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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We would like to thank you for all your support and contribution to the Academy of International Business Midwest (AIB-MW)! AIB-Midwest is an organization that fosters research and education in the field of international business. We try to achieve this goal by sharing research and professional efforts from practitioners and scholars in business, government, and academic areas. Over the past few years, AIB-MW has witnessed great success at our annual conferences in Chicago. The success would not have been possible without your contribution and support. We would like to thank all of our authors, reviewers, panelists, speakers, keynoters, and conference participants. Of course, thanks go to our hard working AIB-MW executive officers. Thank you for your active involvement and hard work!
Current and Past Presidents
Etienne Musonera, Ph.D.
President, Academy of International Business Midwest USA Chapter
Associate Professor of Marketing
Stetson School of Business and Economics
Mercer University (Atlanta, Georgia)
David Boggs, Ph.D.
Immediate Past President, Academy of International Business Midwest USA Chapter
Professor and Assistant Chair of Management
School of Business
Eastern Illinois University
Man Zhang, Ph.D.
Past President, Academy of International Business Midwest USA Chapter
College of Business Administration
Department of Management
Bowling Green State University
Juan Meraz
Past president, Academy of International Business Midwest USA Chapter
Director, Latino Leadership Institute
HACU Faculty Caucus Member
Missouri State University
Anthony Koh, Ph.D.
Past President, Academy of International Business Midwest USA Chapter
College of Business & Innovation
The University of Toledo
We would like to thank you for all your support and contribution to the Academy of International Business Midwest (AIB-MW)! AIB-Midwest is an organization that fosters research and education in the field of international business. We try to achieve this goal by sharing research and professional efforts from practitioners and scholars in business, government, and academic areas. Over the past few years, AIB-MW has witnessed great success at our annual conferences in Chicago. The success would not have been possible without your contribution and support. We would like to thank all of our authors, reviewers, panelists, speakers, keynoters, and conference participants. Of course, thanks go to our hard working AIB-MW executive officers. Thank you for your active involvement and hard work!
Current and Past Presidents
Etienne Musonera, Ph.D.
President, Academy of International Business Midwest USA Chapter
Associate Professor of Marketing
Stetson School of Business and Economics
Mercer University (Atlanta, Georgia)
David Boggs, Ph.D.
Immediate Past President, Academy of International Business Midwest USA Chapter
Professor and Assistant Chair of Management
School of Business
Eastern Illinois University
Man Zhang, Ph.D.
Past President, Academy of International Business Midwest USA Chapter
College of Business Administration
Department of Management
Bowling Green State University
Juan Meraz
Past president, Academy of International Business Midwest USA Chapter
Director, Latino Leadership Institute
HACU Faculty Caucus Member
Missouri State University
Anthony Koh, Ph.D.
Past President, Academy of International Business Midwest USA Chapter
College of Business & Innovation
The University of Toledo
Committee
Dr. Etienne Musonera, President, is an Associate Professor of Marketing in the Stetson School of Business and Economics, Mercer University (Atlanta, Georgia), where He teaches Marketing in both undergraduate and graduate programs. Prior to that, He was an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Eastern New Mexico University and has taught a variety of marketing and management courses including Project Management, Business Research, Operations and Production Management, International and Marketing Management. Dr. Musonera is also a William Davidson Institute Faculty Affiliate at the University of Michigan and has taught Marketing in the Goldman & Sachs Women Entrepreneurship Program in Rwanda. He also taught in the Executive MBA program at the School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in Rwanda under the United Nations Development Program (UNDVP). He has also designed and conducted short course training in Project Management, Operations Management, Quality Management, and Quality Improvement Process. Dr. Musonera holds a unique Interdisciplinary Doctor of Philosophy (II PhD) in both: (I): Industrial Engineering and (II): International Marketing from Wayne State University. He has a Master of Science in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from Wayne State University and a Master of Science in Engineering Management from Western Michigan University. He is very active in consulting and offers a unique expertise in Marketing Strategies, Foreign Direct Investment, Decision Risk Analysis, Lean Six Sigma, Business and Quality Improvement Process Management, Project Engineering Management, and World Class Manufacturing (WCM) Best Strategies and Practices. Dr. Musonera is included in Who's Who in Finance and Business; Marquis Who's Who in America, and He is a lifetime Honored Member of the Cambridge Who's Who Registry of Executives and Professionals (http://business.mercer.edu/faculty-staff/musonera.cfm).
