ANZIBA 2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Shige Makino |
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Professor Shige Makino is Professor of Management and Chairman of the Department of Managementat at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is an AIB Fellow, and currently a Vice President of AIB, having served as Program Chair for the very successful AIB conference in Nagoya in 2011. He is also a past president of the Association of Japanese Business Studies. Professor Makino has a remarkable publication record (JIBS, AMJ, JMS, SMJ etc), is extremely widely cited, and was ranked by the International Journal of Business as one of the 20 most prolific academics in international strategic management research. He has won numerous awards for both research and teaching, including the Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar from the Academy of International Business in 2002, and focuses on studying foreign firms and their subsidiaries in overseas markets, particularly their performance, mode of market entry, entry timing and the structure of their joint ventures. Professor Makino's current interest in the international nature of business, particularly Chinese business, makes him an especially good fit for the ANZIBA 2012 conference, given the theme of the conference and 2012's specialised Chinese language track. |
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Professor Sid Gray |
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Professor Sid Gray is Professor of International Business and Co-Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Group at the University of Sydney. He served as Head of the Business School from 2003-2006. Prior to joining Sydney University in 2003 he was Associate Dean (Postgraduate) and the Foundation Professor of International Business in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics at the University of New South Wales (1997-2003). Professor Gray is a Fellow of the AIB, and co-founder and past president of ANZIBA. He was the first non-American to win the American Accounting Association's International Section award (in 1994) of "Outstanding International Accounting Educator" for his sustained contributions to research and teaching in the field of international accounting. Professor Gray is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia for distinction in the field of accounting, and his main teaching and research interests are in the areas of international accounting and corporate transparency, international business strategy, and cross-cultural management. He is the author/co-author of more than 200 publications, and has published widely in JIBS, MIR, the Journal of International Accounting and other top-ranked journals. |
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