Corporate Governance and Strategic Management

Robert E.Hoskisson
Arizona State University

Robert E. Hoskisson is a Professor and W. P. Carey Chair in the Department of Management at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California-Irvine. Professor Hoskisson's research topics focus on corporate governance, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate and international diversification, corporate entrepreneurship, privatization and cooperative strategy. He teaches courses in corporate and international strategic management, cooperative strategy, and strategy consulting among others. Professor Hoskisson has served on several editorial boards for such publications as the Academy of
Management Journal (including Consulting Editor and Guest Editor of a special issue), Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management (including Associate Editor), Journal of International Business Studies (Consulting Editor) and Organization Science.

He has co-authored several books including Strategic Management: Globalization and Competitiveness 7th Edition (South Western/Thompson), Competing for Advantage (South Western/Thompson), and Downscoping: How to Tame the Diversified Firm (Oxford University Press). He is currently an Associated Editor of the Strategic Management Journal, a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies as well as on the Editorial Review board of the Academy of Management Journal. Professor Hoskisson's research has appeared in over 90 publications including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Executive and California Management Review among others .

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and a charter member of the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame. He is also a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society. In 1998, he received an award for Outstanding Academic Contributions to Competitiveness, American Society for Competitiveness. He also received the William G. Dyer Distinguished Alumni Award given at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University. He completed three years of service as a representative at large on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management and currently is on the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society.