Professor Michael Carney joined Concordia University’s Department of Management in 1984. He has held visiting positions at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Tianjin University and the University of South Australia. He has published some 40 papers and book chapters appearing in Journals such as Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Asia Pacific Business Review, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Family Business Review, Handbook of Asian Management and Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, and Strategic Management Journal. Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies. He is currently a Senior Editor at the Asia-Pacific Journal of Management.

• The bright and dark sides of Asian business groups; Prototypes: Colonial business groups in Asia before 1945; Continuity and change in Japan’s business groups; State-constructed business groups: the Korean chaebol; Searching for business groups in Taiwan; Business groups in mainland China; Hong Kong based business groups; Business groups in India; Ethnic Chinese business groups in Southeast Asia: Social capital and institutional persistence; The development of Asia’s business groups.