Education
- Michigan State University, Communication Arts and Sciences, East Lansing, MI
Retailing (PhD; 2007)
- Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara, CA
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Agribusiness Management and Finance
- Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Polish Language, Lublin, Poland
Year Program in Polish Language, Diploma
- The George Washington University, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, Washington, DC
History Department, Bachelor of Arts in Russian History
Research Interests
- International Business
- Marketing Channel Governance and Strategies
- Retail Internationalization
Teaching
- Retailing, International Business and Marketing Research
Published or Forthcoming Works
- CA Finnegan, S.Tamer Cavusgil and C. Evirgen, "Examining Country Effects on Average Foreign Firm Performance And the Chain Size-Performance Relationship", American Marketing Association Winter Conference Proceedings, 2010
- CA Finnegan, E Olson, and S Slater. "It's More Than Green to be Keen". Marketing Management, September 2009 issue
- RC Runyan, CA Finnegan, and AM Rodrigues, "Environmental Uncertainty and Market Attractiveness: Do Regions Matter?" AMS/World Marketing Congress Proceedings, Oslo, July 2009
- "Achieving Satisfaction in Chinese Buyer-Supplier Relationships" (co-authored with Dr. Brenda Sternquist and Zhengyi Chen), forthcoming in the Journal of Asia Business Studies
- 'An Assessment of Cross-Cultural Data Equivalence in International Business Research' (co-authored by Prof. G. Tomas M. Hult, Prof. David J. Ketchen, Jr., Tracy Lee Gonzalez-Padron, F. Nukhet Harmoncioglu, Ying Huang, M. Berk Talay and Prof. S. Tamer Cavusgil), forthcoming in the Journal of International Business Studies
- "Adding Value to Buyer-Supplier Relationships in China" (co-authored with Dr. Brenda Sternquist and Zhengyi Chen). Academy of International Business Conference Proceedings. Beijing, 2006 (Best Paper Award, Asian Studies Program)
- Book review: The Chinese Century, (March/April 2006), Thunderbird International Business Review, 48(2).
- "Multi-Level Agency Issues in International Franchising." Academy of International Business Conference Proceedings. Quebec City, 2005
- "Buyer-Supplier Relationships in China: Factors Influencing Supplier Switching" (with Dr. Brenda Sternquist and Zhengyi Chen). Conference Proceedings of WCC-101, China Agribusiness Conference. East Lansing, 2004
- "Time Orientation in Japanese Buyer-Supplier Relationships" (with Dr. Brenda Sternquist, Brenda and Jae-Eun Chung), Academy of International Business Conference Proceedings. Stockholm, 2004.
- "Buyer-Supplier Relationships in the Semiconductor Industry" (with Dr. Humaira Mahi), INFORMS/Marketing Science Conference Proceedings, Rotterdam, 2004
- Book review: Globalization and Its Discontents(July/August 2004), Thunderbird International Business Review, 46(4): 487-491.
Forthcoming Works
- "Retail Internationalization Predictors of Success" (co-authored with Polly Chan and Brenda Sternquist), European Journal of Marketing, accepted in February 2010.
- "Alien Whales vs. Local Minnows: Can Global Retailers Compete with Local Incumbents in Emerging Markets?", (co-authored with S Eroglu, C. Evirgen and E. Cavusgil), EIRASS Conference, 2010
Professional Activities
- CARANA Corporation, Arlington, VA, Associate. Project management for privatization and private sector business development projects for USAID and the World Bank in Jamaica, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.
- RONCO Consulting Corporation, Washington, DC, Enterprise Development Specialist. Project work for USAID in Albania in agribusiness development.
- Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI), Washington, DC, Regional Marketing Manager, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Project work primarily in Poland
Honors
- First Place, Graduate Best Paper Award, Shao Chang Lee Competition, Asian Studies Center, MSU, 2006
- Outstanding Graduate Student in Retailing, Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing, 2006
- Nomination, MSU's Excellence-In-Teaching Award, 2006
- Mary Louise Gephart Donnell Scholarship, Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, 2005, 2006
- Mariani Leadership Award, Food and Agribusiness Institute, Santa Clara University, 1999
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