Fundamentals of International Business
Michael R. Czinkota teaches international marketing and business at the Graduate School and the Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, USA, and at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He has held professorial appointments at universities in Asia, Australia, Europe, South Africa, and the Americas. Dr. Czinkota served in the U.S. government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce. He also served as head of the U.S. Delegation to the OECD Industry Committee in Paris and as senior advisor for Export Controls. Dr. Czinkota s background includes eight years of private-sector business experience as a partner in a fur-trading firm and in an advertising agency. His research has been supported by the U.S. government, the National Science Foundation, the Organization of American States, and the American Management Association. He was listed as one of the three most published contributors to international business research in the Journal of International Business Studies, and has written several books, including Best Practices in International Marketing and Mastering Global Markets. Dr.Czinkota served on the Global Advisory Board of the American Marketing Association, the Global Council of the American anagement Association, and the Board of Governors of the Academy of Marketing Science. He is on the editorial board of Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of International Marketing, and Asian Journal of Marketing. For his work in international business and trade policy, he received the Lifetime Research Achievement Award in International Marketing from the American Marketing Association. He was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom. He has been awarded honorary degrees from the Universidad Pontifica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic and the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru. Dr. Czinkota serves on several corporate boards and has worked with corporations, such as AT&T;, IBM, GE, Nestle and US WEST. He advises the Executive Office of the President of the United States, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization. Dr. Czinkota is often asked to testify before the United States Congress. Dr. Czinkota was born and raised in Germany and educated in Austria, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. He studied law and business administration at the University of Erlangen and was awarded a two-year Fulbright Scholarship. He holds an MBA in international business and a PhD in logistics from The Ohio State University.