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Authors’ Profiles Asian Business & Management (2003) 2, 183–185. doi:10.1057/palgrave.abm.9200040

Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan is Jean Monnet Professor of Economic Integration and Director of the Euro-Asia Centre at the University of Limerick (Ireland). Her main research themes are economic integration, and structural and technological change, as well as knowledge transfer and growth in Asian and European countries. Recent publications include ‘Human Capital, Education and Growth — India and China compared’ China Report, 39:1 (2003); The Changing Economic Environment in Asia (co-editor) (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001); and The Economics of European Agriculture (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003). Jean-Pascal Bassino is Associate Professor of Economics at the Paul Valery University, Montpellier, France. He is currently on research leave at the Maison Franco-Japonaise (Nichi-Futsu Kaikan) Tokyo, and Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. His research interests are Japan’s role in East Asian globalization and regionalization, the dynamics of innovation in Japan’s economic development, and the economic history of East and Southeast Asia. Recent publications include The Changing Economic Environment in Asia (co-editor) (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001); and Quantitative Economic History of Vietnam (1900–1990) (co-editor) (Tokyo: Hitotsubashi University, 2000). Harald Bekkers is currently writing his PhD thesis, preliminarily entitled ‘Fixers and Forecasters: Professional Business Services, Information, Competition and Social Mobility in Globalising Ahmedabad, India’, at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), University of Amsterdam. This research is part of a larger research project on ‘Brokers of Capital and Knowledge: Producer Services and Social Mobility in Provincial Asia, 1960– 2000’ (www.iias.leidenuniv.nl/host/brokers), the aim of which is to understand the position of secondary-level Asian cities and their (services) elites in the larger process of economic globalization. His research interests centre upon issues of globalization and local

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development, fair trade, business development services (BDS) and the middle classes, particularly in the context of South Asia. The dissertation is due for completion in spring 2004. Elisabeth Bertin is Senior Lecturer in Management Sciences, and Assistant Director of the Institute of Business Studies (Institut d’Administration des Entreprises), University of Tours (France). Her research interests are in audit and accounting education, the internationalization of audit, and auditor behaviour. Recent publications include Audit le´gal et gouvernance de l’entreprise, une comparaison France/Japon [External Audit and Corporate Governance: a Comparison between France and Japan] (co-author) (Comptabilite´, Controˆle, Audit: May 2002). John H.M. Ellis is a lecturer in strategic management at Bournemouth University. He teaches widely in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia on international busi