BOOKS & IDEAS
Ideas Shaped by Experience
My writing brings together executive experience, academic research, and an enduring interest in how organizations negotiate, compete, adapt, and create value across cultures and periods of technological change.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan
BOOK IN DEVELOPMENT · TARGET COMPLETION: SPRING 2027
CURRENT IDEAS & RESEARCH
Questions That Shape My Work
My current work examines the strategic questions confronting leaders, organizations, educators, and institutions as technology, competition, information, and international relationships continue to evolve.
Competitive Advantage & Value Creation
How can organizations build capabilities and value propositions that remain distinctive, relevant, and difficult for competitors to reproduce?
AI, Information & Strategic Communication
How are artificial intelligence, media, competing narratives, and perception management changing leadership, decision-making, and organizational adaptation?
Negotiation, Culture & Power
How do culture, incentives, relationships, ethics, and differences in power influence negotiations and international business decisions?
Academic Governance & Evaluation
How should universities evaluate research, teaching, and scholarly contribution when traditional performance measures increasingly conflict with institutional mission and emerging technologies?
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH
Scholarship Across Strategy, Trade, and International Business
My scholarship examines international business, cross-cultural negotiation, global trade, organizational strategy, ethics, and the changing responsibilities of academic institutions.
Practical Responses to Pandemics
United Nations ESCAP Collaborative Research
Evidence and recommendations from case studies of agri-food trade in the European Union, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas during COVID-19, with practical guidance for strengthening trade resilience and international cooperation.
Vietnam’s Trade Policy: A Developing Nation Assessment
Clarke, Akbari, and Maleki Far · 2017
Examines Vietnam’s economic development through trade policy, foreign investment, socioeconomic reform, foreign aid, and institutional capacity.
Hypocrisy, Ethics, and Deception in Chinese/American Cross-Cultural Business Negotiations Cross-Cultural Business Research
Examines how differing cultural assumptions about ethics, honesty, hypocrisy, and deception affect trust, communication, and negotiation between Chinese and American businesspeople.
The Debate Between Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Steven J. Clarke and Peng Chan
Examines competing definitions of business ethics and corporate social responsibility and their implications for leadership, organizational conduct, stakeholders, and strategic decision-making.
Honesty in Chinese/American Cross-Cultural Business Negotiations
Doctoral Research
Examines how cultural perceptions of honesty, trust, and deception influence communication, relationships, and decision-making between Chinese and American business negotiators.
Challenges of Multinational Enterprises Conducting Global Business
International Business Research
Explores the strategic, cultural, ethical, political, and operational challenges facing multinational enterprises as they compete and create value across international markets.
The Effect of IT Integration on Supply Chain Agility Towards Market Performance Maleki Far, Akbari, and Clarke · 2017
Develops a framework for understanding how information-technology integration and supply-chain agility can strengthen market performance and competitive advantage.
Beyond Publish or Perish: A Strategic Governance Framework for Academic Evaluation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Manuscript Under Review
Proposes a strategic governance framework for addressing the growing gap between institutional mission and traditional measures of academic performance in the age of artificial intelligence.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT