Michael R. Czinkota (born 1951) is an American organizational theorist and Professor at the

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. Czinkota is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the

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(1987-1989) and a former head of U.S. delegation for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Industry Committee in Paris (1987-1989). From 1986-1987, Czinkota was a Senior Advisor for Export Controls in the

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. Czinkota was awarded the Significant Contribution to Global Marketing award from the American Marketing Association in 2007.AMA Academic Awards
- www.marketingpower.com He is a prolific author and has written for newspapers such as ''

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'', ''

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'', Japan Today, Ovi Magazine, The Sri Lanka Guardian, and ''

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''. Czinkota also writes articles for journals and scholarly publications.

Biography

Education

Born and raised in

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, Czinkota studied in

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, and the

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. In 1974, Czinkota graduated from the

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with

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Business Administration and Law as his major. Upon graduating from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he was awarded a two-year Fulbright Scholarship. Czinkota holds an

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in International Business and a Ph. D in International marketing and

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from

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Academic career

Since 1980, Czinkota has been a faculty of

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and International Business in McDonough School of Business Administration which is one of four undergraduate schools and one of five graduate schools at

.Georgetown Professor
- www.georgetown.edu Czinkota has written several International Business textbooks such as ''International Business'' (8th Edition), ''International Marketing'' (10th Edition), ''The Global Marketing Imperative'', and ''Mastering Global Markets''. His books have been translated into Spanish and Japanese. Since 2007, he has also been a professor (chair) at

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.Birmingham Business School
- www.business.bham.ac.uk Since 2009, Czinkota has kept
blog on international business
http://michaelczinkota.com/ - http://michaelczinkota.com/ The content ranges from international jeopardy questions to more than 50 video communications in international business. The blog has been named as one of the 50 best blogs by business professors. Czinkota has also been cited as a top marketing professor on Twitter by social media magazine. In 2011, he received two significant honors in

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. He received a

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degree (his third) for his work in International Business and Marketing. Second, it was announced by the

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that its new School of Global Marketing and Business is named after Czinkota. He also received the ''Business Book Award'' from the American Library Association for "The Global Marketing Imperative".

Government Service

While serving the

, Czinkota supervised the Office of Trade and Investment Analysis, the Office of Industry Assessment, the Office of

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, the Office of Program and Resource Management, and the Office of Industrial Trade. He was also the head of the U.S. Delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a representative to the

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, and was a member of the coordinating committee for

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. He was responsible for Trade Forecasting, Export Control of Services, third-country Export Control Initiative, policy positions on International Financial and Monetary Affairs, as well as secretarial testimony on trade issues. His government publications include: "The Stat-USA Companion to International Marketing",The Stat-USA Companion to International Marketing
- www.usatradeonline.gov "International Marketing and Accessibility", and "Agricultural Marketing: Export Opportunities for Wood Products in Japan Call for Customer Focus". Czinkota has testified 12 times before the US Congress.

Selected publications

* Czinkota, Michael R. ''Export development strategies: US promotion policy.'' Praeger, 1982. * Czinkota, Michael R., et al. ''International business.'' Vol. 4. Dryden Press, 2009. * Czinkota, Michael, and Ilkka Ronkainen.
International marketing
'' Cengage Learning, 2012. Articles, a selection:Google Scholar profile
/ref> * Czinkota, Michael R., and Wesley J. Johnston. "Segmenting US firms for export development." ''Journal of Business Research'' 9.4 (1981): 353-365. * Kotabe, Masaaki, and Michael R. Czinkota. "State government promotion of manufacturing exports: a gap analysis." ''Journal of international business studies'' (1992): 637-658. * Czinkota, Michael R., Dickson, Peter. "Securing America's International Business Future". ''Marketing News - American Marketing Association'' (March 2016

References

External links

The Blog of Professor Michael Czinkota
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