ผู้เขียน: K. Narayanan

Filip De Beule is professor of international business at the Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven University, Antwerpen, Belgium. He is board member of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) where he serves as national representative for Belgium. He is also academic secretary for the Western European Chapter of the Academy of International Business (AIB). Filip De Beule focuses his research on internationalization, innovation, multinational companies and emerging economies. He is senior fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and research fellow at the LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven University. His research has been published in the Journal of International Management, European Management Journal, Transnational Corporations Journal and International Business Review among others. K. Narayanan obtained his Ph D in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India, and carried out Post-doctoral research at Institute of Advanced Studies United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan during 2000-01. For the research studies in India, he was a recipient of the ICSSR fellowship at the Institute of Economic Growth. His research interests span the areas of industrial economics, international business, Socio-economic empowerment through ICT, Environmental Economics, Economic impacts of Climate Change and Development Economics.  He has a number of publications in the fieldof industrial competitiveness, technology transfer, ICT, international trade and socio-economic impacts of Climate Change. The research journals in which he has published include Research Policy, Journal of Regional Studies, Technovation, Oxford Development Studies, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, and Economic and Political Weekly. Two of his recent publications includes edited books on (i) Indian and Chinese Enterprises: Global Trade, Technology, and Investment Regimes, and (ii) Human Capital and Development: The Indian Experience [both of them were jointly edited with N.S. Siddharthan] published by Routledge & Springer, respectively. He also guest edited a Special Issue of the IASSI Quarterly on the theme “Human Capital and Development”, a Special Issue of the Sage published international journal, Science, Technology and Society on the theme “Agglomeration, technology clusters and networks”. He is actively engaged in a web based research group, Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing, which interfaces Scientists, Technologists and Economists. Dr. Narayanan is currently Institute Chair Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.