ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
M. Al-Kilani
Mahmoud is Principle Lecturer and Programme Leader in the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University. He is author of a wide range of articles involving corporate social responsibility and issues of executive compensation, dividend signaling and international accounting standards.
He is co-authoring (with G. Black) the third edition of Introduction to Accounting and Finance, FT/Prentice Hall. Responsible for Chapter 15.G. H. Black
Geoff is Principal Lecturer in Business Finance, Harper Adams University College. He has held many senior examining posts and has lectured in Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and Singapore. He has written several textbooks, including Applied Financial Accounting and Reporting, Oxford University Press, and Introduction to Accounting and Finance, FT/ Prentice Hall. Responsible for Chapter 2.
G. Burton
Glyn lectures in European Business, Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, with special reference to macroeconomics and quantitative methods. Author (with G. Carrol and S. Wall) of Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics, 2nd edn, FT/Prentice Hall. He has taught economics at various levels and has lectured in Business Schools in France, Finland and the Netherlands. Responsible for Chapters 16, 22 and 23.
A. Dunnett
Andrew lectures, writes and researches at Thames Valley University, West London and was formerly the Head of the Economics Subject group at TVU, having more than three decades of experience in teaching economics and in demonstrating its relevance to real world issues. He is the author of a number of successful texts in economics and business. His interest in Health Economics stems from his involvement in the Richard Wells Research Centre in the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences at TVU where he contributes, as an economist and statistician, to Department of Health funded research into healthcare associated infections (HCAIs).
He also delivers the core economics module on the MSc Health and Social Policy at TVU which attracts a wide variety of health service managers and, as a statistician, to more specialist programmes in epidemiology. Responsible for Chapter 12.E. Fuller
Ted is Head of Business School, Lincoln University and has written and edited numerous publications, books, trainer manuals, expert systems and academic papers. He was formerly Professor and Director of the Centre of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development at Teesside Business School, University of Teesside. Responsible for Chapter 3.
A. Griffiths
Alan is Reader in Economics, Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, and previously Tutor in Economics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Fellow of the Japan Foundation, Sophia University, Tokyo, and visiting Professor of Economics at Yokohama National University and Research Officer at the Research Institute for the National Economy, Tokyo. Co-author (with S. Wall) of Economics for Business and Management, FT/ Prentice Hall, now in its third edition, editor of European Economy Survey and British Economy Survey and co-author (with S. Wall) of Intermediate Microeconomics: Theory and Applications, Addison Wesley Longman (2nd edn). Responsible for Chapters 1, 5, 7, 14, 19, 30 and Chapters 4, 6, 10, 13, 25, 27 (with S. Wall).
B. Harrison
Barry is Senior Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, Nottingham Business School and Faculty Professor, TiasNimbas Business School. He has also held a visiting post at the National Institute for Management of the Economy in Baku, Azerbaijan and has been visiting professor at the European University at St Petersburg, Russia. His research interests currently focus on capital markets in Central and Eastern Europe and his publications have appeared in journals such as Economics Letters, Applied Financial Economics and Economic Issues. Responsible for Chapter 20.
S. Ison
Steve is Professor of Transport Policy, Loughborough University and teaches and researches across a range of transport and environmentally related subjects.
He is co-author (with S. Wall) of Economics, FT/Prentice Hall, 4th edition, and editor (with T. Rye), of The Implementation and Effectiveness of Transport Demand Management Measures: An International Perspective, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, as well as other major texts and monographs. Steve is co-editor of the Journal of Research in Transportation Business and Management, associate editor of the Journal of Transportation Planning and Technology, and co-series editor of Transport and Sustainability. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Transport Policy, Member of the Scientific Committee of the World Conference on Transport Research Society and Chair of the World Conference on Transport Research Society Special Interest Group (SIG 10) Urban Transport Policy. Responsible for Chapter 11.I. Negru
Ioana is Senior Lecturer in Economics in the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University. She is the author of a wide range of articles and monographs on economic methodology and on the historical and contemporary contribution of various ‘schools’ of economic thought. Ioana is Associate Editor for the Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education and academic referee for a wide range of journals, including the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Philosophical Economics, the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, International Review of Economics Education and International Journal of Green Economics. Responsible for Chapter 9.
G. O’Shea
Greg is Senior Lecturer in International Business and Finance in the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University. He is a specialist in international business, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and business strategy, having worked with various international consultancy groups in the UK, US and Europe and lectured at Aalto University in Helsinki. He has extensive consultancy experience in global strategy and leadership in the US, Japan, Scandinavia, Russia and throughout the rest of Europe.
Responsible for Chapter 28.S. Rubinsohn
Simon is the Chief Economist for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. In this role, he is responsible for leading the economics and research team at the RICS in providing timely analysis of developments in both the commercial and residential property markets as well as in the construction industry. He is also responsible for delivering the RICS suite of high profile surveys measuring sentiment in different segments of the property market, helping to develop RICS policy positions alongside the External Affairs team and is a regular media commentator. Prior to taking up this position, Simon was Senior Strategist for Barclays Wealth where he played a key role in setting and managing the asset allocation for client portfolios focusing on a broad range of asset classes. Simon initially came into the financial services industry in 1985 when he joined ANZ Merchant Bank as a UK economist. Prior to this, he spent four years lecturing in economics. Responsible for Chapters 17 and 26.
K. Toner
Kieron lectures in Business Economics at the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. His teaching and research interests include areas within the field of international economics, particularly global trade issues and exchange rate policy, and also in the area of modern American political economy. He is involved in teaching at undergraduate level, and regularly teaches on business courses in Germany. Responsible (with S. Wall) for Chapter 24.
S. D. Wall
Stuart is Professor of Business and Economics Education, Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University. He has acted as consultant to the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, as guest lecturer and examiner at the University of Cambridge and the Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex University and is author of a wide range of reports and articles on business strategy, the environment and the economics of technical change.
He has authored and co-authored a wide range of major texts, published in many languages, such as Economics for Business and Management (with A. Griffiths) FT/Prentice Hall, now in its third edition, International Business (with S. Minocha andB. Rees) FT/Prentice Hall (3rd edn), and of Intermediate Microeconomics: Theory and Applications (with A. Griffiths) FT/Prentice Hall (2nd edn) and Quantitative Methods (with G. Carrol and G. Burton) FT/Prentice Hall (2nd edn) and Environmental Issues and Policies (with Ison, S. and Peake, S.) FT/Prentice Hall. Editor (with G. Black) of Longman Modular Texts in Business and Economics. Responsible for Chapters 8, 18 and (with A. Griffiths) for Chapters 4, 6, 10, 13, 25 and 27 and (with K. Toner) for Chapter 24.
R. Webb
Rob is Head of Department for Accounting, Finance and Risk and Director of Postgraduate Programmes at Caledonian Business School, Glasgow Caledonian University. Rob publishes widely in international journals in the areas of financial institution performance and applied economics most recently on the effects of demutualization on large UK bank performance. He is also Senior Advisor to the Risk Panel at the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. Responsible for Chapter 21.
C. Zimmermann
Carsten is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the University of San Diego, California, USA, lecturing and researching in areas that relate to the role of resources and capabilities in early-stage internationalization and development. His work has appeared in a number of major journals and texts, including Strategic Reconfigurations, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar. Carsten has worked many years at the strategic management consultancies A. T. Kearney and Capgemini Consulting, specializing in projects involving revenue growth, strategic sourcing and operational effectiveness in Germany, Hungary, Russia and the United States of America. Carsten is also involved in executive education for various organizations in industries as diverse as telecommunications, automotive supply, media, high technology and energy. Responsible for Chapter 29.
