CONTRIBUTOR:
Mark E. Mendenhall
AFFILIATION:
TITLE:
J. Burton Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership
DEPARTMENT:
Gary W. Rollins College of Business
INSTITUTION:
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
BIOGRAPHY:
Mark E. Mendenhall (Ph.D., Brigham Young University) holds the J. Burton Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga and is a partner in The Kozai Group, a consultancy that specializes in global leadership identification, assessment, and development. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of global leadership and expatriate studies and is a past president of the International Division of the Academy of Management. He is a past recipient of the Ludwig Erhard Stiftungsprofessur endowed chair at the University of Bayreuth and has been a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Europa-Institut at Saarland University, and Reykjavik University. Dr. Mendenhall has co-authored numerous books and journal articles. His most recent book is “Global Leadership: Research, Practice, and Development” (2018, Routledge). His research appears in a variety of scholarly publications, including Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Relations, Journal of World Business, and Journal of Business Ethics. Dr. Mendenhall has traveled widely and has lived overseas for a total of nine years in New Zealand, Japan, Switzerland, and Germany.