Michael Czinkota

Michael Czinkota teaches international business and trade at the Graduate School and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He is also the chaired professor emeritus for internationam marketing at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Fluent in Spanish and German, he has held professorial appointments in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. Dr. Czinkota served in the U.S. government during the Reagan and Bush Administrations. In the Bureau of Export Administration he was senior advisor for export controls. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce he was responsible for trade analysis and retaliatory actions. He also was head of the U.S. Delegation to the OECD Industry Committee in Paris. Dr. Czinkota was a partner in a fur trading firm and in an advertising agency. His academic work has focused on export development strategies and the linkage between terrorism and international business. He has written widely in leading journals on the topic and teaches a graduate seminar on International Terrorism and Marketing. He was named as one of the top three contributors to the international business literature. Dr. Czinkota has worked with the U.S. Department of State on terrorism preparedness and has testified before Congress on the topic. He is the author of Mastering Global Markets – which reflects the challenges of international management in a world of conflict and uncertainty. He also wrote three leading college texts, International Marketing 10th edition, International Business 8th edition and Fundamentals of International Business 3rd edition. Dr. Czinkota serves on the Global Advisory Board of the American Marketing Association, the Global Council of the American Management Association, and on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Marketing Science. He is a member of the American Council on Germany. For his work in international business and trade policy, he has been awarded honorary degrees from the Universidad del Pacifico in Peru and the Universidad Pontificia Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic. he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom. Dr. Czinkota serves on several corporate boards and has worked with corporations such as AT&T, IBM, GE, Nestle, and US WEST. He has advised the Executive Office of the President and the U.S. General Accountability Office on trade policy issues. He also serves as advisor to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. Dr. Czinkota was born and raised in Germany and educated in Austria, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. He studied law and business administration at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg and was awarded a two-year Fulbright Scholarship. He holds an MBA in international business and a Ph.D. in logistics from The Ohio State University.

Education

• The Ohio State University - Ph.D.
• The Ohio State University - M.B.A., International Business

Publications

Books (3)

Michael Czinkota. As I Was Thinking. New York: Business Expert Press, 2015.

Michael Czinkota, Ilkka Ronkainen, Michael Moffett. Fundamentals of International Business 3rd ed. New York: Wessex, Inc, 2014.

Michael Czinkota, Ilkka Ronkainen. International Marketing, 10th ed. Ohio: Cengage, 2013.

Articles in Journals (5)

M. Czinkota, K. Boeckmann. "The Honorable Merchant in International Marketing: An Ancient Concept Truly Needed." Thunderbird International Business Review (2015)

M. Czinkota, C. Skuba. "Contextual analysis of legal systems and their impact on trade and foreign direct investment." Journal of Business Research, 67, 10 (2014): 2207-2211.

Michael Czinkota, Valbona Zeneli. "International Marketing: An Imperative for Southeast Europe." George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Security Insights, 10 (2014)

Michael Czinkota, Andreas Pinkwart. "Internationalization in Marketing – From Theory to Practice by Means of a Delphi Study." Thunderbird International Business Review, 56, 1 (2014): 5-10.

M. Czinkota, H. Kaufmann, G. Basile. "The relationship between legitimacy, reputation, sustainability and branding for companies and their supply chains." International Marketing Management, 43, 1 (2014): 91-101.

Articles in Books (1)

Michael Czinkota, Margit Enke. "An International Perspective on Commodity Marketing." Commodity Marketing, 405-419. Germany: Springer, 2014.

Op Eds (5)

M. Czinkota, C. Skuba. "It's Double or Nothing for Trade." . 2015

M. Czinkota. "The Volkswagen crisis - a lesson in trust." . 2015

M. Czinkota, C. Cook. "Trust: A Tool to Defeat Corruption." . 2015

M. Czinkota, I. Ronkainen. "Innovation in Developing Economies." . 2014

M. Czinkota. "U.S. Senate Report on Torture." . 2014