John R. McIntyre is founding executive director of the Georgia Tech Center for International Business Education and Research, a national resource center for the Southeastern U.S. region, and a full professor of international business management at the Georgia Tech College of Management with joint appointment at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Ilan Alon is associate professor of international business at the Forbes-ranked Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, which is consistently ranked by US News & World Report as one of “America’s Best Colleges.” He is the author, editor, and co-editor of nine books and more than eighty published articles relating to international business.
""This is a very ambitious book, which by and large is successful. Using a robust variety of analyses and case studies of most of the world's nations labeled as emerging or transitioning countries, the volume, sometimes elegantly, establishes the linkages between business and management education, and productivity, entrepreneurship, and economic development and modernization - no small feat."" - Robert G. Hawkins, Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology; Past President and Fellow, Academy of International Business""