About the Authors

Julian Birkinshaw is Professor and Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (UK), and of the Academy of International Business. He has Ph.D. and MBA degrees in Business from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Durham. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Stockholm School of Economics in 2009. His main area of expertise is in the strategy and organization of large multinational corporations, and in issues of subsidiary–headquarters relationships, corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, the changing role of the corporate HQ, organization design and knowledge management. Among his 12 books and 80 published articles, he authored Becoming a Better Boss in 2013.

Jan Johanson is Professor Emeritus in International Business in the Department of Business Studies of Uppsala University where he obtained his license in economics in 1967 and a doctorate, honoris causa in 2000. His research focuses on firm internationalization processes, business relationships, and networks. He is a co-founder of the European International Marketing and Purchasing Group.

Johny K. Johansson is the McCrane/Shaker Emeritus Professor of International Business and Marketing at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. His Ph.D. and MBA degrees are from the University of California, Berkeley, in Marketing and Econometrics, and he is a Civilekonom from the Stockholm School of Economics. His main teaching and research focus is on global brands and marketing strategy. He has published over 70 academic articles and chapters in books. He has been a Visiting Professor at Universität zu Köln, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Keio Business School and International University of Japan, and the American University of Beirut. He has consulted with companies around the world, including General Electric and Xerox in the United States, Volvo and Ford in Europe, and Honda and Fuji Film in Japan. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. In 2010, he received a Lifetime Award for Contributions to Global Marketing from the American Marketing Association. Professor Johansson is the author of Global Marketing (1996–2009), and of In Your Face: How American Marketing Excess Fuels Anti-Americanism (2005), and a co-author of Relentless: The Japanese Way of Marketing (1996) and of Contemporary Brand Management (2015).

Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. He holds BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University, an honorary MA from Harvard University, and an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He taught previously at the London School of Economics, Cambridge and Reading universities in the United Kingdom, and has held Visiting Professorships at Gakushuin University (Tokyo), Erasmus University (Rotterdam), and Universidad de los Andes (Bogota). Professor Jones researches the evolution and impact of global business. His books include British Multinational Banking 1830–1990 (1993), Merchants to Multinationals (2000), Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century (2005), Renewing Unilever (2005), and Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (2010) which provides the first history of the global beauty industry from a business perspective. He is currently writing a book on Profits and Sustainability: A Global History of Green Entrepreneurship. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, and Director of Harvard’s University-wide South Asia Institute. He writes extensively on emerging markets in economic and management journals, and is the author of Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours and a co-author of Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy & Execution. Professor Khanna serves as a board member of several publicly traded and venture-backed companies, and of NGOs in the United States and India. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

Kwok Leung (Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is a Chair Professor of Management at City University of Hong Kong. His research areas include justice and conflict, creativity, cross-cultural research methods, international management and social axioms. He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Management and Organization Review and on the editorial board of several journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is a former President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the Asian Association of Social Psychology, a former Chair of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management, a member of the Society for Organizational Behavior, and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Intercultural Research and the Association for Psychological Science.

Yadong Luo is the Emery M. Findley Distinguished Chair and Professor of International Management at the University of Miami. He is the author of over 15 books and over 150 articles in major refereed journals in management and business. His research interests include global strategy, strategic alliances, and business and management in emerging economies. He is also the International Dean of the Sun Yat-Sen Business School in China. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

Shige Makino is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for International Business Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds LLB and MBA degrees from Keio University, and a Ph.D. from the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University (the former University of Western Ontario). His current research focuses on the strategies and performance of multinational corporations in emerging economies, and it has appeared in such leading journals as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. He was President of the Association of Japanese Business Studies and has been serving as a senior editor as well as an editorial and advisory board member in a number of local and international journals. He is an AIB Fellow and the first recipient of the title of the Outstanding Fellow from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Mike W. Peng is the Jindal Chair of Global Strategy at the Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He is a National Science Foundation Career Award winner and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1996 and previously taught at Hawaii (1995–1997), CUHK (1997–1998) and Ohio State (1999–2005). With close to 14,000 Google citations and an H-index of 49, he has published over 100 articles in leading journals and five books. Used in over 30 countries, his textbooks Global Strategy, Global Business, and GLOBAL are market leaders that have been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management and spearheaded its successful recognition as a leading journal. In recognition of his significant contributions, APJM named the Mike W. Peng Best Paper Award.

Stephen Tallman is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business. He graduated from the US Military Academy and holds a Ph.D. in international business and strategic management from UCLA. He has been on the faculty of the University of Hawaii (1988–1990) and the University of Utah (1990–2005) and has visited at the Cranfield School of Management, INSEAD, Warwick Business School, HKUST and Thunderbird. His research interests include global strategic management, geographic clusters, organizational knowledge and learning, communities of practice, alliance strategies and network organizations. He chaired the International Management Division of the Academy of Management (1998–1999) and founded and chaired the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society (2001–2005). He is the founding and current Co-Editor of Global Strategy Journal and has been an Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal, a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies, and a member of the editorial boards of SMJ, JIBS, Organization Science, Management International Review, and Journal of International Management. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

Jan-Erik Vahlne is Emeritus Professor of International Business at the Centre for International Business Studies (CIBS) in the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Uppsala, and a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Oulu (2013). In 1978–1982 he served as Secretary of a Swedish governmental committee (DIRK) that investigated the impacts on the Swedish economy from inward and outward direct investments. In 1986–1988, he was Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Lahore University of Management Sciences, and in 1988–1992, he was Director of the Institute of International Business (IIB) of the Stockholm School of Economics. In 1993–1995, he served as Rector of the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, and in 2002–2011 as Professor of International Business at the University of Gothenburg. His research interests include internationalization and globalization processes, strategic management and theory of the firm. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.