REFIK CULPAN teaches at the School of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. He has 20 years teaching and practical experience in management and international business in Europe and the United States. His numerous research has appeared in selected journals. He authored a chapter in Advances in International Comparative Management Vol. 6 (1991) and The Economic of Change in East and Central Europe: Its Impact on International Business (1993). He recently edited Multinational Strategic Alliances (1993).BRIJ NINO KUMAR is Professor of International Management and Business Economics at the University of Erlange-Nurnberg, Germany. He has over 70 publications in reputable German, American, French, and Japanese journals and seven books on various topics of international management and business economics. Additionally, he serves on editorial boards of several journals and has advised the federal German government and Bavarian government on various projects.
