Lorraine Eden

Lorraine Eden is Professor of Management and University Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University where she teaches courses on multinational enterprises and international business. Her research focuses on the political economy of multinational enterprises, specializing in transfer pricing and international taxation. Her current research interests include: strategic transfer pricing; empirical estimates of transfer price manipulation; tax havens and corruption; regional integration and NAFTA, and global corporate strategy.

Born in St. Stephen, NB, Canada, Lorraine received her Ph.D. with Distinction in Economics from in 1976. Before joining Texas A&M’s Management Department in 1995, she was Professor of International Affairs at , 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 appointment at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

The key words that describe Lorraine Eden’s research and scholarship are international and interdisciplinary. Trained as an economist, she has had three professional homes: Economics, International Affairs and Management. Her research area – the political economy of multinational enterprises (MNEs) – encompasses and draws from all three. Lorraine’s core focus within the political economy of MNEs is transfer pricing (the pricing of products traded within MNEs), where she is internationally known as an academic authority. Perhaps her most significant publication is the book, Taxing Multinationals (University of Toronto Press, 1998). She has over 90 publications in print or forthcoming, including six edited or single-authored scholarly books and 30 journal articles. She is currently editing The Economics of Transfer Pricing in Edward Elgar’s book series, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Her other scholarly books are Multinationals in North America (1994), Multinationals in the Global Political Economy (1993), Retrospectives on Public Finance (1991) and Multinationals and Transfer Pricing (1985). Lorraine’s publications also appear or are forthcoming in internationally recognized journals, including Academy of Management Executive; Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Review; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Asian Survey; Canadian Journal of Economics; International Executive; Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of International Management; Millennium; Public Finance/Finances Publiques; Small Business Economics, and Transnational Corporations . She has been guest editor for three leading journals: Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies and Millennium. (The JIBS issue on “Multinationals: Janus Face of Globalization” was reviewed in Foreign Policy.) She is currently one of the departmental editors for the Journal of International Business Studies, and sits on several other journal boards.

Lorraine Eden has received several major research awards including a Canada-US Fulbright Research Fellowship, at (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). Her research has received over $500,000 in grants. She is included in the first Who's Who in International Business Education and Research (1999). Within Texas A&M, she has won two teaching awards: the Trans-Texas Video Network Award for Most Innovative Use of Video Teleconferencing (1998-99) for her graduate seminar Regional Integration in the Americas, and the Texas A&M Former Students Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching (fall 2000). In 2002, she was the first recipient of the Texas A&M’s new Bush International Research Award. She was also named as a Texas A&M Faculty Fellow for 2002-2007, a five-year program that awards leading faculty $20,000 per year for their research.

Lorraine is a lifetime member of the U.S. Fulbright Association and an honorary member of the International Gold Key Society. She is a member of several professional organizations including the Academy of International Business, Academy of Management, American Economics Association, Canadian Economics Association, International Institute of Public Finance, International Studies Association, and Strategic Management Society. Evidence of her leadership role in the international business profession including the founding of three national and international 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 the Academy of International Business), a women’s caucus group within the Academy of International Business. She was elected as Vice President and 2002 Program Chair of the Academy of International Business, where her theme for the AIB San Juan program was both interdisciplinary and international. “Geographies and International Business” was designed to bring together economists and geographers together with international business scholars around the theme of geography. She has also been President and Program Chair of the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association. Within Texas A&M, she has played a leadership role in the Center for International Business Studies, including co-authoring a successful $990,000 CIBER grant application, and in the George Bush School (where she holds a partial appointment), in designing and teaching in both the Masters in Public Service and Administration and the Masters in International Affairs degree programs.

She has 15 years of consulting experience with the Canadian and US governments. She is a National Education Coordinator for the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency (the former Revenue Canada) where she has been teaching in-house weeklong executive training courses on transfer pricing since 1990. For the past few years, she has also been working with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on the impacts of transfer pricing on U.S. export and import price indexes.

Lorraine is married to Charles F. Hermann and they have three children, Jessica Eden, Christopher Hermann and Karen Hermann. She can be reached at the following address: Lorraine Eden, Professor of Management, 4221 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4221, USA. Phone: 979-862-4053; fax: 979-845-9641. WWW-URL: http://cibs.tamu.edu/leden. Email: [email protected].

August 20, 2003