Doing Business in Emerging Markets

S. Tamer Cavusgil is Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair and Executive Director, CIBER, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.Tamer specializes in the internationalization of the firm, global strategy, emerging markets, and buyer-seller relationships in cross-border business. Tamer’s professional career spans teaching, research and administrative responsibilities in international business at Michigan State University, Bradley University, University of Wisconsin, and the Middle East Technical University (Turkey). Tamer has authored more than a dozen books and over 190 refereed journal articles. His work is among the most cited contributions in international business. His books include International Business: The New Realities, 2nd Ed., co-authored with G. Knight and J. Riesenberger. Tamer holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees in business from the University of Wisconsin.

Professor Pervez N GhauriPervez completed his PhD at Uppsala University in Sweden where he also taught for some years. At present he is Professor of International Business at King’s College London. He is a Fellow of European International Business Academy. Recently, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by Turku School of Economics and Management, Finland. Pervez has published 25 books and numerous articles. He consults and offers training programmes to a number of organisations such as; BP, Airbus Industries and Ericsson. He is Editor in Chief for International Business Review and Editor (Europe) for the Journal of World Business.

Ayse A. Akcal Ayse A. Akcal is a Research Associate at King’s College, London. Ayse completed her undergraduate degree at Yale University, USA, as a double major in Economics and Philosophy in 2000. Prior to her academic career, Ayse worked as an auditor in Andersan, Istanbul, a financial analyst at Finansbank (Holland) N.V. and as a manager in the risk analysis unit of Citigroup, Istanbul. Ayse has a MBA from Imperial College, UK and is a PhD candidate at King's College, London. Her research focuses on determinants of firm performance, firm capabilities, and internationalization and her PhD is centered on the analysis of emerging market firms.