It is with great sorrow that we would like to inform our readers that Professor Jean J. Boddewyn, the Founding Editor of International Studies of Management and Organization, died on January 10, 2022 at the age of 92. He had served as the journal’s editors from 1971 to 2006, when he retired from his position as a Professor of International Business at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
Jean was born on February 3, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. He grew up in Brussels under German Occupation in WWII. After graduating from the University of Louvain, Belgium, he came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar in 1951, earning an MBA at University of Portland (Beta Gamma Sigma) in Portland, OR. He returned to Belgium but came back to the United States shortly thereafter and briefly worked in industry.
Jean started an academic career and took a full-time position at the University of Portland (1957–1964). He earned his Ph.D. in Management, Marketing and Business and its Environment at the University of Washington in 1964. Upon graduation, he was recruited by New York University’s Graduate School of Business Administration to help create an International Business Program. A full Professor at NYU, he later joined Baruch College of the City University of New York in 1973, where he taught International Business and International Business Strategy to some 5,000 students while serving as Coordinator of the International-Business Program.
Jean was the recipient of the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Scholarship at Baruch in 1994 and received the 2002 Academy of Management’s Distinguished Service Award. He was a Fellow of the Academy of Management (1974), Academy of International Business (1980), and the International Academy of Management (1984).
Jean was the author, coauthor, editor or translator of 33 books and reports, plus more than one hundred articles and monographs on international business management, comparative management and marketing, foreign divestment, international business-government relations and public affairs, market-entry modes, reciprocity as a governance mode, and the regulation and self-regulation of advertising worldwide.
Jean survived by his wife of 42 years, Marilyn, as well as by his children (Michèle, Noëlle, and Marc), grandchildren (Madeleine, Adrienne, Matthew and Emily), and their partners (Michael Ankuda, Julia Boddewyn, and Brooks Hurd).
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