Perspectives on International Business Research: A Professional Autobiography Fifty Years Researching and Teaching Inter
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Fifty
A Years
International
Business
Professional Autobiography
Researching and International
Teaching Business John H. Dunning
Introductory Note from the Editor The following article is one of a series developed under the leadership of Jean Boddewyn, who has chaired a committee to establish the decision process and criteria, and make the decisions for autobiographical THE 1950S. THE EARLYYEARS:
I rememberas if it wereyesterday.But, in fact, it was more than a half century ago.I had spent the day-a warmday in a cricket match at July 1951-watching one of the U.K.'s prestigious grounds (the Oval in London). But, for most of the time, my mind was racing towards 5.00 p.m. when I was to telephone my tutor (Herbert Tout) at University College, London to hear the results of my undergraduate degree examination. The time duly came, and I was told I had graduated with First Class Honours in Economics. This was not only more than I hoped for, let alone expected; but it effectively sealed the path of my future career. My secondary education, between 1938 and 1942, was spent at John Lyons School in Harrow. However, although it was on the curriculum, my first exposure to Economics did not come until 1946, when I was studying for Part 2 of the Institute of Bankers' examination. At the
articles to be included in the journal. The other members of the committee were Farok Contractor,Brian Toyne and Adrian Tschoegl. I am indebted to them for their work. -Thomas L. Brewer time, I was serving in the Royal Navy, and stationed at a naval air station near Colombo in Ceylon (as it was then called). I took a correspondence course with London University, and later well recall typing my notes from the elementary text books of the time (and most especially Frederick Benham's Economics, and Alec Cairncross's, Introduction to Economics) on an antiquated typewriter in the Captain's office, on board a destroyer returning from Ceylon to the U.K.. Earlier, after I had left school at the end of 1942, I had worked first, in an insurance broker's office, and then in a Spanish bank in the City of London. Prior to joining the Navy towards the end of World War II, I had sat, and passed, the first part of the Institute of Banker's Examination, with the full intention of returning to banking as a career, after my naval service. However, this was not to be. In my final years in the Navy I took advantage
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONALBUSINESS STUDIES, 33, 4 (FOURTH QUARTER 2002): 817-835
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FIFTYYEARSOF RESEARCH ANDTEACHING
of a government-sponsored scheme intended to help finance ex-servicemen with their university studies. In October 1948, after an 18 month stint working as a supply and secretarial officer on a Rear Admiral's staff in Arbroath, Scotland, I began my undergraduate degree at the City of London College, in London. I was fortunate to be taught by an excellent and dedicated economi
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