Masaaki Kotabe, Ph.D.

The Washburn Chair Professor of International Business and Marketing, Temple University

Masaaki "Mike" Kotabe holds the Washburn Chair Professorship in International Business and Marketing, and is Director of Research at the Institute of Global Management Studies at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University.  He currently serves as the Editor of the Journal of International Management.  Prior to joining Temple University in 1998, he was Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial Endowed Fellow and Professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Kotabe served as the Vice President of the Academy of International Business in 1997-98.

Dr. Kotabe teaches international marketing, global sourcing strategy (R&D, manufacturing, and marketing interfaces), and Asian business practices at the undergraduate and MBA levels and theories of international business at the Ph.D. level.  He has lectured widely at various business schools around the world, including Austria, Germany, Finland, Norway, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and Turkey. He has written 16 books and over 100 scholarly publications.

For his research, he has worked closely with leading companies such as AT&T, NEC, Nissan, Philips, Sony, and Ito-Yokado (parent of 7-Eleven stores), and served as advisor to the United Nations’ and World Trade Organization’s Executive Forum on National Export Strategies. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business for his significant contribution to international business research and education.