Center for Advanced Study in International Competitiveness (CASIC)

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• Principal Investigator: Joseph Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Joseph Cheng is Professor of International Business and Director of the Illinois Global Business Initiative (IGBI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has previously served on the business faculty at The Ohio State University, Virginia Tech, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. During the spring semester of 2003, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Cheng received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan and a B.S. (with honors) in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1999 to 2006, he was the director of the University of Illinois CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research), a U.S. federally-funded national resource center. He was also an elected officer of the Academy of Management’s International Management Division during 1999-2004, serving in various leadership roles including pre-conference chair, program chair, and division chair.
  
  Professor Cheng's current research interests include strategy and organization design for transnational firms, global competition and multinational management, foreign R&D investment, national innovation and technology policies, and Asian economies. He has organized major academic and business conferences in a number of international cities, including Beijing, Chicago, Seattle, Sydney-Newcastle, Toronto, Washington D.C., and more recently, in Hong Kong for the 2009 IGBI Global Business Forum on Strategic Positioning in a New World Economic Order: Asia Pacific and Global Competitiveness.
  
  Professor Cheng’s work has been supported by funding agencies both in the U.S. and abroad. Since 1990, he has received more than US$2 million external funding, including two multi-year Title VI grants from the Department of Education, and a grant award from the National Science Foundation Center for Innovation Management Studies. He has published seven books and many refereed articles in leading U.S. and European academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Management International Review, Management Science, Organization Studies, and R&D Management, among others.
  
  Professor Cheng has received recognition for research, teaching, and professional service excellence, including a Leading Book Series Editor Award from Emerald Group Publishing, a Best Paper Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management, an Outstanding Elective Professor Award from The Ohio State University MBA Programs (full-time, evening, and weekend), and a Distinguished Service Award from the Academy’s International Management Division. He is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies, Senior Editorial Consultant to the European Journal of International Management, and was the lead Co-Editor of Advances in International Management during 1996-2009. He currently serves or has served on the editorial review boards of Management International Review, Journal of World Business, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of International Management, and Journal of Engineering and Technology Management.

• Co-Principal Investigator: Bradley Farnsworth, University of Michigan

  Bradley Farnsworth is Director of the Center for International Business Education (CIBE) at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. The Center’s programs includefaculty research grants, foreign language courses, study abroad, collaboration with other business schools, executive training programs, student internships, and consulting projects. As CIBE Director, he has raised more than US$9 million external funds to support various academic and research programs on campus. This funding support includes federal and foundation grants, corporate sponsorships and contracts, and individual gifts for both current expenses and endowment.
  
  In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Farnsworth teaches courses on international management, the world economy, business in China, and globalization to MBAs, undergraduates, and executives. He has consulted with companies doing business in China, working primarily with the automotive industry. He serves on a number of advisory boards.
  
  Before coming to Michigan in 1991, he served for nine years as associate director of the Yale-China Association, a century-old educational organization based at Yale University. During that time he developed one of the first management training programs with foreign cooperation in mainland China.
  
  Farnsworth holds masters degrees in international business and Chinese studies from Washington University in St. Louis, both awarded in 1981.

• Co-Principal Investigator: Gregory Hundley, Purdue University

  Gregory Hundley completed his undergraduate degree with first class honors from the University of Western Australia and his MA and PhD degrees from the University of Minnesota. He has served on the faculties of the University of Oregon where he was Chair of the Management Department and Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Western Australia. In 1997, he joined the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University, where he now serves as Professor of Management.
  
  Since January 2001, Professor Hundley has been Director of Purdue’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) – a federally designated national resource center charged with innovations in research and pedagogy that enhances U.S. competitiveness in global business. He has been principal investigator on multiple multi-year grants under the Title VI program of theHigher Education Act, totaling more than $5 million. Along with his stewardship of more than 100 programs of research, teaching and outreach to the business and academic communities,
  
  Professor Hundley has led major cross-disciplinary projects of teaching and research on corporatepublic diplomacy, international trade, regional branding, and cross-cultural assessment. He also initiated collaborations between the Krannert School and several major Chinese Universities. He is currently leading new initiatives in technology and management models for global reach and integration, managing in newly developing frontier economies, and the globalization of higher education. His research has been published in major journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Global Focus, Journal of Human Resources, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and a book, The Global Diffusion of Human Resource Practices: Institutional and Cultural Limits.
  
  Professor Hundley has served on the editorial board of Academy of Management Journal and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resources. His research focuses on the effects of individual values and national culture on transfer of management practices, processes of change in national and organizational cultures, international business groups, new models of the Chinese family firm, the relationship between self-employment and entrepreneurship, and the role of globalization on business models in newly developing nations. He is chair of The Academy of International Business Education and Research, and is an executive board member of Confucius Institute of Purdue.

• Co-Principal Investigator: Austin Jaffe, Penn State University

  Austin J. Jaffe is the Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration, Chair of the Department of Insurance and Real Estate, Director of the Smeal Office of International Programs, and Associate Director of the Institute for Real Estate Studies at Penn State University. He is also President of JS & Associates, a real estate software firm. He received a B.S. in real estate and finance, an M.S. in finance, and a Ph.D. in real estate and finance all from the University of Illinois. Prior to coming to Penn State in 1981, he taught at the University of Oregon and has held faculty appointments at several prestigious international universities including The Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, Tel Aviv University in Israel, National University of Singapore, University of Auckland in New Zealand, University of Hong Kong, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Finland, University of New Brunswick in Canada, and the Institute at Palazzo Rucellai in Italy.