Dr. Anand Pore, Vice President, has earned his PhD from Rutgers University. Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor at University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses primarily in the areas of strategy, international business and leadership. His research interests include: modes of offshoring, effectiveness of various teaching methods and humanistic capitalism. Also, he has more than nineteen years of professional experience working in various capacities ranging from Network Engineer to Vice President in the Information Technology field and has worked for various companies such as Chase, Johnson & Johnson, The Prudential, AT&T, Mars and Mars, Delta Consultancy Services and Tata Unisys.
Kingshuk (King) Mukherjee is a practitioner scholar with entrepreneurial and international experience. He also is committed to building up the community both locally as well as globally. King is an outstanding educator and business professional. He is a global citizen who promotes higher education involvement across borders. Kingshuk is currently an Associate Professor and interim Chairman of Global Business Leadership Department at College of Saint Benedict's and St John's University, Minnesota, USA. He went to Coventry University in UK for his graduate school and St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata University, India for undergraduate. Kingshuk (King) is a Professor in areas of Supply Chain Management and Advanced Corporate Global Strategies. King is the Internship Professor and co-coordinator for Global Business. King is a specialist in supply chain management and sustainability. King is responsible for envisioning, redesigning and implementing a senior capstone course of Advanced Global Strategy with a ‘'live and real time " case study model under the new curriculum of Global Business and Leadership. Kingshuk is a strong proponent of experiential learning based upon his background. King has numerous networking connections pertaining to trade associations and the chambers of commerce in Minnesota, India and Vietnam. He has worked with leading Minnesota corporations such as 3M, General Mills, Best Buy, Medtronic’s, Eco Lab, Capital One, Microbiologics and others to help students to secure internships and full-time positions. King is involved with International/Global business education and helps to spread business education in Asia and bridges the east-west business education. He has been twice the assistant director for India study abroad program and a member of university committees at CSB/SJU. King is a researcher and a speaker on topics of supply chain, entrepreneurship, leadership, corporate strategies, doing businesses in USA, India, China and Vietnam. His current area of proposed sabbatical project is “Researching Trade and Commerce between Minnesota and Vietnam and Developing Potential Experiential Learning Opportunities for Students”. He is a member and officer of Academy of International Business- Midwest USA. He has numerous publications in peer reviewed journals. He has published articles in leading business magazine of Minnesota – Minnesota Business Magazine and others. As an entrepreneur King is Founder Director, President and Owner of Minnesota based company Global Impex (www.globalimpexusa.com). The company has made leading headways being a leading textile company along with its affiliates Guild Apparel and Stryv Medical.He is the Chief Strategic Director and Chief Visioning officer (CVO). Recently he was in front Page of Saint Cloud Times, Minnesota for his work with college students. Here is a link of creating a social incubator and entrepreneurial venture where students get to learn hands on business experiences. (https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2019/07/25/st-cloud-textile-startup-provides-hands-business-experience-entrepreneur/1817265001/) He has led the way in building strategic partnerships with manufacturing units and was instrumental in developing, sourcing products globally, new markets and new product development for the corporation. King in past has worked with leading super chain stores like Hobby Lobby, Michaels, Jo Ann’s, Big Lots, A C More and more domestically. Internationally he has done businesses in 40 countries in 4 continents in textile, fine arts and digital canvas markets dealing with importers and distributors. He was also the co-founder of a textile company Prestige Impex Inc, Atlanta, GA (since 2010 till 2017)). In his earlier corporate career, he worked at Coloron/Claredon Textiles from January 2001 to May 2010 (9 years 4 months). He coordinated all aspects of new business development, target marketing, sales, and logistics for this multimillion-dollar provider of art materials, digital, and industrial fabrics. He expanded brand awareness and product availability through the acquisition of key accounts in Europe, Japan, Australia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Prof. Duncan McCampbell, Program Co-Chair, is an American lawyer and Associate Professor of international business and law at Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he also serves as MBA Program Director. Before joining Metro State in 2014, Duncan was Associate Professor and MBA Program Director at Bethel University in St. Paul.
While in law school Duncan was Notes and Comments editor on the Hamline Law Review. He graduated in 1991, passed the Minnesota Bar and began his private law practice with the Minneapolis firm of Lind, Jensen, Sullivan and Peterson, specializing in appeals and environmental law. Leaving law practice for legal publishing in 1995, he spent 14 years—much of it living abroad--with the Westlaw division of Thomson Reuters, where he helped to build and launch new legal information businesses in the UK, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Australia. Thomson Reuters posted him to Beijing in 2007-08 to make an anchoring Chinese acquisition, and then build and launch Westlaw China—Thomson’s first character-based online information product.
Today he teaches law and business and lectures extensively in Asia--especially China. He has taught Comparative Law at Hamline University School of Law and Business Planning at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. He is a visiting scholar in China at Huaihua University, Hunan University of Science and Technology and South China University of Technology. His scholarship is focused on two areas: multi-national corporate management and foreign corruption prevention. He blogs on global commercial, legal, political and security issues. He is co-chair (together with Thomas Hansen, Minnesota’s Diplomat in Residence) of the U.S. China Business Council. In addition to his teaching, Prof. McCampbell leads a U.S. company called McCampbell Global, LLC, which helps primarily American companies succeed in overseas markets.
While in law school Duncan was Notes and Comments editor on the Hamline Law Review. He graduated in 1991, passed the Minnesota Bar and began his private law practice with the Minneapolis firm of Lind, Jensen, Sullivan and Peterson, specializing in appeals and environmental law. Leaving law practice for legal publishing in 1995, he spent 14 years—much of it living abroad--with the Westlaw division of Thomson Reuters, where he helped to build and launch new legal information businesses in the UK, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Australia. Thomson Reuters posted him to Beijing in 2007-08 to make an anchoring Chinese acquisition, and then build and launch Westlaw China—Thomson’s first character-based online information product.
Today he teaches law and business and lectures extensively in Asia--especially China. He has taught Comparative Law at Hamline University School of Law and Business Planning at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. He is a visiting scholar in China at Huaihua University, Hunan University of Science and Technology and South China University of Technology. His scholarship is focused on two areas: multi-national corporate management and foreign corruption prevention. He blogs on global commercial, legal, political and security issues. He is co-chair (together with Thomas Hansen, Minnesota’s Diplomat in Residence) of the U.S. China Business Council. In addition to his teaching, Prof. McCampbell leads a U.S. company called McCampbell Global, LLC, which helps primarily American companies succeed in overseas markets.
Lydia Gan, Secretary, earned her BA and MS degrees in Economics from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and a Ph D. degree in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin. She has over 27 years of higher education teaching and research experience and has been with the University of North Carolina at Pembroke for 8 years. Her research has appeared in a number of leading academic journals, including The Economics e-Journal, Review of Applied Economics, Academy of Economics and Finance Journal, Healthcare Marketing Quarterly, Journal of Vacation Marketing, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, Information and Management, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, and Journal of Asia-Pacific Business. She also serves on a few editorial boards, including Open Economics and Management Journal, and Journal of Business Theory and Practice.She is also the co-author (with Frank, Bernanke, and Chen) of The Principles of Economics (2009), Asian Edition, McGrawHill, a textbook widely used by Economics students throughout Asia -- in countries such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Indonesia. The textbook has also been translated into Chinese language. Her work on medical tourism has received international acclaim. She was invited to speak on her research in this area at The Annual World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress in November of 2013. She has been consulted by various organizations including insurance companies, medical tourism facilitators, and independent research agencies. She has conducted research interviews relating to medical tourism with hospitals in a number of countries, including South Africa, Turkey, Singapore, and Malaysia, and plans to write a book based on her interviews.
