 Lorraine Eden is Professor
of Management and Mays Research Fellow at Texas A&M
University, College Station, Texas, where she teaches undergraduate and
graduate courses on multinational enterprises (MNEs), transfer pricing, and the economics
of international business. Born and raised in Canada, Professor Eden received her Ph.D. with Distinction in Economics from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Before joining Texas A&M University’s Management Department in 1995, she was Professor of International Affairs in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, where she continues to hold an appointment as Adjunct Research Professor. She has also held full-time appointments in Economics at Mount St. Vincent and Brock universities, and a visiting appointments at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Eden has more than 100 scholarly publications in print. Her core research area is the political economy of multinational enterprises (MNEs), focusing on transfer pricing (the pricing of products traded within MNEs) where she is recognized as a world authority. Her most significant publication is Taxing Multinationals (University of Toronto Press, 1998), reviewed in the Journal of Economic Literature (March 2001). Her books include Governance, Multinationals and Growth (2005), Multinationals in North America (1994), Multinationals in the Global Political Economy (1993), Retrospectives on Public Finance (1991) and Multinationals and Transfer Pricing (1985). Her articles appear in internationally recognized journals, including Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Review; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Canadian Journal of Economics; Journal of International Business Studies; Millennium; Organization Science; and Public Finance/Finances Publiques. She has been guest editor for Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies and Millennium. (The JIBS issue on Multinationals: The Janus Face of Globalization is reviewed in the Jan-Feb 2002 issue of Foreign Policy.) Her current research projects include strategic transfer pricing and empirical estimates of transfer price manipulation; foreign direct investment (FDI) in tax havens and corrupt economies; MNE responses to regional integration; and MNE strategies for coping with liability of foreignness. Copies of recent publications can be downloaded here. Professor Eden has been both a Departmental and a Deputy Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) and in July 2007 became Editor-in-Chief of the journal for 2007-2010. JIBS is the top-ranked journal in the field of international business studies, and consistently ranks in the top 10 among all journals of management and in business. Professor Eden has received several major research awards including a Canada-US Fulbright Research Fellowship at Harvard University (1992-93), a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs Case Teaching and Research at Harvard University (1991-92), and a Carleton University Faculty Research Achievement Award (1994-95). She was profiled in the first Who's Who in International Business Education and Research (1999). In 2002, she became the first recipient of the university-wide Texas A&M Bush International Research Award for Faculty Excellence in International Research and was named a Texas A&M University Faculty Fellow for 2002-2007. In 2004, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.Professor Eden has won several teaching awards
including the
Trans-Texas Video Network Award for Most Innovative Use of Video
Teleconferencing (1998-99) and the Texas A&M Former Students Association's
College-Level Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching (2000). She was
elected an honorary member of the International Gold Key Society in
2003. Within
Texas A&M, she has played a leadership role in the Center for International Business Studies and in the George Bush School of
Government and Public Service (where she holds an adjunct
appointment), in designing and teaching in the Master in Public Service
and Administration and the new Master in
International Affairs
programs. Most recently, she developed a graduate module program on
transfer pricing, which started at Texas A&M University in Fall
2006, with the first students graduating in May 2007. Professor Eden has been involved in the creation of three organizations: WEN (Women Economists Network), a
women’s caucus group within the Canadian
Economics Association; ALIAS
(Active Learning in International Affairs), a section of the
International Studies Association focused on teaching methods in
international affairs; and WAIB
(Women in AIB), a 700-member women’s caucus group within the 3,000-member Academy of International Business (AIB).
She has also been President and Program Chair of the International
Political Economy section of the International
Studies Association. As AIB Vice President and 2002 Program
Chair, she organized the 2002 conference, bringing economists,
geographers and international business scholars to Puerto Rico in June
to discuss “Geographies
and International Business”. Professor Eden has 20 years of consulting experience with
the private and public sectors. She runs
executive training workshops and consults on transfer pricing and
international taxation for the Canadian and US governments and private
corporations. One recent project involved the International Price Program in the US Bureau of Labor Statistics where she helped redesign the Professor Eden is married to Professor Charles F. Hermann and they have three children: Jessica Eden-Lanthier, Christopher Hermann and Karen Hermann Clements and one grandson Nathaniel Clements. |
