Research Initiatives

Developing business leaders with a global mindset

International Business Research Award:

The Ahlers Center supports and recognizes the international business research of the full-time faculty at the School of Business Administration through research awards. These awards recognize published papers, books, book chapters and case studies of significate interest that contribute to the academic business community. For additional information, please click here.

Journal Sponsorship:

The Latin American Business Review (LABR) is a refereed journal, published four times a year, that facilitates the exchange of information and new ideas between the academic, business practitioner, public policy maker, and those in the international development community. Special features of the journal keep readers current on various teaching, research, and informational sources. These activities all focus on the business and economic environment of the diverse and dynamic countries encompassing the Americas. The Latin American Business Review (LABR) is a joint publication by the School of Business Administration at USD and the Graduate School of Business (COPPEAD) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and is sponsored, in part, by the Ahlers Center for International Business.

Latin America Best Teaching Case Award:

Since 1996 the Ahlers Center for International Business, jointly with EGADE/ITESM (Mexico), has endowed an award for the best teaching case presented at the Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS) annual meeting.

Research Sponsored by the Ahlers Center:

The Ahlers Center for International Business provides international research support for individual faculty as well as research-oriented workshops.

The Ahlers Center is pleased to supplement the faculty of the School of Business Administration in their international research activities. The following faculty received support during the 2009-2010 academic year.

• Kokila Doshi, Professor of Economics: Studying the role of the telecommunications sector in the developing countries of Asia
• Charles Tu, Associate Professof of Real Estate: Comparative analysis of current status and future prospect of sustainable real estate development across major Asian cities
• Alyson Ma, Associate Professor of Economics: Examine the impact of the global economic crisis on the Chinese economy and the impact for US markets
• Simon Croom, Professor of Supply Chain Management: Development of a common set of metrics for sustainable outsourcing
• Maria Kniazeva, Associate Professor of Marketing: Participation on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Global Academy of Marketing Science JGAMS, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea
  

The Ahlers Center for International Business and AES Corporation teamed up to sponsor a Utilities at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) Research Workshop on May 2, 2008. This workshop explored the challenges of utility services for emerging BOP business models and improved academic research on the BOP. For more information about this project, click here.

The Ahlers Center for International Business sponsored a research project and workshop on "The Trade Regionalism of the US and the EU: Cooperative or Competitive Strategies?" The focus of the research project and workshop was to contrast and compare the regional trade strategies of the European Union and the United States with regards to Asia, Latin American and the Middle East and Africa. As multilateral trade negotiations have slowed, the EU and the US have developed more bilateral and regional agreements. Are these strategies conflicting or complementary? Researchers from four continents came together to discuss the current trends, outcomes, motivations for recent trade agreements and the impact of this competitive and overlapping regionalism of the US and EU on the future development of the multilateral trading system.

The workshop included the following participants:

Vinod Aggarwal, University of California, Berkeley
Irene Caratelli, University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’ and Institute for Foreign Affairs, Rome
Bev Crawford, University of California, Berkeley
Denise Dimon, University of San Diego
Richard Feinberg, University of California, San Diego
Paolo Guerrieri, University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’ and Institute for Foreign Affairs, Rome
Mohamed Lahouel, University of Tunis, Tunisia
John Ravenhill, Australian National University
Jeffrey Schott, Institute for International Economics, Washington

The results of the project were published in The International Trade Journal (2007, Vol. 20, No. 2)

The Trade Regionalism of the United States and the European Union: Cooperative or Competitive Strategies? By: Guerrieri, Paolo; Dimon, Denise.

Free Trade Agreements and US Trade Policy: A Comparative Analysis of US Initiatives in Latin America, the Asia-Pacific Region, and the Middle East and North Africa. By: Schott, Jeffrey

EU's Regional Trade Strategy, the Challenges Ahead. By: Guerrieri, Paolo; Caratelli, Irene.

EU and US Regionalism: The Case of Latin America. By: Dimon, Denise.

US and EU Regionalism: The Case of the Western Pacific Rim. By: Ravenhill, John.