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Paul W. Beamish is the Donald Triggs Canada Research Chair in International Business at the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, articles, contributed chapters, and teaching cases. His articles have appeared in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Organization Science, and elsewhere. He has received best research awards from the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business (AIB). In 1997 and 2003, he was recognized in the Journal of International Management as one of the top three contributors worldwide to the international strategic management literature in the previous decade. He served as Editor-in-Chief of JIBS from 199397. He worked for Procter & Gamble and Wilfrid Laurier University before joining Ivey's faculty in 1987. He has supervised 25 doctoral dissertations, many involving international joint ventures and alliances. His consulting, management training, and joint venture facilitation activities have been in both the public and private sector. At Ivey, he has taught in a variety of school programs, including the Executive MBA offered at its campus in Hong Kong. From 19992004, he served as Associate Dean of Research. He currently serves as Director of Ivey Publishing, the distributor of Ivey's collection of over 2,400 current cases; Ivey's Asian Management Institute (AMI); and the cross-enterprise center, Engaging Emerging Markets. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, Royal Society of Canada, and Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.



ALLEN J. MORRISON is Associate Dean Executive Development and an Associate Professor of International Management at the Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario. Dr. Morrison has been a Visiting Professor at the Anderson School at UCLA, and Professor of International Management at Thunderbird: The American Graduate School of International Management. He has also taught at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Monash Mt. Eliza Business School in Australia, and the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. Dr. Morrison has authored or co-authored over 50 articles and case studies, and seven books including Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders (Routledge, 1999). His views have been cited in such publications as USA Today, Newsweek, Fortune, and Wall Street Journal.