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Northwood University Professor's Paper Published in Proceedings of International Conference

Published on 9/17/2009 12:36:38 PM

Dr. Edwin C. Moore Jr., a professor at Northwood's Florida Campus presented a paper that was published in the conference proceedings of the International Conference of the Academy of International Business held at San Diego, California in June, 2009 titled "Institutions and International Trade: An Exploratory Study of the South American countries and the Transitional Economies of Eastern Europe."

The purpose of the research was to find evidence of the relationships between institutional development using trade as measured by the Economic Freedom Index (EFI), and culture, as measured by Hofstede's Four Cultural Dimensions. A representative group of South American and Eastern European countries (EE) were chosen as sample countries. The research employed data from the period 1996 to 2007.

The results indicated that while culture as a measure of informal institutions may affect trade freedom as a measure of formal institutions a universal conclusion cannot be made. What can be assumed is that there is a cultural relationship between trade freedoms, but that relationship must be viewed on a region by region basis. It would serve a firm's entry method strategy formulation well to consider not only current trade freedoms but the informal institutions that they will evolve from as well.

Dr. Moore is an adjunct faculty member at Northwood's Florida Campus and has over 20 years teaching experience at both the Under Graduate and Graduate levels. He holds a Masters in Business Administration Specializing in Management, a Doctorate In Business Administration in International Business with special emphasis in International Economics and Finance. In addition he has completed many additional Doctorial courses in Management, Research, and Marketing. Dr Moore has presented a number of papers at international conferences and has been published internationally.

Dr. Moore's primary research interests are culture and economic development in developing and transitional economies, political corruption, and has developed an International MBA with an emphasis in Cross Cultural Awareness that he will be presenting at the Academy of International Business South East Regional Conference in Jacksonville, Florida.