globalEDGE Business Beat with guest Alain Verbeke

Speaker: Alain Verbeke, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

Air Date: February 09, 2017

Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Alain Verbeke, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Business Studies. He is a professor and holds the McCaig Research Chair in Management in the Haskayne School of Business at University of Calgary.

Tomas Hult is executive director of the Academy of International Business as well as professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Tomas and Alain discuss the Journal of International Business Studies and why JIBS is by far the top academic journal in international business today and has been for more than four decades. Professor Verbeke also shares some of the strategic plans his editorial team are considering taking on and implementing. Plus, we get to know Professor Verbeke a bit more, his passion in IB research, and why he finds it valuable to be a member of the Academy of International Business (with members in some 90 countries).

Speaker: Alain Verbeke, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

Air Date: January 08, 2016

Tomas Hult speaks with Alain Verbeke, who holds the McCaig Research Chair in Management at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He is also the Research Director of the Strategy and Organization Area, and has recently been announced as the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) – the world’s top journal in international business.

They discuss Dr. Verbeke being recognized and given the opportunity to serve as editor of JIBS, and what it means to him. They also focus on Verbeke’s most significant research accomplishment and what this research means for companies.