EMERALD APPOINTS INTERNATIONAL ADVISERS

John Peters, Emerald’s editorial director, says, "Emerald’s entirely new approach to publishing through Emerald Management Xtra requires a new editorial advisory board to help guide the direction and development of the resource. We have chosen to include a good international spread so that we can gain perspectives from every part of the world that we are trying to reach. We currently have a team of 20 advisers from all parts of the world and all management disciplines as well as input from our broader-based academic advisory team."

Online resources are fast growing in popularity and Emerald article readership during 2004 was up 17 per cent from 2003 and more than 600,000 articles were downloaded from the Emerald site each month.

The Emerald international advisers will include:
• Steven Appelbaum, Professor, Concordia University, Canada
• Joseph L. Cavinato, Professor, Thunderbird (Garvin School of International Management), USA
• Kofi Q. Dadzie, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, Georgia State University, USA
• Walter Leal Filho, Professor, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
• Brian Fynes, Senior Lecturer, Smurfit School of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Stan Glaser, Professor, Sydney Graduate School of Management, Australia
• Usha C. V. Haley, Professor, College of Business Administration, University of New Haven, USA
• Sam Ho, Dean, Hang Seng School of Commerce, Hong Kong
• Stanislav Karapetrovic, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
• Virjinijus Kundrotas, Rector, ISM University of Management & Economics, Lithuania
• David Lamond, Director & CEO, Sydney Graduate School of Management, Australia
• Kasturi Narasimhan, Learning and Teaching Fellow (retired), University of Bolton, UK
• Richard Osborne, Professor, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University,USA
• Low Sui Pheng, Vice-dean (academic), School of Design & Environment, National University of Singapore
• Zoe Radnor, Lecturer in the Operations Management Group, University of Warwick, UK
• Juan Ramis-Pujol, Head of Operations and Innovation Management Department, ESADE, Spain
• Zeinab Karake Shalhoub, Associate Dean, School of Business and Management, American University
of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• Amrik Sohal, Professor, Department of Management, Monash University, Australia
• Goran Svensson, Head of the School of Business, Halmstad University, Sweden
• Jorge Talavera, President, Consejo Latino-americano de Escuelas de Administracion, Peru
• John Thompson, Professor, Centre for Enterprise, Ethics and the Environment, University of
Huddersfield, UK
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