Alain Verbeke

Dr. Alain Verbeke is a Professor in the Strategy and Global Management Area at the Haskayne School of Business, and holds the McCaig Research Chair in Management. He is the Area Chair for Strategy and Global Management and Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics Departments at the Haskayne School of Business. Dr. Verbeke received his PhD in applied economics from the University of Antwerp. Prior to joining the Haskayne School of Business he was the director of the MBA programme, Solvay Business School, University of Brussels, where he taught courses in multinational strategic planning and public policy, and transport economics and logistics.

Dr. Verbeke has personally directed close to 100 strategic management projects.  His academic research agenda consists of revisiting, rethinking and augmenting the core paradigms in strategic management and international business, especially internalization theory, which is a joint transaction cost economics and resource based view of the firm.

Dr. Verbeke has been a Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University, the University of Toronto and the Université Catholique de Louvain, as well as an Associate Fellow of Templeton College (University of Oxford).  He is presently an Academic Associate of the Centre for International Business and Management, Judge Business School (University of Cambridge) and a Visiting Chair in Strategy and International Business at Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam).  Dr. Verbeke is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

Dr. Verbeke has been a member of the European Science and Technology Assembly (ESTA), the highest advisory body to the European Commission on the future of European scientific and innovation policy and has served on the board of directors of various educational and scientific research institutions. He is a leading thinker on complex project evaluation and the strategic restructuring of complex organizations.

Dr. Verbeke has authored or edited 24 books and more than 200 refereed publications, including several articles in the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Business Studies.

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