RESEARCH SERIES

CIBER is proud to announce the "Research Series" which solicits work-in-progress, or nearing completion, to be posted on the CIBER website, and available to the extensive Department of Education network, as well as all other CIBER Centers (n=31). If your work has an international component, and particularly if it fits the criteria listed below, please consider submitting it to us for posting on our Research series.

Working papers will be accepted for the FIU CIBER Research series on a continuous basis.

Questions should be sent to CIBER at ciber@fiu.edu, or if you would like to discuss any of this with the direc4tor Mary Ann Von Glinow (vonglino@fiu.edu) or assistant director Sonia Verdu (verdus@fiu.edu), you can contact us via the email or by phone 305-348-1740.

Research Areas:

• Collaborative programs, activities, or research involving other institutions of higher education, local educational agencies, professional associations, businesses, firms or combinations to promote the development of international skills and awareness.
• Research designed to strengthen and improve the international aspects of business and professional education and to promote integrated curricula.
• Research designed to promote the international competitiveness of American businesses and firms, including those not currently active in international trade.
• Interdisciplinary programs which incorporate foreign languages and international studies and training into business and other professional curricula.
• Interdisciplinary programs which provide business and other professional training for foreign language and international studies faculty and degree candidates.
• Programs, such as intensive language, available to members of the business community and other professionals.
• Programs or activities focused on homeland security and US international competitiveness issues.
• Innovative approaches to improving the teaching of foreign languages in a business or professional context, including the less commonly taught languages.
• Improving US International Competitiveness in Today's World of Heightened Security.
• Using Languages and Technology Wisely in International Business: Improving K-12, University and Organizational Absorption.
  

Research Highlights:

Academic Papers (published or in process):

• Offshoring and the global distribution of work: Implications for task interdependence theory and practice published in the Journal of International Business Studies, 2009. (Kuldeep Kumar, Paul C van Fenema, Mary Ann Von Glinow)
  
• Comptetive Challanges for Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets: The Case of Mexico, 2009. (Walfried Lassar, Jerry Haar, Faul Montalvo, Leslie Hulser)
  
• Mitigating culture shock: e-learning cultural scripts, 2009. (Ronald M. Lee)
  
• Rainbow project: Situated foreign language conversation learning using virtual worlds, 2009. (Ronald M. Lee)
  
• Bringing Institutions into Performance Persistence Research: Exploring the Impact of the Product, Financial and Labor Market Institutions, 2009. (Aya S Chacar, William Newburry, Balagopal Vissa)
  
• Pricing of Advertisements on the Internet, 2007.
  
• The Effect of Mandatory Audit Firm Retention on Audit Quality: Evidence from the Korean Audit Market, 2007. (Gil S Bae, Joohwa Rho, Byung T. Ro)
  
• Dominant Shareholders, Corporate Boards and Corporate Value: A Cross-Country Analysis, 2006. (Jay Dahya, Orlin Dimitrov, John J. McConnell)
  
• Cross-Cultural Social Intelligence: An Assessment for Employees Working in Cross-National Contexts, 2006. (Ma. Evelina Ascalon, Credit Suisse, Deidra J. Schleicher, Marise Ph. Born)
  
• Equity Returns at the Turn of the Month, 2006. (John J. McConnell, Wei Xu)
  
• Explaining Import Variety and Quality: The Role of the Income Distribution, 2006. (Yo Chul Choi, David Hummels, Chong Xiang)
  
• How Long Are Product Cycles ?, 2006. (Chong Xiang)
  
• How Strong is the Love of Variety, 2006. (Adina Ardelean)
  
• U.S. Trade with the World: An Estimate of 2001 Lost U.S. Federal Income Tax Revenues Due To Over-Invoiced Imports and Under-Invoiced Exports, 2005. (Simon J Pak, John Zdanowicz)

Presentations/Interviews:

• Nimble South Florida companies own weapons to fight recession -Jerry Haar, Miami Today, 2009.

Research Reports:

International Case Studies:

Important Student Papers on an International Topic: