About our authors John D. Daniels (1936–2024) was the Samuel N. Friedland Chair of Executive Management Emeritus at the University of Miami. He earned his BBA, MBA and PhD from the University of Miami, University of the Americas and the University of Michigan, respectively. He also held an honorary doctorate from UPAO in Peru and served as Chancellor (Honorary) of the University College of the Caribbean in Jamaica. His dissertation won first place in the Academy of International Business’s doctoral competition, and he later received the Journal of International Business Studies Decade Award and a Silver Medal Award for his scholarly contributions.Professor Daniels was widely published, with articles appearing in top journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, California Management Review, Journal of Business Research, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies and Management International Review, among many others. He authored or edited 15 books, including Multinational Enterprises and the Changing World Economy and multiple volumes on multinational enterprise theory and globalization. On the 30th anniversary of Management International Review, he was recognized as “one of the most prolific American IB scholars.” He served as president of the Academy of International Business and dean of its Fellows and chaired the international division of the Academy of Management, which named him Outstanding Educator of the Year in 2010.His global experience was extensive. He lived and worked in seven countries for a year or more and undertook shorter assignments in more than 30 others across six continents. His international work spanned the private sector, government, academia and research. Over his career, he held faculty appointments at Georgia State University, The Pennsylvania State University and Indiana University (as Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research) and served as the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair at the University of Richmond. Professor Daniels passed away in 2024. He is survived by his wife, Letty, to whom he was married for over 60 years, and their two sons.Lee H. Radebaugh is former Professor Emeritus at Brigham Young University (BYU), previously holding the title of Kay and Yvonne Whitmore Professor and Director of the Whitmore Global Management Center. He previously served as Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management, Associate Director of the MBA program and Director of the School of Accountancy. As Director of BYU’s CIBER, he oversaw international business programs, built partnerships with foreign universities and led faculty and student groups to Asia, the Middle East and South America.Professor Radebaugh earned his DBA and MBA from Indiana University and a BS in accounting from BYU. He taught at The Pennsylvania State University (1972–1980) and served as a visiting professor at ESAN in Lima, Peru, and at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He is coauthor of several influential books, including International Business: Environments and Operations and International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises, both of which have been translated into multiple languages, including Mandarin Chinese.His research focuses on international accounting and business, particularly the effects of exchange rate movements on operations and reporting, the global implementation of IFRS and the influence of culture and institutions on accounting practices. He was named International Person of the Year for the State of Utah in 1998 and has received numerous awards for service and scholarship, including the Silver Medal for Scholarship from the Academy of International Business in 2019 and the Outstanding International Educator award from the AAA’s International Section. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 1990. Professor Radebaugh and his late wife, Tanya, have six children and 14 grandchildren.Daniel P. Sullivan is Professor of Global Business at the Alfred Lerner College of Business of the University of Delaware and received his doctorate from the University of South Carolina. He researches a range of topics, including globalization and business, international management, global strategy, competitive analysis and corporate governance. His work on these topics has been published in leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Law and Society Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives and the Online Learning Journal.He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies and Management International Review. Professor Sullivan has been honored for both his research and teaching, receiving grants and winning awards for both activities while at the University of Delaware and his former affiliation, the Freeman School of Tulane University. He is a recipient of the Academy of International Business JIBS Silver Medal in recognition of intellectual contributions published in the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the premier journal in the international business domain. The Silver Medal was awarded to 48 IB scholars who have published at least five significant papers in JIBS since its inception. He has been awarded numerous teaching honors. Most notably, he has been voted Outstanding Teacher by the students of 20 different executive, MBA and undergraduate classes over the course of his career.Professor Sullivan has taught, designed and administered a range of in-class and online graduate, undergraduate and non-degree courses on topics spanning globalization and business, international business operations, international management, strategic perspectives, executive leadership and corporate strategy. In the United States, he has delivered lectures and courses at several universities and companies. In addition, he has led courses in several foreign countries, including China, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Finally, he has worked with many managers and consulted with several multinational enterprises on issues of international business.Reid W. Click is Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He received his MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he studied economics and international business, and his undergraduate BA in economics from Kenyon College in Ohio. His research and teaching interests are in the fields of global financial markets, international financial management, macroeconomics in the global economy and finance for development. An expert on international financial risk and risk management, his academic work has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.At George Washington University, he has served in leadership positions to develop international business programs and is currently in his fourth term as chairperson of its renowned Department of International Business. Previously, he was the founding Director of the joint International Finance Corporation—Milken Institute Capital Markets Program, and prior to that he served as the Faculty Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER), part of the national CIBER network funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Heavily committed to experiential education and study abroad, he has taught in Argentina for George Washington University and has run nine student and faculty programs investigating business institutions, finance and economic development in Rwanda.Professor Click has been awarded Fulbright Scholar awards in Italy and the Philippines, and a Fulbright Specialist award in Poland. He has served on the editorial boards of the Global Strategy Journal and the Journal of Asian Economics in the field of international finance. In addition to his academic work, he has been a consultant to several international organizations, notably the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Development Credit and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, on matters pertaining to international banking, financial risk and risk management.
