International Management: Insights from Fiction and Practice Paperback - 2004

Sheila M. Puffer is a professor of international business at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also a fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University and recently served as program director of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America. She has been recognized internationally as the #1 scholar in business and management in Russia. Dr. Puffer has more than 100 publications, including the books Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and US Enterprises, The Russian Management Revolution, Managerial Insights From Literature, Management International, Business and Management in Russia, The Russian Capitalist Experiment, and Corporate Governance in Russia. She was editor of The Academy of Management Executive and a member of the Academy's Board of Governors from 1999-2002. She worked for six years as an administrator in the Government of Canada and has consulted for a number of private and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Puffer earned a diploma from the Plekhanov Institute of the National Economy in Moscow and holds a BA (Slavic Studies) and an MBA from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and a PhD in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.