Professor Czinkota was a prolific author of 140 academic papers, numerous books (including a well-known marketing textbook with his frequent collaborator, Professor Ilkka Ronkainen), and has written for newspapers such as The Washington Times, The Korea Times, Japan Today, Ovi Magazine, The Sri Lanka Guardian, and Handelsblatt. Professor Michael Czinkota passed away on November 23, 2022 in Virginia.
Since 2009, Czinkota has kept a blog on international business.[4] The content ranges from international jeopardy questions to more than 50 video communications in international business. The blog has been named as one of the 50 best blogs by business professors.[5] Czinkota has also been cited as a top marketing professor on Twitter by social media magazine.[6]
In 2011, he received two significant honors in Peru. He received a Doctor Honoris Causa degree (his third) for his work in International Business and Marketing. Second, it was announced by the Universidad Ricardo Palma that its new School of Global Marketing and Business is named after Czinkota. He also received the Business Book Award from the American Library Association for "The Global Marketing Imperative".
Government Service
While serving the United States Department of Commerce, Czinkota supervised the Office of Trade and Investment Analysis, the Office of Industry Assessment, the Office of Trade Finance, the Office of Program and Resource Management, and the Office of Industrial Trade. He was also the head of the U.S. Delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a representative to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and was a member of the coordinating committee for Export Controls. He was responsible for Trade Forecasting, Export Control of Services, third-country Export Control Initiative, policy positions on International Financial and Monetary Affairs, as well as secretarial testimony on trade issues. His government publications include: "The Stat-USA Companion to International Marketing",[7] "International Marketing and Accessibility", and "Agricultural Marketing: Export Opportunities for Wood Products in Japan Call for Customer Focus". Czinkota has testified 12 times before the US Congress.
Selected publications
Czinkota, Michael R. Export development strategies: US promotion policy. Praeger, 1982.
Czinkota, Michael R., et al. International business. Vol. 4. Dryden Press, 2009.
Czinkota, Michael R., and Wesley J. Johnston. "Segmenting US firms for export development." Journal of Business Research 9.4 (1981): 353-365.
Kotabe, Masaaki, and Michael R. Czinkota. "State government promotion of manufacturing exports: a gap analysis." Journal of international business studies (1992): 637-658.
Czinkota, Michael R., Dickson, Peter. "Securing America's International Business Future". Marketing News - American Marketing Association (March 2016).[9]