Topic:35 Years of Internalization Theory

Speaker:Dr. Peter J. Buckley, Professor of International Business, Director of the Center for International Business, University of Leeds

Time:10:00—11:30am, 13th September, 2011

Location:Room 110, Guanghua New Building, Peking University

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Peter J Buckley is Professor of International Business and Director of the Centre for International Business, University of Leeds, UK. He has published 26 books in English including one in German and edited 17 further books. He was listed as one of the most “successful Academic Writers” in The Times Higher Education Supplement (January 2006). In addition, he has written over 175 refereed articles on foreign direct investment, the multinational enterprise, international management and the economics of tourism in leading British, US, Japanese and European journals, including 20 articles in the Journal of International Business Studies. He was President of the Academy of International Business (AIB) 2002-4 and served on the Executive Board of the AIB as “Immediate Past President” 2004-6, after being Vice President of the AIB (1991-92) and the Chair of its UK Region from 1985 to 1991. He is currently Chair of the European International Business Academy (2009-2012). He has been awarded many prizes and awards such as the Richard Whipp Award (British Academy of Management) "for considerable and sustained contribution to International Business", 2011.

(For more info, please visithttp://lubswww.leeds.ac.uk/cibul/cibul-people/professor-peter-buckley/)

Should you have any enquirers, please contact Ms. Xuan Wang of Strategic Management Dept (xuanw@gsm.pku.edu.cn).