  Professor Jaffe is recognized as a real estate authority throughout the world and has appeared as an invited speaker on property rights issues and real estate financial analysis throughout Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and East Asia. He has appeared on professional programs to give invited papers at more than 100 institutions in more than 30 countries. He has also appeared on executive and professional programs for several national associations. He has served as a consultant to The World Bank, Nordic Council of Ministers, Prudential Realty Group, Eastern European Real Property Foundation, Real Estate Research Institute, Pennsylvania Association of Realtors, and others.

  Dr. Jaffe's teaching and research interests lie in the areas of real estate financial analysis, the economics of property rights, the economic effects of legal institutions, the conceptual basis of property, and real estate computerization. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books including Fundamentals of Real Estate Investment (Third Edition, 1995), Real Estate Investment Decision Making (1982), Analyzing Real Estate Decisions (2 Volumes, 1985), and others. He is the editor of The Real Estate Reader (1995) and was co-author of Property Rights and Privatisation in the Baltic Countries (1995). He has published over 75 articles in academic and professional journals.

  Dr. Jaffe is a member of several editorial review boards including Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, Research in Real Estate Issues, Journal of Real Estate Education and Practice; in the UK: Journal of Property Valuation and Investment, Journal of Property Research, Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, Journal of Property Finance, and Our Common Estate; in Hong Kong: International Real Estate Review; and in Sweden: Housing, Theory, and Society. He was the Co-Editor of the Journal of Real Estate Literature and served as Special Editor for a volume of Research in Law and Economics devoted to urban property rights. In 1989, he became a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute. He was the 1994 President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. He held the Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Property Systems in 2001 and in 2002, was awarded the George Bloom Award for contributions to the field of real estate.

• Co-Principal Investigator: J. Craig Jenkins, Ohio State University

  J. Craig Jenkins is Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Environmental Science at The Ohio State University. He is currently Chair of the Department of Sociology. He has previously served as a Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and been a Visiting Fellow at Program on Nonprofit Organizations, Yale University. For the academic year 2010-11, he is a Fulbright Fellow to Norway and will be housed at PRIO in Oslo, Norway. His project on The World Handbook of Political Indicators IV is also supported by the Norway Research Council.
  
  Professor Jenkins received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York-Stony Brook in 1975 and his M.A. in 1974. His B.A. was at the University of Texas in Plan II, an honors liberal arts program. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009, a Joan Huber Faculty Fellow in 2003, and elected Chair of the Section on Committees of the American Sociological Association (1998-2000), the ASA Section on Political Sociology (1995-96), and the ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements (1994- 95). He was elected to the Sociological Research Association in 1993 and was a National Security Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security at Ohio State in 1988.
  
  His major research interests are the study of conflict and its outcomes, including the impact of the environmental movement on environmental protection, models for the early warning of international conflict and humanitarian disasters, and the effectiveness of state and local high technology development programs on high technology growth. He has organized a variety of conferences and workshops at the Mershon Center for International Security, including a major conference in 2004 on Deprivation and Violence.
  
  Professor Jenkins has received numerous grants from funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for Humanities and the Russell Sage Foundation. He is currently PI for over $1 million in projects funded by the National Science Foundation. He has published four books, including most recently The Handbook of Politics (Springer 2010), and over eighty articles and book chapters in leading U.S. and international journals, including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Mobilization, and the Journal of Peace Research. He has been Deputy Editor of the American Sociological Review, and served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, International Studies Quarterly, Sociological Forum, and Sociological Quarterly.

• Co-Principal Investigator: Kevin T. Leicht, University of Iowa

  Kevin T. Leicht is Professor of Sociology, incoming Chair, and Director of the Iowa Social Science Research Center at The University of Iowa. He has published extensively on issues of social inequality, the political and social implications of economic development, organizational change, and the changing worlds of professionals and elite knowledge workers. His journal publications have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and the Academy of Management Journal. He has published four books including Analyzing the Workforce: Concepts, Measures and Trends (2001, Plenum Publishers), Professional Work (2001, Blackwell Publishers), and Post-Industrial Peasants: The Illusion of Middle Class Prosperity (2006, Worth Publishers).
  
  Professor Leicht’s research has been continuously funded by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and Spencer Foundation. His current National Science Foundation funded research project is re-examining the sampling methodology used in the U.S. General Social Survey, the mostused
  and cited social science data collection other than the U.S. Census.
  
  Professor Leicht will bring unique research expertise to CASIC, including his extensive knowledge and writing on the changing worlds of scientists as skilled professionals, his knowledge of and extensive experience in fielding original data collections, measuring economic and organizational change over time, and his extensive knowledge of the statistical techniques and software that will be necessary to carry out the documentary data file construction and analysis for the project.
  
  In addition to these statistical and research design skills, Professor Leicht has extensive experience interviewing entrepreneurs, skilled workers, and leading focus-group discussions on the implications of various social, technical, and economic changes for individual and social well-being. This set of organizational, data collection, and analysis skills will be of great value to CASIC.