© 2022 Farok J. Contractor, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Business School, and President, AIB Since the mid-1980s, globalization has contributed to lifting more than one billion people out of grinding poverty and perhaps two billion into a middle-class consumer status. The Academy of International Business (AIB) is the premier worldwide association of more than 3,000 academics … Continue reading Academy of International Business (AIB) Joins World Investment for Development Alliance (WIDA)
Professor Farok J. Contractor Named 34th President of the Academy of International Business (AIB)
© 2021 Rutgers Business School Farok J. Contractor, distinguished professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School, assumed the role of president of the Academy of International Business (AIB) on August 1, 2021. The AIB is an association of 3,500 members worldwide, mainly academics and a few strategists studying global business, with 13 chapters in … Continue reading Professor Farok J. Contractor Named 34th President of the Academy of International Business (AIB)
The US-China Business Relationship: “Bi-Polar”? Or a Stabilizing Pillar of the World Economy? A Video Lecture
© 2020, Farok J. Contractor, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Business School, and President-Elect, Academy of International Business Introduction to a public lecture sponsored by the Academy of International Business and the University of Nottingham (China, Ningbo Campus) VIDEO LINK Talk approximately 60 minutes followed by Q&A of 30 minutes Just two countries, China and the US, … Continue reading The US-China Business Relationship: “Bi-Polar”? Or a Stabilizing Pillar of the World Economy? A Video Lecture
The Quarreling Couple That Still Needs to Dance Together: A Webinar Addressing US-China Rivalry and Cooperation
© 2020, Farok J. Contractor, Rutgers Business School The two biggest economies on the planet—the US and China, constituting 40 percent of the entire world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 23 percent of its population—need to cooperate for the sake of humankind. And yet, over the last four years, tensions between the two nations have … Continue reading The Quarreling Couple That Still Needs to Dance Together: A Webinar Addressing US-China Rivalry and Cooperation
Farok Contractor Receives a Silver Medal from JIBS
As part of the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB), the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the premier journal in the academic field of International Business, celebrated its 50th anniversary. One of the highlights of the JIBS celebration was acknowledging authors with the greatest number of publications. Farok Contractor was pleased … Continue reading Farok Contractor Receives a Silver Medal from JIBS
Lifetime Achievement Award PLUS 10,000 Publication Citations
Indian Academy of Management 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award On December 19, 2017, Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and president of the Indian Academy of Management (INDAM), presented Farok Contractor, Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University Business School, with a Lifetime Achievement Award at a dinner ceremony during INDAM’s 5th Biennial Conference December 18–20, 2017 … Continue reading Lifetime Achievement Award PLUS 10,000 Publication Citations
“Punching above their weight” Recognized by IJOEM
© 2014 Prof. Farok J. Contractor, Rutgers University “Punching above their weight” Named “2014 Outstanding Paper” by International Journal of Emerging Markets* [Excerpt from Letter] Monday, April 28, 2014 Dear Professor Contractor: Congratulations again on “‘Punching above their weight’: The sources of competitive advantage for emerging market multinationals” being selected as the 2014 Outstanding Paper winner for International Journal of Emerging … Continue reading “Punching above their weight” Recognized by IJOEM
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