Please visit and sign the Stephen Guisinger Guest Book before you leave.   In Memory of Stephen Guisinger January 14, 1941 - July 3, 2001   Steve Guisinger, long-time member of the Academy of International Business and professor of International Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, passed away on July 3, 2001.   Below is an autobiographical review he prepared that outlined his "Fields of Research Specialization". FIELDS OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION   Most of my recent research and advisory work has focused on foreign direct investment -- why multinational firms undertake it and how governments seek to influence its location and character. I am a frequent contributor to the Journal of International Business, widely regarded as the leading scholarly journal of international business. In a ten-year span (1989-98), I authored or co-authored six contributions to JIBS, a rate not exceeded by any other JIBS author during this period. Over the past three decades, only six authors have had higher JIBS publication rates. I was recently asked to serve as one of its Associate Editors.   I have been credited with bringing into existence the Asia Pacific Investment Code, which the authors of the APEC Non-Binding Investment Principles drew heavily upon when they were created in 1994. I have served as a consultant to the Indonesian government on investment policy (December 1995 and March 1996) as part of a project directed by the Harvard Institute for International Development. In September 1997, the APEC Investment Experts Group invited me to address a symposium of Asian government officials and business leaders in Tokyo on the topic of foreign direct investment flows in Asia. In 1996, I served as a consultant to the OECD on the role of capital flows in building linkages between the OECD and developing countries. Over the past twenty years I have participated in more than twenty research and advisory projects, visiting more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe as a consultant to the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation.   I serve on the board of directors of the U.S. National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, which is the principal dialogue partner with APEC on the creation of a new institutional and policy framework for Asia Pacific trade and investment. Prior to my interest in investment, I was the only researcher to participate in each of the four large-scale studies of international trade liberalization that the OECD, NBER and World Bank organized over a two-decade period. For private corporations, such as Texas Utilities, Caltex Petroleum and E.I. Dupont, I have advised management on issues involving foreign acquisitions, political risk, and market entry strategy. I serve on the board of directors of the Cordell Hull Institute in Washington, D.C., an international trade policy research center. The chair of the board is former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.   I conceived, designed and implemented the first distance learning international management degree program in the nation, the Masters of International Management Studies (MIMS). The MIMS program currently has an enrollment of more than 60 students and is the only U.S. entry found on Yahoo!, using the keyword phrase "international management distance education." The MIMS program combines traditional campus meetings with modern distance education tools, such as groupware, audio conferencing, and archived video and audio files. MIMS is self-supporting, currently generating about one million dollars in new revenues for the School of Management. I served on the University of Texas System's Task Force on the Virtual University.   I was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations in 1990 and was a founding member of its Dallas Committee. I am a past president of the Dallas Economists Club.   My principal research interests at present include: a redefinition of the field of international business through more precise specification of the dimensions of the international business environment; the development of curricular materials to accompany a distance learning international management studies program; and a new approach to designing international business strategies using enterprise resource planing software. Please visit and sign the Stephen Guisinger Guest Book before you leave.

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