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Rajneesh Narula OBE, FRSA | |
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Born | 29 April 1963 |
Nationality | The Netherlands |
Institution | Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK |
Field | International Business; Development Studies; Innovation Policy; Alliances |
Alma mater | Rutgers University |
Awards | OBE, FRSA |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Rajneesh Narula (born 29 April 1963), [1] is an economist and academic. [2] He is Professor of International Business Regulation and Director of the John H. Dunning Center for International Business at Henley Business School, University of Reading in Reading, UK. [3]
In 2017, he was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). The honour is in recognition of his Services to Business Research. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (FRSA) in 2015.
He holds honorary appointments at United Nations University-MERIT, [4] Norwegian School of Business, Oxford University and the University of Urbino.
Narula completed his early education in Nigeria, most notably at Barewa College where he was a classmate of Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, [5] and Katsina College of Arts, Science and Technology. He earned his BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, in 1983, and later attended Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, where he obtained his MBA (1988) and his PhD (1993). [2] [6]
Prior to academia, Narula worked as an engineer at the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology and later as a planning analyst at IBM Asia/Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
Narula's academic and professional interests focus on innovation, R&D alliances, emerging economies and the role of multinational enterprises in industrial development. [3] He has held academic postings at Copenhagen Business School, University of Oslo, BI Norwegian School of Management, the University of Maastricht and Rutgers University. In addition Narula has worked for the United Nations, and has also consulted and advised a number of agencies including the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Narula is Professor of International Business Regulation at the Henley Business School (2004–present). He is also the co-director of the John H. Dunning Centre for International Business and school director of research, having been the former programme director of the PhD in International Business and Strategy.
He is currently an editor of the Journal of International Business Studies (2016–present). Prior to this he was editor-in-chief of the Multinational Business Review (2014-2016), and editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Development Research (2009-2013). He is on the editorial board of more than a dozen journals.
Narula is regularly invited as commentator on business and economics issues, as seen on BBC World News, [7] Al Jazeera, TRT World News, [8] BBC 1, BBC Business Live, [9] Radio 1 and Radio Berkshire, as well as a variety of print and online publications. He gives over 30 public lectures and seminars at universities around the world every year.
Narula is listed as one of the top 20 most cited academic authors worldwide in the fields of international business, emerging markets, the economics of innovation, and economic development, according to Google Scholar. [10] As of December 2018 his google citation count stands close to 13,000. His publications with John H. Dunning and Sanjaya Lall on FDI-assisted development are especially well-cited contributions on the subject.
Narula's research and consulting have focused on the role of multinational firms in development, innovation and industrial policy, R&D alliances and outsourcing. He has published over a 100 articles and chapters in books on these themes.
He is the author or editor of 13 books, including Globalization and Technology (Polity Press), Multinationals and Industrial Competitiveness (with John Dunning, Edward Elgar), Understanding FDI-assisted Economic Development (with Sanjaya Lall, Routledge), Multinationals on the Periphery (with Gabriel Benito, Palgrave). He is also co-author of the acclaimed textbook International Business, with Simon Collinson and Alan Rugman, which is in its seventh edition.
His publications have appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Oxford Development Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies and Management International Review. His 2003 book, Globalization and Technology, has been translated and published in Chinese and Arabic.
See full list of journal publications via Google Scholar here.
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a common approach to analyzing multinational enterprise and foreign direct investment. Some are based in the Department of Economics and in Henley Business School at the University of Reading, England, but membership is international. The Reading School builds upon the pathbreaking theoretical work of Peter Buckley and Mark Casson on internalization theory. This was complemented by simultaneous work by John Dunning as he developed the eclectic paradigm of international business as an envelope explanation containing three principal drivers of foreign direct investment, comprising ownership (O); location (L); and internalization (I). The Reading School approach continues through the work of its academic disciples around the world, as well as through The John Dunning Centre at Henley Business School, University of Reading, under the directorship of Rajneesh Narula.
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