About Mike Peng

Mike Peng (Ph.D., University of Washington) is the Jindal Chair of Global Strategy at the Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, where he is also Executive Director of the Center for Global Business. He is a National Science Foundation Career Award winner and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and Asia Academy of Management. He is best known for his development of the institution-based view of strategy and his insights about the rise of emerging economies in global business.

With over 160 journal articles, five books, and over 50,000 Google citations, he is widely regarded as one of the most prolific and most influential scholars in global business strategy. Both the United Nations and the World Bank have cited his work. Every year since 2014, he has been found among Highly Cited Researchers, a list compiled by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics, which tracks the top 0.1% most cited researchers worldwide. In 2020, he is one of the only 101 scholars in the field of economics and business on the list.

His best-selling textbooks—Global Strategy, Global Business, and Global—are used in over 40 countries, and are available in Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish. His consulting clients include AstraZeneca, Berlitz, Ericsson, Texas Instruments, and UK Government Office for Science. He has been quoted in The Economist, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Dallas Morning News, Texas CEO, The Exporter Magazine, The World Journal, Business Times (Singapore), CEO-CIO (Beijing), Sing Tao Daily (Vancouver), and Brasil Econômico (São Paulo).