As a regional resource with a global presence, The Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University is bolstering its top-ranked international business faculty with the addition of respected international business professors Arvind Parkhe and Keith Brouthers to its general and strategic management department and David Reeb to its finance department starting in Fall 2003.
"Our international business faculty already include some of world's top researchers in international business, finance, marketing, and management—Masaaki 'Mike' Kotabe, Jay Choi, Arvind Phatak, and Ram Mudambi," said M. Moshe Porat, dean of The Fox School.
"We are extremely pleased to add Drs. Parkhe, Brouthers, and Reeb to our international business roster. With their academic, industry and professional experience and their exceptional teaching skills, they will fortify our international business focus as researchers, teachers and contributors to our Institute of Global Management Studies, Journal of International Management and Temple Center International Business Education and Research (CIBER)," he continues.
Parkhe has been appointed as a professor of international business with tenure in the general and strategic management department of The Fox School. He brings to the school and university a wealth of experience in both teaching and research in international business. Most recently, he was an associate professor of strategy and international business in The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He is ranked #1 in the field of international strategic management research as reported by the Journal of International Management (2003) and he was awarded the most influential paper of the decade award by the Journal of International Business (2001).
His research interests include strategic alliances, international joint ventures and global networks, effective management of inter-firm diversity in international alliances and soft aspects of alliances such as trust. He is an editorial board member of several academic journals. He was also a guest editor of a special issue of the Academy of Management Journal and has published in all top tier journals including the Academy of Management Review, Business Horizons, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal.
In addition to being an accomplished researcher, Parkhe has also received numerous accolades for his teaching while at Indiana University. He was the recipient of the Indiana University Teaching Excellence Recognition Award in 2000, the University's FACET award, given to the most exemplary teachers across all eight campuses of Indiana University, and teaching awards at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. His doctoral students are currently at many prestigious universities, such as the University of Texas at Austin, Boston University, and the University of Washington, Seattle. He is a member of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business.
As well-published researcher in the areas of international business management and entrepreneurship, Brouthers joins The Fox School as associate professor of global entrepreneurial management in the general and strategic management department. Prior to coming to Temple, he served as a professor of strategic and international management in London, U.K. He is a prolific researcher and has published more than 30 articles in top tiered journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Research, and Management International Review.
Brouthers has received consecutive citations for excellence in teaching from 1995 on and is a member of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business.
Prior to his academic work, Brouthers, who has his CPA and CMA, worked for Ernst & Ernst, and served in senior management positions for entrepreneurial firms.
Reeb is a well-known researcher in the area of international finance who joins The Fox School as an associate professor in the finance department. Most recently, he was an assistant professor of finance and a board of visitors research fellow at Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama and prior to that was an assistant professor and Kogod faculty research fellow at American University. His research specialty areas include corporate finance, international finance, ownership structure, corporate diversification and executive compensation. He has published in several highly selective journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
He has received numerous awards for excellence in research including the Kogod School of Business's Outstanding Research Award and was nominated for American University Professor of the Year. Reeb is a member of the American Finance Association, the Academy of International Business, and the Financial Management Association.
Ranked 22nd in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for graduate International Business Programs and 15th in the nation for undergraduate International Business Programs, The Fox School is responding to the demands of the global marketplace through education, technology and research. It is one of only 30 schools/universities in the nation awarded a $1.2 million CIBER grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Its Institute of Global Management Studies is an interdisciplinary initiative that supports the business, professional, governmental and academic community in the Greater Philadelphia region and throughout the world through its Journal of International Management and timely academic conferences and the Greater Philadelphia Global Award.
With more than 5,700 students, 150 full-time faculty and 42,000 alumni, The Fox School is one of the premier business schools in the Greater Philadelphia region and one of a select group of business schools worldwide to be accredited by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
