MIC Country Representatives

Middle East & Africa

Egypt - Israel

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Egypt

Carolyn ERDENER
American University, Egypt
cerdener@aucegypt.edu

Carolyn Erdener is an Associate Professor of Management at the American University in Cairo. She holds a PhD in Management from Indiana University, Bloomington, having completed all requirements including separate courses and doctoral qualifying exams in two disciplines, Strategic Management as well as International Business. Her dissertation was an application of transaction cost economic theory to firm strategy, developed under Oliver Williamson. Her MBA from Indiana is in Business Economics. She also holds an MA in Central Asian Studies from Indiana, including turkic languages (Uzbek, Azeri, and Ottoman Turkish), Altaic peoples, and history of the Middle East. Her MA thesis was on the Village Institutes national program for modernization and social change in Turkey.

Professor Erdener has held academic positions in Management at the Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University, and California State University. Her work has been presented at national and international academic conferences, primarily the national meetings of the Academy of Management, and regularly appears in refereed professional journals. For the past few years Professor Erdener's research has focused on internal transaction costs of operating internationally, and on managerial ethics in international contexts.

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Israel

Benson HONIG (Regional Representative)
University of Haifa, Israel
benson@research.haifa.ac.il

Ten years ago Benson HONIG left a career in corporate management with General Electric to pursue a personal and ethical interest in microenterprise promotion, entrepreneurship, and organizational development. Completing his Ph.D. at Stanford University in International Development (1994), his research and practical interests have led to the worldwide examination of microenterprise and entrepreneurship, as well as organizational research and theory. His responsibilities have included NGO management, training, consulting, multinational project evaluation and design (including work in Africa and the Caribbean), as well as academic posts in the USA, Europe, and the Middle East. He was a permanent faculty member at St. Andrews University in Scotland, Tel Aviv International School of Management, and is now at the University of Haifa, maintaining a research affiliation at Jonkoping International Business School in Sweden. My current research interests include nascent entrepreneurship, strategic learning, entrepreneurship in environments of transition (e.g. the Palestinian Authority, kibbutz), and the study of organizational brokerage, particularly strategic alliances in politically contested terrains.

I am very internationally focused, and believe that for generalizable findings we need more international and cross-national cooperation and research. It is a pleasure to serve on AoM in this capacity. One of my big issues at the Academy is to promote an E-membership and E-conferencing to include colleagues from Developing countries that cannot afford to participate or subscribe as regular members, at preferential rates.

Ilan OSHRI
Erasmus University, Netherlands
ioshri@fbk.eur.nl

Ilan Oshri is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, the Netherlands. Ilan's research interests revolve around knowledge transfer within and between organizations. Recent research includes the study of reusability strategies in the Israeli defence industry and the investigation of technical expertise in higher education institutions in the UK. Ilan is also active in setting up research consortiums to study knowledge management practices across Europe. Previous commercial experience includes project management in the area of training, product development and web-based applications for the Israeli defence industry and the hi-tech industry in Silicon Valley. Currently, Ilan is focusing on setting up a research consortium to study cross-project learning and reusability strategies in intensive R & D industries across Europe.

In his capacity, Ilan hopes to promote further participation of fellow Israelis and other nationalities involved in IM or any related cross-disciplinary research. In particular, Ilan hopes to attract researchers who are interested to form multi-national research teams to study knowledge management practices. Lastly, Ilan welcomes ideas from members and colleagues on how the Academy can promote participation from developing countries, using cutting-edge technologies (e.g. real time tele-conferencing, web-based conferences etc.).

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