Alex Polacco (MBA, BSIE, CPIM, CSCP, CMOE, CQE, CQA), Editor of Journal of International Business Research and Practice, is a Professor of Management at St Cloud State University in Minnesota. He has been teaching courses in Operations and Supply Chain Management there for the past 10 years. Prior to that, he had worked for 22 years in industry as a consultant, manager, and engineer. He was president of the Central MN APICS chapter for 3 years, and has been faculty advisor to the SCSU Student chapter for the last 8 years. He was named Faculty of the Year in the Herberger Business School, SCSU, 4 times in last 7 years; and won the APICS Student Chapter Mentor of the Year award in 2013. He has been a member of the APICS Academic Committee since 2013.
Dr. Christopher Ziemnowicz, editor of the program proceedings, earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the George Mason University in Virginia and a MBA in International Business from The American University in Washington, DC. His first teaching appointment was with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) where he also facilitated a School of Business faculty exchange program with the Social Sciences and Economics Institute at the Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika Warszawska or Warsaw Tech) in Poland. He established new business ventures and later served as the General Manager of a privately held service enterprise in Washington, DC. He continued with teaching at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, as well as providing consulting services for the Small Business Development Center at Bucknell University. He developed entrepreneurial ventures while earning a PhD in management at the Warsaw University of Technology. Returning full-time to academe at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, he served as the Department Head for Business Administration and also as the director of the Graduate Business Programs (MBA, MS in Accounting, and a joint MBA-JD). Dr. Ziemnowicz’s next appointment was with Concord University, a part of the West Virginia state system, located in Athens, WV. He is currently with The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), where he served for six years as the Chair of the Management, Marketing, and International Business Department. His teaching responsibilities and research interests include marketing, management, international business, and entrepreneurship at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also facilitates study abroad opportunities for students and is focused on bringing innovative techniques to improve student learning in the classrooms, as well as incorporating Quality Matters (QM) benchmarks into his online courses. He has been invited to present at several teaching conferences sponsored by the European Union (EU) often as the sole representative from the United States. His other professional development work includes numerous peer-reviewed research articles, chapters in books, conference presentations, and currently serves as an associate editor for several professional journals.
Dr. Yaron Zoller, track chair, is an Assistant Professor of Business and Management at Lakeland University (WI). He teaches management, leadership, strategy, International business, and human resource courses. He specializes in the study of organizational behavior, cross-cultural effects on management practices, history of management, and the development of effective leaders and followers. He is published in the Journal of Management history, American Journal of Psychology and Aging, neuropsychology, and cognition. Yaron is an active member, presenter, and reviewer at the Academy of Management (AOM) and MBAA International, and has presented at Academy of Management annual meetings as well as at the International Neuropsychological Society. He holds a DBA degree in management from NSU (FL) and graduated with honors with a master's degree in psychology and a bachelor's degree in neuropsychology both from Florida Atlantic University (FL). Before joining academia, Yaron spent 11 years working for a multi-national technology firm in the areas of project management and quality assurance. He also served in the Israeli Defense Force from 1993-1998, rising to the rank of Lieutenant.
Dr. Amit Mukherjee, membership director. Amit is an Associate Professor and Associate Director-MBA Dual Degree Program in the School of Business at Stockton University in Galloway, NJ, where he teaches International Business and Marketing courses at the MBA and undergraduate levels. Since 2003, he also teaches regularly as adjunct professor, courses in International Political Economy in the Masters in Diplomacy program of Norwich University. Amit has held Visiting Professor positions at Auburn University, University of Latvia in Riga, Latvia and the Institute of International Relations in Hanoi, Vietnam. Amit obtained his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University, MBA from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and M.A. from the University of Delaware. Prior to entering academia, he gathered seven years of sales, marketing and general management experience in the U.S. and in India working for large multinationals as well as small, entrepreneurial organizations.
Amit’s current research interest is at the intersection of marketing practices and public policy in the context of globalization. Specifically, he examines (a) ways in which marketing practices of multinational corporations contribute to consumer, competitor, social or political problems and thereby generate calls for public policy intervention; and (b) the ways in which marketing practices evolve as a reaction to these interventions. He has several academic articles and a book chapter to his credit.
