Vipin GuptaVipin Gupta (Ph.D. from Wharton School) is a Professor and Co-director, Global Management Center at the College of Business and Public Administration, California State University- San Bernardino. He has published more than 125 refereed journal articles and book chapters, and several books, focused on three research streams. First, the dynamic modeling of technological growth and organizational performing, transformation and sustainability, incorporating global and local factors, and trading and human factors – the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation, and his two books and a strategy textbook. Second, analysis of societal and organizational cultures, the ontology and epistemology of cultural influences on individual, corporate, national, and regional level behaviors and development, and the role of institutions, strategy and policy in cultural and gender inclusion – he is the principal co-investigator and co-author of the award-winning GLOBE project on culture and leadership in 62 societies. Third, analysis of how culture influences family business models in different regions of the world – he has lead-edited 11 books on this theme. Read More Read Less