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Rosalie L. Tung, Ph.D., FRS (Canada)

   

     Rosalie L. Tung is Professor of International Business at Simon Fraser University (Canada).  She holds the Ming and Stella Wong Chaired Professorship.  Through an election of her peers of over 13,000 professors of management and practitioners worldwide, Prof. Tung has been elected to serve a five-year term beginning with the position of Vice President-elect of the Academy of Management in 2000-2001, progressing to the positions of President in 2003-2004 and past President in 2004-2005.  She has also been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, as a Fellow of the Academy of Management, and as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. She is the winner of the 1998 Vancouver YWCA Woman of the Year Award in Management, the Professions and the Trades. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of British Columbia in 1977.  She was formerly a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, Business Administration, with the University of Wisconsin System.  She also held the position of Director, International Business Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  She has served on the faculties of the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), University of Oregon, and as a visiting professor at Harvard University, University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (England), the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University, and China Europe International Business School (Shanghai, China).  She has taught at the Foreign Investment Commission (now known as the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations).  She has served on the United Nations’ Task Force on Human Resource Management.

       Prof. Tung  is the author or editor of ten books: (1) Management Practices in China. In China - International Business Series. (New York: Pergamon Press, 1980);  (2) U.S. - China Trade Negotiations. (New York: Pergamon Press, 1982);  (3) Chinese Industrial Society After Mao. (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1982);  (4) Business Negotiations with the Japanese. (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1984); (5) Key to Japan's Economic Strength: Human Power.  Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1984);  (6) Strategic Management in the United States and Japan: A Comparative (Analysis. (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishers, 1986);  (7) The New Expatriates: Managing Human Resources Abroad. (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishers, 1988);  (8) International Management in International Library of Management (Hampshire, U.K.: Dartmouth Publishing Co. Ltd., 1994); (9) IEBM Handbook of International Business (London, U.K.:  Thomson Learning, 1999); and (10) Learning from World Class Companies (London, U.K.: Thomson Learning, 2001).  In addition, she served as subject editor (international business) of International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 2nd edition, 8 volumes (London, U.K.: Thomson Learning, 2001).  She has also published widely on the subjects of international management and organizational theory in journals such as the Columbia Journal of World Business, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Executive, California Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management, Wharton Annual, Pacific Basin Economic Review (a publication of The Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates), Multilingua (a publication of the European Economic Community), and Euro-Asia Business Review (INSEAD, France).  Her research has been cited in leading national and international newspapers and news magazines, including the International Herald Tribune, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and East Asian Executive Reports.

     Professor Tung has served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management, as past chairperson of the International Management Division, Academy of Management, and as a Treasurer and member of the Executive Board, Academy of International Business.  She is the editor of International Human Resource Management for the Journal of World Business (formerly Columbia Journal of World Business) and is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies.  She also sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals.  Dr. Tung has lectured widely at leading universities throughout the world and is active in the internationalization efforts of business schools worldwide.  She has been appointed as a member of the Commercial Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association, and is actively involved in management development and consulting activities around the world.   Prof. Tung is the recipient of the 1997 American Society for Advanced Global Competitiveness Research Award.  She has been included in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, The International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, The World's Who's Who of Women, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Canada, Who's Who in Canadian Business, Who's Who of Canadian Women, and elsewhere for outstanding contributions in her field.

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