Masaaki "Mike" Kotabe holds the Washburn Chair of 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.
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 also served as the Vice President of the Academy of International Business in the 1997-98 period. He received his Ph.D. in Marketing and International Business at Michigan State University. Dr. Kotabe teaches international marketing, global sourcing strategy (R&D, manufacturing, and marketing interfaces), and Asian and Latin American 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, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and Turkey. 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 international institutions such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization.
Dr. Kotabe has written many scholarly publications. His research work has appeared in such journals as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Journal. His books include Global Sourcing Strategy: R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing Interfaces (1992), Japanese Distribution System (with Michael R. Czinkota, 1993), Anticompetitive Practices in Japan (with Kent W. Wheiler, 1996), MERCOSUR and Beyond (1997), Trends in International Business: Critical Perspectives (with Michael R. Czinkota, 1998), Marketing Management, 2nd ed. (with Michael R. Czinkota 2001), Global Marketing Management, 2nd ed. (with Kristiaan Helsen, 2001), Market Revolution in Latin America: Beyond Mexico (with Ricardo Leal, 2001), and Emerging Issues in International Business Research (with Preet Aulakh, 2002).
He serves as the Editor of the Journal of International Management, and also serves / has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of International Marketing, the Journal of World Business, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Business Research, the Latin American Economic Abstracts, and the Thunderbird International Business Review, among others. He also serves as an Advisor to the Institute of Industrial Policy Studies (IPS) National Competitiveness Report. In the third issue of Journal of Teaching in International Business in 1997, Dr. Kotabe was ranked the most prolific international marketing researcher in the world in the last ten years. He has been recently elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business for his significant contribution to international business research and education. He is also an elected member of the New York Academy of Sciences.