Book Series: WSPC Series in Business and Emerging Markets

Emerging economies account for nearly 40 percent of world output and are growing three times as fast as advanced ones. They have carved powerful beachheads in industries ranging from food processing and conventional manufacturing to pharmaceuticals, renewable energy, and digital commerce. Firms in developing countries already rank among the world's largest and most innovative companies.

Business in Emerging Markets will offer timely, information-rich books on this universe of firms, products, and markets, and on the management and policy strategies that make them successful. Innovations in emerging markets matter everywhere; they sometimes leapfrog established practice and add value even in areas of mature global scholarship. Indeed, the most significant innovations of coming decades may originate in emerging businesses.

This series will touch on multiple business segments in the emerging market setting, including among others:

• entrepreneurship and innovation
• finance and asset management
• state enterprises and industrial policies
• trade and global supply chains
• strategy and competition
• diversity and human resources

The series will also feature books that explore the distinctive characteristics of developing country firms in major industries, such as real estate and finance, and in key world regions, such as South Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Its contributions will range from single-authored and edited books to major reference works of multiple volumes.

Interest in these topics is fueled by the growth and sophistication of emerging markets themselves. Corresponding research communities are also thriving, yielding diverse and novel contributions. The series will benefit from new sources of and demand for consequential scholarship.

Business in Emerging Markets will be managed by a small Board of Editors composed of senior professors at Brandeis University's International Business School. They have complementary, global networks in diverse functional and geographical fields. And given collegial connections at Brandeis, they can cast a wide net for ideas as well as respond rapidly to opportunities.

Initial volumes currently in planning will address:

• multinationals, supply chains, regional trade, and resilience in Asia
• funding innovation in emerging economies—private and public, foreign and domestic
• transition to carbon-neutral economies
• migration patterns and international remittances

The Editorial Board welcomes proposals from volume editors and authors with contributions on these and other related topics.

Editorial Board

Peter A. Petri is the Lead Editor and the Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International Finance at the Brandeis International Business School, where he served as Founding Dean. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He has published widely on trade and technology in the Asia-Pacific. He holds AB and PhD degrees from Harvard University.

Elizabeth Brainerd is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor and Chair of Economics at Brandeis. Her publications have covered labor and health economics, especially in the transition to capitalism in formerly socialist countries. Prior to Brandeis, she was Professor at Williams College. She received her BA from Bowdoin College and her PhD from Harvard University.

Debarshi Nandy is the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance and Director of the Masters in Finance program and the India Initiative at Brandeis. His publications span innovation, entrepreneurial finance, and financial intermediation, and he serves as advisor to several start-ups. He holds a BSc and MSc in Economics from the University of Calcutta and a PhD in Finance from Boston College.

Aldo Musacchio is Professor of International Business and is Director of the MBA Program, the Perlmutter Institute for Global Leadership, and the Latin America Initiative at Brandeis. He has published widely on strategy and corporate governance, state-owned enterprises, innovation, and industrial policy. He is a Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and previously taught at the Harvard Business School. He has a BA in from ITAM (Mexico) and a PhD from Stanford University.

Benjamin Gomes-Casseres is the Peter A. Petri Professor of Business and Society at Brandeis University and the Founding Director of Brandeis' MBA program. He has published five books and many articles on M&A, alliances, and international business. Previously he was at the Harvard Business School and at the World Bank. He holds degrees from Brandeis, Princeton, and Harvard Universities.