Amit’s current research interest is at the intersection of marketing practices and public policy in the context of globalization. Specifically, he examines (a) ways in which marketing practices of multinational corporations contribute to consumer, competitor, social or political problems and thereby generate calls for public policy intervention; and (b) the ways in which marketing practices evolve as a reaction to these interventions. He has several academic articles and a book chapter to his credit.
Dr. David J. Boggs, Immediate Past President, Current Treasurer, received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently full professor of management and the assistant chair of management at Eastern Illinois University; previously he was an Assistant Professor of International Business at Saint Louis University. Dr. Boggs has taught and presented his research in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America and has a long history of involvement with the AIB, AIB-Midwest, and MBAA. His research focuses on emerging and developing markets, internationalization and international experience, and technology’s impacts on management and managing across borders. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses primarily in the areas of business strategy and international business. Boggs CV available here
Dr. Man Zhang, Past President, (Current Webmaster, Director of Women in IB)is an Associate Professor of International Business at College of Business Administration, Bowling Green State University. She earned her PhD in International Business from Washington State University. Before pursuing a PhD, she worked at Major University in Thailand for five years. Dr. Zhang has been involved with AIB-Midwest since 2008. She served in different executive positions in this chapter, including secretary and Program Chair. During her time at BGSU, Dr. Man Zhang’s primary teaching responsibilities have been with International Business courses for both undergraduate and graduate students. Her research focuses on entrepreneurial capabilities of small exporting firms in emerging markets. Her research was accepted for publication in outlets such as the Multinational Business Review, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Global Marketing, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of Technology Research, Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of Academy of Business and Economics and ICIS proceedings etc. Her most recent research involved global companies in three countries, namely China, Thailand and S.Korea.
Anthony C. Koh, Past President , is Professor of Marketing and International Business Emeritus in the Department of Marketing and International Business, College of Business & Innovation, The University of Toledo. He received his Bachelor’s degree (Honors) in Economics from the University of Malaya, and his Master (Marketing) and Ph.D. (Business Administration) degrees from the University of Alabama. He has worked as a management consultant in Malaysia and served 10 years with the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority, of which five years were in Australia as an Investment and Trade Consul. He also worked at the Alabama International Trade Center, Tuscaloosa, providing export counseling and assistance to small businesses. Anthony teaches courses in Marketing and International Business at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His major research works have appeared in several publications, including International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Global Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Teaching in International Business, International Business Review, Journal of Product and Brand Management, International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising, and the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research. His research focuses on exporting, foreign direct investments, Asia (particularly China, India and Southeast Asia), cross-cultural implications, branding and consumer culture positioning, and marketing strategies and internationalization of family-owned businesses. In collaboration with the COBI Executive Center for Global Competitiveness, Anthony facilitated a series of cross-cultural training seminars for executives and staff of a major high-tech corporation headquartered in the U.S. and with subsidiaries in Germany and Malaysia.
Dr. Raffaele DeVito, President Emeritus, Professor of Management in the School of Business, joined Emporia State University in 1982. He received his Doctorate from Northeastern University Boston and his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Adelphi University, New York. He also has a Chinese Language Certification which he received from Yale University, in Connecticut. Dr. DeVito has served as the chair of the Kansas International Trade Coordinating Council (KITCC) and during the past 25 years. Among other responsibilities, the Council membership works with Kansas international firms and selects the recipient of the Governor’s Exporter of the Year Award each year. In 2008 and again in 2013, he received a special Governor’s Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service to the State. Dr. DeVito has presented or published international business papers in Europe, Latin America, the Pacific Rim (China and Taiwan) and the U.S.A. He has served as Visiting Lecturer at East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R.C. and conducted workshops in France, Poland, and Hungary. Most recently as part of a sabbatical semester, he lectured at three Chinese exchange universities and met with Chinese manufacturers who were conducting business with the U.S. These included companies in the fields of energy, agricultural equipment and other industrial products. He currently teaches International Business, Strategic Planning, and related management courses. DeVito’s research activities are focused on small- and medium-sized firms and their development of international supply- chain relationships.