Introduction

Abstract

This research volume honours Alan M. Rugman, who is the L. Leslie Waters Chair in International Business (IB), Professor of Management and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. The work contains a set of essays developed to celebrate the Academy of Management's (AoM) recognition of Professor Rugman as the ‘Booz Allen Hamilton Strategy and Business Eminent Scholar in International Management’ at the AoM 2004 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Booz Allen Hamilton established this award to recognize eminent scholars whose research and writing have contributed significantly to international management scholarship and whose work has had an effect on the practice of international management. This great honour was not the only one Professor Rugman received in 2004. The European International Business Academy (EIBA) organized a special panel honouring Professor Rugman's 25-year old landmark study on international diversification and the multinational enterprise (MNE) at its 2004 Annual Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The 10 chapters included in this volume were presented at one of these events or written as a direct result thereof.

Citation

Van Den Bulcke, D. and Verbeke, A. (2005), "Introduction", Verbeke, A. (Ed.) Internalization, International Diversification and the Multinational Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Rugman (Research in Global Strategic Management, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1064-4857(05)11001-8