Professor Alan Rugman
International Business and Strategy
Head of International Business and Strategy
Email: a.rugman@henley.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 1491 571454 ex 2328
Location: KH10 Greenlands campus, HBS 233 Whiteknights
Alan Rugman is Head of International Business & Strategy. He joined Henley Business School as Professor of International Business in 2008-9. Previously he has held tenured appointments at University of Oxford, Indiana University, University of Toronto and Visiting Appointments at Harvard University, Columbia Business School, UCLA and other leading universities in North America, Europe and Asia. Professor Rugman has published numerous books and refereed articles examining the strategies and performance of the World's 500 largest multinational enterprises. These works have been influential in building the field of International Business Scholarship leading to several thousand citations. His most important book develops the theory of internalisation in an North American context, "Inside the Multinationals", Columbia University Press 1981, reissued 2006. Professor Rugman has been a consultant to leading MNEs, to the Canadian Government during the negotiations for NAFTA, and to the United Nations. He is co-author of a leading textbook, "International Business", 6th Edition, FT/Prentice Hall, 2012.
By area: Multinational Enterprises; Globalization; Trade and Investment Policy
By geography: North America, Europe, Asia (the broad triad)
MBA Strategy and International Business, MSc Modules in International Business, PhD International Business Seminar
Lee, I. H. and Rugman, A. (2012) Firm-specific advantages, inward FDI origins, and performance of multinational enterprises. Journal of International Management, 18 (2). pp. 132-146. ISSN 1075-4253 2012 - JIM - FSAs inward FDI origins and performance of MNEs - Paper
Aguilera-Caracuel, J., Aragon-Correa, J. A., Hurtado-Torres, N. E. and Rugman, A. (2012) The effects of institutional distance and headquarters' financial performance on the generation of environmental standards in multinational companies. Journal of Business Ethics, 105 (4). pp. 461-474. ISSN 1573-0697 doi: 10.1007/s10551-011-0978-7 2012 - JBE - The effects of institutional distance Paper
Oh, C. H. and Rugman, A. (2012) Why the Home Region Matters: Location and Regional Mutlinationals. British Journal of Management. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2012.00817 2012-BJM-why the home region matters location and regional multinationals Paper
Rugman, A., Oh, C.H. and Lim, D.S.K. (2012) The regional and global competitiveness of multinational firms, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science: Volume 40, Issue 2, p 218-235.Download (PDF)
Oh, C.H. and Rugman, A. (2012) Regional integration and the international strategies of large European firms. International Business Review. ISSN 0969-5931 (In Press) Download (PDF)
Rugman, A. (2011) The international financial crisis and transnational corporation strategy, Transnational Corporations: Volume 20, Number 1, pp. 103-116.
Rugman, A., Verbeke, A. and Yuan, W. (2011) Re-conceptualizing Bartlett and Ghoshal's classification of national subsidiary roles in the multinational enterprise. Journal of Management Studies, 48 (2). pp. 253-277. ISSN 0022-2380 Download(PDF)
Rugman, A., Verbeke, A. and Nguyen, Q. T. K. (2011) Fifty years of international business theory and beyond. Management International Review, 51:6. pp. 755-786. ISSN 1861-8901.Download (PDF)
Rugman, A. M. and Oh, C. H. (2011) Methodological issues in the measurement of multinationality of US firms. Multinational Business Review, 19 (3). pp. 202-212. ISSN 1525-383X Download (PDF)
Collinson, S. and Rugman, A. (2011) Relevance and rigor in international business teaching: using the CSA-FSA matrix. Journal of Teaching in International Business, 22 (1). pp. 29-37. ISSN 0897-5930 Download (PDF)
Rugman, A. M. and Oh, C. H. (2010) Does the regional nature of multinationals affect the multinationality and performance relationship? International Business Review, 19 (5). pp. 479-488. ISSN 0969-5931 Download (PDF)
Rugman, A. (2010) Globalization, regional multinationals and Asian economic development. Asian Business & Management , 9 (3). pp. 299-317. ISSN 1472-4782
Collinson, S. and Rugman, A. (2010) Case selection biases in management research: the implications for international business studies. European Journal of International Management, 4 (5). pp. 441-463. ISSN 1751-6765
Rugman, A. M. (2010) Reconciling internalization theory and the eclectic paradigm. Multinational Business Review, 18 (2). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1525-383X
Rugman, A. M., Li, J. and Oh, C. H. (2009) Are supply chains global or regional? International Marketing Review, 26 (4/5). pp. 384-395. ISSN 0265-1335
Rugman, A. (2008) Thirty years of international business scholarship in Canada. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 25 (4). pp. 271-278. ISSN 1936-4490
Rugman, A. and Verbeke, A. (2008) A regional solution to the strategy and structure of multinationals. European Management Journal, 26 (5). pp. 305-313. ISSN 0263-2373
Rugman, A. and Li, J. (2008) Will China’s multinationals succeed globally or regionally? European Management Journal, 25 (5). pp. 333-343. ISSN 0263-2373
Rugman, A. and Oh, C.H. (2008) Friedman's follies: insights on the globalization/regionalization debate. Business and Politics, 10 (2). pp. 1-14. ISSN 1469-3569
Rugman, A., Yip, G. and Jayaratne, S. (2008) A note on return on foreign assets and foreign presence for UK multinationals. British Journal of Management, 19 (2). pp. 162-170. ISSN 1467-8551
Rugman, A. M. and Verbeke, A. (2008) A new perspective on the regional and global strategies of multinational services firms. Management International Review, 48 (4). pp. 397-411. ISSN 0938-8249
Collinson, S. and Rugman, A. (2008) The regional nature of Japanese multinational business. Journal of International Business Studies, 39 (2). pp. 215-230. ISSN 1478-6990
Rugman, A. and Verbeke, A. (2008) The theory and practice of regional strategy: a response to Osegowitsch and Sammartino. Journal of International Business Studies, 39 (2). pp. 326-332. ISSN 1478-6990
Rugman, A. and Oh, C.H. (2008) Korea's multinationals in a regional world. Journal of World Business, 43 (1). pp. 5-15. ISSN 1090-9516
Rugman, A. and Oh, C.H. (2008) The international competitiveness of Asian firms. Journal of Strategy and Management, 1 (1). pp. 57-71. ISSN 1755-425X
Sukpanich, N. and Rugman, A. (2007) Intra-regional sales, product diversity, and the performance of merchandising multinationals. Journal of International Management, 13 (2). pp. 131-146. ISSN 1075-4253
Oh, C. H. and Rugman, A. M. (2007) Regional multinationals and the Korean cosmetics industry. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 24 (1). pp. 27-42. ISSN 1572-9958
Collinson, S. and Rugman, A. M. (2007) The regional character of Asian multinational enterprises. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 24 (4). pp. 429-446. ISSN 1572-9958
Rugman, A. M. and Verbeke, A. (2007) Liabilities of regional foreignness and the use of firm-level versus country-level data: a response to Dunning et al. (2007). Journal of International Business Studies, 38 (1). pp. 200-205. ISSN 1478-6990
"Inside the Multinationals", Columbia Unviversity Press 1981, 2006
"International Business" 6th Edition, FT/Prentice Hall 2012
"Environmental Regulations and Corporate Strategy", Oxford University Press, 1999
"Multinationals as Flagship Firms", Oxford University Press, 2000
"The End of Globalization", Random House, 2000
"The Oxford Handbook of International Business", 2001, 2009
"The Regional Multinationals", Cambridge University Press, 2005
"Multinationals and Development", Yale University Press, 2008
"Rugman Reviews International Business", Palgrave Macmillan, 2009