1. The Changing World of Management Research Alastair Cook Emerald Group Publishing 11 global offices including Dubai, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur

2. Important changes in business and business education 2010 and beyond The financial crisis - the end of the era of non-regulated markets? Emerging markets – the US/European hegemony on setting the rules is coming to an end Ecological pressures and green issues – the greening of the planet will soon be center-stage. Business education needs a ‘more exalted mission’. Learning from history – we have a tendency to move on and forget.

3. New challenges: post-crisis business schools Teaching students to understand risk Increasing importance of regulation, government and governance – business graduates need to be equipped for public sector positions as well as corporations

4. New challenges: emerging markets Need for emerging markets to be producers of knowledge, not just consumers Need to create valuable research – within traditional paradigms? Or using new ideas? What can Europe and US researchers learn from the rest of the world? How can that knowledge get captured and disseminated? Need for emerging markets cases

5. New challenges: green issues Understanding implications of putting a price on carbon – a whole new set of accounting rules Management of climate change, not just the science of it. Engineers and scientists need entrepreneurs, policy-makers and managers Should green issues be on an MBA curriculum?

6. New challenges: a more exalted mission Teaching and researching in business needs to be about more than ‘just’ business Sustainability, ethics There are big issues in the world – poverty, conflict, congestion…how does business education address them?

7. New challenges: learning from history Business history will become an expected study at business schools? Multi-disciplinary research and study – what do we expect in the way we accredit business schools and judge research?

8. Emerald’s global spread of authors and editors 16,000 authors7000 Editors and advisers 25% mainland Europe 17.5% 20% US28.5% 20% UK & Ireland27.5% 11.5% Asia/Middle East 5.5% 8% China & SARs5% 8% Australia/NZ10% 3.5% Canada 3.5% 2.5% India 1.5% 2.5% Africa1%

9. Emerald is publishing more authors – more than 16,000 worldwide and nearly 1000 from the Middle East in 2009

10. Steady %age increase of published papers from Middle East and Asia….

11. ….and more award-winners from the Middle East and Asia

12. Journals and Books – publishing on Middle East issues Food, Agriculture, and Economic Policy in the Middle East and North Africa 2003 Explaining Growth in the Middle East 2006 Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues 2008 International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management 2008 Arms and Conflict in the Middle East 2009 Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research 2010 Journal of Islamic Marketing 2010

13. Journals and Books – publishing on India/China issues Journal of Technology Management in China2006 Indian Growth and Development Review2008 Journal of Advances in Management Research2008 Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies2008 Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship2009 Journal of Indian Business Research2009 Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China2009 Journal of Science and Technology Policy in China2010 Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management2010 Nankai Business Review International2010

14. Journals and Books – publishing on Asia Pacific issues Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics2005 Asian Review of Accounting2006 Pacific Accounting Review2007 Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration2009

15. Emerald in 2010 Founded 1967 World’s leading specialist publisher in business and management research Offices in 11 countries – soon to open in South Africa 120 books and 220 journals published 2009 20m+ downloads 2009 About 3000 university customers worldwide – 90 Middle East, 555 Asia (116 China), 800 US Partner with the Global Foundation for Management Education (AACSB and EFMD joint venture) Relationships with membership and accreditation bodies worldwide – AACSB, EFMD, CLADEA (Latin America), CEEMAN (Europe), BMDA (Baltic region), IAABD (Africa)…now AROQA.

16. Contact us! Alastair Cook and Amina Said Emerald Dubai, Executive Office 08 Building 02, Dubai Media City, UAE acook@emeraldinsight.com asaid@emeraldinsight.com