas of marketing and leadership. Her research interests include work team effectiveness, learning styles, team mental models, and sustainable business.

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.

Amiso George is an associate professor of Strategic Communication and director of the graduate program at the Schieffer School of Journalism at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX. She holds a Ph.D. from Ohio University (1992) and was accredited in public relations (APR) in 2003. She was director of the public relations program in the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada in Reno, where she developed and taught the first course in crisis communication.

Scott A. Shane was among the first people to sign with Business Expert Press as both a collection editor for small business management and entrepreneurship and as an author. His title, co-authored with Robert Baron, Growing Your Business: Making Human Resources Work For You is the second book published by Business Expert Press and will serve as a key title in our growing collection of small business management and entrepreneurship 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.

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.

Dr. Pascal Nevries is Managing Director of the Center for Controlling and Management (CCM) at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. The CCM is financed by and benchmarks a permanent group of eleven DAX30 companies. Partners and participants are the heads of accounting of the respective companies. These activities allow unique insights into a combination of academia and practice.

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.

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.

Mason A. Carpenter (PhD, 1997, University of Texas at Austin) is a professor and holds the M. Keith Weikel Chair in Leadership at the University of Madison–Wisconsin’s School of Business (Wisconsin, USA). He is responsible for the MBA and executive MBA courses in business, corporate, and global strategy, and the curriculum offered through Wisconsin’s Strategic Leadership Institute.

Lea P. Stewart is a Professor in the Department of Communication in the Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and studied with W. Charles Redding, credited with being the “father of organizational communication.” Stewart’s research in organizational communication has examined issues of employee voice especially focusing on women in organizations. She has published several books as well as book chapters and articles in top tier communication journals.

Jeffrey A. Krug received his Ph.D. in strategic management from Indiana University and his M.S. in international business and B.A. in economics from The Pennsylvania State University. Before entering academia, he held a number of management positions with PepsiCo, Texas Instruments, Commerzbank AG, and the Austrian Postal Savings Bank. He has taught in a variety of executive and international programs at Penn State, Indiana University, University of Illinois, Virginia Tech, and William & Mary.

Cornelis A. “Kees” de Kluyver is the Masatoshi Ito Professor of Management and former Dean at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. His professional experience includes over thirty years in academe and management consulting. Prior to coming to Claremont Graduate University, he was Dean and Professor of Management at the School of Management at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia.

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.

Mai Moua is the founder and president of Leadership Paradigms, Inc., a consulting firm which specializes in leadership and organizational development and training. She is Hmong-American and came to the United States in 1979 as a refugee from Thailand.

Nancy E. Landrum is Associate Professor at University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). Her research, teaching, and consulting interests are in the areas of strategic management, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business, and base of the pyramid strategies. Dr. Landrum is faculty advisor to UALR Net Impact, was named a Net Impact Distinguished Member, consults on sustainable business, and serves on sustainability boards or committees at the university, city, and state levels.

Andrew Spanyi's work in the area of Business Process Management is recognized internationally. He has written two books on Process Management: More for Less: The Power of Process Management and Business Process Management is a Team Sport: Play It to Win! Andrew has delivered keynote speeches on process management principles at conferences in North America, Europe, Africa and Australia. He has published over 40 articles in a broad cross-section of magazines.

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.

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.

Mike Pogue has lectured and examined in the disciplines of accounting and finance at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional examination levels since 1982 at both Queens University Belfast and currently at the University of Ulster. For the past ten years he has lectured on courses for both the CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) and the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) professional bodies.

John Girard is an associate professor of management at Minot State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate management courses. John is researching the relationships existing between information anxiety, organizational memory loss, and contemporary knowledge management theories. John is engaged in community activities such as Junior Achievement and the Military Affairs Committee.

Wallace Stettinius is the former Chairman and CEO of Cadmus Communications Corporation, the world’s leading service provider to scientific, technical, and medical publishers and the nation's fifth largest periodical publisher. Stettinius joined the company in 1967 as President of William Byrd Press, a privately owned company that was merged with Washburn Graphics Inc. to create Cadmus Communications in 1984. He served as CEO until 1992 and Chairman until 1995 when he retired. He currently serves on the boards of Grayco, Cadence, Inc, and Packet 360. He has served on the boards of numerous not-for profit organizations.

Just six months after launching our new business publishing imprint – Business Expert Press – we are excited to bring you our first title and our first author. Vijay entrusted us with his latest book—which is based on his many years of preparing MBAs and executives to better manage their careers—because he believes in our mission of bringing concise, applied, authoritative, and affordable books to aspiring managers as well as to experienced executives in need of easily read and immediately actionable advice.

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.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber is the most renowned management accounting professor in Germany. This reflects in a record of more than one thousand publications ranging from practitioner to top-level international academic journals, authoring nearly one hundred books, and the first-ever granting of a Dr. honoris causae for an active professor of accounting in Germany.