UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF RELATIONAL ASSETS: COMMENT ON JOHN DUNNING’S “RELATIONAL ASSETS, NETWORKS, AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ACTIVITY” PAPER

I would have thought that my recent appointment as Dean of the Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University should have disqualified me as a serious commentator on this session. It is well known, of course, that deans have little capacity for critical thinking. I suppose that the organizers figured that since the appointment date was only three weeks ago, there may be some residual gray cells still careening off the walls of my brain cavity, cells not yet smothered by the mindless work of academic administration.