John D. Branch

John D. Branch currently teaches a variety of marketing and international business courses at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive levels at the Stephen M Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (USA), and serves as Co-Director of the Yaffe Digital Media Initiative. Previously, he was Academic Director of the School’s weekend and evening MBA programmes; earlier, he was also Director of Educational Outreach at the University’s William Davidson Institute. John also holds an appointment at the University’s Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies, and maintains a Research Fellowship at the William Davidson Institute. John is originally from Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science in electronics from the University of Western Ontario (Canada), a Master of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick (Canada), a Master of Arts in education from Washington University in Saint Louis (USA), a Doctor of Philosophy in marketing from the University of Cambridge (England), a Doctor of Education from the University of Michigan (USA), and a Doctor of Professional Studies from Middlesex University (England).

Publications

Analyzing International Business Operations in the Post-Pandemic Era
Bryan Christiansen, John D. Branch. © 2023. 309 pages.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an overwhelming impact on business operations such as global supply chain management, remote work, emerging economic and financial models, and...
Global Perspectives on the Internationalization of Higher Education
John D. Branch, Mehmet Durnali. © 2023. 415 pages.
Transnational higher education was triggered largely by the marketization of higher education, which itself manifests in such characteristics as academic rankings, institutional...
The Transnationalization of Business Education
John David Branch, David A. Wernick. © 2022. 24 pages.
Recent decades have witnessed the emergence and growth of transnational higher education, a specific form of internationalization which considers education as a product which can...
Teaching Cross-Cultural Competence in a Smart Machine Age: The Role of International Service Learning in the Business School Curriculum
David A. Wernick, John D. Branch. © 2022. 18 pages.
The business world is in a state of flux due in part to the advent of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, smart robots, and nanotechnology. The dawn of this...
Business and Culture: A Virtual Exchange Across Four Countries
Marina Apaydin, John D. Branch, Amy Gillett. © 2022. 19 pages.
Virtual exchanges are an emerging form of learning in which students from different countries are connected via technology. The authors created a virtual exchange, Business &...
Living Educational Theory as a Model of Continuing Professional Development
John D. Branch. © 2022. 14 pages.
Living educational theory is a paradigm for scientific research in the academic discipline of education in which a teacher theorises her/his own professional practice. Using a...
A Review of Transnational Higher Education
John David Branch. © 2021. 20 pages.
The internationalization of higher education is as old as the university itself. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in transnational higher education, a...
Cultural Factors and Performance in 21st Century Businesses
Bryan Christiansen, John David Branch, Joanna Karmowska. © 2020. 284 pages.
Businesses rely heavily on their culture to ensure sustainable success, and company culture is invariably influenced by national values. In an era of global hypercompetition...
A Review of Transnational Higher Education
John David Branch. © 2019. 20 pages.
The internationalization of higher education is as old as the university itself. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in transnational higher education, a...
Fetishism and Consumer Value
John D. Branch. © 2019. 19 pages.
Fetishism is the attribution of value to an object. To understand fetishism, therefore, requires a grasp of the value which is attributed to an object. More dynamically, it...
A History of the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
John D. Branch. © 2018. 21 pages.
The dissolution of the U.S.S.R. created a kind of higher education vacuum, especially in the disciplines of economics and business. The result was the development of a wide range...