Acknowledgments

I need to thank many for helping this book become tangible. My interest in this topic extends back to my graduate school days at the University of Minnesota and internships at the Control Data Corporation and Honeywell, Inc. It was further developed working for Cargill, Inc., in the United States, and for Cargill, Plc. as an expatriate in London. Some of the groundwork was done while working on my Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and working at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE. It was further developed while teaching at Rutgers and during my summers at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration in Greece. The actual writing got underway during my time as a Fulbright Scholar at the City University of Hong Kong.

Specifically, I want to thank the following friends and associates: Debra Norman, Doug Kruse, Steve Director, Richard Freeman, Barbara Lee, Charles Fay, Joseph Blasi, Mark Huselid, Randall Schuler, Susan Jackson, Corey Rosen, Olga Epitropaki, Vinney Senguttuvan, Sameer Maskey, Odette–Simone Smolicz, Kwok Leung, Brian Dominick, Kathleen Turco-Lyon, Charlotte Matthews, Laurie Rudman, Bob Jorissen, Rick Synder, Al Bleich, Terry Park, Maya Kroumova, Yu Peng Lin, Rena Morrissey, Amanda Salter, Lorraine Wrafter, James Kohrt, Bob Ernt, Peter Price, Darryl Sjoberg, Ansgar Richter, Steve Machin, Martin Conyon, Alan Manning, David Metcalf, Jonathon Wadsworth, Danny Quah, Richard Layard, Paul Gregg, Shulun Chang-Reuter, Ching-Bin Lin, Ethan Tsai, Arthur Langer, David Murphy, Jack McGourty.

Many of my former students were instrumental in helping me to develop my thinking on these matters.

I would also like to thank Martin Rugfelt and others at Expert Maker for access to their excellent software.

My sincere thanks to Paula Caligiuri and Jeanne Glasser for their support.

My sister, Christine Schultz; and brothers, Joseph Sesil, Daniel Sesil; brother-in-law, Steve Schultz; sister-in-law Teresa Sesil; my lovely nieces and nephew; and my wonderful extended family, the Payants.

I would especially like to thank my friend Antonia Marquardt for our many careful and thoughtful conversations on topics covered in this book.

Funding from the Consulate General of the United States Hong Kong and Macau and the organizing body for the Fulbright Scholars Program, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) is gratefully acknowledged.

Any and all errors are, of course, my own.