Supply Chain & Global Logistics site of J Tanoos
International Logistics & Industry-curriculum, travel, & culture from the American perspective
Seven academic conferences (plus an additional conference as an advisor for our SMWC leadership club) in three weeks was an exhilarating but exhausting trek involving plenty of content-rich activities but also much waiting for and waiting on trams, trains, shuttles, buses, and planes, which was not fun but necessary. I was able to visit at [...]
At the Azores Islands (850 miles West of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean), presenting my research paper "Post-Cold War State Industrialization as a Means of Economic Growth in East Asia versus Eastern Europe” at the The European Scientific Institute’s 2nd Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference. Fact about the paper: The paper assesses the amount of overall economic advancement attributed [...]
In Vienna, Austria, presenting "Gender Diversity in the Board Room: Organizational Trends by Region” at The Fourteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, hosted by the Vienna University of Economics. Fact about the presentation: Norway has the most representation of women in their boardrooms. Country Manufacturing as a % of GDP (Rank of seven [...]
In Florence, Italy at the Business & Economics Society International conference, presenting my research paper titled "American Inward Foreign Direct Investment: Trends in global industrial origination” Fact about the paper: While many reports have noted trends toward decentralized manufacturing to underdeveloped areas in the past decades, there has been a lack of studies related to manufacturing [...]
In Craiova, Romania at the 10th World Congress: The Human Being as a Species: Its Nature and Functions, presenting my paper "Profiles of CEOs from Top-Performing Multinational Manufacturing versus Financial Organizations: Age, tenure, internal hiring, and gender”. Fact about the paper: Financial and industrial CEO profiles were researched and findings include some of the following notes: The [...]
In Athens, Greece at the 12th Annual International Conference on Management, presenting my research paper, "America's Staple Exports and the EU's Favorite Purchases: Seasonal Trends in Global Exporting of Consumer Durables" Fact about the paper: Statistics on Consumer Durables, which play a central role in predicting and dictating GNP in both America and Europe, are [...]
In Rotterdam, Netherlands at the 30th EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Colloquium's Post-Doctoral and Early Career Scholars Pre-Colloquium Workshop, hosted by the Rotterdam School of Management, presenting my paper "Disparities in Duality Management Structure in Top Industrial Multinational Organizations in America Versus Europe". Fact about the paper: Top-performing industrial organizations based on 2012 total [...]